There
was an attempt by Stephen
Spielburg to
make a big Hollywood movie about Doctor Who in the mid-nineties with the lead
being played by Paul
Nicholas but
this was too expensive to make and was made into a series of new
adventure books instead that were so adult and clever, they were
unreadable and were eventually published by Poundland.
It
wasn’t until 2004 that Doctor Who returned to BBC television
screens when popular Coromation
Street creator - Hustler
T. Davis was hired to write it all.
Originally, Davis made it as a queer folk programme but BBC bosses
told him to ban it and he made it into a Saturday night game show
instead. The new Doctor was played by ex-crack actor, Christopher
Ecclestone and
his companion was played by former S Club 7 pop singer Billy J. Piper.
They lived as a married couple with Piper’s mother and her black
teenage friend on a London council estate in Cardiff and had great
success battling Slimey Veens from the planet Rastafairius and
plastic Ortons disguised as waxwork David Beckhams. It was a huge
success but after Ecclestone was cited as the other woman in his
co-star’s divorce to Captain America star Chris Evans,
he was sacked for being too northern.
He
was quickly replaced by top actor David
Tennants who
had previously been a casanova with many women in Blackpool. He had
also appeared in a couple of Doctor Who audio plays that nobody
bought any more because the TV series was too popular again.
His
first stories debuted at Easter in a special movie episode
entitled “The
Boxing Day Invasion” and
went on to even bigger success with stories that featured him meeting
one of the last surviving Doctor Who companion Elizabeth
Sladden played
by Sara Jan Smit and her robot bitch.
Billy J. Piper eventually left to join independent television's successful night time chat
lines on ITV2 as a prostitute whilst the series itself welcomed its
first African companion, Freda
Agamemon.
She played Marfa as a much darker character to the ones viewers were
used to.
The
series had now become so successful that two spin-offs span off from
the series .Touchwood featured John
Barrowlad as
Captain Jack Sparrow – a gay, homosexual pirate from the year one
million who sets up a top secret organisation in Swansea to battle
alien sex whilst Elizabeth Sladden appeared in a children’s version
that didn’t.
Meanwhile,
the Doctor had teamed up with comedian Catherine
Bate –
one half of the comedy duo French and Catherine but David Tennants
had now now become too famous and well-liked. He had to leave.
Getting rid of him was a difficult task and it took four special
episodes to get the job done.
The
eleventh Doctor Who would be played by a much younger actor
called Matt
Smith. He was a former
sports reporter with ITV Sports and was the youngest ever child actor
since the last one to play the time lord.
Matt
Smith – who was the twin son of Munsters' star Fred Gwynne –
remained with the series as it hit the big time throughout the world.
For the show's 50th
birthday, he appeared in person with the previous Doctor Who in a 3D
special episode entitled 'The Day of Doctor Who and the Daleks'. The
movie length feature was broadcast throughout the known world and was
watched by every living person on the planet. Twice. Making it the
most watched single thing ever in the history of all creation –
though since Norris McWhirter is now dead, this cannot be verified
for the next Guinness Book of Records.
When
Matt Smith became too young to play the oldest Doctor, he was
replaced by former sad fan Peter Garribaldi who was old enough to
remember Matt Smith before he was born. When he was told about
getting the role, Peter was working at 10 Downing Street as a press
officer and swore a lot down the phone at producer Stephen Moffatt.
They laughed about it afterwards. A bit.
The
new Doctor – together with his newish companion Clara Oswald Mosley
– returns in a new series of adventures later this month when the
new series will be available to the public via a series of downloads
courtesy of BBC Miami.
Questions
are still being asked in Parliament but these tend to be ones about
whether the new Master should wear a hoodie.
Check out the links on the right for the previous two parts of this exhausting history.
