"LONDON (Reuters) - Get ready to hide behind the sofa again – Doctor Who’s arch rivals the Daleks are coming back.
The BBC said on Wednesday that a new series of the cult sci-fi series “Doctor Who” would feature the fearsome robots after the producers reached an agreement with their creator’s estate."
I loved this show because of its simplicity but intelligent ideas. Can’t wait for the new series.
This was one of my all time favourite shows when I was a kid. Mostly with the guy that had the long scarf. Will BBC produce this with a focus on high-end after effects, I wonder, or will they keep to the same style of cheesy sets and laser beams? heehee.
Doctor Who and the Daleks are British Cultural PHENOMENA.
We may laugh at the cardboard sets now,but to my mind-the old shows low budget production fires the imagination far more than todays CGI effects-lets face it -how many ‘modern’ Sci-fi films have you seen that are purely scene after scene of computer effects,with little in the way of plot,characterisation,narrative flow etc,etc?
I well remember ‘Dalek-mania’ when I was five or six years old.
Don’t know if Eccleston is right for the part though-he’s a bit of a full-on ‘Thesp. luvvie’ to my mind.
I also hope this show plays here in the states. My wife and I both love the show. I hope they will keep the simplicity of the old programs. It was hokey but I like hokey. More “realism” is what killed Startrek for me.
You might be thinking of Tom Baker (my favorite Doctor), but I think there was one, maybe two after him.
This was a wonderful, funny, imaginative show-- check it out if you get a chance
Now this is marvellous news indeed: the good Doctor back on the screen!
Hey, even the BBC can’t kill a Timelord for good - and they really tried hard, didn’t they.
It will be exciting to see the 9th incarnation. Although I suppose, I still will miss Sylvester McCoy. Actually I even wrote a tune called “The Doctor’s Request” with him in mind.
So let’s see, if the new Doctor gets a tune of his own sooner or later.
Claus (waiting desperately for the next TARDIS coming along)
A Police Box actually, because the chameleon curcuit got broken when the Tardis was stranded in the sixties in England, where these were still around then. Imagine the new Doctor would go and fix it now - horror!
You probably won’t believe me, but the actor that is to play this most English of Time lords occasional drinks in my local.
I think this will be the first Joseph Holts drinking Doctor so far though I can’t prove that.
John S
Your mission-- get a whistle into this man’s hands and see if you can interest him in possibly playing it on air as the Doctor once in a while. I think that would be a fascinating little aspect of the good Doctor, and he just might think so too!
The sets were chintzy, but I totally agree that they were enough to tell a good story. The Daleks were a favourite of my brother and I.
Starring Christopher Eccleston as Doctor Who and Billie Piper as Rose Tyler, the Doctor’s companion, the new 13-part series is currently filming in Cardiff and London for transmission in 2005.
Piper? I like her name! And whatever happened to K-9???
Tom was good,
but jon pertwee, …i think thats how you spell it ( amar has me scared now) had a touch of class and its kind of refreshing to think an old ugly guy can still have magnificant looking young ladies in love with his mind and …um…other things
exterminate exterminate
whooohooo
Actually the americans killed the good Dr. They baught the rights and made a TV movie and, in typical yanky fashion, killed the show. Americans can’t do British comedy. Their attempt at Regie Perin was a complete disaster too. Sounds like the BBC has the rights back and so The Dr. rides again.
Tom Baker was my first and so my favorite. Just the right amount of tongue in cheek. K-9 and that whispy, wafeish girl, the last piece of the key to time, (oh what was her name…) were also the best.
Forget all those middle-aged cerebral Doctors. Peter Davison was the one! It’s been years since Dr. Who was carried on any local channels here, but I followed him faithfully for a very long time. I hate to see remakes and re-dos. They’re never the same - and always “updated” in some idiotic way that takes away all the charm of the original.
For all you Tom Baker and “Monarch of the Glen” fans. Tom will be playing the part of Donald McDonald a blacksheep of the family. Airing in the UK in the fall, I don’t know when us North Americans will get it.
Romana (Lalla Ward) was his lady friend in “Dr. Who” and they were married in real life for about 16 months.
Tom has his own web site see -: http://www.tombaker.tv/
Oh yeah…I’m a fan of Dr Who and I still have all the Dr Who magazines from that era including #1. Gee who knows maybe they will be worth something now and I can sell them and get a new whistle or maybe a grand piano…oops I’m dreaming again.
Actually I even wrote a tune called “The Doctor’s Request” with him in mind.
