Hugh Bonneville discusses his Doctor Who ban
Doctor Who guest star Hugh Bonneville has revealed that there has been “a slight embargo” on Doctor Who in his house since his son was left terrified by an episode.
As the Belfast Telegraph reports, the actor, who will be seen in this week’s episode, The Curse of the Black Spot, as the implacable Captain Avery, has revealed: “Slightly sore topic. My nine year old got so freaked out about Bill Paterson’s demise in the Daleks episode last year, he had some sleepless nights.”
However, they’ll be making an exception this week to watch his appearance together as a family. “It was annoying for me because I got them all recorded and had to wipe them all,” he said. “I’ll get the boxset and we’ll watch them leading up to this episode. Had I said I was going to be in SpongeBob SquarePants, he’d have been really thrilled.”
He finished: “I was a Jon Pertwee boy. That music haunted my childhood and always reminds me of being at my gran’s on a Saturday afternoon, after the football scores.”
The Curse of the Black Spot airs on Saturday at 6:15pm on BBC One and BBC One HD.
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One of my biggest regrets in life is that I didn’t discover “Doctor Who” until I was 16 years old. Therefore, I’ve never actually been scared by anything on DW. I wonder how I would have reacted, as a nine year old or certainly younger, to some of the monsters and villains on the show.
All I’ve got are the memories of the Wicked Witch of the West and her flying monkeys from “Wizard of Oz”, the little creatures from the made-for-TV movie, “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” and the Abominable from “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”.
Yes, you read that right. The Abominable. It absolutely terrified me!
My biggest regret is not being a 8/9 year old when the series came back in 2005. I’m 28 this year and would have loved to have watched it fresh as a child. I briefly watched the sylvester mccoy years but it ended when I was 6 so it never followed me. If I was a kid I would have had the figures by now, the playsets and had the chance to enter that frigging script competition!!! agggggggggh!! lol
I’m eighteen, which made me fourteen in 2007, and yet I was still terrified of the Weeping Angels in Blink. I went round the house making all the ornaments and statuettes look at each other, which rather annoyed my mother.