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| To be novelized as Doctor Who vs. the Cameramen. |
I mean, I'm a sucker for origin stories AND behind-the-scenes trivia, so this thing is like a gold mine for me. Plus, Marco Polo playing Donald Baverstock. MARCO POLO PLAYING DONALD BAVERSTOCK.
I mean, what more could you want?
Okay, I should calm down. For those not in the know, An Adventure in Space and Time is a docudrama (a term which here means "film based on a true story but truer than that usually implies") about the William Hartnell years of Doctor Who, and more specifically about the show's origins. It's been written by Mark Gatiss, who you know for writing "Victory of the Daleks" and "Cold War", so I've got pretty high hopes for this.
Other reasons I'm excited:
- William Russel and Carole Ann Ford (who played companions Ian Chesterton and Susan Foreman respectively) will both have cameos. (Meanwhile, Jamie Glover will be playing Russel and Claudia Grant will be playing Ford. Here's a recent interview from Ford herself in which she discusses, amongst other things, how weird it is to see someone playing Ford playing Susan.)
- Nicholas Briggs, the current voice of the Daleks, will be playing Peter Hawkins, the original voice of the Daleks. Which is just so wonderfully meta.
- As mentioned, Mark "Marco Polo" Eden will be playing Donald Baverstock, the man who commissioned the show from Sydney Newman which would eventually become Doctor Who. So that's three classic-series cameos on the actual 50th's none. Step it up, actual 50th.
- Here's some pictures from the set of an immaculate recreation of Peter Brachacki's original TARDIS set being shot with immaculate recreations of 1960s BBC cameras OH MY GOD YOU GUYS IT'S ALL SO PERFECT
- And here's some pictures of their recreation of the '60s BBC offices and Brian-Cox-as-Sydney-Newman and Jessica-Raine-as-Verity-Lambert chilling together SQUEEEEEEE
- And here's Mark Gatiss recreating the famous Daleks on the Westminster Bridge scene from The Dalek Invasion of Earth with authentic Dalek props
I CAN'T WAIT
I'M GOING TO CRYOGENICALLY FREEZE MYSELF UNTIL THIS THING AIRS
BYE NOW
