Kids today and their britboxs and twitch’s. When I was a youngin, the only way we could watch classic Doctor Who was on dailymotion in varying degrees of picture quality and dammint we were grateful
what with all this flower crown business going on lately i felt it was important to unearth this actual line in an actual second doctor novel
[id: highlighted text reads, “He had contrived to fix a wreath of holly and mistletoe around his head and, as he skipped happily along the embankment, he looked for all the world like some ancient woodland spirit come to life.” (After that- “He rubbed his numbed hands together and hummed to himself a little tunelessly.”) /end id]
Classic Who gets a lot of stick for cheap wobbly sets but can I just remind everyone of that one time they built a London Underground set that was so good the actual London Underground people got mad because they believed they’d filmed on location without permission? That story always makes me happy.
Illustration by Mark Maddox (from DWM: An Unearthly Beginning article)
The illustration shows a moment from Anthony Coburn’s third draft of An Unearthly Child in which this happens:
“Showing great strength and agility, Dr. Who swings the schoolmaster off balance with a judo throw!”
Let’s all think for a moment that this could have happened. The Doctor throwing Ian into the air! Love it!
This is so fucking ridiculous but I barely even noticed because at this point you could tell me literally anything about Doctor Who and the only reaction I’d have is “that sounds about right”
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