@InsertNameHere297 He was still much older than a human, he claimed to be several hundred years old a few episodes later. They took his pulse in one episode and said it was normal so he probably did have one heart at the time
They must have taken great care in making sure everything was well aligned... The next few generations were simply not as good as this one. Especially the third/fourth.
Must say it's not actually that clear it's a different guy. Be better if they used his full head rather than just his face, then we would see WH white hair fade into PT's dark hair.
they say the doctor is the best with death because he can change his appearance when he dies, and become a new person. But, he dies every 1-5 years so it isn't that great. If he died less than yes, amazing, but he seems to be very, accident prone.
@frenchmonkeyinafez I agree. In 'Rose', it was implied that the 9th Doctor was rather 'new', yet he was regenerating again a few weeks later. This is too much. Patrick Troughton started this nonsense by advising the young and impressionable Peter Davison to do only 3 seasons. Davison is one of those actors who is never typecast. No one watches 'Dangerous Davies' thinking of him as Tristan from 'All Creatures'. He should have stayed longer, as should Tesco-ad Tennant. Smith should, too.
@ysfnvji Not true. He may mainly select from those categories, but not exclusively. Jamie was from the past, Zoe from the future, as was Vicki (while Victoria was from the past), Steven was an astronaut from the future, etc. Nyssa, Adric and Turlough were aliens, Romana was a Time Lord, as was Susan, I suppose. The companions are there as a link between the audience and the Doctor, so naturally they tend to be rather human, though K9 and the short-lived Kamelion were robots.
@outofthegreenmist I hope most of these names are from the original series(I've only read of them in Doctor Who wikis), if not, I'd been really oblivious of things in the new series, which is near impossible for I really love the new series. Thank you for answering my question and for making me realise that I should appreciate the original series more.
The Doctor wasn't 900+ when he regenerated into the 2nd Doctor, and the 50 years between 'An Unearthly Child' and 'The Wedding of River Song' hasn't been 50 years for the Doctor himself. The 1st Doctor was c.250; the 7th Doctor used HIS age (about 560) as a password.
About the way he ages. Just imagine during an adventure he does a short trip with the TARDIS that you sometimes see happen, but unknown to those outside he is really gone for years or even decades before returning. The same between companions probably.
@Shodan1440255 the effectiveness is largely because the production team took advantage of a fault in a vision mixer so Hartnell's face could be overexposed before the switch.
he wasnt fired and he didnt leave. he only had a certin amount of seasons in his contract once his seasons were used up he had to stop being the doctor so technically it was both i guess?
@bleeask1 He decided it was time to leave. He's said so in multiple interviews. The fact that main members of the production crew were moving on influenced his decision as well.
it's funny the doctor regerated into his 2nd incarnation because the 2nd doctor, out of all the doctors, came FIRST in the amount of episodes lost to time. most were deleted which was a shame as he was great at his job (Patrick Troughton).
@kierany1 I think it's just a case of finding the right person for the job. Eccleston was, and so was Tennant. Steven Moffat actually intended to cast a much older Doctor, but Matt Smith was just the perfect guy for the job. And he is brilliant, in my opinion.
@OpticalFunkllusions I agree that he's brilliant, but am saddened by rumours of his departure. He is young and talented enough to avoid stereotyping if he stayed a few more years, hopefully long enough to see some better scripts for him to get his teeth into. In retrospect, an older actor might have been better - less interested in a 'career' and more interested in a steady income! See Pertwee and T. Baker for instance - the two all time greatest Doctors!
For those of you thinking how did he last 450 years without regenerating, think, he had not left Gallifrey until he was close to Unearthly Child, and then as part of a larger plan (ref to Rememberance and 3 Doctors) and he was often being used as an agent by the Celestrial Intervention Agency especially where Nexus Earth was concerned.
@julesrobert21 lol yeah thats a good question really. Especially considering Romana regenerates for absolutely no reason at all when she's only a mere slip of a girl at 200 years old.
@bluejeckett They never made it very clear in the show itself why Romana regenerated, though they tried to explain it in other media (books, etc.). But apparently a Time Lord can *choose* to regenerate, it doesn't just have to happen when their lives are in danger. On the other hand, changing personalities that starkly can kind of mess with your head if you do it too often, and there are limits on how many times you can do it. So usually they don't do it on a lark.
@julesrobert21 I think it's assumed that there are a lot of adventures that we the audience are not privy to. Given the gaps in his purported age from the first doctor to the eleventh, he's aged another 700+ years since the first incarnation. Granted, his following incarnations still haven't survived as long as the first did, but it seems the first Doctor lived quite a while before taking on the dangerous life of an adventurer.
@julesrobert21 the first time he simply died of old age, all the other times he had started to gain companions, the companions themselves were put in danger hence the doctor took more risks to protect them. many of the times the doctor injures himself to protect his companions. (i.e Rose,Wilfred, Sarah Jane, Peri
@julesrobert21 They never really said that was his original body...besides, it's entirely possible their lifespan is far greater than ours without needing to regenerate, and he stayed out of trouble for the first few hundred years and only started getting into dangerous situations when he stole the TARDIS ...and the TARDIS stole a time lord because it wanted to see the universe.
@julesrobert21 that's an interesting thing...i think he might have regenerated once or twice before he stole the tardis and ran away, perhaps.
but now...well, in his terms, he just gets into more trouble and is a little more careless as he gets older; he sorta stops caring. it's kinda philosophical when you think about it.
@julesrobert21 Simple answer: A Time Lord can live for hundreds of years at a time in a single body. The Doctor first regereated when he was about 450 (in our years). Since then, he has had about 8 fatal accidents or otherwise, and one forced regeneration when he was exiled by the Time Lords.
@julesrobert21 - His age varies in his different incarnations, he might not have been THAT old. Sure, he looked it, or maybe TimeLords don't need to regenerate on Gallifrey.
@julesrobert21 I don't think he did regenerate 10 times since 1966 in his years because he's 450 when he first regenerates and now the current doctor is over 1000 so it was 10 times in about 500 years :L
@julesrobert21 Because Times Lords are meant to live for thousands of years, it's just the The Doctor travels and does SO MUCH STUFF that he keeps getting killed. For the first 800-900 years of his life there was no time war... and lived like most of the others so he was able to live for hundreds of years before his body became to old and needed to regenerate.
@julesrobert21 Surely the point being that each regeneration has the potential to live for hundreds of years, and the Doctor spent the vast majority of his first on Gallifrey and at the academy etc. Also, the series is not in a day by day format, at several points its feesable that there are decades, perhaps even centuries between stories - usually if the Doctor is travelling alone, or with a long lived companion (ie Romana). Take a look at the article 'the doctors age' on tardis.wikia for info.
@julesrobert21 Because he started living as an adventurer - He spent most of these hundreds of years on Gallifrey, and there probably weren't that much deadly dangers around back there... XD
@julesrobert21 Maybe because he travels through time and space and it hasn't been since 1966... He has been around for hundreds more years since this first regeneration.
@megazwatcher While I agree with the premise of your argument, until the Virgin and BBC 'missing adventures' and, later, Big Finish adventures came out, few people thought about this and most probably saw the TV series as a continuous record of the Doctor's life since 1963. It would make more sense if the first Doctor had really only been about 70, not 700. Why live so long in one body when you can regenerate anyway? It must have been ver dull spending 700 years on Gallifrey.
@alphamone Yes, it was never suggested that 'centuries' of other experiences and adventures were happening between stories. How would that have affected the lives of his human companions? The Doctor's age doesn't bear scrutiny. Best to forget about it and accept that he can now regenerated 500 times, or whatever the new limit is (I forget!).
personally i'd have prefered several things had been different
no Colin baker, no Sylvester McCoy, no easy ramana regeneration at will, a more detailed explanation of the origins, limitations and properties of regeneration and time lords in general.
regeneration should have been more on the order of the 3rd to 4th doctors, i.e. a fatal injury or body wearing out like the 1st to 2nd doctor. also no natural number limit but council imposed instead.
@outofthegreenmist Sylvester was to "in the know" he was walking thru the show like he was reading 3 pages ahead of the script and not in a good way. and colin was a bully and a coward, the worst example of the doctor in order of preference 1. Tom Baker (Best) 2. Paul Mcgann 3. Matt Smitt 4. David Tennant 5. Jon Pertwee 6. Chris Eccleston 7. Peter David 8. Patrick Troughton 9. William Hartnell 78. Sylvester Mccoy (didn't feel like the doctor) 10238. Colin Baker (hated him)
@megazwatcher The show was undeniably in free fall in that era, but I don't necessarily blame the actors. A different production team and different writers and directors could have made all the difference. If the current series were a flop, people would accuse Smith of being 'the worst Doctor ever', etc., whereas I think he is one of the best yet, who is sadly being let down by messy and confusing plots. Still, disliking Colin and McCoy has little to do with the issue of regeneration itself.
yeah colin baker was a bit of a cunt, he actually drove me away from watching dr. who until macoy took over and then he was so Merlin i just couldn't stand him either.
Oh i know. I liked uh crap Troughton and Yeah Mcgann did a great job. I just dnt understand why no one like Smith that much . He is doing a great job,i like him more than tennant. i mean he just brings somthing to it you know. I do really like your list thou its really good.
@megazwatcher I think Colin Baker was tens of billions of times better in Blake's Seven than as Doctor Who and also I think it is a damn shame that Colin Baker was not in my opinion cast as Blake in Blake's Seven instead of Gareth Thomas who only stayed two series and then pushed off to the theatre. Now I am certain, if Colin Baker had, played Blake, he would never have quit B7 after two seasons B7 might have lasted longer than four seasons and we if blake had stayed would never have had Tarrant
@julesrobert21 While I agree with megazwatcher premise, it doesn't do to think about these things too much. The classic series was so entertaining that we seldom did, at the time, until the missing adventure books and CDs were released. The 1st Doctor told Ben and Polly he had been looking forward to travelling alone again, yet we'd assumed he'd left Gallifrey with Susan, so when had he been alone, since he'd had an unbroken chain of companions since the first episode?
@julesrobert21 Because in those ten times, death was caused by an outside source, such as a long fall. In the 1st doctor's case, however, he managed to elude death until his body just wore out.
@julesrobert21 Large parts of his life have not been shown in the TV-show (there are lots of comic books/audio adventures that fill in gaps).
Nevertheless, it's true that the doctor's frequency of regeneration is very high by Time Lord standards. His first incarnation spent more than 400 years before dieing of mostly old age. His next incarnations never came close. That's because of his lifestyle.
@julesrobert21 Because The Doctor wasn't involved with the earth things and He wasn't involved with the danger so when he did get involved he regenerated
@zeepman In his own words. 'This old body of mine is wearing a bit thin' apparently due to energy drain that was being done on the planet Earth from the planet Mondas (Cybermen Homeworld) in that story.
@zeepman That as Yetaxa says is the reason in show, there's also the fact he was affected by the Daleks Time Destructor in "Daleks Masterplan" and was aged even more, plus his life force was drained in a later story called "The Savages". All of that would have affected him. In the books he starts to feel the regeneration beginning before he even meets Ben and Polly.
@thekroton actually it wouldnt look like the pertwee/baker regenerion. hartell would have a hood on and when his hood got pulled back it woud have been troughton
@ManicCarter What happened was that he was sick, and he was getting sicker and sicker; then after producer Verity Lambert left he started having problems with the new production team, so he left. But the main reason was the arteriosclerosis. He left in 1966. From what I know, it seemed like he decided to leave. I can't say that for sure. I know for sure that he was sick, though.
This is a great regen also if you type in the Tenth Planet on youtube it will come up with the first three episodes then look for the animated one if you do this i hope you enjoy
You know what I am looking forward to? Is hopefully after Matt Smith we get to see a much older Doctor. It's going to happen for sure, after watching Silence in the library, you hear Swan say, that he's much older than the Tennant Doctor. I was hoping that we would be seeing the older Doctor in the new seasons, but oh well, we will have to enjoy Matt Smith for a while yet.
No. There's a rumor that Blue Peter used it and lost it, but there's not a whole lot of evidence for that. They really aren't sure how it got lost.
The BBC destroyed a lot of episodes of shows it aired in the 60s. This was before video and syndication, so they couldn't fathom a use for it. That's the reason why so many episodes from that era are missing.
That is a very large bummer. True that there was no way of foreseeing even the Vhs Beta days. Still knowing that so much has been lost, of real history is sad.
It nearly happened to several early episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus, too. If they hadn't sold broadcast rights to certain PBS stations, they would've been lost! Now there's a scary thought.
@TheTurnipKing I have always thought that would be the greatest Job in the world being a film Archeologist scouring the globe for ten frames here ten frames there trying to dig up the best view into history - pop culture. It's good to know there are people out there tryig to save as much as possible.
@bbqplatypus318 as well as cost, space and militant actor's unions insisting that after a programme is over 3 years old from the recording date, it can't be repeated.
thank god for Margaret Thatcher cracking the unions!!!
@bbqplatypus318 Apart from a few moments where people have recorded the visuals off air by pointing a cine camera at their TV screen for a few brief seconds.
Unfortunately Billy was suffering from Arteriosclerosis (Spelling?) which is basically a hardening of the arteries. It cuts off blood supply to the brain so yes, he'd have trouble with his lines.
Does anyone know what the show was called that was screened the week before the very first Doctor Who?
All I can remember is a series which started with a seaman running along a stony beach in the night-time fog, accompanied by a strange soundtrack (radiophonic?) Can someone tell me what this series was called?
@TheDarklordganon Seriously un-plug your PC from the mains put it in a box in a cupboard then proceed to hybernate until you are mature enough to handle an adult converstion.
He felt it was time to move on. He also wanted to go while he was enjoying himself. Fair enough. Its the best job in the world and if you got tired of it it'd impact on it.
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I find it completely unnacceptable that Tennant has gone. I said that in a pub last night and some geezer said who cares Ecclestone was better and he didn't care I was upset so I started a fight with him.
LOL, the Doc seems to regenerate more spectacularly with each incarnation.
Basis of a new story line perhaps? like next time the doc can take out enemies (of friends) if he regenerates in their vicinity, or perhaps even share some of his regenerating energy.
Just a thought. but it would make sense of the special effects getting more.
The last regeneration 'in the end of time' was mega. excellent iconic imagery.
this transformation is so emotive... it's able to express the same depth and feeling as most cgi today, but with just ultra basic techniques and lots of feel
yeh but what if you divide oxygen and hydrogen? what if you subdivide a quarks? may think this is impossible but that just a perception of scale. something has to make up the surface of a quark. its can just be that. if your change your perceptive to the same ize of a quark then it most have a surface. just because we don't understand it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. see how pointless posts like this are?
The comments on this are making me laugh. Do you really think they had the same quality equipment we use today back then? Computers? Lol, funny stuff.
Patrick Troughton was by far the best Dr Who. it is what happened after the regeneration that was interesting. The Fact that Patrick Troughton was also a fine actor might have had something to do with it.
Wow! I had read that the 1st -> 2nd Doctor regeneration scene was lost video footage, like so much of the Troughton era footage. Very nice to see that this has survived.
Naaaaaaaaw. This is so cute. You can see him blinking.
dontdropthebanana 1 week ago
So what was Troughton's first line after his regeneration?
BlueManIan 1 month ago
@BlueManIan "Get me a mirror!" ?
JasonJason210 2 days ago
Are timelords more like humans in their first incarnation? because apparently this doctor only had 1 heart and died of old age.
InsertNameHere297 1 month ago
@InsertNameHere297 He was still much older than a human, he claimed to be several hundred years old a few episodes later. They took his pulse in one episode and said it was normal so he probably did have one heart at the time
eateroftheflame 4 weeks ago
@eateroftheflame I didn't know that time lords could die of old age, since I've heard that some had lived almost forever.
InsertNameHere297 4 weeks ago
isn't it kinda sad that this is the only time the doctor dies a natural death ( old age).
anriric23 1 month ago
They must have taken great care in making sure everything was well aligned... The next few generations were simply not as good as this one. Especially the third/fourth.
dangerouslytalented 2 months ago
I still think this is the best regeneration effect
TheHawkdaddy 2 months ago
Must say it's not actually that clear it's a different guy. Be better if they used his full head rather than just his face, then we would see WH white hair fade into PT's dark hair.
TsoLan1 2 months ago
Last Words: Keep Warm
rtuckerivey 3 months ago
they say the doctor is the best with death because he can change his appearance when he dies, and become a new person. But, he dies every 1-5 years so it isn't that great. If he died less than yes, amazing, but he seems to be very, accident prone.
frenchmonkeyinafez 4 months ago
@frenchmonkeyinafez I agree. In 'Rose', it was implied that the 9th Doctor was rather 'new', yet he was regenerating again a few weeks later. This is too much. Patrick Troughton started this nonsense by advising the young and impressionable Peter Davison to do only 3 seasons. Davison is one of those actors who is never typecast. No one watches 'Dangerous Davies' thinking of him as Tristan from 'All Creatures'. He should have stayed longer, as should Tesco-ad Tennant. Smith should, too.
outofthegreenmist 4 months ago
ive got another question,
Why does the doctor select companions only from earth and the 20th/21st centuries?
ysfnvji 4 months ago
@ysfnvji Not true. He may mainly select from those categories, but not exclusively. Jamie was from the past, Zoe from the future, as was Vicki (while Victoria was from the past), Steven was an astronaut from the future, etc. Nyssa, Adric and Turlough were aliens, Romana was a Time Lord, as was Susan, I suppose. The companions are there as a link between the audience and the Doctor, so naturally they tend to be rather human, though K9 and the short-lived Kamelion were robots.
outofthegreenmist 4 months ago
@outofthegreenmist I hope most of these names are from the original series(I've only read of them in Doctor Who wikis), if not, I'd been really oblivious of things in the new series, which is near impossible for I really love the new series. Thank you for answering my question and for making me realise that I should appreciate the original series more.
ysfnvji 4 months ago
@ysfnvji No problem. Yes, they are all from the original series.
outofthegreenmist 4 months ago
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randomdave30 4 months ago
OMG HE REGENERATE 31 YEARS BEFORE MY BIRTHDAY!!!
The97smith 4 months ago
thoose 17 people who disliked this video are daleks and then their not people so lolz
holly42920 4 months ago
The Doctor wasn't 900+ when he regenerated into the 2nd Doctor, and the 50 years between 'An Unearthly Child' and 'The Wedding of River Song' hasn't been 50 years for the Doctor himself. The 1st Doctor was c.250; the 7th Doctor used HIS age (about 560) as a password.
AppallingGrandeur 5 months ago
@AppallingGrandeur Actually that age was 953...
Yetaxa 4 months ago
Thanks, Blue Peter!
HarvestmanMan 5 months ago
About the way he ages. Just imagine during an adventure he does a short trip with the TARDIS that you sometimes see happen, but unknown to those outside he is really gone for years or even decades before returning. The same between companions probably.
shadowalker1 6 months ago
This is actually a very smooth regeneration scene. Very well done for the time it was made in.
Shodan1440255 8 months ago 22
@Shodan1440255 the effectiveness is largely because the production team took advantage of a fault in a vision mixer so Hartnell's face could be overexposed before the switch.
moviemonkeys 8 months ago
@Shodan1440255 Agreed!!
JasonJason210 2 days ago
he wasnt fired and he didnt leave. he only had a certin amount of seasons in his contract once his seasons were used up he had to stop being the doctor so technically it was both i guess?
bleeask1 9 months ago
@bleeask1 He decided it was time to leave. He's said so in multiple interviews. The fact that main members of the production crew were moving on influenced his decision as well.
ChanceMcGavin 9 months ago
it's funny the doctor regerated into his 2nd incarnation because the 2nd doctor, out of all the doctors, came FIRST in the amount of episodes lost to time. most were deleted which was a shame as he was great at his job (Patrick Troughton).
AndrewTheMusher 9 months ago
how come the doctor's get younger and younger?
kierany1 10 months ago
@kierany1 because that's the point of regeneration, it's not hard to figure out
64Fathoms 10 months ago
@kierany1 I think it's just a case of finding the right person for the job. Eccleston was, and so was Tennant. Steven Moffat actually intended to cast a much older Doctor, but Matt Smith was just the perfect guy for the job. And he is brilliant, in my opinion.
OpticalFunkllusions 9 months ago 38
@OpticalFunkllusions I agree that he's brilliant, but am saddened by rumours of his departure. He is young and talented enough to avoid stereotyping if he stayed a few more years, hopefully long enough to see some better scripts for him to get his teeth into. In retrospect, an older actor might have been better - less interested in a 'career' and more interested in a steady income! See Pertwee and T. Baker for instance - the two all time greatest Doctors!
outofthegreenmist 4 months ago
@OpticalFunkllusions He is not a good actor as Eccleston and Tennant. too childish in my opinion
Dataacid 2 months ago
@OpticalFunkllusions Or as the ninth Doctor would say: He's fantastic.
MyComicStyle 1 month ago
For those of you thinking how did he last 450 years without regenerating, think, he had not left Gallifrey until he was close to Unearthly Child, and then as part of a larger plan (ref to Rememberance and 3 Doctors) and he was often being used as an agent by the Celestrial Intervention Agency especially where Nexus Earth was concerned.
greenswift 11 months ago
I've got a question that's been playing on my mind for ages:
How did the first doctor manage to live for hundreds of years without regenerating, and then regenerate 10 times since 1966? Hmmm?
Absolutely LOVE Doctor Who anyway.
julesrobert21 1 year ago 55
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bigeasy1997 1 year ago
@julesrobert21 lol yeah thats a good question really. Especially considering Romana regenerates for absolutely no reason at all when she's only a mere slip of a girl at 200 years old.
bluejeckett 1 year ago
@bluejeckett They never made it very clear in the show itself why Romana regenerated, though they tried to explain it in other media (books, etc.). But apparently a Time Lord can *choose* to regenerate, it doesn't just have to happen when their lives are in danger. On the other hand, changing personalities that starkly can kind of mess with your head if you do it too often, and there are limits on how many times you can do it. So usually they don't do it on a lark.
danaseilhan 11 months ago
@danaseilhan except the Master, he totally does it on a lark ;D
64Fathoms 10 months ago
@julesrobert21 not really. He first regenerated and regenerated 10 times until the age of 907. Not 45 years.
lolliepop90 8 months ago
@julesrobert21 I think it's assumed that there are a lot of adventures that we the audience are not privy to. Given the gaps in his purported age from the first doctor to the eleventh, he's aged another 700+ years since the first incarnation. Granted, his following incarnations still haven't survived as long as the first did, but it seems the first Doctor lived quite a while before taking on the dangerous life of an adventurer.
billycthulhu 8 months ago
@julesrobert21 the first time he simply died of old age, all the other times he had started to gain companions, the companions themselves were put in danger hence the doctor took more risks to protect them. many of the times the doctor injures himself to protect his companions. (i.e Rose,Wilfred, Sarah Jane, Peri
MrSamster911 8 months ago
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@julesrobert21 because they have ungodly long lifetimes.
Jakezing 8 months ago
@julesrobert21 i suppose timelords have a longer lifespan? ^o^''
knetterzak 7 months ago
@julesrobert21 They never really said that was his original body...besides, it's entirely possible their lifespan is far greater than ours without needing to regenerate, and he stayed out of trouble for the first few hundred years and only started getting into dangerous situations when he stole the TARDIS ...and the TARDIS stole a time lord because it wanted to see the universe.
nybbleme 7 months ago
@julesrobert21 that's an interesting thing...i think he might have regenerated once or twice before he stole the tardis and ran away, perhaps.
but now...well, in his terms, he just gets into more trouble and is a little more careless as he gets older; he sorta stops caring. it's kinda philosophical when you think about it.
StaraziaSelin66 7 months ago
@StaraziaSelin66 nope this was the first incarnation the 5 doctors confirms this
brigeboy95 7 months ago
@julesrobert21 Simple answer: A Time Lord can live for hundreds of years at a time in a single body. The Doctor first regereated when he was about 450 (in our years). Since then, he has had about 8 fatal accidents or otherwise, and one forced regeneration when he was exiled by the Time Lords.
georgercop 7 months ago
@julesrobert21 he wasn't traveling thru time fighting evil all those years you're talking about
geargrinder87 7 months ago
@julesrobert21 he problably just lived a dangerous life suddenly
kallemick 7 months ago
@julesrobert21 lucky or lying
TMan5636 6 months ago
@julesrobert21 - His age varies in his different incarnations, he might not have been THAT old. Sure, he looked it, or maybe TimeLords don't need to regenerate on Gallifrey.
BigRedUnderpants1 6 months ago
@julesrobert21 well this doctor didn't give up his life to protect others and was more of a selfish type
mfpoke 6 months ago
@julesrobert21 Lol you're still getting spammed after 6 months xD.
Kragdude 6 months ago
@julesrobert21 I don't think he did regenerate 10 times since 1966 in his years because he's 450 when he first regenerates and now the current doctor is over 1000 so it was 10 times in about 500 years :L
giggsa 5 months ago
@julesrobert21 Because Times Lords are meant to live for thousands of years, it's just the The Doctor travels and does SO MUCH STUFF that he keeps getting killed. For the first 800-900 years of his life there was no time war... and lived like most of the others so he was able to live for hundreds of years before his body became to old and needed to regenerate.
Kassie0ate0a0cow 5 months ago
@julesrobert21 Surely the point being that each regeneration has the potential to live for hundreds of years, and the Doctor spent the vast majority of his first on Gallifrey and at the academy etc. Also, the series is not in a day by day format, at several points its feesable that there are decades, perhaps even centuries between stories - usually if the Doctor is travelling alone, or with a long lived companion (ie Romana). Take a look at the article 'the doctors age' on tardis.wikia for info.
mankindben 5 months ago
@julesrobert21 daleks.
shyguy54321 5 months ago
@julesrobert21 Because he started living as an adventurer - He spent most of these hundreds of years on Gallifrey, and there probably weren't that much deadly dangers around back there... XD
KendrixTermina 5 months ago 4
@julesrobert21 Maybe because he travels through time and space and it hasn't been since 1966... He has been around for hundreds more years since this first regeneration.
Yetaxa 4 months ago
@julesrobert21 Well...
Bowl1013 4 months ago
@julesrobert21 Easy when you're living comfortably on Gallifrey. It's when you steal a Tardis and go all noble that lives start... disappearing.
Also there are multiple hundred or so year gaps. Most recent one of note was Matt Smith's before the Episode "Closing Time"
thepostman4435 4 months ago
@julesrobert21
simple, he has lived hundreds of years between seasons and episodes, he has been with us but a few decades but we haven't been with him every moment
megazwatcher 4 months ago
@megazwatcher While I agree with the premise of your argument, until the Virgin and BBC 'missing adventures' and, later, Big Finish adventures came out, few people thought about this and most probably saw the TV series as a continuous record of the Doctor's life since 1963. It would make more sense if the first Doctor had really only been about 70, not 700. Why live so long in one body when you can regenerate anyway? It must have been ver dull spending 700 years on Gallifrey.
outofthegreenmist 4 months ago
@outofthegreenmist
well, technically, between "an unearthly child" and the end of "the invasion" most of the serials did directly continue on from each other.
alphamone 4 months ago
@alphamone Yes, it was never suggested that 'centuries' of other experiences and adventures were happening between stories. How would that have affected the lives of his human companions? The Doctor's age doesn't bear scrutiny. Best to forget about it and accept that he can now regenerated 500 times, or whatever the new limit is (I forget!).
outofthegreenmist 4 months ago
@outofthegreenmist
personally i'd have prefered several things had been different
no Colin baker, no Sylvester McCoy, no easy ramana regeneration at will, a more detailed explanation of the origins, limitations and properties of regeneration and time lords in general.
regeneration should have been more on the order of the 3rd to 4th doctors, i.e. a fatal injury or body wearing out like the 1st to 2nd doctor. also no natural number limit but council imposed instead.
megazwatcher 4 months ago
@megazwatcher Did you simply dislike the late 80's Dr Who or do you think the series should have ended with Tom Baker's departure?
outofthegreenmist 4 months ago
megazwatcher 4 months ago
@megazwatcher The show was undeniably in free fall in that era, but I don't necessarily blame the actors. A different production team and different writers and directors could have made all the difference. If the current series were a flop, people would accuse Smith of being 'the worst Doctor ever', etc., whereas I think he is one of the best yet, who is sadly being let down by messy and confusing plots. Still, disliking Colin and McCoy has little to do with the issue of regeneration itself.
outofthegreenmist 4 months ago
@outofthegreenmist
well, colin did try to strangle his companion shortly after the 5 to 6 regeneration
megazwatcher 4 months ago
@megazwatcher
you,have the same list that i do. Like the same one. I really didnt like baker at all really
BuffalonianWolverine 2 months ago
@BuffalonianWolverine
yeah colin baker was a bit of a cunt, he actually drove me away from watching dr. who until macoy took over and then he was so Merlin i just couldn't stand him either.
Paul Mcgann really saved the doctor for me
megazwatcher 2 months ago
@megazwatcher
Oh i know. I liked uh crap Troughton and Yeah Mcgann did a great job. I just dnt understand why no one like Smith that much . He is doing a great job,i like him more than tennant. i mean he just brings somthing to it you know. I do really like your list thou its really good.
BuffalonianWolverine 2 months ago
@BuffalonianWolverine
I liked Smith and tennant both, for different reasons
tennant had a real "old soldior" feel he'd been thru the darkest days, had to make tough choises and wore the emotional scars.
smith has some of that to but he's recovering, finding life again
megazwatcher 2 months ago
@megazwatcher I think that's the perfect way to put it.
iiVuuZe 1 month ago
@megazwatcher Sorry, I meant Peter Davison's departure...
outofthegreenmist 4 months ago
@megazwatcher I think Colin Baker was tens of billions of times better in Blake's Seven than as Doctor Who and also I think it is a damn shame that Colin Baker was not in my opinion cast as Blake in Blake's Seven instead of Gareth Thomas who only stayed two series and then pushed off to the theatre. Now I am certain, if Colin Baker had, played Blake, he would never have quit B7 after two seasons B7 might have lasted longer than four seasons and we if blake had stayed would never have had Tarrant
rojblake82 4 months ago
@julesrobert21 While I agree with megazwatcher premise, it doesn't do to think about these things too much. The classic series was so entertaining that we seldom did, at the time, until the missing adventure books and CDs were released. The 1st Doctor told Ben and Polly he had been looking forward to travelling alone again, yet we'd assumed he'd left Gallifrey with Susan, so when had he been alone, since he'd had an unbroken chain of companions since the first episode?
outofthegreenmist 4 months ago
@julesrobert21 Because in those ten times, death was caused by an outside source, such as a long fall. In the 1st doctor's case, however, he managed to elude death until his body just wore out.
Rampage470 4 months ago
@julesrobert21 well, for him, it's been 650 years since then for him.
jayzner97 4 months ago
@julesrobert21 Large parts of his life have not been shown in the TV-show (there are lots of comic books/audio adventures that fill in gaps).
Nevertheless, it's true that the doctor's frequency of regeneration is very high by Time Lord standards. His first incarnation spent more than 400 years before dieing of mostly old age. His next incarnations never came close. That's because of his lifestyle.
NilsMcCloud 4 months ago
@julesrobert21 Curse of an active lifestyle. He keeps finding ways to get himself killed!
JamesOhGoodie 3 months ago
@julesrobert21 Because The Doctor wasn't involved with the earth things and He wasn't involved with the danger so when he did get involved he regenerated
santaclause2ful 3 months ago
alas for this is not the end for the doctor he lives on
TheSuperbigben10 1 year ago
Someone, find this episode! You will be given a Dalek!
JustPhilNY 1 year ago
Anyone know what happened to cause him to have to regenerate? I have never found this episode.
zeepman 1 year ago
@zeepman In his own words. 'This old body of mine is wearing a bit thin' apparently due to energy drain that was being done on the planet Earth from the planet Mondas (Cybermen Homeworld) in that story.
Yetaxa 1 year ago
@zeepman That as Yetaxa says is the reason in show, there's also the fact he was affected by the Daleks Time Destructor in "Daleks Masterplan" and was aged even more, plus his life force was drained in a later story called "The Savages". All of that would have affected him. In the books he starts to feel the regeneration beginning before he even meets Ben and Polly.
Trayusstudent1 1 year ago
RIP One. Your lovely mad chuckles will be missed.
Hello two, the first one to start the bow-tie madness!
KendrixTermina 1 year ago
If it wasn't for this stroke of genius, Doctor Who would be unheard of in 2011.
tireoghainian 1 year ago 2
Not bad for 1963 special effects
tenhirankei 1 year ago 5
Sadly, this is almost all the footage left from The Tenth Planet part 4.... =(
blackphoenix77 1 year ago
NO NO NO!!! Why did he have to regenerate?! Now thats one step closer to the thirteenth doctor.
DaveThickinsonVEVO 1 year ago
when i first watched this, i barely noticed a difference!
J0hnnyH4ck3r 1 year ago
That's it... keep warm.
ParaSpikyHyperGoomba 1 year ago
a very special moment.
MyGary1975 1 year ago
@DarthJuhoker96 --I thought that I read that he was getting sick periodically at the time too.
Wellch 1 year ago
This regeneration was achieved mainly because of
a faulty BBC mixing desk (which caused the picture to flare)
if it hadn't have been faulty the regeneration would have looked like
the Pertwee/Baker regeneration.
This is fact as it has been written about in various articles about
the series over the years.
Particularly the Archive section-which was a part of the story guide
in an old edition of Dr Who magazine.
thekroton 1 year ago
@thekroton actually it wouldnt look like the pertwee/baker regenerion. hartell would have a hood on and when his hood got pulled back it woud have been troughton
Whoosh555 1 year ago
Surprisingly, this looks a lot better than Pertwee's regeneration into Tom Baker.
grahamlaur 1 year ago 2
This looks really good for it's time
JuddonPlatoon 1 year ago 3
@ManicCarter What happened was that he was sick, and he was getting sicker and sicker; then after producer Verity Lambert left he started having problems with the new production team, so he left. But the main reason was the arteriosclerosis. He left in 1966. From what I know, it seemed like he decided to leave. I can't say that for sure. I know for sure that he was sick, though.
imaginary92 1 year ago
@imaginary92 yes he decided to leave but a couple of years after that he regretted it i read.
chucklevisionman 1 year ago
television history.
OmegaShenron6574 1 year ago
did you read the recent news....this was supposed to be like the horror of an LSD trip gone wrong (BBC archives!!!) and its all over the news
mindofmalice2 1 year ago
This is a great regen also if you type in the Tenth Planet on youtube it will come up with the first three episodes then look for the animated one if you do this i hope you enjoy
BigFanofBarnif85 1 year ago
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BigFanofBarnif85 1 year ago
Would be great if they were to release the Tenth Planet on DVD with episode 4 animated like they did with The Invasion
VitasVarnas 1 year ago 4
They did a superb job with this. With this being in the 60s, it certainly was an achievement!
Malinth66 2 years ago 2
Wonderful scene:)
SparkyGerbil 2 years ago
You know what I am looking forward to? Is hopefully after Matt Smith we get to see a much older Doctor. It's going to happen for sure, after watching Silence in the library, you hear Swan say, that he's much older than the Tennant Doctor. I was hoping that we would be seeing the older Doctor in the new seasons, but oh well, we will have to enjoy Matt Smith for a while yet.
TheD0CT0RWH0fan 2 years ago
And funnily enough it's never done this convincingly again...
Toribot 2 years ago
Unfortunately, that's quite impossible. This is the only part of the fourth episode that exists.
bbqplatypus318 2 years ago 3
@bbqplatypus318 Darned, nitrate film stock? Always a tragic loss
SpyderFilmDayv 2 years ago
No. There's a rumor that Blue Peter used it and lost it, but there's not a whole lot of evidence for that. They really aren't sure how it got lost.
The BBC destroyed a lot of episodes of shows it aired in the 60s. This was before video and syndication, so they couldn't fathom a use for it. That's the reason why so many episodes from that era are missing.
bbqplatypus318 2 years ago
That is a very large bummer. True that there was no way of foreseeing even the Vhs Beta days. Still knowing that so much has been lost, of real history is sad.
SpyderFilmDayv 2 years ago
It nearly happened to several early episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus, too. If they hadn't sold broadcast rights to certain PBS stations, they would've been lost! Now there's a scary thought.
bbqplatypus318 2 years ago
There but for the grace of Public broadcast go I, type deal.
SpyderFilmDayv 2 years ago
@SpyderFilmDayv I think I read that all of Doctor Who has been recovered... in audio form, at least, if not the original footage.
TheTurnipKing 1 year ago
@TheTurnipKing I have always thought that would be the greatest Job in the world being a film Archeologist scouring the globe for ten frames here ten frames there trying to dig up the best view into history - pop culture. It's good to know there are people out there tryig to save as much as possible.
SpyderFilmDayv 1 year ago
@bbqplatypus318 as well as cost, space and militant actor's unions insisting that after a programme is over 3 years old from the recording date, it can't be repeated.
thank god for Margaret Thatcher cracking the unions!!!
AidanLunn 2 years ago
@bbqplatypus318 Apart from a few moments where people have recorded the visuals off air by pointing a cine camera at their TV screen for a few brief seconds.
AidanLunn 2 years ago
And this was done with a broken vision mixer
tkwolfcub 2 years ago
Favourite regeneration!
Schluffy 2 years ago
Unfortunately Billy was suffering from Arteriosclerosis (Spelling?) which is basically a hardening of the arteries. It cuts off blood supply to the brain so yes, he'd have trouble with his lines.
Trayusstudent1 2 years ago
Does anyone know what the show was called that was screened the week before the very first Doctor Who?
All I can remember is a series which started with a seaman running along a stony beach in the night-time fog, accompanied by a strange soundtrack (radiophonic?) Can someone tell me what this series was called?
greetingseartlhings 2 years ago
I think the early Doctor Who was strongly influenced by Nigel Kneale's Quatermass.
The episodes then were scary dramas, which engaged our minds and inner fears.
In the middle period, with low production budgets, Doctor Who reached a low.
Now, they are spending more money, and the visual guys have taken over. I prefer the old shows.
Dave 52 3/4.
greetingseartlhings 2 years ago
Groundbreaking special effects ^_6
sk8r2000 2 years ago
that was kl
UFOghostgeek 2 years ago
@TheDarklordganon Seriously un-plug your PC from the mains put it in a box in a cupboard then proceed to hybernate until you are mature enough to handle an adult converstion.
FirebirdKnight 2 years ago
Calm down, no need to be abusive to put your point across.....-.-
Although i do agreee with you
iceblitzyt 2 years ago
y did david go
chavnerjt 2 years ago
He felt it was time to move on. He also wanted to go while he was enjoying himself. Fair enough. Its the best job in the world and if you got tired of it it'd impact on it.
Trayusstudent1 2 years ago
@MatthewOfLondon
LOL
111bb5 2 years ago
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I find it completely unnacceptable that Tennant has gone. I said that in a pub last night and some geezer said who cares Ecclestone was better and he didn't care I was upset so I started a fight with him.
MatthewOfLondon 2 years ago
made my late night mate, with that comment.
Electric77887 2 years ago
@MatthewOfLondon Tennant left the show.. he wasnt fired =/
LDreamerDude 2 years ago 31
@LDreamerDude DAVID OH GOD WHY NOOO!
The new guy looks something like Neil Cicereiga...
therandomexample 9 months ago
@therandomexample so? Matt is a much better doctor.
dandaman62 9 months ago
@dandaman62 I know, looking like Neil isn't a bad thing. It's just that David is my favorite doctor. How is Matt a better doctor?
therandomexample 9 months ago
@therandomexample Well Matt's doctor is much more alien in my opinion, and seems more 'doctorish' but if you like david better that's cool.
dandaman62 9 months ago
@dandaman62 The Tenth Doctor was a human being with a time machine.
CYBERDOODY 8 months ago
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what is this shit
kapakas 2 years ago
LOL, the Doc seems to regenerate more spectacularly with each incarnation.
Basis of a new story line perhaps? like next time the doc can take out enemies (of friends) if he regenerates in their vicinity, or perhaps even share some of his regenerating energy.
Just a thought. but it would make sense of the special effects getting more.
The last regeneration 'in the end of time' was mega. excellent iconic imagery.
Gonna miss him.
marsCubed 2 years ago
Thats what I was thinking. The latest regen was so violent.
oinkaU 2 years ago
this transformation is so emotive... it's able to express the same depth and feeling as most cgi today, but with just ultra basic techniques and lots of feel
austinsideburns 2 years ago
yeh but what if you divide oxygen and hydrogen? what if you subdivide a quarks? may think this is impossible but that just a perception of scale. something has to make up the surface of a quark. its can just be that. if your change your perceptive to the same ize of a quark then it most have a surface. just because we don't understand it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. see how pointless posts like this are?
nendo 2 years ago
I saw the first ever episode of Dr Who.He had a grandaughter called Susan,what happened to her?I can't remember.
ElledieWildAndFree 2 years ago
She was left on Earth in 2164.
thatenglishkid 2 years ago 3
WOW! i mean the latest regeneration was amazing and this... :( BTW I AM RELII GONNA MISS DAVID TENNANT!!!!!
Serry3xx 2 years ago
wow they when all out on this one .
bobbybrad 2 years ago
The comments on this are making me laugh. Do you really think they had the same quality equipment we use today back then? Computers? Lol, funny stuff.
Dmanlamius76 2 years ago
lame
Where's Nick Griffin and the BNP?
VoIPpoetry 2 years ago
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lol 9 year olds can do better than this! even if this was the sixties!
ownagedgold 2 years ago
You sir, are an ignorant and clueless cretin. Are you even aware of the technical limitations these people faced in 1963? Pillock.
ThePantychrist 2 years ago 50
What? with no editing equipment and just some cameras, lights, and mirrors? Well done for showing what a complete retard you are.
sargentsquirrel20 2 years ago 2
Patrick Troughton was by far the best Dr Who. it is what happened after the regeneration that was interesting. The Fact that Patrick Troughton was also a fine actor might have had something to do with it.
littlebigbrain 2 years ago 2
Wow! I had read that the 1st -> 2nd Doctor regeneration scene was lost video footage, like so much of the Troughton era footage. Very nice to see that this has survived.
sbergman27 2 years ago 37
@sbergman27 The episode's lost, but Blue Peter had a copy of this clip.
Applemask 1 year ago
@sbergman27 this is the only surviving footage of the last episode of the tenth planet.
EdgoIsGo 1 year ago
@EdgoIsGo There are a number of 8mm film clips from the episode too.
Yetaxa 1 year ago
Awesome! The newest British film making technology
heixxx 2 years ago
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Oh do come now auntie beeby..you can provide us with far better fayre then these archaic repeats.
englander1971 2 years ago
C'mon it was the 60s give 'em a break
CardCaptorDeadpool 2 years ago 13