When they get around to Doctor 8, they don’t really have any choice what to show, do they?
BTW, I don’t want anyone anywhere saying calling the character Doctor Who is wrong anymore. If Tom Baker can say stuff like “I didn’t play Doctor Who, I was Doctor Who” then it’s perfectly cromulant to call the character Doctor Who. 
Yay! Nyssa & Tegan!BBC America has chosen Earthshock to represent the Fifth Doctor in its Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited celebratory season.
A documentary entitled The Doctors Revisited: The Fifth Doctor will air on Sunday, May 26 at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central, followed by the four-part story that reintroduced the Cybermen after an absence of nearly seven years.
Unfortunately, in the US at least Netflix streams you the movie only - no commentary tracks, no deleted scenes or trailers or other bonus material. They do have English subtitles available, but I don’t know if they have them in any other languages.
Netflix DVD/Blu-Rays, however, get you all the various bonuses that those discs include (duh, since you’re getting the actual disc.)
The Fifth Doctor special airs in just a few hours. 
Get your DVR ready.
E-Space! Adric is whining about going back.
Not sure if I’ll watch all this. The 5th and 6th Doctors were never my favorites.
But, I’m trying to hang in there. I keep reminding myself that this is supposed to be one of the better 5th Doctor episodes.
Can’t figure out why this is so slow paced. Even the music is real slow, pulsating stuff. I guess they were trying to set some kind of mood?
Pertwee and Tom Baker kept it more interesting. It was more of an adventure.
So it’s a Cyberman episode. It’s getting better now that they’ve been introduced.
Earthshock was pretty good. It took awhile but I got drawn into the story.
One thing that threw me was the companions. They seemed more like Tardis crew. Advising the Doctor and even questioning what he wanted to do. Interesting change in how the characters usually work.
Cybermen in the Tardis? I guess the 1980’s Tardis wasn’t protected like we see in Nu Who.
One thing the new Whos have in spades over the old is better plotting and pacing. So many of the old Whos killed time (pun intended) by having everyone take turns being captured, or, lingering on one scene or a guy-in-alien-suit-ambling-menacingly. They didn’t have a big budget, and so, if they made a new alien suit or set, then doggone, they’re going to show it… a lot… lingeringly.
Some of that was no doubt due to the serial episodic format of four half-hour episodes. Each one needs to be self-contained to a point, yet drive the overall story. So you have a lot of padding, a lot of captures/escapes and about three mid-episode cliff-hangers.
But, on the plus side, Nyssa and Tegan!
Old Who is best watched in episodes. I think it loses something when you don’t have the cliffhanger / credits sequence.
I hope Chris Eccleston at least agrees to a short interview to discuss the 9th Doctor for the revisited special. Given Chris’ attitude I guess even that is a big if.
I wonder if they’ll skip 8? What could they possibly do except show that movie? I guess Paul McGann and Daphne Ashbrook would do interviews. It’ll be a short revisited special.
They could take some of the audioplays and animate or storyboard it or something. Dunno if they have the budget for that. Showing the movie would be cheaper/easier.
anyone know what Eccleston’s issues were with the show? He was certainly a big part of getting the reboot going. Why does he want to distance himself from such a successful gig, I wonder.
He pretty much lays it out in this interview from a couple years ago:“I left Doctor Who because I could not get along with the senior people. I left because of politics. I did not see eye-to-eye with them. I didn’t agree with the way things were being run. I didn’t like the culture that had grown up, around the series. So I left, I felt, over a principle.
“I thought to remain, which would have made me a lot of money and given me huge visibility, the price I would have had to pay was to eat a lot of shit. I’m not being funny about that. I didn’t want to do that and it comes to the art of it, in a way. I feel that if you run your career and– we are vulnerable as actors and we are constantly humiliating ourselves auditioning. But if you allow that to go on, on a grand scale you will lose whatever it is about you and it will be present in your work.
I still think he missed the boat in coming back for the 50th. My dream scenario would have been all living doctors, especially 4th, 5th, 7th, 8-11th to be in it. No offense to #6, but I’ve never seen an episode of the show with him, so I have no idea if I care if he’s in it. My picks would have been 4th and 9-11 in one episode.
Hartnell left because of ill health and also may have been let go because he salary was too high.
For what it’s worth, I think Mind Robber is excellent. That one shot of Zoe’s bottom is the best scene in the entire series.
The 5th doctor was also too bland for me. I pretty much dislike everything JNT did to the show.
Vengeance on Varos will represent the Sixth Doctor’s era next month in BBC America’s Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited celebratory season.
A documentary entitled Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited - The Sixth Doctor will air on Saturday 29th June at 7.30pm ET/PT, followed by an omnibus edition of the adventure, which was written by Philip Martin, directed by Ron Jones, and originally broadcast in two episodes in January 1985 as the second story in Season 22.
I’ve found that 1/2-hour specials are far too short to do justice to each Doctor. There are so many wonderful villains and shorter-term companions that aren’t even mentioned. No Romana(s), seriously? I stormed out of my house in a rage ready to organize the block in a riot and tip over police cars. Sadly, I was the only one shouting “Romana!” on the street, so I got my mail from the mailbox and came back inside, though I did give the mailbox lid an angry slam to let the world know what’s what.
Yeah, they’re also a bit… I dunno… flluffy. They don’t really put things into context about why something’s important, or how it was cool, just YAY I LOVE THIS or YAY I WAS A LITTLE KID AND SAW THIS