Doctor Who - FOX promo for the 1996 TV Movie - 3 of 3

[martang66]

It's TUESday...not TOOSday.

[ChrisC11291980]

The only endearing thing about the series that would have resulted from this movie would have been Paul McGann... And Chang Lee if they ever decided to use him again.

[tomkatt747]

i use to have that preview it was my fav one, thanks for uploading. paul was great the movie was so so. but still neat trailer.

[WackdProductions]

If a dinky little TV flick is the "motion picture event of the year", 1996 must've been a suckish year for film...

[USApotterfanHPLO]

From different worlds? Does he mean figuratively? Because they grew up together.

[ChrisC11291980]

Exactly, USApotterfanHPLO, that's what I thought hearing that. They're former friends from the same world!

[tclang3988]

I think figuratively, yes. Of course, if we take the "half human" nonsense as canon (which I don't), that could provide a more literal explanation for the "different worlds" business.

[tclang3988]

I think figuratively, yes. Of course, if we take this half-human nonsense as canon (which I don't), that might also provide a more literal explanation.

[sirnoggin]

100 years? Could mean anything from the Doctors perspective...Then again, could also mean Fox are simpletons...

[pseudowho]

As for the "thousand years" thing, it's not actually all that unreasonable. In the 7th Doctor's first story, he states his age as 953 (the same as the Rani, and presumably the same as the Master, as they were all in school together). By the time the 8th Doctor comes along, he could easily be well over 1,000.

The modern series gets it wrong by saying he's 900 in series 1, which is the *6th* Doctor's stated age.

Hopefully this will be retconned and fixed in Moffat's era.

/American fan since '78

[XtremeGoose]

Although i love taking the piss out of americans prehaps he means 1000 years in linear time.

[LoriCiani]

Ducktor Who?

[CassandraWho]

the doctor's been 900 since colin bakers time

[LoriCiani]

Wasn't that David Tennant's Doctor that claimed that was his age? So, Paul McGann's Doctor would be even younger? Americans, they ALWAYS have to exagerate and ALWAYS have to go OTT.

[commandox20]

Why do idiots like you keep blaming us? The movie was filmed in Canada, written and directed by brits! All we did was fund it!

[LoriCiani]

I'm sorry if I hit a sore spot but I saw the making of documentary. Where the director, who by the way hadn't stepped on British soil since he was a toddler and had only seen scant episodes on tapes that were sent to him, blames the conglomerate of American producers who kept meddling with the script. The scrip went through many changes, all done by AMERICAN writers.

[pseudowho]

Perhaps for the sake of accuracy, why not say *Hollywood* instead of American. There are plenty of Americans who could do a great job with Doctor Who. Unfortunately none of them are Hollywood producers, as they would probably hand it over to a lackwit like Michael Bay or something.

[LoriCiani]

Sorry, when did Hollywood separate from the rest of the US? I thought that most of American television was produced there in Hollywood, California. Well, the stuff that we see here in the UK has been done there. Spielberg was supposed to have bought the rights then, in a fit of cold feet , handed the project to Siegal.

[pseudowho]

Well, Hollywood happens to be within the United States, but you seemed to be tarring all Americans with the same brush as Hollywood producers, which is sort of like saying every UK citizen works for the BBC.

Segal, for example, wanted to hire *Terrance Dicks* to write the script, but was forced to use an in-house Hollywood writer. Segal was the main force behind the project from when he worked for Amblin & took the rights with him when he left, not because of cold feet on Spielberg's part.

[S1G1L]

I don't think the TV movie is all that bad, setting aside the obvious plot holes and canon issues. Trouble is it was American producers assuming what American audiences want to see, an American-ised version of a british classic. We make the same mistake in Britain by assuming people want to see british versions of American shows. Whereas we don't, we'd rather watch the Wire. Or Deadwood.

[avgn2]

it cant be 1000 years because the doctor is 904 years old