A Quick Guide to Classic Who (Non TV 1989 - 2005)

0:16 knowy Treasures of hisory of all the Hand Works remain only Dre welcome to the final part of the quick guide this will deal with non-television Doctor Who mostly between 1989 and 2005 first things first at times I'm going to play clips from Random episodes during this just to give you something to look at who continued in many ways after the death of the television show

1:01 there were Comics they'd been going pretty much since the show's beginning back when the doctor and his grandchildren John and Jillian went on adventures in the 60s what you don't remember John and Jillian funny neither does the TV doctor in the second doctor's era John and Jillian vanished and the companions in the comic and TV show began to line up more or less I say more or less because every so often there's a companion that they wouldn't dare try on television such as frobisher the sixth Do's shapeshifting detective companion who spends most of his time as a Talking Penguin frobisher is great anyway in the early 90s the Seventh Doctor completely unfeatured by the TV show had an interesting time in comics as he for a Time ended up in the

1:47 same continuity as Marvel Comics and Transformers generation one how well Comics writs are a wonderful thing the uniting factor was a character called death's head Marvel had opened a UK office called Marvel UK now one of their original characters but still in the same old Marvel Universe was death's head he's a robot Bounty Hunter who exists to kickass anyway here's death's head making friends with Rodimus Prime the thing and of course the Seventh Doctor so now you know that DAV Ross is two degrees of separation away from both Spider-Man and Unicron and that's probably not the weirdest thing to happen in the comics over the years many famous people have worked on The Who comics including Alan Mo Simon Ferman Grant Morrison Dan Abnet

2:34 and new who writers Gareth Roberts and Paul Cornell the Doctor Who comics and their looser grasp on reality continue today Doctor Who novels had been a thing from very early on usually they'd be adaptions of classic stories because there were no recordings or replays it was the only way to relive an old Adventure these were put out by the imprint target books and like its parent company was bought by virgin in the late ' 80s when the show was gone they detected they had a small but hungry and very nerdy fan base so virgin began commissioning both continuing Adventures for the Seventh Doctor and later lost Adventures for the previous doctors the books like big Finnish and BBV and real time who I'll be talking about soon were where many of those who worked on the

3:19 news show did some of their earliest who related work Russell the Davies Paul Cornell Mark Gus and Gareth Roberts all wrote novels human nature and the family of blood from the third season of the new show was an adaptation of human nature one of the most critically acclaimed books of the series it's the Virgin new adventures where the idea of time lord looms were officially introduced in Mark Platt's long Barrow based on the unwritten season 26 idea that became ghost light with the TV movie in 1996 and the BBC's sudden slight interest in the show again they took the rights back and the novels continued with their in-house publisher the BBC released books kept the same basic ideas as the Virgin new adventure Ventures current doctor novels and past doctor novels novels in both ranges were

4:05 also written by classic Who writers like Mark plat and Terrence dicks and one was even written by David Banks who played the Cyber leader in the 1980s the book ranges continue today with its current doctor and occasional past doctor Adventures just as the Virgin new adventures were wrapping up someone had a wonderful idea bring back the original actors record audio dramas of Doctor Who and sell them for Fun and Profit so big Finnish was born now this wasn't a new idea there had previously been third and sixth Dr audio Adventures but they weren't well received and several of the people who worked on big finish had previously made unofficial Doctor Who audio plays featuring Nick the DX Briggs as the doctor but with big finish they bought the license to use any and all Doctor Who stuff originating in the classic era including the Manan

4:52 movie and set off on their merry way they started off with past Adventures for the fifth sixth and seventh doctors but soon branched off into continuing Adventures for the eighth doctor complete with audio exclusive companions who got named Dropped In the Night of the doctor Charlie car is Lucy tams in Molly friends companions I've known I salute you five six and seven started out with their TV companions but they have since branched out to original ones as well and in six's case branching out to Second and eighth doctor companions as well want to team the fifth doctor up with Egyptian royalty done want to see six with an older woman who's just as strong willed as him done want to know what happened to Ace well you can't have that one in the 15 odd

5:39 years that big finish has been running there's been hundreds of releases each doctor has had several new adventures a year they branched out and gave shows to memorable characters from The Classic series such as J and lightford from the talons of Wang Chang they've done dedicated stories about famous characters such as the 4-Hour epic biography of DAV Ross they've offered alternate takes on the doctor by doing oneoff whatif stories like what if the valard won or what if the third doctor was exiled to Earth 30 years later and was played by David Warner and in the past few years even Tom Baker has agreed to record new adventures they bought the licenses to other shows and gave them new stories as well other shows like Dark Shadows Sapphire and steel Blake 7 Stargate and the Avengers and they use the original

6:26 cast whenever possible doac from season 1 was based on Jubilee a sixth doctor Adventure hello is there anybody in here do oh no the doctor no wait exterminate exterminate but you can't can you you can't hurt me at all keep back what for what are you going to do to me how are you going to stop me and the age of Steel tartter from season 2 was inspired by spare parts a Fifth Doctor adventure and in both cases the original was better but this is particularly true

7:12 about spare parts it's one of the best Doctor Who stories ever written and details the creation of the Cyberman like the books and BBV in real time big finish has employed a lot of people who turned up on the new show in various capacities people like Nicholas Briggs Mark Gus Paul Cor Rob sheerman Nicholas Peg and more I can't say this enough take a chance on some big finish in many ways it's the most consistently good Doctor Who ever made and they're not the be all and end all of good Doctor Who on audio also check out the calor City series which connects the fourth Dr Adventure robots of death with Blake s now on to BBV and real time now they're not the same thing they just did pretty much the same thing and used a lot of the same people BBV and real time like

7:58 big finish in the novels featured their fair share of people involved in the news show to varying degrees as you can probably tell the post 1989 who creative teams have a tendency to be somewhat interconnected both BBV and real time were set up with the aim of making new who to be sold in VHS the licenses to characters Andor aliens were bought and what were basically fan films were made and sold but unlike most fan films they used actors writers and directors from the parent show and you might think that no one would take them seriously the brigadiers daughter Kate was first introduced in a BBV film downtime kind of demonstrating yet again why the idea of an officially sanctioned Cannon doesn't work in Doctor Who it not only has 34 seasons of Television 15 years of audio thousands of pages of

8:44 comics and books and a fuckload of fan films but it pretty much accepts them all as equally true and valid especially the stuff that contradicts the other stuff it's up to you the audience to pick and choose what you like who is unique because of it's individual you can decide whether Inferno is right and drilling 14 miles into the Earth will destroy it or if the Runaway Bride is right and there's a hole straight to the Center of the Earth where giant spiders live an way back to BBV in real time between them their films introduced probe a series where the Third Doctor companion Liz Shaw investigated stuff there were also individual films showcasing the aons the sarons the zygons draconians the great intelligence and units they weren't able to get the license to the doctor self Andro the

9:30 Tardis so BBV created a series called The Stranger where a mysterious unnamed alien played by Colin Baker along with his human assistant called Miss Brown played by Nicola Bryant went on adventures later they named the main character Solomon later BBV went into audio and pulled similar stuff with the Fester McCoy and Sophie aldrid whose characters were eventually renamed the Domin and Dallas the biggest feather in real time cap was the myth makers named after the Harel story it's a series of interview documentaries normally concentrating on one person who works on Doctor Who at a time they released 57 installments on VHS from the mid 80s until 2002 and since then I've released 78 more on DVD between them BBV and real time made documentaries comedies dramas

10:16 and even the odd not directly related to Doctor Who thing most famously the Air Zone solution an enironmental Thriller which apart from being terrible and making no sense features four of the five then living doctors whose characters all have some sort of connection because they all play the doctor it also features Alan cuming for some reason BBV pretty much wound down their work around the time knew who arrived on the scene while real time were continuing with the myth makers and did some work on classic Who DVDs the last important piece of nonv who that happened between 1989 and 2005 was the animated webcasts back before on demand viewing was common online the BBC decided to commission a few Flash animation Adventures for their Doctor Who website the net was slow so the

11:01 animation was very basic the adventures included the eighth doctor adaptation of Shada the Seventh Doctor story Death comes to time and my favorite the sixth doctor Cyberman epic real time andway after their modest success it was decided to commission some all new Doctor Who for the site it would be the official Ninth Doctor and if it was a success it might lead to more Adventures it was scripted by Paul Cornell Richard E Grant was cast as a doctor Oscar winner Sophie o Cano who later played Liz 10 was the companion Derek jackaby was the master and even who Super Fan David tenanted a small role but then the BBC decided to commission Russell the

11:46 Davies to make the new show meaning shala's hoped for sequels were dropped and it became non-canon before it even aired three more quick things in the early 90s Nana the Canadian animation company who made the real Ghostbusters tried to set up a doctor who cartoon and I got to say I quite like the look of the zany Egon Spangler doctor and in 1997 the first Doctor Who video game was produced it was called Destiny of the doctors and you had to save each of the first seven doctors from the master this was Anthony angley's final appearance as the master the destiny of the doctors is in your hands he died in 2004 and finally there's been do who plays in the 80s there was the very silly the ultimate adventure with

12:33 starred John per and later Colin Baker Colin Baker in what many feel was an improved costume it also starred former cyber leader David Banks as a doctor in a few performances too there was also the trial of DAV Ross I'll give you three guesses as to what that's about it was done in 1993 and 2005 in the 1993 version the original DAV Ros Michael Wisher made his last appearance in the role so that's that we're up to Rose I'm pretty sure I missed a thing or two and I'm sorry about that I hope you enjoyed this very very long journey into the past of Doctor Who and I don't know about you but I am itching to do another taty who

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