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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2016 9:10:30 GMT
It's a revolutionary time for Doctor Who as it begins its first tentative steps into colour. Patrick Troughton has bowed out of his role as the Second Doctor alongside Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot and Fraizer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon with Jon Pertwee set to assume the role of his third incarnation. Departing after the milestone of The War Games, the departing producer Peter Bryant has assigned you the role of leading the programme into this bold new world. How would you have handled the introduction of the Third Doctor? What stories would you have attempted? How would you have characterised him and his new companion(s)? Would you have used the UNIT premise or taken him elsewhere? As an extra challenge for those who feel up to it -- you've been briefed as to the heavy budget limitations and warned about overspending, yet veteran Doctor Who production designers have proposed setting this new era on a single alien world that would reuse sets and props for the length of the year (e.g. an entire season set on Peladon or Uxarius). Do you take them up on their offer or instead stick with the previous production team's intent to set the stories on Earth? Enjoy.  |
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Post by mark687 on May 27, 2016 9:43:05 GMT
As long time Forum Members may know this is my second least favourite year of the show 2 things might've fixed it.
1. If you've decided to focus on the Doctor's scientific knowledge don't give him a companion whose also supposed to have great knowledge otherwise they either both look to clever by half or she looks like a spare part.
2. 7 Eps is too long The Silurians drags no end and Inferno you could loss an Ep with no harm done.
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Post by icecreamdf on May 29, 2016 20:45:41 GMT
I wouldn't change anything. Season 7 is one of my favorite seasons of Doctor Who. Of course, its the first season I ever saw all the way through, so I might be biased.
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Post by paulmorris7777 on May 29, 2016 22:45:38 GMT
Season 7 is near perfection.
4 stories set on Earth with UNIT.
A threat coming from space.
A threat from underground.
A threat in space.
A threat from a parallel universe.
All have some great cliffhangers.
The Silurians and Ambassadors have thought provoking themes.
Inferno is my all time favourite story.
Caroline John is a great intelligent companion.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2016 5:33:58 GMT
As much as I like that season (and I've probably mentioned this before elsewhere), I thought it might've been an interesting experiment to have the Doctor in exile on Skaro and do stories similar to The Dalek Chronicles with the stranded Doctor taking up residence in a Thal encampment while thwarting repeated alien menaces the Dalek city and Skaro's surrounding neighbours. I thought an adaptation of The Curse of the Daleks would have been a good place to start, the TARDIS arriving with the human expedition when the Daleks begin to revive.
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Post by paulmorris7777 on May 30, 2016 7:18:05 GMT
As much as I like that season (and I've probably mentioned this before elsewhere), I thought it might've been an interesting experiment to have the Doctor in exile on Skaro and do stories similar to The Dalek Chronicles with the stranded Doctor taking up residence in a Thal encampment while thwarting repeated alien menaces the Dalek city and Skaro's surrounding neighbours. I thought an adaptation of The Curse of the Daleks would have been a good place to start, the TARDIS arriving with the human expedition when the Daleks begin to revive. Thats a horrible idea. Every single episode is a Dalek story. Didn't you learn anything from season 8? |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2016 7:56:41 GMT
As much as I like that season (and I've probably mentioned this before elsewhere), I thought it might've been an interesting experiment to have the Doctor in exile on Skaro and do stories similar to The Dalek Chronicles with the stranded Doctor taking up residence in a Thal encampment while thwarting repeated alien menaces the Dalek city and Skaro's surrounding neighbours. I thought an adaptation of The Curse of the Daleks would have been a good place to start, the TARDIS arriving with the human expedition when the Daleks begin to revive. Thats a horrible idea. Every single episode is a Dalek story. Didn't you learn anything from season 8? Now, now, there's no need for that. There are many other things that exist on and that can come to Skaro besides the Daleks you know. The Ambassadors of Death and The Silurians wouldn't need much adjustment beyond changing the humans to the Thals and making everything a little more rough-and-ready. More Dan Dare than Quatermass. The Destroyers was going to operate under the proviso of being a series that followed the Daleks week after week, so I don't see why Doctor Who couldn't have tried something similar and you'd probably only see them at the beginning/end of the season anyway. |
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on May 30, 2016 9:21:02 GMT
I'd have had him exiled to Earth 2099, where Cyborg Brig hires the Doctor to work as a scientific advisor, much to the jealousy of the robots who think he is taking their jobs away from them.
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Post by icecreamdf on May 30, 2016 12:12:51 GMT
As much as I like that season (and I've probably mentioned this before elsewhere), I thought it might've been an interesting experiment to have the Doctor in exile on Skaro and do stories similar to The Dalek Chronicles with the stranded Doctor taking up residence in a Thal encampment while thwarting repeated alien menaces the Dalek city and Skaro's surrounding neighbours. I thought an adaptation of The Curse of the Daleks would have been a good place to start, the TARDIS arriving with the human expedition when the Daleks begin to revive. Thats a horrible idea. Every single episode is a Dalek story. Didn't you learn anything from season 8? But season 8 was another great season, with one of the greatest Doctor Who villains. As much as I love Daleks, exiling the Doctor to Skaro instead of Earth would mean no UNIT. I would much rather have the Brigadier than a bunch of Thals. |
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Post by paulmorris7777 on May 30, 2016 15:11:51 GMT
I love Roger Delgado, but if I'd been watching the series in 1971, I'd be a bit fed up of the Master always in it.
It wasnt until the 80's that I got to watch all Pertwees, out of transmission order.
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Post by icecreamdf on May 30, 2016 19:30:12 GMT
I love Roger Delgado, but if I'd been watching the series in 1971, I'd be a bit fed up of the Master always in it. It wasnt until the 80's that I got to watch all Pertwees, out of transmission order. For a while, the Pertwee stories in transmission order (over and over again) was pretty much the only Doctor Who I'd seen, and I never got tired of Roger Delgado. |
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Post by aztec on May 30, 2016 20:53:25 GMT
The first thing that springs to mind is shorter serials, I enjoyed all 4 stories, though personally Silurians and Ambassadors of Death felt slighty overlong, I'd cut one of them down to 4 and the other 5 parts, leaving room for a 5th story, I did like Liz Shaw but I agree with some of the points listed above, she's almost on an equal footing to the Doctor in knowledge during this season, making her seem both above the danger a little and a tad redundant.
I'd introduce Captain Yates in this season, purely because I really liked the character.
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Post by Ela on Jun 2, 2016 21:21:30 GMT
I love Roger Delgado, but if I'd been watching the series in 1971, I'd be a bit fed up of the Master always in it. It wasnt until the 80's that I got to watch all Pertwees, out of transmission order. For a while, the Pertwee stories in transmission order (over and over again) was pretty much the only Doctor Who I'd seen, and I never got tired of Roger Delgado. Yeah, he's great. What's to get tired of? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2016 0:26:56 GMT
For a while, the Pertwee stories in transmission order (over and over again) was pretty much the only Doctor Who I'd seen, and I never got tired of Roger Delgado. Yeah, he's great. What's to get tired of? I was rooting for him over the Doctor as a kid for The Mind of Evil. He was just so devious, cool and executed most of his plans almost flawlessly. If anything, I think a few stories could have benefitted from his addition, counterbalancing things like the megalomaniacal Marshal in The Mutants. |
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