Artifacts from an alternative universe where Doctor Who was successfully revived on US TV in 1996
So I hear that there’s not actually going to be a season this year, and just when I finally got over my feelings about the 50th anniversary.
Well this can not stand. So it won’t. And so for the next 14 weeks, I am going to be posting artifacts and capsule descriptions for Series 3 of the second revival of Doctor Who, torn from my own personal pocket universe, to appear here week by week as they air, in real time.
As Wikipedia would say:
Last one of these for a bit because I’ve got something special planned for the next several weeks…
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2016 is shaping up to be a bitch of a year.
It’s been republished so many times with different attributions that I’m not sure who originated the idea, but since this is the first google hit that comes up, I’ll link to this one. The idea of Gene Wilder as an American counterpart of the fourth Doctor is almost too obvious. But then, “When in doubt, do the obvious thing rather than the clever one” has been part of my remit for this series. So here’s Gene Wilder as the third Doctor…
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This week, an homage to The Doctor Who Site.
According to legend, there was some test-footage shot where they interpreted the character much closer to the original Michael Gough “Mandarin” version until, at the last minute, someone involved in the production realized that this was incredibly racist.
Continue reading Tales from /lost+found 70: Do you want to play a game?
