Head canon - remember the first episode, An Unearthly Child, when Hartnell first appears walking towards the Tardis and carrying a penlight? That’s not just a penlight - that’s a sonic. (Given that Troughton’s sonic was a simple penlight, it’s not unreasonable.)
I think "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" came to be seen as the 3rd Doctor's catchphrase because Terrance Dicks and Jon Pertwee inadvertently perpetuated the myth at Doctor Who conventions, interviews etc. "Luvvies", as these creative types are sometimes known, don't often let facts get in the way of an entertaining anecdote :)
I think it's fair to let it stand as a Jon Pertwee thing, just as Patrick Troughton might say "I don't like it" - there's at least 7 mentions by Pertwee or another character during his tenure
Bernard Cribbins was also in the film "Dr who Daleks' invasion earth 2150" as Tom Campbell a police man who stumbles into the Tardis when trying to call the police station after a gang of robbers have broken a shop window to steal from it. He plays is for laughs and at the end the Dr returns him back to London just before the crooks break the window, and Tom knocks them out to drive them to the police station.
"Reverse the Polarity" became popular because John Pertwee told the writer (I forget whom) directly that he liked that phrase because he can sing it to the tune of the HMS Pinafore. At the time, he was getting tongue tied with the technobabble but this particular one caught his attention. And when that story got around, so did the legend of the catchphrase.
The 'Reverse the polarity...'thing was also addressed in a 90s radio drama 'Paradise of Death', in which the Third Dr admits it's just a science sounding phrase to get people off his back.
Lest we forget, (especially us old folks,) when (the great, I think,) Bernard Cribbins first encountered The Doctor he was "Tom Campbell". As always, thank you so very much for the videos. Also a lie, the Daleks greatest weakness are stairs.
For stories where the TARDIS didnt appear, Tom Baker’s first season (season 12)had a couple stories without any TARDIS! The Sontaran Experiment had the Doctor, Sarah and Harry traveling via transmat from Nerva to the deserted (?) Earth and of course Genesis of the Daleks featured the trio hijacked by the TimeLords from the same transmat beam to Skaro, and then given a Time Ring to rejoin the TARDIS at the very end of the following story Revenge of the Cybermen.
I have a fun one that a lot of people seemed to miss (before "Day of the Doctor") which is 9 was originally the War Doctor. But if you watch Eccleston's very first episode (the NuWho pilot "Rose" obviously) He looks in the mirror and comments on his new face. Quite literally 9 was always the regeneration that happened AFTER the Time War. I assumed that 8 was the War Doctor until "Day of the Doctor," but I knew that Eccleston was a freshly regenerated Doctor in the first 13 minutes (specifically starting at 12 minutes 45 seconds, yes I checked) when he looks in the mirror and quips "Ah it could be worse."
The episode causes confusion because of all the puctures of the Doctor scattered through history. I know there are abundant theories to explain it, but the upshot is that to all intents and purposes, it _looks_ as if he has had this face for a while.
Ah well... as I understand it, the design of the Daleks wasn't inspired by pepper-pots: they were designed so that a human operator could sit down in them. I believe Raymond Cusick once used a salt cellar to demonstrate how they would move, which apparently was the origin of that myth. And I think you missed a couple of TARDIS-less stories. One that springs to mind is Genesis of the Daleks.
In an interview shot with Ray Cusick for one of the several VHS releases ABOUT Dr Who, rather than the series videos, he said that during a conversation with Terry Nation, that they discussed the Russian State Dancers who appeared to glide across the stage during shows, in their long flowing dresses, and I think that's were the pepper pot or salt cellar motif was created the item was moved around in the fashion of those dancers, and so Cusick said he went away and started work on that style of design that resulted in the Dalek we all know and love! I think the VHS was the BBC release of "More Than 30 Years In The Tardis" (I have a copy, but watched it so often back in the 90s that it's almost beyond watchable now!!😆 ) , and it's also appeared fairly recently on a DVD/BVlu-Ray release as an extra, though I can't remember offhand which one!! 🙂
What about Amy being an alternative time line? Her life went a certain way then in the end she had her life restored to before the crack. She forgot the doctor too. If it hadn't been for River she may have never remembered.
Sontaran Experiment and Genesis of the Daleks were also missing the Tardis, the Nerva Beacon's transmat and alternate Time Lord tech being their mode of transport during these.
In the late 1980s there was the stage play "Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure" which initially starred Jon Pertwee as the Doctor (later, Colin Baker took over). He said "They've reversed the polarity of the neutron flow!" in that. When he did, the friend I was with and I cheered. I'm surprised we didn't get thrown out of the theatre.
Yeah... And although I liked that she was back the way she came back was kinda bad. One of the most tragic endings in the show was resolved in one of the worst ways imaginable... A sexist joke.
I've actually heard "reverse the polarity" pop up in other science fiction shows as either a distinct nod to Doctor Who or it's become so common that it's just one of those things you throw in when you're writing technobabble.
Reversing the polarity is just a bit of real-world technology that you can do with many kinds of DC circuits, so it's hardly surprising that it crops up in Sci-Fi.
And I said Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish That's the way we do things, lad, we're making shit up as we wish The Klingons and the Romulans they pose no threat to us Cause if we find we're in a bind we just make some shit up
And I said Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish That's the way we do things, lad, we're making shit up as we wish The Klingons and the Romulans they pose no threat to us Cause if we find we're in a bind we just make some shit up
I grew up with Tom Baker and had the good fortune to do so in Australia where Doctor Who repeats were quite common. So when I saw the Three Doctors for the first time and the second Doctor offered around a bag of jelly babies it seemed to me like the second Doctor had ripped off the fourth Doctor.
Kris Marshall, after getting a broader chance to see him in a humorous dramatic mystery role, he really would make a fantastic Doctor. And, we all must remember, Matt Smith had never watched Doctor Who.
So.. I'm a Yank. Never REALLY knew how big shows like Death in Paradise and Shakespeare and Hathaway are over there (There was a show called The Cornener I LOVED but always gets mixed with another one when I look for it now too) but hearing Chris Marshall was rumored to play the Doctor REALLY REALLY tickles my fancy. I think he could've had amazing rendition.
The neurodivergencey and odd idiosyncrasies and little quirks and being kinda finicky picky and well... British (for lack) he gave the D.I. on Paradise was like tiny glimpse of the kind of Doctor he could've been; I think ot would've played well. And likely could've would've broke him over here. No one knows him, but I know he could be loved. Similar to what we did once we stole Simon and Nick, and what WE WERE ABOUT TO DO to Acaster before he noticed 🤣🤣😶
When the Teileptil destroys the screwdriver, the doctor says "I feel as though you've just killed an old friend." I always thought that line funny because I far more associated the device with the 3rd Doctor and yet it wasn't he who was saying it. There is a 1994 novel which says that the 1st Doctor has one although it is referred to as an unknown sonic device
Out of curiosity, I only found 14 words starting with "LEK" in the full edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The first entry is the verb to "lek", which is a form of mating behaviour displayed by certain kinds of birds. It's not to be confused with the verb "letch", which is a form of mating behaviour displayed by certain kinds of humans ;)
The TARDIS also didn’t appear for a few stories in Tom Baker’s first series/season. And, for a lotta us in the US, that was our (very confusing) introduction to *Who.* LOL. Baker’s charisma reeaallly helped to sell the show, hereabouts (seriously… we didn’t even see the interior of the TARDIS, at all, for that entire series/season… so there were a lotta “What’s even going on…?” moments for us…)
The Daemons, Mind of Evil, The Silurians and the Sea Devils the TARDIS did not make any appearances in these stories and of course Mission to the Unknown.
I love Bi-generation in this instance as not only a way for 14 to basically get therapy and conclude the arc RTD started with a post-Time War Doctor; Ncuti being essentially the "Post Trauma" Doctor is a brilliant idea and it sells me on them calling this Season 1 way more then before.
Sorry if somebody has already said this! In "An Evening with The Doctor", Pertwee tells how the catchphrase came about, saying he always struggled with the technobabble until he was one day given that line and he liked/praised it so much that they started giving it to him all the time! He was a great racconteur and did a lot of speaking engagements so was probably not above inventing a few annecdotes. After all, it's not like that the time anybody could go back and check! So I'm pretty sure this untruth was one he put about himself and it had become so established as lore by the mid-80s that it was put into "The Five Doctors" as something audiences would be expecting/looking forward to hearing 😊
If you look at how Dalek is spelled, if you take the first and last letter and reverse them, you have Kaled which is the other species on Skaro. I think that is where he got their name.
To me Doctor Who mostly resembles the Lone Ranger. The Doctor is of course the pivotable Ranger who comes into town on Silver (the TARDIS), the companion is of course Tonto, and the baddy of the week is whoever the Lone Ranger fighters.
When I was very little, I used to run around in the washing basket shouting "I am a garlic!" I did not believe that they were called Daleks because they looked like salt and pepper shakers, and as garlic is another seasoning, I wrongly believed in garlic shakers. I think that is why they are called Daleks, because Deppers doesnt have quite same ring to it 😅
Every time I hear the word "Catchphrase", I think of the character from the movie Free Guy. The character that is introduced late in the movie, uses the word "Catchphrase" as his catchphrase.
During the Hartnell and Troughton era, The Doctor would occasionally be missing from an episode of a serial to give the lead actors a brief holiday. The Doctor would be referred to but not seen or else "appear" as, for example, a pair of legs (belonging to a stand-in) on a bunk.
When it comes to stories that don't feature the TARDIS, you forgot about "The Sontaran Experiment" and "Genesis of the Daleks" in which the Doctor and companions briefly leave the TARDIS behind on the Ark.
"He's not the most Iconical or groundbreaking but Kal was just as deadly a threat as the Daleks in those early days and deserves to be remembered as such." All this illustrated by lots of close ups of Za and not one of Kal. Methinks the editor should have watched the story before cutting together this package so he knew which caveman was which...
Funny thing that “good grief” can be considered 3rd’s catchphrase more then the one about polarity because he said it quite a lot throughout his series
If Kris Marshall had got the role, he would have finally been ginger (see David Tennant & Matt Smith regenerations). The Tardis was missing for the first half of Tom Bakers first season too (time bracelet given to him by the Time Lords in it's place). "Reverse the polarity..." became a 3rd Doctor thing because Jon Pertwee had trouble with/couldn't be bothered with the techno-babble, so came up with something he would be able to remember.
Except for _The Five Doctors,_ but that was a 90-minute special. Some might also count the TV Movie, though I'd argue it's not part of the classic series.
Many episodes in the 60s didn't have the Doctor in them, several before even "Mission to the Unknown". What makes "Mission" unique (still to this day) is it's the only episode to not feature any of the main cast at all.
I've seen a article saying Kris Marshall would like to play the doctor if he was asked to. But now he's back playing Humphrey Goodman in the spin off beyond paradise
Another oft-repeated misconception: the kiss between Tennant's Doctor and Rose/Cassandra in the Series 2 episode "New Earth" was NOT "improvised" by Billie Piper!
You got the names right, and essentially what roles they performed in the first Doctor's first story, but the images accompanying your words are a bit confusing, making it look like the character you're showing is Cal, when in fact that's Za. Both Cal and Za could be thought of antagonists of the first Doctor, as well as with each other. Za was the son of the previous leader, losing grip on his tribe's loyalty as he continually fails to make fire, his father neglecting to pass on the secret before he died. Cal was an adopted stranger from another tribe that had all perished from the cold, but was hungry for power, and was starting to win people to his side by his promises to make fire IF they made him leader (which was all BS). Both wanted the Doctor and co. to show them how to do it, but under the constant threat of "do it or die". Anyway, aside from that, essentially correct.
There are a few episodes where the First Doctor and Second Doctor, plus other regular cast, are missing. This was because Dr Who was on for most of the year, and the actors needed..time off. Hartnell was beginning to feel his age, and during Celestial Toymaker the Doctor was invisible and his lines were recorded.
Best example of a no TARDIS story is Genesis of the Daleks as they travel to Skaro via transmat from Nerva and return there via Time Ring. The TARDIS only re-appears at the end of Revenge of the Cybermen.😊
1: Bernard Cribbins had his FIRST outing as a companion of the Doctor in the movie version of "Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D." [1966] playing Police Constable Tom Campbell opposite Peter Cushing playing The Doctor. When they brought him on board for the New Doctor, i would have been a VERY happy fan had they made Donna's Grand Father "Retired London Metropolitan Police Sgt. Tom Campbell". It would have been a nice nod to "The forgotten Doctor", as Cushing is known in fan circles. 2: Nation came up with the encyclopedia story as a not to L. Frank Baum, author of the Wizard of Oz books. Baum needed to come up with a name for the magical land for his books. He had two files in his office lettered A-N and O-Z. Thinking quickly, he selected the O-Z file and OZ was born. As any writer will tell you, "A Good story is worth stealing". 3: Fan speculation regarding potential next regenerations is not new, and dozens of names have been proposed, AND written about but were NEVER under serious consideration. Danial Radcliffe was one such fan proposal that saw publication. 4: the Sonic screwdriver was originally literally that, a device for using sound waves to loosen and tighten screws. It became the "Sonic Multi-tool" under Pertwee. 5: NOPE, Cave Men and Technically one can argue given their VERY adversarial relationship in "An Unearthly Child' Stephen and Barbara were his first antagonists. 6: Tom Baker's Doctor [#4] had a season with companion Leela that leaned heavily towards Gothic Horror. ["Talons of Weng Chaiang", "Horror of Fang Rock", and "Brain of Morbius" among other scripts]. Unintentional, and Just how the scripting worked out that season, GREAT scripts though. 7: that "Lie" depends upon how you characterize the serialized story arcs, while he DOES appear in every arc, he is NOT in every individual episode. 8: Most of Pertwee's era, he was stranded on earth, the Tardis played no part in several of his adventures during this time period. again though, are we talking about Arcs, or individual episodes, because in most of the episodes, of Most of the doctor's the Tardis is not shown, it's not necessary to that portion of the story arc. 9: Pertwee ORIGINATED the phrase. When he needed to spout some scientific gobbldy-gook to explain something, that was the actor's fall back, as the writers often didn't have anything written down and just said "Jargon". [This cane direct from Pertwee at a Doctor Who world tour event] 10: Not EVERYTHING in who was planned or scripted, and a great many ad-libs were left to the individual actors. The show is NOT as tightly controlled in it's creation as some people think. There was a LOT that was just done on the fly.
2:28 the pepper pot thing isn't true according to Dalek designer Raymond Cusick on the special feature on disc 1 of "The Chase" where he visits the Cardiff new Who set. He said he used a pepper pot to demonstrate to someone how the Daleks moved, but it was just the nearest thing to hand. Do you guys have a different source?
The first doctor did have a sonic screwdriver, he even asked for it from Ian, he just forgot to say sonic in front of screwdriver and it was v1 so it’s sonic functionality was that it squeaked when he turned the screw…
The Sontaran Experiment and Genesis of the Daleks don't feature the TARDIS either! The Doctor, Sarah and Harry traveled by use of transmat and then a time ring from the Timelords in those episodes!
The actor howard Attfield played donnas father and then bernard cribbins was brought in and instead of replacing Howard's character he was retconed in as Donna's grandfather instead after his first appearance in voyage of the damned
You talk about the great late Bernard Cribbins always being Donna's grandfather. Well, thinking out of the box, did you not forget 1966 when he played officer Tom Campbell in Daleks - Invasion Earth : 2150 AD alongside the fantastic Peter Cushing in the starring role?
Some of these "lies" I have never heard and would correct, but I have read a lot about the show and know a lot about it. Like the phrase "Reverse the Polarity" can be traced back at least as far back as 1898 Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett P. Serviss and is used in many shows B4 Who like The Forbidden Planet but Jon asked the writers for a simple piece of Techno Babble he could reliably deliver. So this is no secret. BUT you can't do this with neutrons. All the other stuff is seriously common knowledge and if ppl believe them it is because they really do not know the show.
As well as what you said about the Daleks, there were the Kaled, which have a similar but sort of backward-spelled name which were the original inhabitants of the planet Skaro.
After watching some episodes of 'Beyond Paradise', I'm CONVINCED Kris Marshall SHOULD be the Doctor in the future - his autistic mannerisms make for the perfect Time Lord technological expert! His acting has DEFINITELY improved over the years!
I’m glad it was referred to in the title as ‘probably’ because any Doctor Who fan worth their salt never believed these because they knew they were not true.
You are correct, they were inspired by the Georgian State Dancers, certainly in terms of the "flared skirt" section and their movement. The original designs were more cylindrical. The pepperpot thing is just a lazy journalistic description.
While the Doctor Donna may have gone, Donna has not, and the time is coming where The Skinny Man in the Suit and The Woman who had a parallel world made around here will be reunited once more. Fate bound them together, A space Titanic, An Arachnid Alien who came to Earth as it was formed, right up to a Meta Crisis....and now Fate brings them together again, for one last time....The Doctor and Donna Noble, friends to the end
While it's technically true that not every Doctor has had a sonic screwdriver on screen it's also technically true that they all have had one if you look outside just the TV series. The First Doctor has been depicted in comics using the same sonic screwdriver as the 2nd Doctor which confirms that while he was never seen using it the First Doctor did in fact still have one in his possession. It's also true that the Sonic Screwdriver was destroyed and never replaced durring the 5th Doctors era because the show runner at the time hated how over used it was. That said the 6th Doctor did have a Sonic Lance I think he only used once and as mentioned in the video the 7th Doctor did have a Sonic Screwdriver late in his run. So every Doctor has used a Sonic Screwdriver of some kind even if some incarnations use it far more often than others. The weirdest thing to me is the 2nd Doctor is the only one who actually used the Sonic Screwdriver as a Screwdriver. That was literally it's only function at the time while later iterations seem to be multipurpose tools that can do anything except act as literal screwdrivers.
When you look at the statistics for sonic screwdriver usage NuWho wins with nearly every episode the damn thing is used multiple times - way more than the 3rd Doctor every used it lol
Personally, I think the Nations family has one of the oddest legal contracts in broadcast. They own Everything about one small part of a show, and have creative control of the daleks, Too crazy
Not really bearing in mind that during the mid Sixties (when Dalekmania was at it's height) the Daleks were much bigger than Dr Who (2 feature films, numerous books, annuals, comic strips & toys).
For no TARDIS stories, Genesis of the Daleks. The Time Lords forcibly sent The Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry to Skaro, and gave them a transport ring to allow them to leave at the end
It appears you've confused Kal with Za there. Throughout that segment, you show Derek Newark as Za, and not one shot of Jeremy Young as Kal. You also mistakenly state that Kal is the one trying to make fire, when again that's Za. It'd probably be more correct to say that while Za is a threat to the Doctor and crew, Kal is a threat to the whole tribe. It's also Kal who gets killed by Za at the end. Some crossed wires there, I suspect.
Two other stories with no TARDIS; Genesis of the Daleks abs I think The Sontran xperiment where tral was by time ring and trasnat respectively. I'd need to double check the latter though :)
#10 actually no one ever believed Bernard Cribbins was always meant to be Donna's grandfather and there is no such rumor going around. The rumors are quite the opposite, that he was only cast after Howard Atfield stepped down. In fact there are rumors Atfield shot scenes for the telescope on the hill already before deciding he could not go on.
Head canon - remember the first episode, An Unearthly Child, when Hartnell first appears walking towards the Tardis and carrying a penlight? That’s not just a penlight - that’s a sonic. (Given that Troughton’s sonic was a simple penlight, it’s not unreasonable.)
That was a retcon but one that fit handily into canon with minimal effort. They basically gave a name to something the Doctor already had.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio but hartnel DID use a "sonic device" once. we just dont know what it was.
@@omega311888yes but that isn't canon
I think "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" came to be seen as the 3rd Doctor's catchphrase because Terrance Dicks and Jon Pertwee inadvertently perpetuated the myth at Doctor Who conventions, interviews etc. "Luvvies", as these creative types are sometimes known, don't often let facts get in the way of an entertaining anecdote :)
I think it's fair to let it stand as a Jon Pertwee thing, just as Patrick Troughton might say "I don't like it" - there's at least 7 mentions by Pertwee or another character during his tenure
Bernard Cribbins was also in the film "Dr who Daleks' invasion earth 2150" as Tom Campbell a police man who stumbles into the Tardis when trying to call the police station after a gang of robbers have broken a shop window to steal from it. He plays is for laughs and at the end the Dr returns him back to London just before the crooks break the window, and Tom knocks them out to drive them to the police station.
Bernard was interviewed for the part of the Doctor too, according to IMDB, after John Pertwee left.
Great shame rtd wouldn't use the fact
@@steveday4797it's a different character from a movie that isn't canon
right?! A simple mention of it would have been so cool!@@steveday4797
"Reverse the Polarity" became popular because John Pertwee told the writer (I forget whom) directly that he liked that phrase because he can sing it to the tune of the HMS Pinafore. At the time, he was getting tongue tied with the technobabble but this particular one caught his attention. And when that story got around, so did the legend of the catchphrase.
The 'Reverse the polarity...'thing was also addressed in a 90s radio drama 'Paradise of Death', in which the Third Dr admits it's just a science sounding phrase to get people off his back.
I must re-listen!
It's on UA-cam
We’re confusing the polarity!
Lest we forget, (especially us old folks,) when (the great, I think,) Bernard Cribbins first encountered The Doctor he was "Tom Campbell".
As always, thank you so very much for the videos.
Also a lie, the Daleks greatest weakness are stairs.
True. I've found that the Daleks' greatest weakness are the scriptwriters ;)
@@ftumschk well said
@@ftumschk Just like every character in a show.
Wrong Doctor and the Daleks have been seen to over come stairs as early as the Chase, go watch.
The Daleks' greatest weakness is overuse
For stories where the TARDIS didnt appear, Tom Baker’s first season (season 12)had a couple stories without any TARDIS! The Sontaran Experiment had the Doctor, Sarah and Harry traveling via transmat from Nerva to the deserted (?) Earth and of course Genesis of the Daleks featured the trio hijacked by the TimeLords from the same transmat beam to Skaro, and then given a Time Ring to rejoin the TARDIS at the very end of the following story Revenge of the Cybermen.
I think the Kris Marshall rumour came about because he would be a fantastic Doctor. He’s got that quirky edge, and would absolutely rock the role.
He would've been better than Jodie that's for sure
@@funnyfunnyvalentine7991 Anyone would have been...
Now I want to know which female actors were auditioned alongside Jodie!!!
I have a fun one that a lot of people seemed to miss (before "Day of the Doctor") which is 9 was originally the War Doctor. But if you watch Eccleston's very first episode (the NuWho pilot "Rose" obviously) He looks in the mirror and comments on his new face. Quite literally 9 was always the regeneration that happened AFTER the Time War. I assumed that 8 was the War Doctor until "Day of the Doctor," but I knew that Eccleston was a freshly regenerated Doctor in the first 13 minutes (specifically starting at 12 minutes 45 seconds, yes I checked) when he looks in the mirror and quips "Ah it could be worse."
The episode causes confusion because of all the puctures of the Doctor scattered through history. I know there are abundant theories to explain it, but the upshot is that to all intents and purposes, it _looks_ as if he has had this face for a while.
Ah well... as I understand it, the design of the Daleks wasn't inspired by pepper-pots: they were designed so that a human operator could sit down in them. I believe Raymond Cusick once used a salt cellar to demonstrate how they would move, which apparently was the origin of that myth.
And I think you missed a couple of TARDIS-less stories. One that springs to mind is Genesis of the Daleks.
In an interview shot with Ray Cusick for one of the several VHS releases ABOUT Dr Who, rather than the series videos, he said that during a conversation with Terry Nation, that they discussed the Russian State Dancers who appeared to glide across the stage during shows, in their long flowing dresses, and I think that's were the pepper pot or salt cellar motif was created the item was moved around in the fashion of those dancers, and so Cusick said he went away and started work on that style of design that resulted in the Dalek we all know and love!
I think the VHS was the BBC release of "More Than 30 Years In The Tardis" (I have a copy, but watched it so often back in the 90s that it's almost beyond watchable now!!😆 ) , and it's also appeared fairly recently on a DVD/BVlu-Ray release as an extra, though I can't remember offhand which one!! 🙂
I don't think we saw the TARDIS in the Sontaran Experiment either. Or if we did, it was a blink and miss it moment.
@stevesstuff1450 And Raymond Cusick never made a penny from the design apart from the flat fee he got from the BBC.
What about Amy being an alternative time line? Her life went a certain way then in the end she had her life restored to before the crack. She forgot the doctor too. If it hadn't been for River she may have never remembered.
River had a screwdriver the Doctor gave her. Romana (2) built her own.
And The Doctor tried to swipe Romana's one...
12 had the glasses anyway, river had a freaking trowel of all things
Sontaran Experiment and Genesis of the Daleks were also missing the Tardis, the Nerva Beacon's transmat and alternate Time Lord tech being their mode of transport during these.
In the late 1980s there was the stage play "Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure" which initially starred Jon Pertwee as the Doctor (later, Colin Baker took over). He said "They've reversed the polarity of the neutron flow!" in that. When he did, the friend I was with and I cheered. I'm surprised we didn't get thrown out of the theatre.
The biggest lie I was told was that Donna would never come back lol
It's NuWho they don't like the possibility of killing of companions so have to rectify this lol
Yeah... And although I liked that she was back the way she came back was kinda bad. One of the most tragic endings in the show was resolved in one of the worst ways imaginable... A sexist joke.
The Doctor Donna will never be forgotten. We remember what she can not.
Rule one: The doctor lies.
Rule 2: What is The Doctor wearing?
Rule 3: The Doctor has an eclectic sense of fashion.
But that was stated by The Doctor, so how can you be sure it's true...?
@@NemoConsequentae it wasn't said by the Doctor. It was said by River Song.
@@NemoConsequentae Because River also says it.
I've actually heard "reverse the polarity" pop up in other science fiction shows as either a distinct nod to Doctor Who or it's become so common that it's just one of those things you throw in when you're writing technobabble.
Reversing the polarity is just a bit of real-world technology that you can do with many kinds of DC circuits, so it's hardly surprising that it crops up in Sci-Fi.
@@RCassinello I always associated it with Star Trek, but it works for both. LLAP and mind the Daleks!
And I said
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
That's the way we do things, lad, we're making shit up as we wish
The Klingons and the Romulans they pose no threat to us
Cause if we find we're in a bind we just make some shit up
And I said
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
That's the way we do things, lad, we're making shit up as we wish
The Klingons and the Romulans they pose no threat to us
Cause if we find we're in a bind we just make some shit up
Tom Baker wasn’t the 1st doctor to offer a jellybaby! It was Patrick Troughton.
Also in The Abominable Snowmen the 2nd Doctor says to Victoria "Brave Heart Victoria" which later became the 5th Doctors catchphrase to Tegan
I grew up with Tom Baker and had the good fortune to do so in Australia where Doctor Who repeats were quite common. So when I saw the Three Doctors for the first time and the second Doctor offered around a bag of jelly babies it seemed to me like the second Doctor had ripped off the fourth Doctor.
@@pauldonald4676 in The Dominators the Second Doctor is eating jelly babies and I think he offers one to Jamie.
Kris Marshall, after getting a broader chance to see him in a humorous dramatic mystery role, he really would make a fantastic Doctor. And, we all must remember, Matt Smith had never watched Doctor Who.
i was really hoping they would have made him The Doctor! I agree with you.
So.. I'm a Yank. Never REALLY knew how big shows like Death in Paradise and Shakespeare and Hathaway are over there (There was a show called The Cornener I LOVED but always gets mixed with another one when I look for it now too) but hearing Chris Marshall was rumored to play the Doctor REALLY REALLY tickles my fancy. I think he could've had amazing rendition.
Me too!
The neurodivergencey and odd idiosyncrasies and little quirks and being kinda finicky picky and well... British (for lack) he gave the D.I. on Paradise was like tiny glimpse of the kind of Doctor he could've been; I think ot would've played well. And likely could've would've broke him over here. No one knows him, but I know he could be loved. Similar to what we did once we stole Simon and Nick, and what WE WERE ABOUT TO DO to Acaster before he noticed 🤣🤣😶
@@leemckenna8214he’s neurodivergent?
@@rachelcookie321 we are all on the spectrum somewhere...
@@grahambandy6067 if everyone is neurodivergent then the label is kind of useless than.
When the Teileptil destroys the screwdriver, the doctor says "I feel as though you've just killed an old friend." I always thought that line funny because I far more associated the device with the 3rd Doctor and yet it wasn't he who was saying it. There is a 1994 novel which says that the 1st Doctor has one although it is referred to as an unknown sonic device
Out of curiosity, I only found 14 words starting with "LEK" in the full edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The first entry is the verb to "lek", which is a form of mating behaviour displayed by certain kinds of birds. It's not to be confused with the verb "letch", which is a form of mating behaviour displayed by certain kinds of humans ;)
I always understood the encyclopedia volume was "Dal to Ek..."
@@grahambandy6067 Every reference to it I can remember reading was "DAL to LEK".
Dalek :- Polish for far and distant thing.
@@ftumschk that would make it a disproportionately large volume in a set of encyclopedias, Dal to Ek would fit in a 10 to 15 volume set
@@grahambandy6067 Exactly, which is another indicator that Terry Nation made it up off the top of his head.
The TARDIS also didn’t appear for a few stories in Tom Baker’s first series/season. And, for a lotta us in the US, that was our (very confusing) introduction to *Who.* LOL.
Baker’s charisma reeaallly helped to sell the show, hereabouts (seriously… we didn’t even see the interior of the TARDIS, at all, for that entire series/season… so there were a lotta “What’s even going on…?” moments for us…)
The Daemons, Mind of Evil, The Silurians and the Sea Devils the TARDIS did not make any appearances in these stories and of course Mission to the Unknown.
I don't think it appeared in either, "The Sontaran Experiment", nor "Genesis of the Daleks". Have a good day.
I also don't remember the TARDIS appearing in the Heaven Sent.
The Tardis wasn't in Genesis of the Daleks - Arguably the Best Doctor Who story ever.
I love Bi-generation in this instance as not only a way for 14 to basically get therapy and conclude the arc RTD started with a post-Time War Doctor;
Ncuti being essentially the "Post Trauma" Doctor is a brilliant idea and it sells me on them calling this Season 1 way more then before.
Both Doctor Who and Death in Paradise in one video. Who would've thought it? Two of my favourite shows.
What about Doctor Who: Death in Paradise for a Children In Need special?
Sorry if somebody has already said this! In "An Evening with The Doctor", Pertwee tells how the catchphrase came about, saying he always struggled with the technobabble until he was one day given that line and he liked/praised it so much that they started giving it to him all the time! He was a great racconteur and did a lot of speaking engagements so was probably not above inventing a few annecdotes. After all, it's not like that the time anybody could go back and check! So I'm pretty sure this untruth was one he put about himself and it had become so established as lore by the mid-80s that it was put into "The Five Doctors" as something audiences would be expecting/looking forward to hearing 😊
If you look at how Dalek is spelled, if you take the first and last letter and reverse them, you have Kaled which is the other species on Skaro. I think that is where he got their name.
Only in-universe: that’s a retcon from Genesis of the Daleks. In the first ever Dalek episode it was Dals vs Thals.
To me Doctor Who mostly resembles the Lone Ranger.
The Doctor is of course the pivotable Ranger who comes into town on Silver (the TARDIS), the companion is of course Tonto, and the baddy of the week is whoever the Lone Ranger fighters.
When I was very little, I used to run around in the washing basket shouting "I am a garlic!"
I did not believe that they were called Daleks because they looked like salt and pepper shakers, and as garlic is another seasoning, I wrongly believed in garlic shakers.
I think that is why they are called Daleks, because Deppers doesnt have quite same ring to it 😅
Every time I hear the word "Catchphrase", I think of the character from the movie Free Guy. The character that is introduced late in the movie, uses the word "Catchphrase" as his catchphrase.
During the Hartnell and Troughton era, The Doctor would occasionally be missing from an episode of a serial to give the lead actors a brief holiday. The Doctor would be referred to but not seen or else "appear" as, for example, a pair of legs (belonging to a stand-in) on a bunk.
Or a hand as in The Celestial Toymaker
These aren’t lies - they’re just misconceptions.
When it comes to stories that don't feature the TARDIS, you forgot about "The Sontaran Experiment" and "Genesis of the Daleks" in which the Doctor and companions briefly leave the TARDIS behind on the Ark.
I guess the "reverse the polarity" line is kind of like "Beam me up Scotty" from Star Trek where fans tend to remember things their own way.
"He's not the most Iconical or groundbreaking but Kal was just as deadly a threat as the Daleks in those early days and deserves to be remembered as such." All this illustrated by lots of close ups of Za and not one of Kal. Methinks the editor should have watched the story before cutting together this package so he knew which caveman was which...
And all I can think of when seeing those is, "They don't have fire readily available, but do have access to razors?"
Pertwee used to refer to it in interviews as being his "favorite" thing to say, even though he'd only said it the once.
Funny thing that “good grief” can be considered 3rd’s catchphrase more then the one about polarity because he said it quite a lot throughout his series
10:52 Not quite, she was forgotten, intermittently, by Donna herself.
If Kris Marshall had got the role, he would have finally been ginger (see David Tennant & Matt Smith regenerations). The Tardis was missing for the first half of Tom Bakers first season too (time bracelet given to him by the Time Lords in it's place). "Reverse the polarity..." became a 3rd Doctor thing because Jon Pertwee had trouble with/couldn't be bothered with the techno-babble, so came up with something he would be able to remember.
Fun fact: Mission to the Unknown was the only single episode story in the classic series
Now they are common with NuWho 🤣🤣
Except for _The Five Doctors,_ but that was a 90-minute special. Some might also count the TV Movie, though I'd argue it's not part of the classic series.
Genesis of the D's era...no TARDIS! Timelords provided the Doctor with a time-ring, which, true to form, didn't work too well!
Many episodes in the 60s didn't have the Doctor in them, several before even "Mission to the Unknown". What makes "Mission" unique (still to this day) is it's the only episode to not feature any of the main cast at all.
Caitlin who played a young Amy Pond will be 23 in june !
I've seen a article saying Kris Marshall would like to play the doctor if he was asked to. But now he's back playing Humphrey Goodman in the spin off beyond paradise
Another oft-repeated misconception: the kiss between Tennant's Doctor and Rose/Cassandra in the Series 2 episode "New Earth" was NOT "improvised" by Billie Piper!
2:02 Yeah, file that theory as "Obvious joke." Goes in the bottom drawer of the file cabinet, the one marked "O-Z." ;)
Bernard Cribbins was also in the original movies.
Totally intrigued to see how the story plays out with both David Tennant and Katherine Tate returning for the 60th anniversary 🤓🥳😎💖🤩
Yes very intrigued but if they pull the I don’t want to go with tennant again I’m lose the plot
Bernard Cribbins was also originally in the classic Doctor Who, "Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D" in 1966! He played Tom Cambell
You got the names right, and essentially what roles they performed in the first Doctor's first story, but the images accompanying your words are a bit confusing, making it look like the character you're showing is Cal, when in fact that's Za. Both Cal and Za could be thought of antagonists of the first Doctor, as well as with each other. Za was the son of the previous leader, losing grip on his tribe's loyalty as he continually fails to make fire, his father neglecting to pass on the secret before he died. Cal was an adopted stranger from another tribe that had all perished from the cold, but was hungry for power, and was starting to win people to his side by his promises to make fire IF they made him leader (which was all BS). Both wanted the Doctor and co. to show them how to do it, but under the constant threat of "do it or die". Anyway, aside from that, essentially correct.
I always think of "good grief" as being the Third Doctor's catchphrase.
I'd always heard Terry Nation typed up various words, all but typing randomly, and one of the words, Dalek, caught his fancy...
There are a few episodes where the First Doctor and Second Doctor, plus other regular cast, are missing. This was because Dr Who was on for most of the year, and the actors needed..time off. Hartnell was beginning to feel his age, and during Celestial Toymaker the Doctor was invisible and his lines were recorded.
Two other full stories that didn't have the TARDIS were the Sontaran Experiment and Genesis of the Daleks.
Surprised that I actually knew a few of these, and one or two I had suspected. Good show.
P.S. That sign-off had some serious attitude. I liked it.
In fact Santa Claus himself asks why she stopped and she says I don't believe in fairytales
"Reverse the polarity" - I'm sure I've heard Star Trek AND Stargate SG-1 mention that, too!
Making Bernard Cribbins' character Donna's grandfather-best retcon ever!
Note the reverse polarity line was said In day of doctor by 11th doctor
Best example of a no TARDIS story is Genesis of the Daleks as they travel to Skaro via transmat from Nerva and return there via Time Ring. The TARDIS only re-appears at the end of Revenge of the Cybermen.😊
1: Bernard Cribbins had his FIRST outing as a companion of the Doctor in the movie version of "Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D." [1966] playing Police Constable Tom Campbell opposite Peter Cushing playing The Doctor.
When they brought him on board for the New Doctor, i would have been a VERY happy fan had they made Donna's Grand Father "Retired London Metropolitan Police Sgt. Tom Campbell".
It would have been a nice nod to "The forgotten Doctor", as Cushing is known in fan circles.
2: Nation came up with the encyclopedia story as a not to L. Frank Baum, author of the Wizard of Oz books. Baum needed to come up with a name for the magical land for his books.
He had two files in his office lettered A-N and O-Z. Thinking quickly, he selected the O-Z file and OZ was born. As any writer will tell you, "A Good story is worth stealing".
3: Fan speculation regarding potential next regenerations is not new, and dozens of names have been proposed, AND written about but were NEVER under serious consideration.
Danial Radcliffe was one such fan proposal that saw publication.
4: the Sonic screwdriver was originally literally that, a device for using sound waves to loosen and tighten screws. It became the "Sonic Multi-tool" under Pertwee.
5: NOPE, Cave Men and Technically one can argue given their VERY adversarial relationship in "An Unearthly Child' Stephen and Barbara were his first antagonists.
6: Tom Baker's Doctor [#4] had a season with companion Leela that leaned heavily towards Gothic Horror. ["Talons of Weng Chaiang", "Horror of Fang Rock", and "Brain of Morbius" among other scripts]. Unintentional, and Just how the scripting worked out that season, GREAT scripts though.
7: that "Lie" depends upon how you characterize the serialized story arcs, while he DOES appear in every arc, he is NOT in every individual episode.
8: Most of Pertwee's era, he was stranded on earth, the Tardis played no part in several of his adventures during this time period. again though, are we talking about Arcs, or individual episodes, because in most of the episodes, of Most of the doctor's the Tardis is not shown, it's not necessary to that portion of the story arc.
9: Pertwee ORIGINATED the phrase. When he needed to spout some scientific gobbldy-gook to explain something, that was the actor's fall back, as the writers often didn't have anything written down and just said "Jargon". [This cane direct from Pertwee at a Doctor Who world tour event]
10: Not EVERYTHING in who was planned or scripted, and a great many ad-libs were left to the individual actors. The show is NOT as tightly controlled in it's creation as some people think. There was a LOT that was just done on the fly.
2:28 the pepper pot thing isn't true according to Dalek designer Raymond Cusick on the special feature on disc 1 of "The Chase" where he visits the Cardiff new Who set. He said he used a pepper pot to demonstrate to someone how the Daleks moved, but it was just the nearest thing to hand. Do you guys have a different source?
You forgot to mention the 4th Doctor serials "The Sontaran Experiment" and "Genesis of the Daleks" in which the TARDIS also failed to materialise.
It must just be me but something about Jodie Whittaker's screwdriver reminds me of Serenity's ship.
The first doctor did have a sonic screwdriver, he even asked for it from Ian, he just forgot to say sonic in front of screwdriver and it was v1 so it’s sonic functionality was that it squeaked when he turned the screw…
The Sontaran Experiment and Genesis of the Daleks don't feature the TARDIS either! The Doctor, Sarah and Harry traveled by use of transmat and then a time ring from the Timelords in those episodes!
I love Doctor Who, but wonder how there can be facts about a fantasy character😊
would rather have had Kris Marshall!
The Daleks weren't the first monster to appear. The dead thing in the forest at the start of the story was.
It was even bug eyed.
The actor howard Attfield played donnas father and then bernard cribbins was brought in and instead of replacing Howard's character he was retconed in as Donna's grandfather instead after his first appearance in voyage of the damned
The encyclopedia was Dal-Ek not Lek. How do I know? Wibbly-wobbly-knowy-whoa-ey...
Dal-Eck would be much more plausible. (Three letters, and much more common.)
I heard it was a telephone directory in another version, of the story. Like the big ones that used be in phone boxes.
You talk about the great late Bernard Cribbins always being Donna's grandfather. Well, thinking out of the box, did you not forget 1966 when he played officer Tom Campbell in Daleks - Invasion Earth : 2150 AD alongside the fantastic Peter Cushing in the starring role?
Some of these "lies" I have never heard and would correct, but I have read a lot about the show and know a lot about it. Like the phrase "Reverse the Polarity" can be traced back at least as far back as 1898 Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett P. Serviss and is used in many shows B4 Who like The Forbidden Planet but Jon asked the writers for a simple piece of Techno Babble he could reliably deliver. So this is no secret. BUT you can't do this with neutrons. All the other stuff is seriously common knowledge and if ppl believe them it is because they really do not know the show.
“Reversing the polarity” also became a go-to fix for Star Trek technology failures.
As well as what you said about the Daleks, there were the Kaled, which have a similar but sort of backward-spelled name which were the original inhabitants of the planet Skaro.
In a History of Gallifrey book it also says that Susan isn’t actually the Doctor grandfather. She’s Rassilon’s daughter
After watching some episodes of 'Beyond Paradise', I'm CONVINCED Kris Marshall SHOULD be the Doctor in the future - his autistic mannerisms make for the perfect Time Lord technological expert! His acting has DEFINITELY improved over the years!
He has autism?
fun watch! You missed the misconception that the Tardis has always been a police box.
I don’t think that’s a misconception we all know it gets stuck
@@The_10th_Doctor. I referring to the fact that there are episodes where it’s not a police box
@@Clounlamer1 oh nvm
Yeah didn't the Chameleon circuit get fixed in the 6th Doctors era?
@@DittoGTI whoculture just did a video mentioning the police box as something that can never change and with good reason
I find more occasions to say, "Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow," than, "Oh, that's easy. Waggle his tail."
Also the doctor wasn’t in some parts of the keys of marinus as he leaves from part 3-5 I think so we follow Ian and Barbara
You forgot a couple of serials wherein the TARDIS doesn’t appear. They are “The Sontaran Experiment “ and “Genesis of the Daleks”
'dalek' is a word for stranger in some language or other...i heard
Croatian
I’m glad it was referred to in the title as ‘probably’ because any Doctor Who fan worth their salt never believed these because they knew they were not true.
I’ve always heard that the pepper pot thing was the myth. They were inspired by some dancers with big skirts that appeared to float as they moved.
You are correct, they were inspired by the Georgian State Dancers, certainly in terms of the "flared skirt" section and their movement. The original designs were more cylindrical. The pepperpot thing is just a lazy journalistic description.
While the Doctor Donna may have gone, Donna has not, and the time is coming where The Skinny Man in the Suit and The Woman who had a parallel world made around here will be reunited once more. Fate bound them together, A space Titanic, An Arachnid Alien who came to Earth as it was formed, right up to a Meta Crisis....and now Fate brings them together again, for one last time....The Doctor and Donna Noble, friends to the end
The sonic - you'd think that after nearly 60 years of uses and upgrades the damn thing would do wood! Get the app, Doctor! Cheers....
You missed a tardis free story in the 4th Doctor stories Sontaran Experiment and Genesis of the Daleks where they traveled by transmat/ time ring.
While it's technically true that not every Doctor has had a sonic screwdriver on screen it's also technically true that they all have had one if you look outside just the TV series.
The First Doctor has been depicted in comics using the same sonic screwdriver as the 2nd Doctor which confirms that while he was never seen using it the First Doctor did in fact still have one in his possession.
It's also true that the Sonic Screwdriver was destroyed and never replaced durring the 5th Doctors era because the show runner at the time hated how over used it was. That said the 6th Doctor did have a Sonic Lance I think he only used once and as mentioned in the video the 7th Doctor did have a Sonic Screwdriver late in his run. So every Doctor has used a Sonic Screwdriver of some kind even if some incarnations use it far more often than others.
The weirdest thing to me is the 2nd Doctor is the only one who actually used the Sonic Screwdriver as a Screwdriver. That was literally it's only function at the time while later iterations seem to be multipurpose tools that can do anything except act as literal screwdrivers.
When you look at the statistics for sonic screwdriver usage NuWho wins with nearly every episode the damn thing is used multiple times - way more than the 3rd Doctor every used it lol
Personally, I think the Nations family has one of the oddest legal contracts in broadcast. They own Everything about one small part of a show, and have creative control of the daleks, Too crazy
Not really bearing in mind that during the mid Sixties (when Dalekmania was at it's height) the Daleks were much bigger than Dr Who (2 feature films, numerous books, annuals, comic strips & toys).
It's a fairly standard contract really.
Also Terry Nation's agent (Tony Hancock's brother I believe) was a bit of a bulldog regarding negotiations for his clients.
I still wish Kris Marshal would appear on DW somehow. He’d be perfect
How about: "The Doctor's name is never revealed?!"
or the character is Doctor Who
@@geoffroi-le-Hook Well - that's a whole video in itself!
For no TARDIS stories, Genesis of the Daleks. The Time Lords forcibly sent The Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry to Skaro, and gave them a transport ring to allow them to leave at the end
It appears you've confused Kal with Za there. Throughout that segment, you show Derek Newark as Za, and not one shot of Jeremy Young as Kal. You also mistakenly state that Kal is the one trying to make fire, when again that's Za. It'd probably be more correct to say that while Za is a threat to the Doctor and crew, Kal is a threat to the whole tribe. It's also Kal who gets killed by Za at the end. Some crossed wires there, I suspect.
Is there enough footage available though even the episode itself is lost?
@@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars None of the caveman episodes are lost.
"Dalek" comes from Polish "Daleko" - "Far Away" ;)
Or literal Serbo-Croat where "Dalek" means far or distant thing.
Bernard Cribbins was also, in a Doctor who with peter cushing
Great video! Really interesting! 😊😊
Two other stories with no TARDIS; Genesis of the Daleks abs I think The Sontran xperiment where tral was by time ring and trasnat respectively. I'd need to double check the latter though :)
#10 actually no one ever believed Bernard Cribbins was always meant to be Donna's grandfather and there is no such rumor going around. The rumors are quite the opposite, that he was only cast after Howard Atfield stepped down. In fact there are rumors Atfield shot scenes for the telescope on the hill already before deciding he could not go on.
He absolutely did shoot scenes for Series 4; they’re included on the home media releases as deleted scenes.
@@DrWhoFanJ yup, which means the idea anyone thot wilf was planned is unlikely