Remembrance of the Daleks, Gallifrey Gals Get Wibbly Wobbly! Classic Who
Added 2023-01-19 18:01:00 +0000 UTCComing up on the last of New Who, Kat wanted to give Paula a little companion frame of reference so we are kicking it back to the classics with Remembrance of the Daleks!
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Seven and Ace are my all time favourite Doctor/companion duo. I love them so much 😄
Shaun Barnes
2023-11-21 03:43:02 +0000 UTCAce and Mike's flirting (or at least as much flirting as the BBC would allow on a family show at 6pm) was the start of Ace actually starting to seem like a real person which some previous companions sadly lacked. We see this develop a bit more in the following season and Andrew Cartmel and Rona Munro especially (in Survival) really tried to drag Who into the 80's by adding some 'risque' and realistic additions to Ace's character. Unfortunately JN-T did veto a fair bit of this (like the insinuation that Ace partook in underage drinking). They all deserve real credit for paving the way for the Nu-Who companion dynamic which has served the series so well.
David Shadwell
2023-09-22 13:27:41 +0000 UTCMy Doctor =D
BriefMortal
2023-02-12 11:03:27 +0000 UTCAce picking up the book in the classroom, titled The French Revolution, is a nod to the very first episode of Doctor Who where the Doctor's granddaughter Susan used it to point out historical errors to her teachers.
Dr Q Who
2023-01-21 16:24:13 +0000 UTCthis episode is a good example of why they introduced the psychic paper in the new show. without it, the doctor either have to spend half an episode in prison before somebody starts to trust him, or be unquestionably accepted into the inner circle of people who logically should know better.
tal goren
2023-01-20 21:12:25 +0000 UTCDoctor Who too woke?! That's troll dung that is. The Doctor is and always has been inspiring. Dare to think and dare to love and dare to speak truth. Most of all dare to hope.
Greg Athorne
2023-01-20 17:11:26 +0000 UTCAlthough character Ace was age 16 actress Sophie Aldred was then around 25. Also Sophie and Sylvester share the same birthday of August 20th. At the time Michael Sheard guest starred in this story he was still casted in the long running children's show Grange Hill (1978-2008), where he played unpopular teacher turned Deputy Headmaster Maurice Bronson from 1985 to 1989.
Dr Q Who
2023-01-20 12:02:45 +0000 UTCAww, geo-blocked in America. 😭 Might need to get a VPN.
Nicole Mazza
2023-01-20 03:21:59 +0000 UTCIf looking for something else featuring Sylvester McCoy, you should check out the 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company’s King Lear, where he plays the Fool opposite Ian McKellen’s Lear (a sort of highbrow version of Radagast and Gandalf!). It’s available in full on YT - https://youtu.be/59ATc5JURrU Plus, he gets to play the spoons!
Lloyd B
2023-01-20 01:14:27 +0000 UTCI bought my copy off eBay - possibly a little less expensive; but that's not guaranteed :( There are plenty of BF stories available for free on Spotify,if that's any help? Sadly, Countermeasures isn't among them.
Ian Smith
2023-01-20 01:03:50 +0000 UTCSylvester's spoon playing, malapropism spouting Doctor started as a comical take on the character but became something quite different. This is the spider Doctor, sitting in the center of his web manipulating the threads of his allies and enemies. It's easy to figure out the villains, but hard to figure out what the Doctor is doing behind the scenes. I loved this aspect and wished he'd had a longer run to see where they would have taken The Doctor & Ace. (To the unconscious guard "as you snore, so shall you sleep.")
Mark Ten
2023-01-20 00:46:12 +0000 UTCKnowing why Katrina required that they watch this first... the emotions are already building.
Bill
2023-01-20 00:41:05 +0000 UTCMichael Sheard the Headmaster was also Hitler in Indiana Jones and Admiral Ozzel in The Empire Strikes Back
StuCee
2023-01-19 23:41:36 +0000 UTCAce’s confusion about the Imperial coinage is also another nod to An Unearthly Child, where there’s a scene of Susan in school being corrected by her teacher about money, and that the Americans have a decimal currency, but not Britain. To which Susan replies “Of course, you haven’t introduced the decimal system … yet!”
Lloyd B
2023-01-19 22:26:32 +0000 UTCAnd really, the most blatant such soliloquy is expressed by the only black character in the show, suitably so.
Kathy A
2023-01-19 22:26:26 +0000 UTCLove this theme tune. Honestly I love 80s genre. So the theme tune reminds me of the k9 spin off series which I remember being ok as a kid 😊
Dazzy
2023-01-19 22:20:42 +0000 UTCI’ve never heard any Big Finish—can’t afford it. I wish I could!
Kathy A
2023-01-19 22:20:23 +0000 UTCThe 7th Doctor is one of my favourite classic Doctors and this story is my favourite classic story. Can't wait for the rest of the story next week. Sophie Aldred did her own stunt with crashing through the window.
Jade Ellis
2023-01-19 22:19:20 +0000 UTCHave you listened to any of the BigFinish 'Counter Measures' stories,featuring the further adventures Rachel,Allison and Gilmour? They're well worth checking out (if only Season One),and they nicely build upon their characters - especially with Pamela Salem's performance.
Ian Smith
2023-01-19 22:11:26 +0000 UTCBtw, I love Rachel and Allison! Another example of Classic Who actually managing to do something that American SF shows of the time couldn’t—establish interesting friendships between women that don’t involve them talking about men.
Kathy A
2023-01-19 21:30:21 +0000 UTCthe British money changed in 1973 btw. from the old imperil (shillings, half crowns etc.) to metric 100 pennies to a pound. ask any granny from my childhood and you got that story.
Derryn Fry
2023-01-19 21:15:37 +0000 UTCAlso, the intro sequence makes me so teary eyed because explicitly uses "I have a dream" by MLK jr, so the story is, from its first few seconds, telling the audience point blank what it's about.
Steve Combs
2023-01-19 21:12:33 +0000 UTCThis is one of my all-time favorite Classic Who episodes! It’s the only one I own on dvd. It definitely stands up to multiple viewings.
Kathy A
2023-01-19 21:11:08 +0000 UTCI love the Seventh Doctor Theme and Icon as well. I don't think it has aged bad at all.
Steve Combs
2023-01-19 21:09:34 +0000 UTCAce is on my Top Five Companions list, alongside Sarah Jane, Tegan, Donna, and Amy/Rory (who only make the list as a couple). I always loved Ace’s attitude and her relationship with McCoy’s Doctor.
Kathy A
2023-01-19 21:09:18 +0000 UTCAlso it diagetically makes sense because it is set almost immediately after the First Doctor left with Ian, Barbara, and Susan.
Steve Combs
2023-01-19 20:44:14 +0000 UTCOh, meant to say, I love that you guys caught the meta joke with the BBC announcer almost saying Doctor Who. Such a great little moment! ❤️ (Being that this is from the 25th anniversary season, I love all the little Easter eggs and callbacks to things like 'An Unearthly Child', such as Coal Hill school and the misspelled I.M. Forman location. SO GOOD!)
Nicole Mazza
2023-01-19 20:37:35 +0000 UTCThe racism/fascism themes of this story are so well done. The writers don’t beat you over the head with polemic raging, but it’s still very clear what the themes are. Ace’s reaction to the No Colourds sign is perfectly done - at first confused, then turning into the understated disgust of “I’m going out for some fresh air”. It’s all there, without the need for a shouted soliloquy on the evils of racism.
Lloyd B
2023-01-19 19:57:34 +0000 UTCAbsolutely adore Ace. The perfect mix of childish/teenage innocence and wonder and pure in your face sass and “street cred” Re the baseball bat scene - after they finished the take the caste and crew headed off for lunch, very pleased with how it went, but completely forgetting about the poor bloke still inside the Dalek casing, which could only be opened from the outside. He not only had to endure being bashed about by Sophie Aldred with the baseball bat, but was stuck alone on set in the Dalek until eventually someone remembered to come and let him out!
Lloyd B
2023-01-19 19:41:07 +0000 UTCYeah, Ace always has a girlfriend or boyfriend of the story (usually a girlfriend, let's be real -- LOL) and with this story, it's Mike. And yeah, he's bad news. Ick.
Nicole Mazza
2023-01-19 19:31:31 +0000 UTCI still love that they painted him silver...and basically didn't need to! LOL
Nicole Mazza
2023-01-19 19:25:33 +0000 UTCThe Seventh Doctor's question mark vest is also available for sale (though I could only find it on eBay -- here's an example listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/284864796306) -- which, of course, I also have -- LOL! His paisley scarf is also available, but I bought that years ago, so I'd have to look up where to get it nowadays. ❤️ But yeah, definitely always recommend the Seventh Doctor era to people to watch (especially Season 26 -- which is the last season of Classic Who, minus the TV movie, but my personal fave), though it's not always particularly popular. Lots of people talk about how it 'suffers from bad writing', but I think a lot of the stories are great and, in particular, Ben Aaronovitch who wrote this story, is one of my all-time fave Doctor Who writers (he goes on to write a bunch of Doctor Who books and now is a pretty popular novelist in the UK). Plus, I'm just super-easy for Andrew Cartmel-era Doctor Who (he was the Script Editor at the time, but basically the defacto 'Showrunner'). ❤️
Nicole Mazza
2023-01-19 19:24:29 +0000 UTCNot the most popular opinion, but the Seventh Doctor intro and theme are actually my personal fave (the version of the theme is even one of my ringtones!). I know it's silly and dated, but it's just soooo sentimental to me (this was my fave era of Who back as a teen -- especially as I was 16, like Ace, and we were both punks, though she was WAY more badass than I ever was!). AND THE WINK IS EVERYTHING, OFC! ❤️ P.S. And the Dalek levitating at the end of episode one was the first time we saw the Dalek go up the stairs like that in the Classic series (though in the 'Dalek Annual' from the 60s, they did have flying ability there, just not on the TV show), so that was a MASSIVELY INTENSE CLIFF HANGER at the time. We later see that sort of scene repeated in S1 with 'Dalek', but the moment here in 'Remembrance' is ICONIC.
Nicole Mazza
2023-01-19 18:53:16 +0000 UTCYESSSS! TIME FOR MY DOCTOR! ❤️❤️❤️ Katrina -- pausing to say, you should still be able to buy a replica of the umbrella, if you really want (I have one!). There used to be fan-made ones on Etsy and Ebay, but in recent years, the BBC put out an official one (https://www.amazon.com/DOCTOR-WHO-Seventh-Doctor-Umbrella/dp/B0B3RT4B6N) 😃
Nicole Mazza
2023-01-19 18:23:23 +0000 UTCThis was the first all CGI title sequence in history and they essentially blew McCoy's first season effects budget on it.
Mark Ten
2023-01-19 18:17:56 +0000 UTCThey actually cancelled Dr Who during Colin bakers run and claimed they were retooling it, but that clearly was a lie. They only brought it back with Sylvester McCoy due to fan reaction, but even so it was obvious that its days were numbered. Jonathan Powell, then Controller of BBC One; and Michael Grade, who had preceded Powell in BBC One's top job disdain for Doctor Who was well documented. And yes, they did everything they could to make Baker's run a disaster (just look at his costume!).
Mark Ten
2023-01-19 18:12:36 +0000 UTC
