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The title of tonight's anniversary special is rather misleading, however. Though it claims to unite "The Five Doctors," its batting average is a mere 60 percent. Hartnell, the original Doctor Who, is dead; Baker, the most famous, declined to participate.
 
The title of tonight's anniversary special is rather misleading, however. Though it claims to unite "The Five Doctors," its batting average is a mere 60 percent. Hartnell, the original Doctor Who, is dead; Baker, the most famous, declined to participate.
  
Terrance Dicks, author of the "Five Doctors" script, "solved" these problems by casting a new actor, Richard Hurndall, as Doctor Who No. 1., and borrowing previously unseen footage from a scrapped 1980 episode, "Shada," to include Baker in two scenes. Conveniently, Baker's Doctor Who No. 3 is sucked into a "temporal void" and trapped there until tonight's episode is over.
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Terrance Dicks, author of the "Five Doctors" script, "solved" these problems by casting a new actor, Richard Hurndall, as Doctor Who No. 1., and borrowing previously unseen footage from a scrapped 1980 episode, "[[broadwcast:Shada|Shada]]," to include Baker in two scenes. Conveniently, Baker's Doctor Who No. 3 is sucked into a "temporal void" and trapped there until tonight's episode is over.
  
 
What's left is a silly, occasionally entertaining story in which four Doctor Whos finally converge to solve a mystery and save their individual lives. Like all TV reunion shows, it falls short of the original - but in this case, the original is still running. The 1983 version of Doctor Who roams the universe these days with a new-wave airline stewardess (Janet Fielding) and a preppie male student (Mark Strickson).
 
What's left is a silly, occasionally entertaining story in which four Doctor Whos finally converge to solve a mystery and save their individual lives. Like all TV reunion shows, it falls short of the original - but in this case, the original is still running. The 1983 version of Doctor Who roams the universe these days with a new-wave airline stewardess (Janet Fielding) and a preppie male student (Mark Strickson).

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