penfold

I thought I might have some support from you....

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

Captain Casper

How about a pissed up Bernard Black?

Santonix

Or Johnny Vegas.

But seriously, I think David Threlfall would be a good choice, but I doubt he would want to do it.

marker

How about Jonathan Ross he will need the work

Cheers Marker..... Black and White 405 Line TV Lives on

alan french

Hi.
Captain Waggett. Just seen your comments. I do not disagree about Carol Anne Ford's age. But in the very first episode of Doctor Who, she is a schoolgirl. The Doctor and she had materialised a few months in 1963 London. For some strange reason they were stuck there and she was sent to a local school. This is before the series begins. We audience are aware of her as when two schoolteachers are talking about her being strange, as they, and we are unaware of her being alien. Just before the school scene there is a policeman in a junk yard where there is a police box. Which later we learn is a Tardis. Amongst the junk there is a placard advertising Doctor Foreman's Pills. The grandaughter rightly or wrongly is named Susan Foreman and is known to live with her grandfather Doctor Foreman. Doctor Foreman is as we learn also later is the Doctor.

I admit I thought that perhaps the character was the equivalent of an earth teenager in the latter part of her schooldays. But when it was announced in the press that she was leaving, they stated that she was supposed to be 11-12. For whatever reason, we had a situation which was by no means unique, where a character was being portrayed by someone older. And also the series was intended to run twelve weeks but was running longer posed problems which I was certainly unaware. Re-generating had not been introduced to the series as at that time it had not been thought of. So the the grand daughter was axed. She was replaced by another character called Vicki. She was still an adult but to keep the child like quality in the story lines, she had led a sheltered life and was sometimes naive, if my memory serves me correct.

After Carol Anne Ford left the series, she acquired an acting job in a West End stage play as a call girl. I remember a national news paper covering the story, with a photo of Carol Anne Ford as the call girl, and a headline saying, "Doctor Who Was Not Like This."

The comments about the licencing, I find most interesting. However, she has popped up, as stated elsewhere, in the 1980's in both an official and a Children in Need special in which one story the Doctor meets The EastEnders and in both stories, himself and some past assistants.
The last time I recall her being referred to directly, is briefly in the last BBC Radio 7 series.

Cosgrove Hall has done some work I know on the David Tennent incarnation. They also did some on a Richard E. Grant incarnation. And on some restoration work on missing episodes with Patrick Troughton's. I am not sure about Paul McGann's Shada. Yes I agree if they did do anymore, they could be very busy.

The problem with my prequal animated suggestion is that the Tardis would not be a police box and enemies such as The Daleks and Cybermen could not be in it.

Must sign off.

stuart.scot

Alan

Roberta Tovey, who played Susan in the two Doctor Who films, was 12 and 13 at the time. However, the characters were different from the series, as the were Earthlings not Aliens. I always thought Carol Anne Ford's Susan was a young woman in at least 3rd yr at senior School, but I'm not to familiar with the early shows.

As I said in a previous post, I think the current writers should explain what happened to her character as we're led to believe only The Doctor and The Master as surviving members of their race

Marky B

Joanna Lumley.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I am special. The heavens always open for me.

Sleepin_Dragon

Pity John Simm appeared as the master, he'd have been a fantastic Doctor!! What about someone older?

batman

Sean Pertwee.

Happy Birthday Daddy .... I love you!



BAT QUIZ 16 HAS JUST BEEN POSTED IN THE COMPETITION THREAD - 06/01/09

CaptainWaggett

Really? I've never come across that before so I'd be interested to know a source. It doesn't really tie in with the story line in The Aztecs when the character is set up for an arranged marriage. Where did you read this?

I'd be very, very surprised indeed if the production team decided to explain the fate of a character who the vast majority of the audience won't have heard of (don't forget that in Fear Her we were meant to be surprised at the revelation that the Doctor had been a father). What dramatic purpose would it serve? The only reason to mention her is if they decided to introduce a regenerated Susan as a character which I suppose is possible but I can't see them bothering otherwise.

winsfordtown

Stephan Moffatt will not want to take many risks when he first takes the reins of Dr Who so unlikely the next Doctor will be female. If it fails he'll get slaughtered by the fans before he's even had chance to put him mark on the show. My pick would be Robert Carlisle who would be pretty edgy.

dremble wedge

The next Doctor will have to spend 9 months of the year in Cardiff filming the next series, so he ain't gonna be that famous...

Dame Starry

According to ITN, as well as Robert Carlyle, this man's name has also been thrown into the arena:



Tamzin Outhwaite's husband, Tom Ellis.

alan french

Hi. Captain Waggett and Stuart.Scott.
Stuart. I agree with you one hundred percent and that is why within the last few years I made contact with the BBC. If you are not familiar with the earlier shows, I recommend you watch the first two stories from the first ever series. 'Unearthly Child' & 'The Daleks'. Also the later, 'The Dalek Invasion'. The Unearthly Child is named after the grand daughter and is the name of the first chapter just before the The Tardis is re-activated and goes off to the stone age. The other titles are the first two Dalek stories which were subsequently turned into cinema films with different actors and modifications to the tales.

We learned the Doctor and Susan were aliens in the first ever episode. We did not know about regenerating until William Hartnell quit. But the announcement that he was a time lord who ran off with a Tardis was not revealed until The War Games several years later, at the end of the Patrick Troughton era.

Captain Waggett. My interpretation was that by her appearance, Doctor Who's grand daughter was in her latter part of her school career. But when she quit, the press report that I read at the time, possibly in the Daily Mirror, stated that she was supposed to be 11 or 12. This was a surprise to me at the time. But I have wondered about his family from the first series.

I am not sure what the law was, concerning child actors at the time. But both prior to and after Doctor Who, child actors have appeared on television. I believe there may have been some restriction. Adult actors also have appeared as school children on television. Examples; Billy Bunter and Please Sir.

I believe The Aztecs was made shortly before Susan, if that be her real name, left. I think that there is evidence in that tale that she is not happy with her life which may have been part of the build up towards her leaving later in the year. But I could be wrong.

On a lighter note, I conclude. As you may note I live in Hemel Hempstead. One of the original cast of the original series, William Russell who acted as science teacher and reluctant assistant, Ian Richardson, also lived in this town at the time. Coincidence or signicant, your genuine television Daleks visited the town for a children's Christmas Party. So they do have a good side.

Alan French.

julian_craster

Billie Piper could be next Dr Who, says David Tennant
David Tennant has hinted that Billie Piper could be the next Doctor Who.
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By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor
03 Nov 2008

Who's who?: former Time Lord has recommended Billie piper for the next occupant of the Tardis
The actor is to quit his role as the Time Lord in the BBC's long-running sci-fi show at the end of next year.
Piper previously played Rose Tyler, Tennant's feisty assistant, and was a big hit with fans.
Asked if Piper could step into the role, Tennant said a female Doctor was a distinct possibility.
"Why not? It's one of those parts that any actor could bring something valid to, because it can be anything and it's a sort of blank canvas every time," he told BBC Breakfast.
"The fact is that the difference is a virtue with each Doctor. It's not like you're casting Tarzan where you've got to have somebody who looks good in a loin cloth. It can be anything."
Tennant has played the 10th doctor since 2005 but announced last week that he is leaving the role. He will appear in this year's Christmas special and four other special episodes to be broadcast next year.
The actor, currently starring in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet in Stratford-upon-Avon, said: "Sometimes you've got to take a deep breath and make a decision, otherwise I could literally be there when I'm 86 with people thinking, 'Is he never going?'
"Who knows what might happen in the future. It is one of those parts that sticks with you... the door isn't closed forever, but in a day to day way I'll be handing over the mantle to somebody else."
Piper - who gave birth to her first child, a son called Winston, last month - will now be among the front-runners to play the 11th Doctor.
Other contenders include Paterson Joseph, who has appeared in previous episodes of the show and would be the first black Doctor; David Morrissey, who appears in the Christmas special, intriguingly titled The Next Doctor; and James Nesbitt, star of Cold Feet.
There has been talk of a female Doctor once before, when Joanna Lumley was mooted as a replacement for Tom Baker in 1981. However, the role went to Peter Davison.