As much as I really do respect the Classic Series, I find anything before the 8th Doctor quite hard to watch. I think part of it is because of the very limited production they were capable of back then, obviously not their fault, and also that Classic Doctor Who could spend a modern-day half series on a single story, when my attention span isn’t really up to that and I’ve tended to get bored.

Of course, any modern day 1st Doctor would have many times better production, technology and pace. We’ve maybe mentioned a younger 1st Doctor, so not having to be faced with re-casting William Hartnell again.

But with the new production, with new technology, with a new pace and a younger man playing the 1st Doctor, would he cease to be the 1st Doctor?………If we’re looking at his life on Gallifrey alone, would it feel like Doctor Who at all since a big part of it has been his interaction with humans and the Planet Earth and if it did, would knowing so much about the beginning of his life change a perception of the Doctor that’s been in place for nearly 50 years. Would we see him steal the Tardis?……..if so, would it only be in the show at the end?………if so and it playing a more major role, would the Console Room be the same as in the 1st Doctor era?

Complicated and the BBC’s truly pitiful budgets are worrying already as to the extent of what we’re going to be able to have.

At this rate, we’ll just have a massive 11th Doctor story and a series of documentaries with the Classic Doctors that are still with us. Of course, Doctor Who fans dream without a budget because it’s not about money to us, but it’s a real problem.

I’d like to see both really, but budgets wouldn’t allow.

A mini-series would require half-a-series budget. They’re gonna need to pay for new sets, special effects, cast, crew, equipment, perhaps build a new Police Box to fit with the 1st or 8th Doctor, amongst all the other costs we don’t know about.

Steven Moffat says he’s planning special things for 2013. Given that the BBC is hardly able to stand at the moment, having even to cancel Doctor Who Confidential, I’m very skeptical.

I mean, the 1996 TV Movie really wasn’t good, a lot of Doctor Who fans agree on that but I could really see the potential of the 8th Doctor and I liked Paul McGann in the role.

I think it was quite good of RTD to create the legend of the Last Great Time War between the Time Lords and the Daleks and for it to have been the 8th Doctor that fought in it.

It took a Doctor from a pretty bad TV movie that most fans dismiss and placed him on the front lines of one of the most catastrophic wars ever fought, the 8th Doctor’s final actions resulting in the almost complete and near incomprehensible annihilation of the Time Lord and Dalek species.

So the 8th Doctor is a legend amongst many of the “higher” species, he influenced how his 9th to 11th incarnations are seen and yet canonly, on screen, he’s actually done nothing but the TV movie.

It would be great if Paul McGann were given the benefits of 21st Century production like the 9th, 10th and 11th Doctors have received. It would be great if he was given the kind of script or scripts that have made the Revived Series so popular and to see the man the 8th Doctor became. He fought on the front line, became legendary amongst the higher species and ended the Last Great Time War all to stop Rassilon carrying out the final sanction, before losing his life and regenerating into the 9th Doctor.

It would be a great mini-series, let alone a one off special, but RTD has said we’ll likely never see the Last Great Time War depicted on-screen, so…….who knows.

Perhaps the idea of the final three doctors does have merit?

Thus, the 4th Doctor, who regenerated at the age of 751 (or so) but looked about 47 years old (in human terms) now looks how he would if he had not regenerated. So he’s now about 1200 years old in Time Lord terms, but looks about 77 (in human terms.) The same would go for the others.

However, I don’t know about the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Doctors. Jon Pertwee’s son, Sean Pertwee could play the 3rd Doctor. I just saw him in an episode of “Luther” and WOW, does he ever look like his Dad! Perhaps there would be a reasonable circumstance in which the first 3 Docs would not be included. (The attacked time stream hadn’t made it backwards to the 3rd Doctor yet, etc.)

I know Steven Moffat and his cohorts would be able to come up with excellent explanations regarding the appearance of the previous Doctors.

Of course most of us would love to see old Doctors return if possible, as it would be a fitting fiftieth tribute.