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Special DVD Feature - Forgetting the lines - Doctor Who: The Sensorites - BBC

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Published on Jan 24, 2012 by

William Hartnell frequently forgot his lines. As Clive Doig, vision mixer on early Doctor Who stories tell us, it was immensely important for William's co-stars to support him back to the script.

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  • You could always count on Bill Partner to deliver the,.... um,.... errrrr,... hmm, Chesterfield?

  • Weren't his line problems due to health complications?

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  • They really should have mentioned the fact that it was the arteriosclerosis, and not just left it sounding like he was a flaky actor...

  • Hey DW fans,

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  • Was W.R. extracing the urine in hat last clip..?

  • Poor guy. But gotta give credit to him for hanging in there for the three years he was on the show.

  • Part of the brilliance of Hartnell's performance as the 1st Doctor is when he could he would work flubbing his lines (when it happened) into the general eccentricity of his Doctor. Sometimes it's painfully obvious, yes, but other times it just seems like just another of his Doctor's tics. In any case, love him, always. My fourth favourite incarnation of the Doctor :~D

  • It's quite horrible seeing Bill forget his lines like that, because illness was creeping in, folks.

  • just got the dvd in the post today going to watch it later

  • @FishWRabies yes they were

  • he wasn;t a well man then

  • they didn't have the money to stop in thoses days to go again

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