The BBC has uploaded an exclusive clip from the Doctor Who genesis docudrama, An Adventure in Space and Time, onto YouTube.
Nov18
Category Archives: First Doctor
Nov18
An Adventure in Space and Time – Australian Trailer
The Australian trailer for An Adventure in Space and Time currently being broadcast on ABC1. The 90 minute docudrama will be aired on Sunday 24 November 2013 at 8.50 p.m. following the encore screening of The Day of the Doctor.
Nov18
Doctor Who Animation – 50 Years in Time and Space
A fantastic animation by Richard Swarbrick celebrates 50 Years of Doctor Who.
Nov18
BBC America “Doctor Who Takeover Week” Trailer
Today marks the beginning of BBC America’s “Doctor Who Takeover Week”. You can access the BBCA Schedule here.
Nov18
Doctor Who 50 Years of Memories – BBC Slideshow With Audio Soundtrack
The BBC has released a five and a half minute slideshow on the history of Doctor Who. As the presentation’s precise tells us, “Five decades in five minutes – take a whistle-stop journey through time and space with all 11 regenerations of planet Earth’s best known Time Lord, his Tardis and his numerous travelling companions”.
You can access the slideshow production here.
Nov16
BBC America Trailer – An Adventure in Space and Time
Nov14
An Evening With Steven Moffat
The BBC has posted a 20 minute video of An Evening With Steven Moffat, a BBC Cymru Wales event in which the Executive Producer and Lead Writer of Doctor Who discusses 50 Years of the show. A clip from each of the 11 incarnations of the Doctor is shown and Moffat discusses the defining characteristics of every actor’s tenure. You can access the video interview here.
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Nov14
An Adventure in Space and Time – Yet More Photos
This gallery contains 15 photos.
Nov12
An Adventure in Space and Time – Radio Times On-Set Interviews
With the premiere of the docudrama on the genesis of Doctor Who, An Adventure in Space and Time, at the British Film Institute at 8:20 p.m. tonight, London time, the Radio Times has today published three articles on the film. Extensive on-set interviews were conducted with Sacha Dhawan who plays Director Waris Hussein; Jessica Raine who plays the first Producer Verity Lambert; and with the Director and Producer of the show, Terry McDonough and Matt Stevens. You can access the articles here, here and here.
Jessice Raine, star of Call the Midwife, portrays the first Doctor Who producer Verity Lambert in An Adventure in Space and Time
Another new image from An Adventure in Space and Time appeared on Twitter today. The Doctor Who Mind Robber believes that the image derives from the current print edition of the Radio Times.
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Nov9
An Adventure in Space and Time DVD Special Features Announced
The Region 2 release date for Mark Gatiss’ docudrama on the genesis of Doctor Who, An Adventure in Space and Time, has been announced, together with details on the Special Features to be included. The BBC’s Doctor Who TV website has reported that the DVD and Blu Ray is to be released in the UK on Monday 2 December. This is the same date set for the release of The Name of the Doctor on video.The Region 4 Australian and New Zealand release date has not yet been announced however as The Name of the Doctor is due to be released on 4 December 2013, it’s fair to assume that the docudrama may be issued on the same date.
The details published on the BBC website are as follows:
Synopsis
Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles. Wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry’s glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama, time travel and monsters! Allied with a team of brilliant people, they went on to create the longest-running science fiction series ever, now celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Extras
- Leaflet featuring programme images and an exclusive foreword by writer and executive producer Mark Gatiss
- William Hartnell: The Original
- The Making of An Adventure – narrated by Carole Ann Ford
- Reconstructions:
- Scenes from An Unearthly Child and the pilot episode
- Regenerations
- Farewell to Susan (from The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
- Festive Greeting (from The Daleks’ Master Plan)
- The Title Sequences
- Deleted Scenes:
- The Radiophonic Workshop
- Verity’s Leaving Party
- English subtitles for the hard of hearing, audio description and audio navigation.
- 5.1 soundtrack
Credits
An Adventure in Space and Time is written by Mark Gatiss, executive produced by Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat and Caroline Skinner and directed by Terry McDonough. David Bradley (Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Broadchurch) plays the lead role of William Hartnell while Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife, The Woman in Black) co-stars as the first ever producer of Doctor Who, Verity Lambert. The stellar cast is joined by Sacha Dhawan (Waris Hussein), Lesley Manville (Heather Hartnell), and Brian Cox (Sydney Newman).
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