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The incumbent fifth Doctor, Peter Davison, who might prefer to forget his first television acting performance in The Tomorrow People (being broadcast Monday-Wednesday Sci-Fi Channel), was joined by past incarnations | The incumbent fifth Doctor, Peter Davison, who might prefer to forget his first television acting performance in The Tomorrow People (being broadcast Monday-Wednesday Sci-Fi Channel), was joined by past incarnations | ||
| − | Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee, while Richard Hurndall laudably re-created the first Doctor (William Hartnell having died in 1975). The fourth Doctor was originally scripted to appear but Tom Baker eventually declined, still feeling somewhat proprietorial about the role he had left two years earlier. Footage of him from a story that was never completed, Shada, was incorporated, while his Madame Tussaud's waxwork was appropriated to take part in a photocall. | + | Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee, while Richard Hurndall laudably re-created the first Doctor (William Hartnell having died in 1975). The fourth Doctor was originally scripted to appear but Tom Baker eventually declined, still feeling somewhat proprietorial about the role he had left two years earlier. Footage of him from a story that was never completed, [[broadwcast:Shada|Shada]], was incorporated, while his Madame Tussaud's waxwork was appropriated to take part in a photocall. |
The story, in which the Doctors have to overcome whatever evil force is at work in the Dark Zone on Gallifrey, also called for a myriad of former companions and monsters, not forgetting the Doctor's arch enemy, the Master. Perhaps the most impressive scene was an exciting battle between the Cybermen and the spear-firing Raston Robot. The number of elements writer and Pertwee-era script editor Terrence Dicks was asked to include must have made producing a coherent script almost impossible and it is a tribute to his skill that The Five Doctors is still very watchable. | The story, in which the Doctors have to overcome whatever evil force is at work in the Dark Zone on Gallifrey, also called for a myriad of former companions and monsters, not forgetting the Doctor's arch enemy, the Master. Perhaps the most impressive scene was an exciting battle between the Cybermen and the spear-firing Raston Robot. The number of elements writer and Pertwee-era script editor Terrence Dicks was asked to include must have made producing a coherent script almost impossible and it is a tribute to his skill that The Five Doctors is still very watchable. | ||
