Recasting the first seven doctors
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A meme by MightyGodKing.
THE IMAGINED SITUATION IS: The BBC has decided to air a one-time four-hour miniseries event of Doctor Who. The miniseries will be entitled “The Eleven Doctors” and feature every single Doctor as the cast, with a number of companions rounding it out.
Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Matt Smith will play the Eighth through Eleventh Doctors. (Some suggested that at 51 McGann was too old to play his Doctor, but fans argued that he deserved a second chance to play the Eighth Doctor again and really, 51? That’s not a big deal.) However, the remaining living former actors who have played the Doctor all agreed that they should let more age-appropriate actors play the younger incarnations of the earlier Doctors (perhaps with one or two making jokes about “the need for a sonic cane,”) and of course Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell are all long dead.
So:
Who plays each of the first seven Doctors?
I'm going to twist this a bit. Here is my list answering the question:
Do feel free to tell me how wrong I am in the comments. It'll take my mind off today.
THE IMAGINED SITUATION IS: The BBC has decided to air a one-time four-hour miniseries event of Doctor Who. The miniseries will be entitled “The Eleven Doctors” and feature every single Doctor as the cast, with a number of companions rounding it out.
Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Matt Smith will play the Eighth through Eleventh Doctors. (Some suggested that at 51 McGann was too old to play his Doctor, but fans argued that he deserved a second chance to play the Eighth Doctor again and really, 51? That’s not a big deal.) However, the remaining living former actors who have played the Doctor all agreed that they should let more age-appropriate actors play the younger incarnations of the earlier Doctors (perhaps with one or two making jokes about “the need for a sonic cane,”) and of course Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell are all long dead.
So:
Who plays each of the first seven Doctors?
I'm going to twist this a bit. Here is my list answering the question:
- Michael Gambon
- David Suchet OR David Troughton
- Charles Dance
- John Sessions OR Hugh Laurie
- Michael Sheen
- Sam West
- Tony Robinson
- June Whitfield
- Arabella Weir
- Annette Crosbie
- Frances de la Tour
- Georgia Moffatt
- Patricia Hodge OR Emma Thompson
- Prunella Scales
- Helena Bonham-Carter
- Angela Bruce
- Tamsin Grieg
- Gemma Arterton
Do feel free to tell me how wrong I am in the comments. It'll take my mind off today.
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Date: Sunday, January 9th, 2011 12:07 am (UTC)I hope whatever it is that's causing the grumpiness is resolved as quickly and painlessly as can be achieved.
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Date: Sunday, January 9th, 2011 12:09 am (UTC)