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

0:00 [Music] knowy Treasures of [Music] hisory of all the handworks remain [Music] only welcome back this is the first of two videos dealing with the highs and

0:46 lows of Doctor Who between 1989 and 2005 I'm pretty sure you know what happened in both of those years by now in 1993 we were supposed to get a big budget film called the dark dimension big budget for Dr it was the 30th Anniversary it would have featured an alternate timeline where the fourth doctor never regenerated in the fight to put things right four would have been the star three five six and seven would have cameoed although they weren't happy about that grahe Harper would have directed and they even got far enough along to create some spiffing Cybermen with Wolverine [Music] claws but as per usual the project was shut down because of BBC [ __ ] and we got dimensions in time instead to celebrate

1:33 the 30th Anniversary it's a 12-minute Abomination where the Ronnie has captured papier-mâché busts of doctors 1 and two Dr four is being filmed by himself because he's Tom Baker and three five six and seven are being chased by whatever Monsters the BBC hadn't junked in three different time periods of [ __ ] East standers a London set soap op a seen here being fictional an Army of Ghosts the only Spirits I'm serving in this place a Jin whiskey and vodka and when I point to Army of Ghosts as being the more rational of Something's two appearances in Doctor Who you know there's a problem so rather than having all the doctors together this features the doctor randomly turning into his previous incarnations but with a Seventh Doctor memory intact hey you're not the

2:18 doctor yes I am Ace we seem to have slipped a Groove in time what farm were you in when she cloned you I think it's very important Romana Ace is being randomly turned into older compan iions too except sometimes the companions who turn up aren't supposed to be her and are just there for some reason who are you precisely I Am the Doctor Oh no you're not you're nothing like my grandfather but this could just be terrible and Confused script writing jnt co-wrote this and he really wasn't a writer really funnily enough Shu capur who was an e standers regular at this time later appeared in Journey's End where her character scared woman was killed now because he standard is fictional in Russell the davies's Z of

3:04 Doctor Who I amused Myself by imagining that she was playing herself that she's been grabbed on her way back from a panto and got disintegrated the only brief glimmers of Hope in this are the sixth doctor meeting the Brigadier on screen and uh I can't think of anything else the fact that it's short maybe this is so bad that the 40th anniversary special was better than it and it was a music video to orbitals Doctor Who theme cover which will stuck as an extra feature on some [Music] DVDs next up is Doctor Who AKA Doctor Who the movie aka the TV movie aka the Enemy Within aka the one with Paul Manan

3:49 aka the first one with Paul Manan aka the American thing what okay my script editor has just haunted a new piece of script okay Alan for you AKA that piece of crap with the per me logo stuck on it story-wise and in Practical terms this is the bridge between classic and new whoo the Seventh Doctor he who planned the genocide of Galaxy spanning races is shot because he didn't think to check the scanner before he stepped into the [Music] Tardis and honestly I can't blame him if I had a tardis that good-looking I wouldn't waste time looking at dark alleys outside it either either he regenerates because of surgical malpractice and after he regenerates he

4:35 seeks the surgeon out and at and Grace the surgeon who killed seven get romantically involved oh you killed me how romantic the romance not the Romancing the person that killed him just the romance was Believe It or Not extremely controversial at the time imagine a fandom made up mostly of me and that's how people reacted but Russell the Davies liked it more than most and we have the sometimes romantic new doctors and the idea that it was ever controversial on mass seems weird today the master was played by Eric Roberts and at the time he was easily the worst incarnation of the character he spends the first half of the film trying to be the Terminator and the second half camping it up to almost superhuman

5:21 levels I always DRZ for the occasion well I'm glad to see that you were aware of the gravity of the situation I'm almost convinced that the master played by John Sim was the result of a bet to try out camp Eric Roberts if it was I hope they won big what's good here the TARDIS inside and out the four orchestral music was a nice change from the electric weirdness we had previously as overdone as it is now and it's great seeing McCoy again and Manan is fine what's bad um much of the rest of it the scripting isn't good it introduced the idea that the doctor is half human an idea that was quickly dropped the guest cast weren't great and the whole thing is just so 90s it's distracting this is a good place for

6:07 newo fans to ease themselves into an older incarnation of the show and no it doesn't explain what happened to Ace and don't go looking for answers in the other media there's about 15 different possibilities the curse of fatal death happened in 1999 and it's the first piece of who written by Steven Moffet it's a half hour comedy episode done for charity and features all these future moffi isms a Time bending non the near Story how can he be here he just fell in the sewers and why is he so much older because it's taken me 312 years to climb out of those sewers and then naturally you found your Tardis and traveled back in time to the present day the doctor marrying and so I have decided to retire settle

6:53 down and get married what time Lords being able to change sex when they regenerate your mother's going to get a bit of a surprise at the wedding isn't she do you think we'll both wear white a hypersexualized female character and of course my Sonic Screwdriver look it's got three settings doctor stop that the doctor being totally definitely dead but not it's impossible beyond all known laws of the universe maybe even the universe can't bear to be without the doctor by the way that last one doubles as random ill thought out fairy tale logic whenever I accuse mford of having a limited selection of ideas I'm not trying to be mean he's been pretty much doing the same stuff for 15 years on and

7:40 off just changing the order every so often the non-canon 9th doctor meets up with the master to tell him that he's going to retire and Marry Emma His companion unfortunately the master doesn't take it too well and there's duels over who better bribe the architect of the castle that they're standing in thousands of years ago and therefore will be able to succeed naturally I anticipated your traveling back in time so I travel back in time to an even further point and I bribed the architect first well naturally I anticipated your journey back to the master spends hundreds of years in the castle sewers several times and always comes back to the moment just after he was knocked in to continue the fight and eventually

8:26 brings the Dos along the doctor gets killed a bunch of times in this nine is played by Rowan ainson 10 by Richard E Grant from Scream of the Shala and season six of new who 11 by Jim Broadbent who like Richard E Grant has played two non-canon incarnations of the doctor 12 by Hugh Grant who so impressed Russell the Davies with his performance that he was offered the role in 2005 but turned it down and 13 by Joanna Lumley who decides to shack up with the master because it's as true then as it is now Moffet sees no issues with time Lords having a sex life or changing sex but all sex they must have must be heterosexual regardless of the sex they currently are tell me why do they call you the master I'll explain

9:13 [Music] later I know this is just a sketch but this happened with Missy and Dark Water either the relationship between the doctor and the master suddenly becomes in some way sexual the second their opposite Sexes or it won't show them at all being sexual when they're the same sex anyway this is fine it's not brilliant but it's inoffensive and shows real love for the show on behalf of everyone involved the last piece of notable TV who before 2005 is the weirdest and arguably shouldn't be here at all you see in November of 1999 the BBC had a celebratory Doctor Who night the night was hosted by Tom Baker As mysterious incarnation of the Doctor Who may or may not have supposed to been the fourth at the time we pretty much had to

10:00 accept miss four scarf or no scarf but ever since the curator turned up in Day of the Doctor I'm happy to say that to me Tom Baker was playing that future incarnation of the doctor possibly having a dream Andor talking to himself either way it doesn't exactly matter that much but this was a very nice shot join Jo me for the last part of the guide when I'll talk about Doctor Who audio books and internet [Music]

10:57 animations stop what happened what happened what's going on doctor doctor where are you Doctor what happened what happened doctor do what's happened to you you're different doctor you changed oh doctor what's happening what's happening doctor what C what shut up