Dimensions in Time..
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But that was never going to happen: it only existed in the first place to provide an insert for Children in Need. (If anything, it got more time than it might have done by making it a two parter across the weekend).
Canon-wise (yes, sorry, I used the C word), it's on the same level as the second Doctor's appearance in the trailer for Web of Fear, the fourth Doctor's appearances on Jim'll Fix It, Animal Magic, Disney Time and the season 17 trailer, the sixth's Jim'll Fix It and Roland Rat... oh, and that Australian interview with Peter Davison AND the fifth Doctor (which is superb). And quite a few more.
Actor in character in all cases, but is that enough?
^And that was exactly what I was going to say!
Uh oh. People are going to think we agree on things.
Uhh..... David Tennant was better than Matt Smith!!
Whew.
I haven't seen it for ages, but I think the difference is that, whereas all those examples you've listed have the Doctor breaking the fourth wall, I don't recall anything similar in DiT - there's no point where anyone turns and addresses the camera directly.
I'd never heard of that...wonder if its on youtube
As for DiT, it was supposed to be a bit of fun for charity
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I quite liked it back in 1993. Short and sweet. But there wasn't a heck of a lot of Doctor Who in my diet at the time.
Dimensions in Time was part of Children in Need (much like it is today) spread over a Friday and Saturday night in November, then a brilliant documentary celebrating "30 Years in the TARDIS" on Sunday.
Say what you like but DiT is equally as important as Time Crash or any of the other skits which have appeared since. More so perhaps, because there's precious little to show for Doctor Who during the 90's.
I still have my copy of the Radio Times, which featured Jon, Tom, Peter, Colin and Syl on the cover. Doctor Who hadn't made the front of that magazine in 10 years. McGann graced it three years later and then a Dalek in 1999, when BBC2 did a themed evening. Then another interminally long wait after that...
Dimensions in Time was part of Children in Need (much like it is today) spread over a Friday and Saturday night in November, then a brilliant documentary celebrating "30 Years in the TARDIS" on Sunday.
Say what you like but DiT is equally as important as Time Crash or any of the other skits which have appeared since. More so perhaps, because there's precious little to show for Doctor Who during the 90's.
I still have my copy of the Radio Times, which featured Jon, Tom, Peter, Colin and Syl on the cover. Doctor Who hadn't made the front of that magazine in 10 years. McGann graced it three years later and then a Dalek in 1999, when BBC2 did a themed evening. Then another interminally long wait after that...
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Yeah, there is. Mike Reid as Frank Butcher talks directly to the audience.
Well, he's the only one of the 'Stenders characters who realizes what's going on - courtesy of his time in the army in the 1960s, when he saw the Doctor deal with a War Machine :-)
"Dimensions in Time" is a clusterfuck. It neither has the time to really explain what's going on like "The Five Doctors" did nor does it have the simplicity of "Time Crash." It's nice seeing a lot of those people back together, although I have a hard time keeping up with a lot of the older companions who have aged so much that it's hard to recognize them now. And while many people make a big deal about Tom Baker deciding to participate in this multi-Doctor special, he's only an announcer at the very beginning. He's still not really playing along with the rest of them. (In fact, I'm not sure there are any documented instances of Tom Baker ever being in the same room with any other Doctors except for during the regeneration scenes in "Planet of the Spiders" & "Logopolis.")
And Colin Baker was paired up with the Brigadier in the Big Finish audio "The Spectre of Lanyon Moor."
BTW, I've heard that that bit was a bonus feature on one of the DVDs. Where would I find it on an R1 DVD?
And Colin Baker was paired up with the Brigadier in the Big Finish audio "The Spectre of Lanyon Moor."
BTW, I've heard that that bit was a bonus feature on one of the DVDs. Where would I find it on an R1 DVD?
No. It's on The Two Doctors.
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