DOCTOR WHO - Who's Who (Part 3 of 7)

PBS created video from the 1980's showing behind the scenes of the creation of the Doctor Who programme, the fans and the conventions.
Interviews with Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Mary Tamm, Louise Jameson and Matthew Waterhouse

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[prayfertrey]

JNT reminds me of Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride. Could this be why he turned drwho into Absolutely Fabulous in space?

[wolfhawkfield08]

I would have to think that every Doctor had the problem of being compared to the Doctor before him.

Maybe Peter had a rougher time since it was during the Tom Baker Era that Doctor Who really took off on an international scale

[doctorwho1982]

@sadako24 true. Anything JNT touched turned to shit. He should have been fired or quit long before the end of davidsons reign. The stories became shit and I'm not sure if dr who started getting less money from BBC with JNT cos production values slipped bigtime when he took over and progressively got worse. I realise that in dr who never had the lavish budgets & special effects of american sci fi shows but under JNT it really started to look like a childs show with a teletubbies budget

[sadako24]

@doctorwho1982 Personally aside from Earthshock, Enlightenment, Caves I'd say the Davison era was awful and I wouldn't miss it if the show had ended when Tom left. If you're talking about production values though, then blame the BBC for giving the show so little money, I fail to see why that's JNT's fault. Sure there were bad decisions made by JNT but that's down to his lack of qualification, experience and savvy. So I'd be more inclined to blame whoever gave him the job than the man himself.

[doctorwho1982]

@sadako24 enlightenment was ok as are many of peter davidsons episodes but no comparison to the best of tom baker.If that had the production values of toms early days, it would have been better. It really went downhill when colin baker took over.

[sadako24]

@doctorwho1982 I have no disagreement with any of that, although I happen to think Enlightenment, which JNT produced outclasses a lot of Doctor Who prior, and certainly shits on the garbage RTD wrote. Sure JNT did far more harm than good and shouldn't have been given the producer's job- unfortunately a series of BBC miscalculations beginning with kicking Hinchcliffe off the show to appease Mary Whitehouse made it inevitable he got it. But that doesn't mean he 'deserved to die' for fuck's sake!

[doctorwho1982]

@sadako24 I aint out to win an election. I just be telling the truth. JNT was a poor excuse for a producer and should have never been made the head man for dr who. He only succeeded in turning dr who from the serious adult sci fi series it was in Tom bakers first 5 yrs to total crapola even preteen kids thought was dumb. Compare genesis of the daleks to colin bakers timelash or even go further back and compare pertwees "time warrior" to mcoys "happiness patrol". Doesn't even compare. JNT sux!!!

[sadako24]

@doctorwho1982 What a pity you make such good points about the weaknesses of the JNT era, and yet make yourself come across as such an undesirable nasty scumbag twat that it's impossible to take your points seriously.

[doctorwho1982]

@Tolstoy111 WHAT! IMPROVED? He ruined dr who. Made it look cheap and nasty. Compare an episode of dr who from tom bakers 1st year to his last? The last season had horrible crappy synthesiser music and the film looked cheap cos he started using videos instead of film. Plus the stories began to suck. It got worse and worse. Sylvester and colin bakers seasons were jokes.

[Tolstoy111]

@doctorwho1982 He improved DW considerably. The season before he took over was mostly terrible. He brought some seriousness to it and wanted to emulate the 60s Whos where it was highly serialized in between stories. Did he stay too long? Yeah but that wasn't his choice. He wanted to quit when the series was yanked in 1985.

[doctorwho1982]

@Tolstoy111 that fag should have nominated someone competant. Whoever hired him in the 1st place should be shot. They should have asked phillip hinchcliffe to come back. The architect behind tom bakers outstanding 1st 3 seasons.

[Tolstoy111]

@doctorwho1982 JNT kept Who alive. The BBC told him that if he quit they would cancel the show so he stayed out of loyalty to the show and its fans.