Hello Woodsy
Since SF is a part of Moonbase please find attached some publicity shots from FOX TUESDAY NIGHT MOVIE of May 14, 1996.
Taking advantage of working for the NY Daily News at the time I had FOX send me a Press package for Dr Who.
My fondest memory of this one time outing of this Doctor #8 is what happened to Sylvester McCoy's Doctor. Not a moment too soon!
Terranova47
New York City
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Thanks for sharing this Terran. How is McGann viewed as a Doctor by fans? Are film doctors like him and Peter Cushing seen as different to the series Doctors do you think?
ReplyDeleteI think McGann is considered a 'proper' Doctor. He is included in flashback montages in episodes. He has done many audio adventures and he was also the star of the brilliant 'Night of the Doctor' episode made by the BBC and shown online.
ReplyDeleteInteresting Kev. What about Peter Cushing?
DeleteI don't think he's included. His Doctor is a human inventor, not a Timelord.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, to be fair, I don't think the BBC had come up with all that Gallifreyan nonsense (in my view) when Cushing first played Doctor Who.
DeleteThats interesting Kid. I wonder why they chose Peter Cushing rather then the existing Doctor on TV at the time?
DeleteWilliam Hartnell would have been working all year on the TV show, no time to make a movie.
DeleteThat's the reason usually given, but I suspect that having Cushing (who was a far bigger star) attached to the project may have helped secure financing. It wouldn't have been too difficult to have Hartnell's Doctor incapacitated in some way on the TV series to allow him to make the movie if he'd been considered essential. The Daleks were the real stars as far as the kids were concerned, but the backers probably preferred a star of Cushing's calibre before signing the cheques.
DeleteInsightful Kid. I suppose there's a long history of bigger film stars taking up TV roles like this. They are completely different media after all. For me Cushing's and Roy Castle's finest hour was another Doctor movie, Doctor Terrors House of Horrors. Sheer brilliance!
DeleteThat's true. I like the Cushing films but they don't feel part of 'proper' Doctor Who to me.
ReplyDeleteHow many Cushing Who films are there Kev?
DeleteTwo, adaptations of the first two dalek stories. I think the second one (Daleks' Invasion Earth2150) was the best.
DeleteSorry to admit I've not seen either I don't think!
DeleteMcGann's Doctor was part of the legitimate progression of regenerations that was The Doctor. Each actor reinterpreting the role.
ReplyDeleteApart from his inability to know when the 21st century began (2001 not 2000) his version could have had interesting story lines as well as an intelligent companion, a female doctor, a MD.
Terrific as Peter Cushing was in all the other Hammer films, by changing to an eccentric inventor with a shrill grand daughter the feel for the charactor changed, no more mystery. His looking like William Hartnell's version rather than going for a new look made him a poor copy.
The male companions didn't help. Roy Castle was just awful and Bernard Cribbins was much better as Donna's grandfather later in the TV series.
The only positive aspects of the Hammer films were they were filmed in colour and the Dalek props ended up as part of the BBC props as until then the budget was only for four of them.
Of course from a personal point of view the publicity photo from Hammer showing Cushing reading Eagle comic was a nod to good SF.
Why was he reading Eagle Terran? For the Dr Who strip?
DeleteDr Who at the time may have been in TV Comic. He was probably trying to see how Dan Dare would have defeated the Daleks.
DeleteAgain, wasn't the Dr Who movies' production company 'Aaru', not 'Hammer' ?
ReplyDeleteMish.
The '60s ones, that is.
ReplyDeleteMish.
The 60s movies were made entirely by Amicus. For contractual reasons Aaru got sole production credits due to a co- finance deal with Amicus.
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