11th Doctor: "Chesterfield!... Chesserman!... 500 years of maturity and I still can't get that name right."
In any case, there's no way that Ecclestone will ever return to Who and Tennant would only overshadow Smith this close to the re-casting, so I doubt very highly we'll see a multi-Doctor show anytime soon.
I keep hearing conflicting things about Eccleston. Some say that getting him to come back would be about as difficult as convincing Tom Baker to come back.
Which isn't say much anymore now that Baker is finally doing Big Finish audio plays after 12 years of asying no and is fully embracing them (he's coming out with 18 discs worth of audio plays next year).
Yeah, but it took over 20 years!
That's the implication but there are plenty of people who are convinced otherwise. Life anything unseen or unexplained, there's going to be people who see it differently. I certainly don't begrudge them of the belief that The Ninth Doctor isn't newly regenerated, even if I don't agree.
Yea, I too believe is newly regenerated, but, who knows how long after his generation it's been since he saw himself (or he may have simply been too despondent for months or years after his regeneration to notice what he looked like)
Also Clive's pic's of the ninth doctor to Rose shows he has been to a few more places possibly before rose. But could 9 have vistied these places with Rose and you just dont see her in the pics?, perhaps but who really knows.
Another theory I've heard is that, in between when Rose 1st turns him down and when he comes back and mentions to her that it's also a time machine in "Rose," he went off and had some random adventures.
In a way, I suppose when it comes to finding gaps in the Doctor's timeline to stick new stories, any time the TARDIS dematerializes without a human companion aboard is fair game.
RTD wouldn't allow DWM to pair the ninth Doctor with Destrii, and it's unlikely that Eccleston would come back for an extended period so he could have a post-regeneration story.
I thought that RTD was fine with the magazine doing 9th Doctor comic stories with Destrii. Rather, it was some of the higher-ups at the BBC that insisted that any 9th Doctor comics at that point feature Rose.
Well it wont be long before you can have very convincing digital copies of the actors looking as they were at the time, interacting with live actors. Its not quite there yet, but thats a possibility down the road. Though I think alot of fans wouldnt be thrilled with that either. Im sure it would be ok for the living actors. They could still provide the voice and yet appear as they did then.
Even now, it could be done with some success. Especially if they are seen on a screen, or in some way that obscures it. Maybe some of the older ones are on a screen in a different Tardis, and so the fact that their faces arent quite right isnt so obvious. Its a thought anyway.
I don't think you could ever do it convincingly on a BBC television budget.
Part of me likes the simplicity of having all of the Doctors around somewhere but only a handful end up meeting up with each other, and then some only making contact via audio link.
Tennant: "But where's what's-his-name? Number 4? Scarf man?"
C. Baker (comm): "Oh, he's here. He's just not talking to any of us."
Davison (comm): "My fault, actually. He's still mad at me for unraveling his scarf."
C. Baker (comm): "Also, there's some bloke in a leather jacket sulking in a corner. He's not one of ours, is he?"
Tennant & Smith: (Sigh.) "Yes."
Smith: "I'm surprised 5 & 6 aren't making progress with him. I thought he liked blondes."
Didn't Tom Baker later regret not being in "The Five Doctors?"
I hadn't heard that. Like I say, I've never seen any evidence that he plays well with other Doctors.
