Douglas Adam’s Dr. Who

2 Responses to Douglas Adam’s Dr. Who

1. Alan says:

   5/5/2003 at 11:52 pm

   For those not already familiar (the owner of this site wasn’t, so he asked me to post here), this is a new adaptation of a script that was written in 1979, with Tom Baker as the Doctor. They’d begun filming it, but filming never completed. They used clips from it in “the Five Doctors” in 1983, as neither Tom Baker nor Lalla Ward could be bothered to appear in the show (heh heh).

   The script has been updated a tad to now feature the 8th Doctor and to reflect that Romana is now (in the novels and the audio adventures) the Lord President of Gallifrey. The Doctor returns to Gallifrey with a message to Romana that they have some “unfinished business to take care of.”

   The actors (including Paul McGann as the 8th Doctor, Lalla Ward playing Romana, John Leeson again doing K9′s voice plus one of the kids from the Potter movies) recorded the full script, and its being presented on the BBC website episodically. It will probably be released on CD later by Big Finish (the only previous web cast they’ve done was released on CD).

   Incidentally, the originally filmed bit was released on video with Tom Baker providing narration to fill in the bits that were never filmed. I run a monthly Doctor Who night, and will be showing “Shada” in a couple of months as part of a year-long 40th Anniversary commemeration.

   Alan
2. Georgia says:

   6/28/2003 at 5:39 am

   WoW! It’s good to hear someone talk about Dr. Who
   I was begining to think that I was the only one who knew or even watched Dr. Who. I taped every episode i could of the bbc series. They’ve since then canceled the program where i live and no one knows who im talking about. I only wish i had found this site sooner. thanks Geo