Remember when… Five Doctors were kidnapped?
We’re just over a year (459 days to be precise!) away from the big 50th anniversary, but for this week’s Remember when we travel back to what was another landmark year.
In November 1983, Doctor Who turned 20 years old, and to mark the occasion, the producers put together a celebratory (and feature-length – love a feature-length!) story, in which one Doctor, quite literally, became five. It was an adventure of epic proportions, as a mysterious figure defied the laws of time and space itself in order to kidnap the Five Doctors.
It was a meeting of minds as the Time Lords battled it out for dominance in the Death Zone (five Doctors – we can’t tell you what Captain Jack is thinking right now…), but just who was behind this cunning plan…? All the answers lay at the heart of Rassilon’s Tomb…
Share your personal memories of the 20th anniversary special in the comments below!
Above - The Five Doctors with companions Sarah Jane, Susan, K-9 and The Brigadier.
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This was actually a great story! I love this one because of the way not only the Doctors returned, but enemies such as the Daleks and Cybermen!
The thing I most indeed with could be changed was that Tom Baker didn’t appear in much of the story!
For tom baker, they used clips from a story that was never televised and in the secod pic that’s not him It’s a dummy LOL!
I’ve seen The Five Doctors. It was a shame that Tom Baker didn’t appear in the story and the fact they used a model of him that picture is quite creepy, both that they did it and the model they chose of him.
It was also sad that William Hartnell died so many years before and they had to replace him, but obviously that’s a problem Moffat has to face in 2013, this time with three of them no longer with us.
The Five Doctors was good though, I will have to try and watch it again soon.
I’d really like Susan to come back as well, either in the 50th Anniversary or as a main part of the show.
It’d be interesting to have a blood relative of the Doctor on the Tardis again, especially calling him her Grandad when he looks the way he does now.
SUCH a wonderful and hilarious story! I love that it was part parody and part tribute–it’s exactly the sort of thing I’d like to see for the 50th.
@JC
And yes, absolutely.
This was a great story, mainly because not matter how bad it was, the perfect Doctor Who cast was there – Pat Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Elizabeth Sladen, Nick Courtney, as well as a number of other earlier companions. Doctor Who for the 50th anniversary will ultimately be a sad story because the important people will not be in it. I think, despite it’s modern attitude, Terrance Dicks should write a cheesy story that celebrates all that is great in Doctor Who.