The Night of The Doctor Mini-episode (Open Spoilers)

[Miller]

@Penfeather

Hey! Joy Division were awesome.

No doubt, but I thought you were referencing the fact that Hurt was posed with a noose.

[Peter_Morris]

@Miller

Even there, he still looks fifteen going on fifty.

Maybe that’s just the role he was playing - an innocent man about to be hanged for a murder he didn’t commit.

[BrokenBriton]

Do you guys know about this drama: An Adventure in Space and Time

Written by Mark Gatiss, An Adventure in Space and Time features David Bradley as Hartnell, the first actor to play the Doctor in 1963.

The 90-minute TV film will be shown on BBC Two at 21:00 on 21 November.

An Adventure in Space and Time is set in the first half of the 1960s and focuses on the people who created the sci-fi show, which celebrates its 50th anniversary next week.

and … beautiful:

Speaking to the BBC, Jessica Carney recalled visiting the Doctor Who set as a little girl in the mid-1960s during the filming of a story called The Web Planet.

"I sat in the dressing room with my grandfather, and it was fascinating to watch the wig and make-up being put on.

“On the main set there were actors wandering around in very odd costumes. The cameras were so cumbersome and there were loads of huge cables everywhere.”

She added: "Because there were so few TV channels the numbers of people watching were huge. On Monday in the school playground everyone would be talking about the programme.

“All my early memories of my grandfather are muddled up with Doctor Who because he was Doctor Who and I watched him every Saturday on the television.”

Doctor Who drama 'a wonderful tribute' to William Hartnell

[Alan_Smithee]

@Smeghead

There was a Big Finish adventure I listened to where Eight spent something like five or six hundred years stuck on a planet by himself. If that were canon, then Nine and Ten were lying about their age, or else Eight existed for well over half of his entire lifetime.

I’ve posted this in a couple of versions before, but here’s my theory (change AMY to OSWIN, or whoever the next companion is):

[The TARDIS lands somewhere]

Doctor: It’s an asteroid. Not an asteroid! I hate asteroids! I spent seven hundred years on an asteroid once. Really boring.

Amy: Wait a minute, didn’t you tell me you’re nine hundred and six years old? Are you saying you spent almost all that time on one asteroid?

Doctor: What? No, of course not. Didn’t you hear me, I said it was boring! I mean, I didn’t even do anything, I just sat there and waited for the TARDIS to show up.

Amy: So…what, that doesn’t count? You only count the time you’re actually having fun?

Doctor: Well, yeah, I mean–Are you telling me that you count everything? What, even when you’re asleep? And you still only live to about a hundred? That’s even sadder than I thought…

ETA: Here’s a more elaborate version.

[andros]

Ha! I love that!