Doctor Who Farewells - Ian & Barbara

[LightLife4]

I think the doctor saw Barbara and Ian as his last link to Susan and saying goodbye is like saying goodbye to his last connection to her.

[MyGary1975]

AWSOME !

[pufferfishish]

Pity it's cut off the earlier dialogue where Ian talks about how he misses the little everyday things like drinking a pint of beer and watching a cricket match in the park; I thought that dialogue was really well written. On a totally different matter, at 0.21 it seriously sounds like a dog barking when the Doctor shouts 'NO!'

[LyleBennet]

I'm an 18 year old boy University Student who was 12 when Doctor Who started back on TV in 2005 and I have watched and enjoyed the series since then. But three weeks ago I have thought about what the Doctors life was before he met Rose Tyler, Martha, Donna, Amy and Rory and I decided to buy the Doctor Who - The Beginnings boxset and I am enjoying it a lot. My plan is to work my way up from the First Doctor all the way up to the Eighth Doctor's TV Movie. I've set it as a task for my life

[Hecatean]

@LyleBennet Ah but why stop there? Why not (after you've seen the last "classic era" story "survival") try getting your mitts on the "New Adeventures" range of novels from Virgin publishing featuring Doc number 7 that kept the story going up till the TV movie, then the eighth Doctor novels that continued after that up till 2005.

[LyleBennet]

@Hecatean I would love to do that. I might do that as well. I have two Ninth Doctor books. I've watched Scream of the Shalka and listened and watched Shada (the Paul McGann one) and Real Time (think thats what its called).

They were good.

[Hecatean]

@LyleBennet Yes enjoyed them too. The novel "Lungbarrow" a good one to have as arguably it's the last full adventure of the seventh Doctor since it appears to lead straight into the events of the McGann movie. Though since it's so rare these days it's changing hands at fairly steep prices on ebay amazon ect

[liongirlfc]

I'm with everyone else I want lan and Barbara to come back I get it we have to get a new actress for Barbara even if Moffat can't do it I would be fine with a book.

1.Their don't know about regeneration so if their would have met the 11th and the 11th "lan Barbara!" and be well him their would be like"Who are you"

2.Once their found out(my guess is he shows them his TARDIS) their will also be surprised on how much he had changed.

4.blast from the past from The Doctor guys.

[Hecatean]

@liongirlfc It's not nessecarily the case that they don't know about regeneration they might have had some "off screen" adventures with previous Docs. Given that, according to Sarah Jane, they hadn't aged since the sixties they may well have come back to the Doc's attention some time ago....

[liongirlfc]

@Hecatean RTD said it is up to us and Sarah Jane could haven't meant anything about not ageing like their hadn't age in spirit and stuff.

[Hecatean]

@liongirlfc True, these things are open to interpretation.

[matthwe3468]

William didn't know they were leaving until they filmed this scene

[JediLuckySeven]

Sooooo.....why has no one else pointed out yet that IAN KISSED BARBARA!!!

Okay, it was only a kiss on the cheek, but probably only because her head was turned......

[jeffman52001]

I like this "Doctor Who" story, "The Chase" is one of my favorite from the William Hartnell era of "Doctor Who". I liked Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, sad to see them go, but at least they got home. I liked how the Doctor and Vicki watched on the Time TV to see they got home. The Doctor showed sadness of them not being with him anymore. He really will miss them. Ian and Barbara did force themselves on the Doctor, but they developed a good friendship with the Doctor.

[kamwrites]

I'd forgotten how cuddly the first Doctor can be. LOL! He definitely set the bar for this character, though he didn't know it.

[Smallvillenerd]

the best pairs were:

Ian and Barbara

Ben and Polly

Jamie and Zoe

Sarah and Harry

Turlough and Tegan

Rory and Amy

[kavtoM]

@Smallvillenerd Turlough and Tegan - most unmotivated companions. But were they a pair?

[Smallvillenerd]

@kavtoM sort of. Just shut up and enjoy the vid and comments!

[XxXLucozadeXLoverXxX]

Ian and Barbara are so underrated, they're clearly a brilliant pair. I love how the First Doctor admits he will miss them. He may have given "the scowl" a lot around them, but you just knew he enjoyed their company.

[aquagrl63]

I wonder what their excuse was when they suddenly re-appeared on earth two years after they first left. "Where were you? We thought you'd been killed!" "Um we eloped!" "Then why did you leave your car parked in a junkyard?" "Well we tried to elope but then we were kidnapped! Yes, kidnapped! We escaped but we couldn't find our way home because we'd got amnesia. And then two months ago we got our memories back and here we are!" ".........".

[m06een00]

@aquagrl63 Just as important, how would Ian and Barbara explain Susan's disappearance. The police would have suspected them of having something to do with that. I don't see any way how they could explain away their own disappearance. Any story they tried to give could be checked out.

[unclemarty70]

eehh ...that 1st doctor was a grumpy old git ......

[Mavakor]

I would LOVE for Ian to come back. HE was my favourite as he was the one who changed the Doctor for the better. More than any other companion.

[kavtoM]

How come they haven't aged since then?

[kamwrites]

@kavtoM Aged since when?

[kavtoM]

@kamwrites Sarah Jane said that they work at Cambridge and haven't aged since sixties.

[kamwrites]

@kavtoM Interesting.

[idgarad]

@kavtoM Too much time in the Tardis? Apparently being conceived in a Tardis makes you part time lord, capable of flying one, and other ways they butchered the show with that River Song crap... Why not become ageless in it.

[aquagrl63]

I've been watching the first season and have to say this: Barbara Wright is totally awesome. Like, in the first serials this is how all the characters act:

Ian: Doctor, this is ridiculous! I suggest you take us home so that I can act even more pompous!

Doctor: Grumble mumble humble fuck you.

Susan: Aaa!!! Grandfather! Ian! Barbara! Help!!!! Aaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!

Barbara: *Can't hear them over how awesome she is*.

[liongirlfc]

@aquagrl63 Yeah that's how lan acted in the first episode it did brother me but lan stoped doing that afte the pilot and the second episode he quickly become one of my favorites.

[xadam2dudex]

why didn't he just take em home in his tardis ?

[pufferfishish]

@xadam2dudex The Tardis apparently had defective navigation and was said to have been unable to land in the same time/place twice. However it was unclear whether this was simply a ploy used by the Doctor so that they could keep travelling to new times and places.

The truth is he never wanted Ian and Barbara to leave for selfish reasons but didn't want to admit this to them.

[JuddonMaster]

Ian and Barabra were the right kind of companions for the First Doctor and it's a shame to see them go

[TheBadRobot112]

i think in the sarah jane adventures cant remember which episode but i think it was the doctors death episodes sara jane talked about the companions and said rumer has it that ian and babarah dont age she said something like that

[thefartydoctor]

"I was always trying to old and grumpy, like you do when you're young..."

:-)

[flashrobbie]

Brabra, Ian and Steven turned him from a grumpy old refugee fleeing from his own people to the hero every subsequent regeneration became. They may have left him but they alos gave him morals and changed him profoundly and in that way they're always with him.

[maurice]

@flashrobbie Every subsequent regeneration except rough yob Eccles, who was a flashback to the early Doc's nastier side. Ecces the worst and Hartnell the second worst Doctors: it's funny how the original Doc wasn't quite right with the concept ,and how he undermines the too-easy moral certainty many felt in the character later. He totally has a flawed past.

[aquagrl63]

@maurice I thought everyone said that Colin Baker was the worst.

[kamwrites]

@maurice At this point he was very disillusioned and oddly enough, considerably younger. ;) Not to mention, they had no idea that the show would live on for forty years so...LOL! Things adapt. He was greatly influenced by every companion. I believe he chose his companions for a reason. He's turned people down before.

[MrBristolian]

"....I shall miss them."

Gigantic AWW moment. :D

[BenTheBear76]

Fantastic stuff! The First Doctor had some great stories.

[SilentGunman]

It's pretty much a foregone conclusion that these two got together after they got home.

[MarquisWho]

A lot of the goodbyes in the old DW seemed oddly unemotinal. The new series all of them are given a proper amount of sadness according to the situation. This one ranks right up there with the best of them though.

[BlackMonk66]

@MarquisWho If you were saying goodbye to people you cared about all the time, you'd probably want to distance yourself from those moments, too. Better to leave with smiles than tears is probably the way he looks at it.

[MarquisWho]

@BlackMonk66 The best example of that had to be journey's end. The doctor spiraled out of control when he tried to ignore it that time though.

[pufferfishish]

I love the way that the Doctor can't bring himself to see them leave and only Vicki turns round to see the ship dematerialise.

[pufferfishish]

I've got this on VHS and can't wait to get my hands on the DVD now it's been released!!

Such a lovely and well-written scene, this. A nice human denouement after all the hectic battle scenes immediately before.

Great stuff.

[sarahjane4eva]

4:10 - 4:16 - LOL. I think it is quite impossible that these two did not end up together - love them both to pieces

[Witchydonna]

Oh, I just had a thought! Can you imagine if Ten had run into Ian & Barbara in 1969 during the months he and Martha were "stuck" there during the events in Blink? That would be only 4 years after they got home, so they should still be around.

[Witchydonna]

I would SO love to see an older Ian and Barbara meet up with Eleven in the new series! Imagine their shock that he's not such a cranky old fart anymore!

[pufferfishish]

@Witchydonna I like the idea of that too. I think William Russell is still with us but Jackie Hill sadly died way before her time in 1993. It would feel too sad to see the role recast to a different actress. :(

[Witchydonna]

@pufferfishish Well, unfortunately, yes you would have to re-cast, especially if he were to meet them in the later part of the 1960's. DW doesn't seem to like doing this, with the exception of Sarah Jane, but I think it could be a great story. Like maybe Eleven could travel between the current Ian and the Ian of 1968 to solve something. Ian was quite the dashing character that the Doctor has now become.

[jadewarlock]

@Witchydonna I don't know, it's possible to have William Russell appear in the current series, but of course it'd have to be in a version that is most recent. But, Russell is I believe 86 years old and this could be an issue unless it's more of a slower pace scene with him. On the plus, it'd be neat to see either him or Carol Ann Ford - the only two surviving members of the original cast - appear in the series. Maybe they'll do that in the next series or so - at least wishful thinking.

[liongirlfc]

@Witchydonna yeah that's what I always thought it would be so funny

plus lan's awesome one of my favorites.

[zvi303]

OK, but I liked Susan.

[MrClassicDoctorWho]

I LOVE IAN & BARBARA

[craigraven]

This was a huge moment in the series' history. Doctor Who was never quite as good after original companions Ian and Barbara left.

[sebbrown1]

It could have been very easy to have ended the show with ian and barbara leaving.

[liongirlfc]

@sebbrown1 True True but if their DW will only be thought of "that show from years ago" not BCC number one show.

[rojblake82]

@sebbrown1 Ian was right the Doctor was as stubborn, as a mule and Ian and Barbara wanted to get back home.

[Simes2007]

Fantastic clip, really enjoyed that, many thanks for posting it! :)

A cameo in the current series from one of the existing Hartnell/Troughton sidekicks would be great - hey Moffat - sort it out!

[Witchydonna]

Yes Moff sort it out!

Ian would be a great one to bring back. We could find out what happened to him & Barbara all these years.

[mattinkedron]

it'd be kewl to see William Russell (Ian) come back to the new series...it worked with with Sarah...and why not chuck Polly, Victoria, Jo, Liz or Tegan in?? All the actors are still alive and all those characters ended up back on earth...

[Jamestopboy]

Victoria was in the 1800's Jo is probably still in the amazon somewhere, Liz, is probably teaching at cambridge, Polly, i haven't got a clue, she sucked like hell anyway, and Tegan would love to come back, she seemed to rethink her choice at the end of her last episode as she returned, but a little bit too late... and there's a lot more that could come back

[biscuitsandtea]

@Jamestopboy Jo is coming back this year in Sarah Jane Adventures, with obviously Sarah Jane and the new doctor.

[Jamestopboy]

@biscuitsandtea I know, and Luke is being written out for a new character in series five.... However, I bet Jo and Sarah Jane will get along like two peas in a pod

[MrClassicDoctorWho]

R.I.P Jackie Hill. a much loved companion!

[doctorwhoone]

You know , theres a part of me that likes to think that Ian and Barbra are probably still aive , probably Married , and experiancing the Alien Invasion's of modern Doctor Who , from the Slitheen to the recently Dalek Invasion of Earth , if so , i wounder if they know that the Doctor has changed , even thou they never witnessed one of his regenerations ! .

Long live Ian and Barbra , the first Human Companions of Doctor Who ! .