Saturday 8th October
2016
We had reached a Who
milestone! The Tenth Anniversary special in which all Three actors who
had played Doctor Who were involved! Sadly William Hartnell - The First
Doctor - was quite ill at that point so could only make a minor
contribution. But Troughton was back in full glory! As it was a
special occasion we all decided to meet up around Leigh's on a Saturday night
and celebrate with beers - going out to the pub afterwards. Here is the
carnage of that night....
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MJ: "HELLO!!! I
hope this works as this is my new phone - a new recording device on it.
Happy Christmas, Ange! "
Shaun: "MJ, like why
don't you now stop that recording and listen back to it, to see what the sound
level needs to be?"
Jason: "No! I'm
not shouting at it!"
MJ: "Well,
okay..."
*RECORDING GETS STOPPED & LISTENED BACK TO TO. THEN WE CONTINUE*
MJ: "So here we are -
we tested it, it's fine. We're around Leigh's on a Saturday night!!
WOW! That's what COOL people do on a Saturday night!!" *Laughter* "Watching
a DVD of 'The Three Doctors' which was the tenth anniversary special. It
had Wurzel Gummidge in it. And it had the man who was in - what was that
80's thing that (Patrick Troughton was in)? Like a
fantasy?"
Jason: " 'Box Of
Delights'?"
MJ: "No! Oh no
wait, 'Box Of Delights' - yeah! Also the guy from all the military
movies..."
Shaun: "I'm already
lost!"
MJ: "From the 'Carry
On Corporal' or 'Sergeant' or whatever."
Shaun: "I found out
earlier today that Sean Pertwee's in a horror movie called 'The V-Vitches' -
which is the two 'V's' before it became a cohesive whole."
MJ: *Sean Pertwee
impression from his show 'Gotham'* "Yes Master Bruce!!"
*Laughter*
Jason: "He's not in
it!"
Shaun: "But he was an
old-timey bloke with a daughter, so he'd say:"
*Sean Pertwee
impression* " 'Don't be a bitch!' "
MJ: *Sean Pertwee
impression* " 'Don't be a bitch, Master Bruce!!' "
Shaun: *Sean
Pertwee impression* " 'Don't kill my son!' "
MJ: "I like that
Leigh probably the only one who's gone for something Doctory to wear - he's got
his Dalek t-shirt on. I went for Batman. Shaun's got a very nice,
colourful shirt on - I like that. Jason, you've got a robot starfish and
Mark's got a skull thing. So, three Doctors! Obviously tenth
anniversary - we've got all the Doctor's back."
Leigh: "All three of
them."
MJ: "All three of
them."
Leigh: "There's only
been three of them."
Shaun: "There will
only EVER be three Doctor's. As far as we're aware..."
*The guys get distracted
by the DVD menu playing scenes from the show - including the ranting villain*
Mark: "I like this
episode already! That guy..."
MJ: "Perhaps we
should press play.... Three Time Lords were used in this episode!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "Episode One -
FIGHT! Hadouken! It's Saturday night - I'm excitable!"
*Leigh laughs*
*EPISODE ONE GETS WATCHED*
Photo 1: At Leigh's house.
Mark, MJ (holding the sign), Jason (with the DVD case)
& Leigh with his tin whistle!
Mark, MJ (holding the sign), Jason (with the DVD case)
& Leigh with his tin whistle!
MJ: "Well Yayy!
End of Episode One and we're seen THREE DOCTORS!!! Although one of
them is on a screen caught in a Time Eddy - as he said. That's the
character from 'Time Iron Maiden'..." *Laughs to self* "Time
Eddy - that's their mascot...."
Mark: "Yeah I got
that..."
Leigh: "Time Eddy
from 'Time Absolutely Fabulous'?"
MJ: "Haha! Yes 'Time
Absolutely Fabulous' as well!"
Leigh: "And Time
Patsy."
MJ: "And 'Time
Bottom' - which had Time Eddie and Time Richie!"
*Laughter*
Leigh: "That's who
Madonna married - Time Ritchie!"
*Laughter*
MJ:
"Banter." *Laughter* "What do you think of
Episode One then!?"
Shaun: "Pretty
good."
MJ: "That's mental -
with the big bobbly-wobbly things - monsters etc."
Leigh: "It reminded
me that Troughton was better than Pertwee!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "Do you know,
that's what I thought. As soon as he came into it I thought 'Aww I've
missed him! I really have missed him'. And I think they (Pertwee
and Troughton) were a bit squabbly like that in real life - so it
helped their thingies (I think I meant character development!!).
I'll tell you a story next time..." *Reading titles as Episode Two
starts* "Bob Baker."
Shaun: "And Martin
someone."
Jason: "Yeah don't
forget Martin someone!"
MJ: "Dave
Martin."
Leigh: "Chris
Martin."
MJ: "Chris
Martin."
Shaun: "Chris
Martin, yeah!"
MJ: "Episode
Two!"
Leigh: "And Danny Baker."
Leigh: "And Danny Baker."
MJ: *Laughing* Danny
Baker! Hah! Part Two!"
*EPISODE TWO GETS
WATCHED*
Photo 2: At Leigh's house.
Mark, Shaun (holding the sign), Jason (with the DVD case and beer)
& Leigh with his tin whistle!
Mark, Shaun (holding the sign), Jason (with the DVD case and beer)
& Leigh with his tin whistle!
MJ: "So the end of
Episode Two and, erm, the big house has disappeared. Into a black
hole?"
Mark: "Yeah."
MJ: "Random."
Mark: "Only to
re-appear in the quarry, in the next episode, as a cardboard cutout."
Shaun: "Yeah.
It's only a model!"
*Mark laughs*
MJ: "Errr that was
good. We had The Brigadier going into the TARDIS for the first time and
being - "
Shaun: "- The first
time ever?!"
Mark: "Yeah."
MJ: "- And being
confused by it. Which was good."
Shaun: "Yeah but,
continuity is not great in Doctor Who!"
Leigh: *Laughing* "What are you saying!!?"
Mark: "Look, as far
as we are aware, in this episode that is the first time ever!"
Shaun: "They've been
to NINE Atlantisees!!"
*Laughter*
Mark:
"Atlantisi!"
MJ:
"Atlantisees/Atlantisi - let's call the whole thing off!"
*Laughter*
Shaun: "Are we going
to have a break?"
Leigh: "Yeah."
MJ: "Yeah! How
are we enjoying it so far then!!?"
Leigh: "Yayy,
Troughton's good!" *Laughing*
Shaun: "It's quite
fun so far!"
Jason: "It's quite
fun - funny."
MJ: "We like the
caves made of jam. Bobbly"
Leigh: "Yay!!!
Cave Jam!"
Mark: "And things
made of jam."
Jason:
"Anti-jam."
Mark:
"Marmalade."
Jason: "I won't
accept that. I'm disagreeing with that."
Mark: "I'm saying
marmalade is the anti-jam."
Jason: "The opposite
of jam is not marmalade."
Mark: "It is!"
Jason: "The opposite
of jam - "
Mark: "- You think it's going to be delicious like jam - but it isn't!"
Mark: "- You think it's going to be delicious like jam - but it isn't!"
Jason: "- is
something not sticky, not edible and not red. Therefore - "
*Jason stumbles so MJ goes
back on Who-track*
MJ: "There's an
impressive 'tache on that guy!"
Jason: "That'll
do! I'll have that!"
Jason & Shaun together: "Impressive 'tache is the opposite of jam!!"
Jason & Shaun together: "Impressive 'tache is the opposite of jam!!"
Mark: "That was a
VERY smooth segway back into what we should be talking about!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "It has made me,
erm, realise how much I've missed Troughton, watching that."
Leigh: "Yeah."
Shaun: "It's made me
realise how much I liked Troughton at the time but he's still, in my opinion,
the weakest of the Doctors thus far."
Jason: "Ooo!"
MJ: *Gasping* "Controversial!!"
Mark: "He's my
favourite Doctor so far!"
MJ: "Yeah me
too!"
Shaun: "He's not even
got a tattoo!"
Jason: "I'll bet he
has!"
Mark: "He might
have."
Shaun: "I was just
going back to the first Pertwee one where we saw his tattoo."
MJ: "That's
true. They err - well we'll talk about this later - the Hartnell
thing."
Jason: "Don't spoil
it!"
MJ: "But yes, very
good indeed."
Jason: "Obviously
Hartnell's got no legs."
MJ: "Hah! 'Hartnell's
got no legs'! How does he smell?!" *Laughter*
"Right I'd better turn this off whilst I got to the loo..."
*Recording gets stopped
for ablutions.... Then we're back!*
MJ: "So, three
Doctors - well, two and a bit!"
Leigh: "I thought you
said it wasn't THE Patrick Troughton? No! Not Patrick Troughton -
erm (William Hartnell)."
Jason & MJ together:
"That's 'The Five Doctors'."
Leigh: "Oh
right. Okay."
MJ: "This was the
last, erm..."
Jason: "Is this what
you weren't going to talk about now?"
MJ: "Oh yes I wasn't
- and Mark's not here anyway!"
Jason: "He (Hartnell) dies DURING this episode whilst
acting! He falls off his chair!"
MJ: "Yeah - he falls
of his chair and goes, errr....'Ooo Mr. Grimsdale!!' "
Leigh: "So why has
this never achieved the same cult status as 'The Crow' then!?"
*Laughter*
Jason: "Did The Crow
say 'Mr. Grimsdale' when he got shot?"
Shaun: "I'm fairly
certain that was Brandon Lee's final thing he said before he died!"
MJ: "He said:" *Puts on flat bad acting stilted
voice* " 'Holy
moly'." *Normal voice* "Like that really good UNIT guard
man (we just saw)."
Leigh: "It was 'Holy
Moses'! Not 'Moly'!"
MJ: " 'Holy
Moses!' He just looks completely bewildered by it - like 'I'm not really
an actor I've just been left here'!"
Shaun: "He's better
than that Chancellor of the bloody Time Lords!"
Jason: "Oh yes!
At least I BELIEVE he's a crap UNIT man!"
MJ: "Oh yes The
Chancellor!" (I find out
now he was also a Chancellor in the final Troughton story 'The War Games')
Leigh: " 'Be it on
your own head'! Rather than 'On your own head be it' - which is what
normal people would say!"
MJ: "'Be it on your
own - ' the other one, with the sideburns
(The Time Lord's President of The Council), has got more gruffness about
him, whereas he's bit like 'Ohhhhh....'"
Shaun: "The guy with
the gruffness (President of
The Council) sounds like he's
acting in a scene for television - whereas the other guy sounds like he's
monologuing his wife or something!" *Leigh
& MJ Laugh* "Just
does not appear to be in the moment at all!"
Jason: "That's how he
rehearsed!"
MJ: "What about the
Time Lord who's really not putting his heart into it? The leader (The Chancellor)?"
Mark: "Yeah."
MJ: "He's like:" *Puts on wishy-washy voice* "Oh well, I don't know it's
a..."
Mark: "The
ineffectual leader who's unwilling to lead."
MJ: *Puts on wishy-washy voice* " 'I've got some tea on the
table, I really should be looking at THAT actually'..." *Laughs* "This is going to be brilliant
written down! Impressions!"
*Laughter*
Mark: "Yeah it's
going to be really good...."
Leigh: "Yeah but we
don't know WHO it's an impression of!!"
Shaun: "Yes you
always say the name first!"
MJ: "Oh no, I didn't
say the name!" *Puts on
wishy-washy voice* "
'Oooo-oh-ohhh! I'm The Chancellor'!" *Laughs*
*After some wiffle-waffle*
MJ: "Well I'll stop
this now 'cos otherwise I might start giving stuff away!"
Shaun: "I've got
another Doctor Who thing to say! Doctor Who's quite good."
MJ: "Yayyyyy!"
Shaun: "I like
it!"
MJ: "Ten years of
good - damn straight!"
Jason: "Wait until
it's twenty years!"
Shaun: "Damn
Skippy!"
MJ: "More beer!"
Photo 3: At Leigh's house.
Shaun (rudely holding the sign) & Jason.
Shaun (rudely holding the sign) & Jason.
*RECORDING STOPS BUT THEN I RESTART IT....*
MJ: "The recording
starts again because my good friends Leigh and Shaun have HILARIOUSLY -" *Leigh and Shaun erupt in fits of
laughter* "- filled up two bottles of beer with water and then watched
me drink them!" *Laughter* "I'm like 'Ohhh this has got
water in!!??' (and they are
like) 'Ha-ha-ha - try this
one!' (And I do and am like) 'Ohhh this has got water in!!??'
" *Laughter* "And that's what we get up
to..."
*Laughter*
Shaun: "Would you
like another chance at the roulette-beer?!
*Laughter*
MJ: "Bet you're all
jealous out there! All you reading my Doctor Who blog thing!"
*Laughter* "READ MY THING!"
Shaun: "That was our
Official Tenth Anniversary Prank!"
MJ: "'Tenth
Anniversary Prank' - I like it!" *Reading
beer label* " 'Granny
Wouldn't Like It'? Well I've gotta have THAT haven't I!!?"
Shaun: "It's like
'Your Mother Wouldn't Like It' (old
kids TV show) which had a
crocodile in it!"
Leigh: "It DID
yeah!"
MJ: "Yeah!"
Leigh: "That lived in
the sewer!"
MJ: "You know she
wouldn't like it!"
Shaun: *Having tasted a sip of beer puts
on strained voice* "That
one's also water!"
Leigh: "It's not also
water."
MJ: "Ohh! Now,
that, that's...ooo that's dark!"
*Leigh laughs*
Shaun: "That one...is
just my piss! I have a lot of problems!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "Are you sure
it's not runny water from the 'other end'!?"
*Laughter*
Shaun: "I have been
ill this week!"
MJ: "For the
Listeners at home - The Readers - I meant 'runny poo'!"
*Leigh laughs* "And also in case you
didn't get my subtle joke there!" *Laughs*
*EPISODE THREE GETS
WATCHED*
Photo 4: At Leigh's house.
Mark, Shaun (holding the sign), Jason
& Leigh with his tin whistle!
Mark, Shaun (holding the sign), Jason
& Leigh with his tin whistle!
MJ: "End of Episode Three and randomly - "
Shaun: "- Episode
Three in which we all decided that Omega sounds like Matt Berry! Which
brought us almost all to tears!"
*Mark laughs*
MJ: *Does Matt Berry/Omega impression* "'What the Hell are you
doing??!'"
Shaun:
"Amazing."
MJ: And at the end, The
Doctor - as in Pert-wee - was fighting some little pig-faced thing!"
Leigh: "Bill
Bailey!"
Mark: "No I think
he's going to be raped to death by Bill Bailey!"
Jason: "Dark Bill
Bailey."
MJ: "The dark side of
Bill Bailey."
Shaun: "I'm
tremendously disappointed where they went with that!"
MJ: "Yeah..."
Shaun: "There was so
much scope for a cool introspective kind of thing and...no! It's just a
fight scene with a goblin!"
Jason: "It's still
going on!"
MJ: "SLOW-MOTION
fight scene!"
Shaun: "Yes! In
fact that brings us back to Matt Berry! 'This episode is running several
minutes short! Use a lot of slow-motion'!!"
*Laughter*
Leigh: "'I don't
know, did I? I was drunk at the time!' "
*Laughter*
MJ: "Are we doing
'Toast?"
Jason: "Are we doing
'Toast!?"
Shaun: "I propose a
toast!"
Jason: "With
jam!"
MJ: "No no I meant (comedy show) 'Toast Of London'!"
Shaun: "'Toast Of
London' is also Matt Berry."
MJ: "It is - I do
like that."
Leigh: "I like when
he loses in the poker game to Andrew Lloyd Webber and they send around - who's
his 'muscle'? I can't remember the name of his 'muscle'! I wanna
say 'Aled Jones' but it's not Aled Jones, it's something LIKE that. Who
does 'Phantom Of The Opera'?"
MJ: "Oh, not Michael
Crawford?"
Leigh: "Michael Crawford, Yes! Michael Crawford is his enforcer!"
*Laughter* "He does it because he likes it!" *Laughing* "He doesn't need the money!"
MJ: "It's not actually THE Michael Crawford that does it though."
Leigh: "It is!! Yeah."
Shaun: "It's awesome."
Leigh: "Michael Crawford, Yes! Michael Crawford is his enforcer!"
*Laughter* "He does it because he likes it!" *Laughing* "He doesn't need the money!"
MJ: "It's not actually THE Michael Crawford that does it though."
Leigh: "It is!! Yeah."
Shaun: "It's awesome."
MJ: "No, hold on,
isn't it the other one - Michael Ball?"
Leigh:
"Oh Michael Ball! Sorry that's right."
MJ: "Yes I was
thinking I remember watching it now! Somebody, last year, said how good
they were so I decided to watch them all on the Channel Four Player. I'd
never seen them before and was very impressed!"
Shaun: "Pretty much
anything with Matt Berry in is worth watching."
Leigh: "It's exactly
the same!"
MJ: "I like the
acting style he goes for in 'Toast'... It's quite good isn't it!?" *Laughs*
Shaun: "Is it quite
exactly the same!?"
*Laughter*
Mark: "It IS quite
exactly the same!"
MJ: "He does say
different things! That's how you can differentiate between them."
Shaun: "Ohhhh!"
Leigh: "Yeah he
doesn't say 'Jen' as much as he does in 'The IT Crowd' for example!"
MJ: "And people
aren't calling him Dixon Bainbridge!" *Laughs* "Anyway the final part
of..."
*Leigh laughs* *Singing* "Doctor Whoooo!"
Leigh: "I don't why
you paused it for THAT??! I thought there was a real thing going
on!!"
MJ: "No - anyway
'DOCTOR WHO AND THE THREE DOCTORS'!!"
Shaun: "It turns out
a time travelling Matt Berry played Omega!"
Mark: "The audio's
running a bit short we've got to pad it out!"
Shaun: *Referencing the Third Doctor's
onscreen fight* "Much
like this slow motion."
MJ: "Sllloooooowwww
mooootion! That would be brilliant if it was audio..."
Photo 5: At Leigh's house.
Mark, Shaun (holding the sign), Jason (playing a beer bottle)
& Leigh (playing his tin whistle)!
Mark, Shaun (holding the sign), Jason (playing a beer bottle)
& Leigh (playing his tin whistle)!
*EPISODE FOUR GETS
WATCHED*
MJ: "And there we
go! That was the end of 'The Three Doctors'! And we finished with a
joke, with the Gamekeeper guy being nagged at by his wife -"
Jason: "Mr.
Ollis!"
MJ: "Mr.
Ollis!"
Jason: "Which I
thought was Mr. Hollis for a long time - just pronounced 'Ollis'."
MJ: *Mr. Ollis impression* " 'You wouldn't believe me,
woman!' That's what he said - it's brilliant. If you could hear
that it would be better..."
Shaun: "That's why I
turned the DVD off. To assist with the recording."
MJ: "No, no I meant
different people..."
Shaun: "Not the
viewers at home?!"
MJ: "Yes the viewers
wouldn't hear my excellent accent!"
Mark: "What the whole
viewer?"
Shaun: "Well we're
HERE and WE didn't hear your excellent accent! So why would they get
special treatment??!"
MJ: "Damn you
KAAAHHHHNNN!!" *Laughs*
Shaun:
"KAAAHHHHNNN!!"
MJ: " 'The Three
Doctors': Shaun, impressed with that?"
Shaun: "It was super
fun!"
MJ: "That was super
fun."
Shaun: "Yeah I really
enjoyed. Omega was a very good bad guy. I very much enjoyed the
whole kind of theme they had going with him and the idea that he progenated the
Time Lords' ability to manoeuvre through space and time and everything like
that - it was good fun!"
MJ: "Yep!"
Shaun: "And the whole
thing of his Will being the only thing that kept him there despite the fact
that his body had long since corroded into nothing."
MJ: "I also like
that, although it had a lot going on, it was quite light."
Shaun: "It was quite
jovial, yeah."
Jason: "It seemed
like a fun fan thing. I enjoyed the beer too! That was good."
MJ: "The beer was
excellent!"
Shaun: "That was by
far the greatest part!"
*Leigh laughs*
MJ: "And
Troughton. It was so brilliant to see Troughton again!"
Shaun: "He looked
like he was having a lot of fun!"
MJ: "He did!
And I like the fact that, erm. Well, it would be the same as if I met ME
-"
Jason: "Oh God, if
you met you!"
MJ: "If I met me, I
would probably not get on with me!!"
Leigh: "I can't find
a recorder but I've got..." *Blows
whistle type device*
*Laughter*
Jason: "Now Readers,
Listeners - whatever - that will sound BETTER in audio!"
MJ: "That WILL sound
better in audio!"
Shaun: "People who
are getting this cast directly into their minds via some kind of
hologram...!"
*Leigh laughs*
MJ: "So yeah, Leigh
has got some sort of tin whistle!"
Leigh: "Yep!"
MJ: "I say 'some
sort' but I sure it's the DEFINITIVE tin whistle!"
Leigh: "Yes, known as
'A Tin Whistle'."
MJ: "What was the
Professor's name? The Doctor Professor?"
Shaun: "Doctor
Professor!"
Jason: "Tyler."
Leigh: "Doctor
Professor Tyler. Yeah you're
right."
MJ: "Looking
befuddled going 'Hahaha! I don't know what all this is about - but it's
been fun going to the Anti-Matter Universe'!"
Shaun: "I was very
surprised he survived and even more so the Gamekeeper. Normally they're
brought in specifically to be killed off!"
MJ: "Yeah!"
Shaun: "But both of
them lived!"
MJ: "I think they
were very few casualties (which
I pronounce as 'cause-u-alities' to be hilarious...)!"
Shaun: "I mean UNIT
got a few deaths in, obviously!"
MJ: "Oh yeah of
course! I mean there's always some of their deaths."
Shaun: "There's
always going to some UNIT-death."
MJ:
"UNIT-death!"
Mark: "There was only
two though."
Shaun: "There was two
that we saw - I presume that number was at least ten-fold."
*Mark laughs*
MJ: "That rhymes with
someone who was in 'Dangermouse'!" *Laughs*
Leigh:
"Penfold!"
MJ: *Laughing* "Well done!"
Shaun: "It also
rhymes with 'Grenfold' which isn't a thing."
Photo 6: At Leigh's house.
Mark, Shaun (holding the sign),
Jason & Leigh.
Mark, Shaun (holding the sign),
Jason & Leigh.
MJ: "Mark, were you happy to see Mr. Troughton back in again?"
Mark: "I was happy to
see Mr. Troughton back in again. I thought it was just the writing of
these Pertwee ones that I didn't like, but it is actually Pertwee
himself!"
*Leigh chuckles*
Jason: "True."
MJ: "It did make me -
even though I do like Pertwee as a Doctor, having Troughton back made me think
'Ohhhhh, he's just brilliant'!"
Mark: "I like
Troughton."
Shaun: "I like all of
them so far but this still made me remember Troughton as the weakest of the
three we've seen so far."
MJ: "Oh yes,
yes! You're not a fan!"
Jason: "Oh
really?"
Leigh: "I liked
Troughton."
MJ: "Yeah yeah!"
Shaun: "It's not by much!"
Mark: "Yeah.
Overall though I did - "
Shaun: "- I mean I remember, when we went into Troughton, that I remembered seeing his old ones and really disliking them."
Shaun: "- I mean I remember, when we went into Troughton, that I remembered seeing his old ones and really disliking them."
Mark: "Yeah."
Shaun: "I mean it
took a couple of episodes to bed-in but..."
MJ: " I suppose it's
because it's someone different. I think a lot of the time you really like
someone before-hand and then you go into someone new it's a bit like ohhhhh..." *Laughing* "I mean Mark's still gotta get
past that!!"
Mark: "Yeah. I
still, as yet, have to get past that. Yeah...no...."
MJ: "I'm just waiting
for Jason to get back before I carry on talking - oh, here he is."
Leigh: "Shall we fill
with sllllllloooooowwwww mooootionnnnnn?!"
*Referencing The Doctor's
slow-mo fight with the weird little goblin creature. We all join in!*
Shaun: "THAT was by
far the worst bit! They could have done SO much more with that, and why
was he a goblin?!"
MJ: "That was
mad!"
Jason: "They created
a costume for THAT!!"
MJ: "They did!!"
Shaun: "That was just
rubbish."
Mark: "That was
fun!"
Jason: "That was the
best costume of the show!"
Mark: "It was an
awesome costume!"
MJ: "One of the facts
that I know is that they got to it and thought 'It's the tenth anniversary one,
wouldn't it be nice to have all three Doctors again, we've never done that
before!' So that got in touch with
Trout-Man and he said 'Yes that's fine' and they rang up William Hartnell and
he said 'Oh yes I'd love to do that!'"
Mark: "Yeah."
MJ: "And then they
wrote the script and Hartnell had a LOT more to do in it. So they got nearer the time, they sent the
script off and suddenly they had Hartnell's wife ringing up and saying 'Bill's
been talking to me - ' Bill is what everyone called him, Bill Hartnell, "-
Bill's been saying he's going to be in Doctor Who again, but he can't be?' and
they were like 'Yeah, yeah, yeah we've written the part for him.' and she was
like 'But he can't remember ANYTHING!'
You see they had actually caught him on a good day in his life. Some days he could not even remember playing
The Doctor, he was so ill!"
Mark: "Wow."
MJ: "So that's why,
originally, he was going to be more hands-on.
But they couldn't. So they had
him in the studio, inside that thing (It
was like a perspex throne or something!), reading his lines off big cue cards!"
Mark: "Yeah."
Shaun: "That was
evident."
MJ:
"Yeah that WAS evident. But it was
just so they had him in it - I mean it was good to have him in it."
Shaun:
"It was well worth having him in it."
MJ:
"It was and it was the last thing he did as an actor - in fact he died I
think the following year, so..."
Leigh:
"I thought you said he fell of a chair and died during that?!"
*Laughter*
Jason:
"He DID say that."
MJ:
"I DID say that!"
Leigh:
"Was that not true??! You LIED to
me!?"
Mark:
"It was nice to have two and a half Doctors though."
MJ:
"It was nice to have two and a
half Doctors."
Shaun: "It was very
nice of the Time Lords, for all of his efforts, to finally reward The Doctor
with his knowledge and his flux-capacitor thing to fix the TARDIS with."
MJ: *Laughing* "Flux-capacitor thing!"
Mark: "The
de-materialisation circuit."
MJ: "So yeah I think
overall we all enjoyed that."
Jason: "It was
enjoyable."
MJ: "It was a
four-parter - that's always good."
Shaun: "I was
expecting that to be terrible. You had
NOT talked that up enough!"
Jason: "It was based
on me saying I had tried to watch it and not finished it before."
Shaun: "No it was
with MJ when we were talking the other week and he said it wasn't received that
well."
MJ: "Oh no are you
sure I was talking about this?"
Shaun: "I was
expecting it to be something of a slog. Yeah
you were talking down about this one."
MJ: *Surprised* "Oh?"
Photos 7 & 8: At Leigh's house.
Jason (with the DVD case)
& Leigh playing with his tin whistle!
Jason (with the DVD case)
& Leigh playing with his tin whistle!
Leigh: "We need to
score it first!"
MJ: "We do,
yeah. Thank you Leigh!"
Shaun: "Leigh is
keeping this on track. It's his house
and he's taking command!"
Leigh: "I know!"
Mark: "I'm not used
to you taking control."
MJ: "I think Leigh
was the one, most eager out of all of us, who wanted to have a Doctor Who
marathon!" *Laughter* "So
it's good that you keep us all on track!
Anyway, I can't mark that low as it was like, nice and -"
Jason: "- It was like
a Christmas episode!"
MJ: "It was!"
Jason: "I could
probably find fault with it if I wanted to."
MJ: "I think there's
lots of fault."
Leigh: "You say that,
though, but I think the bad guy was quite good!"
MJ: "No the bad guy
was good."
Leigh: "He had an
understandable reason for doing what he did.
Which you don't always get."
Shaun: "It was a more
credible threat than usual where it's a couple of random workers that The
Doctor's walked into. He's (Omega) actually going to destroy the
universe out of petty vengeance!"
MJ: "Yes, he wasn't
bad in the first place - he just felt a bit wronged. And he'd been there for eternity so he had
lots of time to get - "
Shaun: "- Mad! He'd been left on his own!"
Mark: "Yes gone a bit
mad."
Shaun: "I mean he's
gone SO mad that he imagined jam-monsters!" *Laughter* "As we found out he created that entire planet AND
all its inhabitants out of his own mind and THAT was the best he could come up
with!!?"
Jason: "Actually
that's a good point. Any issues we have
with it it's 'Oh it's in his mind - that's fine!' They were crap costumes but he invented
that!"
Shaun: "Yeah he
imagined that."
MJ: "And he imagined
himself! He didn't exist!!"
Shaun: "Yeah."
MJ: "There was
NOTHING there - just his will!"
Shaun: "That was very
cool
MJ: "Just his
will. Not his willy!"
Jason: "He thought
about that as well."
Shaun: "Well
presumably, as he corroded, the area replicated its will and kept it as a
continuing force."
Jason: "Oooo."
Photo 9: At Leigh's house.
Mark, MJ (holding the sign), Jason
& Leigh with his tin whistle!
Mark, MJ (holding the sign), Jason
& Leigh with his tin whistle!
Leigh: "I'm going to give it an eight!"
Jason: "Wow."
MJ: "I think that's a
good one. I was thinking 'Shall I give
it ten?' But no, I've given other ones
ten and it's not the best, but it's... I think eight. Yeah, eight's good!"
Shaun: "I'm going to
take off one point for The Master not being in it!" *Laughter* "The villain not turning out to be The Master - And
I'm still going to give it an eight point one three two nine five!"
MJ: "Ahhhh!"
Shaun: "I thoroughly
enjoyed it!"
MJ: "Ahh, well done! Mark?"
MJ: "Ahh, well done! Mark?"
Mark: "I'm going to
give it eleven - 'cos I don't think they are going to beat that."
*Uproarious laughter!*
Shaun: "Wow the
mark's have been destroyed!!"
MJ: "What!!?? You've destroyed the point system!! Huh???"
Jason: "Erm, eleven
point three!"
MJ: "Nooo!!!"
Shaun: "WOW!!"
MJ: "No, no!!"
Jason: "I meant eight
point three!"
MJ: "Oh right
okay!"
Leigh: "I think the
beer has had an effect on the scores!"
*Laughter*
Jason: "Yep - SOBER
it's a four!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "But?"
Jason: "Sober, on my
own, on a Sunday - I didn't finish it!"
*Laughter*
Shaun: "I tell you
what I will say about that one: Like many with The Master I could see myself
watching it again."
MJ: "Yeah."
Mark: "I would."
Shaun: "And for the
most part I wouldn't. Like, it's not
that I don't enjoy them but I'm not
going to sit around and watch it again!
But that one, and most ones with The Master I would."
Jason: "When we
finish this marathon we'll just start again!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "And at the end
we'll watch it until we become nothing!
Only our will is making us watch!" *Laughter* *Does Omega impression* "WHAT IS THIS!!?" *Normal voice* "It's 'The Three
Doctor's again." *Does Omega
impression* "NERRRR - I REMEMBER THIS THE FIRST TIME AND THEY LEFT ME
HERE!!"
Shaun: *Referring to my impression* "I
love the idea that your mind has turned Matt Berry and Brian Blessed into one
conglomerate human!"
MJ: "I only have a
few impressions!"
Shaun: "That's slowly
happened over time!"
Jason: "You usually
tell people that they are different ones!"
MJ: "Ahh okay."
Jason: "It depends on
what they are saying."
Shaun: *Laughing* "You were screaming
about going around f**king a mountain earlier on! Which is a very Brian Blessed thing!"
MJ: "I'll edit
that..."
Shaun: "Edit it back
in!!"
MJ: "Hey so what does
'The Book' think?"
Mark: "It was
awful."
Leigh: "Two out of
ten!"
Shaun: "A waste of
time! A waste of three perfectly good
Doctors!"
Jason: "Ooo here we
are! We're there. Okay!" *Reading from 'The Book'* "This story marked William
Hartnell's final acting assignment. He
appeared on pre-filmed inserts only, reading lines off-cue as memory-loss was
preventing him taking part in the studio.
UNIT HQ scenes were filmed at Halings House, Denham Green in Buck's. Whilst Springwell Quarry in Rickmansworth
represented the black hole landscape.
Four latex Gell Guards were made.' - 'Gell Guards'??!"
MJ: "Gel!"
Jason: "Well, it's
double-L!"
Leigh: "They were
still never called 'gel' or 'gell' in the show!"
Shaun: "When it first
started I assumed they were the Zygons?"
MJ: "No!"
Shaun: "Which were
with Matt Smith - I thought it was an early version of them!"
MJ: "No they first
appeared with Tom Baker."
Shaun: "But these
were a different weird, jam-looking monster!
Bobbly, jam-monsters."
Jason: *Reading from 'The Book'* "'Were
made by Alistair Bowtell. Roger Liminton
designed a NEW TARDIS interior set.' - well done for you going all out on that
then!"
*Laughter*
Shaun: "Yeah! It looked SO different - he says with
sarcasm."
Jason: *Reading from 'The Book'* " 'Harking
back to the original one from 'An Unearthly Child'.' - It says 'Episode One' in
brackets."
MJ: "Yeah,
yeah."
Jason: "There's a lot
of stuff here!" *Reading from 'The
Book'* " 'New synthesised title music was arranged by Delia Derbyshire
and Paddy Kingsland."
MJ: "Ahh right okay
-"
Jason: *Reading from 'The Book'* "- But
was scrapped -" *Laughter* "
'- just before transmission'!"
MJ: "I was thinking
it didn't sound any different!!"
Jason: *Reading from 'The Book'* " 'Appropriately
a tenth 'Radio Times' cover featured all three Doctors. Verdict: An obvious idea done on the
cheap! Four out of ten!"
*Uproarious laughter!*
MJ: "Ahhhhh!"
Shaun:
"Excellent!"
MJ: "Awwww -'The
Book'! Come on, 'The Book'!!"
Jason: "'The
Book'!"
MJ: "I mean don't
'come on' 'The Book' but I mean, come ON 'The Book'!!"
Shaun: "Even if
nothing else, the bad guy was far more conceptual than usually we have! I mean that was a cool idea!"
MJ: *Sarcastically* "Eurrgh - an OBVIOUS idea! Says 'The
Book'!"
Shaun: "Apologies -
I'm arguing with 'The Book'! We all know
it's sacrosanct."
Jason: "'The Book'
did not know about Matt Berry, to be fair!"
Shaun: "That's what
ruined it for me!"
*Laughter*
Mark: "I think 'The
Book' should have had a couple of beers beforehand."
*Laughter*
MJ: "I think you're
right, yes! Well there you go, strangely
enough we disagree with 'The Book'? So
that's unusual for us!" *Laughs*
Shaun: "We have kind
of come a bit more in line with 'The Book' lately."
Jason: "Yeah we
have."
MJ: "It's a bit like
people in Nazi Germany. They sort of
fell in line - "
Shaun: "- I'm already
feeling the editing out coming! I can
sense it! Perhaps MJ's 'Will' will enforce
that it stays in! Maybe when he's no
longer here!"
MJ: "Oh I meant people
saying 'Do you know, I don't think little moustaches are that bad really! I reckon that they can catch on! That's fine...' "
*Jason laughs*
Shaun: "I think Jason
has something to add!"
Jason: "I was just
going to say that the next episode is ALSO one I started and didn't finish! 'The Carnival Of Monsters'."
MJ: "Ohhh yes! It's got someone from 'Hi-Di-Hi' in it!"
Shaun: *Sarcastically* "I'll look forward
to that..."
Leigh: "Su
Pollard!"
MJ: "No, she's only
been in one thing - no-no, she's been in two!
She was in - no-no! THREE! She was in 'Oh Doctor Beeching', she was in that
thing - 'You Rang M'Lord' and of course 'Hi-di-hi'!"
Shaun: "I thought you
meant three Doctor Who serials!!"
MJ: "No, no,
no."
Shaun: "I'm sure Su
Pollard has had a large and varied career..."
Jason: "Let me guess
again! Is it...Paul Shane!?"
MJ: "It's not Ian
McShane!"
Jason: "Is it Jeffrey
Holland?"
MJ: "It's not Jools Holland."
Shaun: "WHAT!!? Why are you referencing people from
'Hi-di-hi'!!??"
*Laughter*
Leigh: "Right can we
just get on with this and go down the pub!!?"
MJ: "Oh yeah we've
got to take a picture!! Okay that's MJ
Fouldes - signing off!"
Jason: "Tripping over
a table!"
Photos 11 & 12: A close up of the front and back of the sign!
Scrawled upon by one of the gang (Shaun!).
Scrawled upon by one of the gang (Shaun!).
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Phew that was a long one!
They even started chatting nonsense AFTER that to try and make it to
thirty minutes! But I'm not transcribing
that! The Hi-di-hi stuff was enough,
thank you! Anyhow here are the scores!
MJ - 8
Shaun - 8.13295
Leigh - 8
Mark - 11
Jason - 8.3
So that gives us an average of 8.68659 out of 10. Phew! Right a few more to write up but now I need a
lie-down!!!
Until next time I shall return, yes I shall return...
MJ - 13/12/2016
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