What you really mean is a three year minimum, not a three year standard run.
Mr Awe
Season 9/Christmas special speculation *spoilers*
- Thread starter Doctorwhovian
- Start date
What you really mean is a three year minimum, not a three year standard run.
Mr Awe
Who is "Tom McGann"?
Or, Patrick Davison?!
Smith and McCoy look similar, 44 vs 42, but of course the run time of the episodes were very different.
Mr Awe
Who is "Tom McGann"?
and Patrick Davison
Only thing with the list is that from 9 onwards on every episode is just about equal to two classic series episodes, so that needs to be refined further.
Looking at approximately 22 minutes each (new series being double classic episode length):
Tom Baker 172 episodes
William Hartnell 134 episodes
Jon Pertwee 128 episodes
Patrick Troughton 119 episodes
David Tennant 94 episodes
Matt Smith 88 episodes
Peter Davison 69 episodes
Sylvester McCoy 42 episodes
Colin Baker 31 episodes
Christopher Eccleston 26 episodes
Peter Capaldi (so far) 24 episodes (26 if we include the upcoming xmas special)
Paul McGann 4+ episodes (90 min movie plus NOTD)
By this logic Peter Capaldi will, at the very least, have more episodes than Sylvester McCoy after the already commissioned series 9.
Last edited:
I apologize for misspelling the actor's names. My oops.
Tom McGann might be Paul Baker's cousin....on their Father's side....twice removed.
Not having any experience and being overworked trying to make it up as they go might excuse some levels of unprofessional behavior by production staff, but not the behavior on-set attributed to Keith Boak.
It sounds to me that a combination of factors led to Eccleston leaving the franchise.
The Top Gear guys make other short series' between TG series', as fill in. At least BBCA runs them counter to the new TG series'.
No reason BBC couldn't do that with McGann, unless they don't feel there's the same interest level.
It takes a lot less time, and is cheaper, to film Top Gear than Doctor Who. If the BBC wanted "backfill" like that, they'd need to get a whole separate production team and have it running simultaneous with the "main" team.
The most thorough exploration of Eccleston's departure, that I'm aware of, is in Tat Wood's About Time 7. Wood spends a good (roughly) eight pages on the theories and rumors, documents them as best he (or anyone) can, and dismisses several.
Wood's conclusion is that Eccleston was amenable to starring in the second series, but circumstances got ahead of him and the decision was ultimately taken out of his hands.
I was secretly hoping that because we are getting one less episode this year that they might be saving up for one or two McGann specials. Would love it. A easter special each year filling in the missing years.
Except, we aren't really getting "one less episode" since Deep Breath was a double episode.
And really, I wouldn't hold my breath on a Paul McGann season or special or anything. In BBC's eyes, the current Doctor is the Doctor and the former Doctors are never revisited on screen unless it's for an anniversary special or a team-up episode like The Two Doctors. I wouldn't count on any team-ups this soon after Day of the Doctor either.
No he wasn't. He had a three year contract and they decided not to renew it.
Year 1: Series 22
Year 2: hiatus
Year 3: Series 23
I used to think that for the Doctor-lite episode they used to do each year that they could do a McGann story in that slot, perhaps to show an earlier confrontation between the the Doctor and the season's Big Bad. But the Doctor-lite essentially went away, and I've changed my mind on whether or not a "flashback" episode like that would be a good idea. Essentially, I've come to think that it wouldn't be; it would be a disaster with the Not-We.
^ Nah, it wouldn't be a disaster, at least it wouldn't have to be. You just need a framing device. Have the current Doctor reminisce about an adventure he had in a previous incarnation. Problem solved. Bonus points if the previous adventure is tied to a current arc.
Mr Awe
Mr Awe
AThe thing is, with Clara anyway, they could easily insert her character into a story involving any Doctor. Having Paul McGann's TARDIS show up one day near Coal Hill and Clara run up to it only to get the "wrong" Doctor would not be out of place. He might even recongnizer her as someone with a similar name (one of the Clara fragments in his time stream) and just run off like nothing it wrong...or just have the Doctor slightly puzzled, as he didn't remember her being in this time, but she just lies to him and runs off because "adventure", and he's not as grumpy as 12.
While I truly wish we could have Paul McGann stories on TV (or even just online), I doubt it would happen - it might draw people away from the Capaldi stories (if I had to choose one or the other, it would be an easy choice if they don't get rid of the liar). Of course they could always time it so one was airing while the other was on hiatus, but that would make sense.
According to Moffat, Orson is a cousin or somesuch to Danny; he's not descended from Danny and Clara, and if fans assumed otherwise it's because he was being deliberately vague about the relationship in "Listen."
Similar threads
