Pass notes No 1356: Rowan Atkinson
- Publication: The Guardian
- Date: 1999-03-03
- Author:
- Page: 3
- Language: English
Age: About a thousand.
Birthplace: Gallifrey.
Appearance: Anything you like.
Married? Who knows? Unlikely, given his taste for comely, mini-skirted female assistants.
Screen debut: November 22 1963. His arrival was delayed by 17 minutes because of the assassination of John F Kennedy.
Last seen: In a feeble film in 1996.
Likes: Police phone boxes, jelly babies, mechanical pets, inertia breaking systems, celery, Venusian aikido, three-dimensional chess.
Dislikes: Daleks, Cybermen, Ice Warriors, the Master, aspirin, Gallifreyian bureaucracy, John Birt.
Hold on, you're not describing Rowan Atkinson. He's that irritating comedian who does Bean, Blackadder and ads for Barclaycard. You're describing Doctor Who! Dum-et-e-dum, dum-et-e-dum, dum-et-e-dum, dum-et-e-dum, doo-ooooh: Oh, do shut up. Of course I'm describing Doctor Who, any fool can see that. This is a Pass Notes about Doctor Who; the problem is he was passnoted six years ago to mark the quasi-defunct programme's 30th anniversary, so he had to be regenerated.
But why Rowan Atkinson? Because he's playing the Doctor in a Comic Relief special next week, with Julia Sawalha as his lovely assistant and Jonathan Pryce as the Master.
D0000000-dow-d000-do-deee-do: Indeed. Get your credit card ready.
I haven't seen Doctor Who for ages: Hardly surprising. He was cast into outer darkness by the Beeb in 1989. Paul McGann played him in an ill-fated film in 1996, and that was that. Until now.
Might he return in a proper series? The Doctor Who Appreciation Society hopes so and reckons Rowan will be perfect in the role. Whovians have never understood why the Tardis was grounded.
Not to be confused with: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy.
Do say "I think we'll have to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow ..."
Don't say: "Exterminate!"
Additional keywords: The Curse of Fatal Death
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- APA 6th ed.: (1999-03-03). Pass notes No 1356: Rowan Atkinson. The Guardian p. 3.
- MLA 7th ed.: "Pass notes No 1356: Rowan Atkinson." The Guardian [add city] 1999-03-03, 3. Print.
- Chicago 15th ed.: "Pass notes No 1356: Rowan Atkinson." The Guardian, edition, sec., 1999-03-03
- Turabian: "Pass notes No 1356: Rowan Atkinson." The Guardian, 1999-03-03, section, 3 edition.
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