Everyone loves Rose, but I always felt Donna was hands down the perfect companion. The push back Donna gives the Doctor is what, I feel, he needed. Those two were perfection together.
Best friends the Doctor Donna omg she got the human doctor the emotional planets and events and they made each other better I'm tearing up just thinking about it 😢 my favourite
@@The1cheesecake me either really. I mean it was sweet but a couple of things annoy me about her... firstly she uses "gay" as an insult to Christopher Ecclestons doctor. Secondly she fat shames when Mickey tells her he's going out with Trisha Delaney Rose says "Isn't she a bit big?" Oh also Roses jealousy of every other companion I'm always like oh FFS Rose get over it! Like in the last Donna ones she's like I was here first. Ugh. Rose is very selfish. Not my favourite at all.
Rose is a sket, I only tolerate her because of how great the Ninth Doctor & the Tenth Doctor are. Rose is a less hateable version of Gwen Cooper from Torchwood!
I saw The Day of the Doctor in a movie theater. The moment the audience heard Tom Baker's voice, there was an audible, collective gasp, followed by hooting and cheering. It was a great moment.
@@shallendor Four was my first Doctor. I knew he was going to be in the movie-I had read it somewhere-but just hearing the sound of his voice gave me chills.
Donna will forever be my favorite companion. My only regret is that they couldn’t/didn’t figure out a way for her to interact w/Capaldi. Donna vs 12 would’ve been HILARIOUS
Catherine talked about it and said that RTD wrote the first couple of lines and then told her to just make something up. She was taken aback, but went out there and slayed them. She might have said it was in the script that "Catherine improvises" or something like that. Can't remember for sure.
In Journey’s End when Davros yells “on your knees” apparently David Tennant improvised “do as he says” because both Noel Clarke and John Barrowman didn’t think their character would obey Davros, but they would do what the Doctor asks them to do.
Learning that the last part of Amy's farewell letter is improvised makes it much more impactful. Especially when you take into consideration that it lead to the wonderful reactions of Matt Smith and took us back to little Amelia sitting in her yard, giving us pretty much a full loop.
I love it, but I want to know *which* part was improvised. Where did the transition happen? I've dug around a bit but, as usual, most stories are just the same story reprinted by someone else, and no-one seems to add anything.
@@ardemus I think what they meant is that what he was reading was not what she was narrating, it was something personal she wrote to him to say goodbye because she was leaving the show.
Hello, old friend. And here we are, you and me, on the last page. By the time you read these words, Rory and I will be long gone. So know that we lived well, and were very happy. And above all else, know that we will love you always. Sometimes I do worry about you though. I think once we're gone, you won't be coming back here for a while, and you might be alone, which you should never be. Don't be alone, Doctor. And do one more thing for me. There's a little girl waiting in a garden. She's going to wait a long while, so she's going to need a lot of hope. Go to her. Tell her a story. Tell her that if she's patient, the days are coming that she'll never forget. Tell her she'll go to sea and fight pirates. She'll fall in love with a man who'll wait two thousand years to keep her safe. Tell her she'll give hope to the greatest painter who ever lived. And save a whale in outer space. Tell her this is the story of Amelia Pond. And this how it ends.
Can definitely tell by David’s head movement that that is exactly what he said. I’ve always heard that David forgot his line and THATS why he went with “Are you my mummy?” because it was the first thing that came to his mind.
I still can't watch the angels take Manhattan without just loosing it at the end . And let's face it the doctor and Donna run is one of the best of the 60 year run .
It didn't do anything for me because Amy doesn't die or have to forget the doctor or was left alone her and her husband living there whole lives out it completely misses the mark.
I watched doctor who when I was 13 and I didn't like Donna that much, but I'm 21 now and I just watched through doctor who again and Donna is my favorite companion of the show. My favorite part is when Donna wants to come with the doctor but he tells her that he just wants a mate and not a lover. The doctor then gets his answer after she freaked out because Donna thought he said that he just wants to mate and then insults him.
The Doctor & Donna were very good together & I enjoyed them very much. But I must disagree with the statement that they were the best of the 60 year run. That honor belongs to the 4th Doctor & Sarah Jane Smith.
6:38 My old ringtone, "Are you my mummy? Where's my mummy?". Phone rang in a shop and a young child looked at me in horror and burst into tears, clutching his mum.
THANK you! To this day Donna is still my absolute favorite NuWho companion. Catherine Tate was so brilliant, and the tragedy of her character is so heartbreaking. Better to be dead than forget experiencing a journey through space and time.
same here! I loved Donna, she's my all-time favorite. Her "death" is made worse by how it affected her. Donna had a complete story arc that changed her. It healed her in a way, made her more self-confident and helped her to realize her own brilliance. She became softer because the kindness she had always hidden was allowed to shine through. When her memory was wiped, she reverted back to the crass Donna who hid her pain behind her anger.
@@tracyroweauthor This one about sums it up. The best companion is the one who keeps The Doctor humble. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kpcfu41Vb1c.html
@@tracyroweauthor See also Jamie and Zoe. All memory of their adventures and growth removed, especially sad since Jamie had over a hundred episodes....
@@tracyroweauthor it tears me up even thinking about it 😢 the Doctor Donna they made each other better. My favourite. They were best friends and he was so heartbroken. 😭
@@loadingruby9569 I thought it was a horrible end for Donna. She had overcome so much, especially the pain of her mother's constant judgement. She lost everything she accomplished. It wasn't fair.
Catherine Tate and David Tennant are just as iconic as Elizabeth Sladen and Tom Baker were back then. The best Doctor/companion pairings of each era so far.
I've always heard that Tom Baker's "Congratulations" ad lib was less of an in-character improvisation and more of a reality leak, where Tom Baker as himself was congratulating Matt Smith (again as himself) on his appointment and performance as the Doctor. Actor-to-actor rather than character-to-character.
Amy’s goodbye and 10’s “Are you my mummy?” get me in sadness for an ending and the humor of the people involved. Always loved the David Tennent & The Proclaimers video bc of DH (and everyone involved) being themselves.
9's "Nobody died!" is one of the moments I'll always remember. It was the moment that the tragic legacy of the Time War started to lift for the Doctor. I wish we'd had more than one season of Eccleston, but I respect his decision.
This is why actors are artists, they should be allowed to shine and express what they can do without being totally held down by script. Like painters, musicians, singers and tattoo artists.
David and Billie were my absolute favorites. That said, Freema was under utilized and as others have said, Catherine's arc was gut wrenching in the end.
Good point. Compared to umpteen times when he calls her "Sarah", Tom only refers to her as "Sarah Jane" four times. Indeed, Pertwee also preferred "Sarah" during his era, only using "Sarah Jane" on three occasions. Interestingly, when he returned for _The Five Doctors,_ Pertwee's Doctor almost exclusively calls her "Sarah Jane". I suspect this popular multi-Doctor special was the source of the idea that he always referred to her as such, when in fact he rarely did so.
Out of interest, I took a closer look at The Five Doctors, and Pertwee calls her "Sarah" only twice, but "Sarah Jane" 8 times. That's one more than the 7 times _in total_ the Doctor calls her "Sarah Jane" throughout the Pertwee/Baker eras! To put it in a wider perspective, she appeared in 80 individual episodes during the Pertwee and Baker eras, when the Doctor addressed her as "Sarah Jane" only 7 times. In just _one_ episode of the Davison era (i.e. The Five Doctors), the Doctor called her "Sarah Jane" on 8 occasions!
Tom Baker coming back in the 50th Anniversary was a gem of an event. Now here’s hoping we could get Colin Baker back as the 6th Doctor in an upcoming special or something
@@karenhall4645 Same here; they kept that surprise pretty well hidden! I think I actually jumped off the sofa and leaned in to get a better look because I felt like I must've been imagining it.
Where is Patrick Troughton & Frazier Hines’ holding hands in Tomb of the Cybermen?! That is one of the most famous improvised moments in the show?! Heck, where are Troughton & Hines’ other improvised moments?! They did loads of it in 60s Who!
I always remember the scene with Patrick and Frazier trapped and and Frazier complaining about the heat and how he wishes he had some water it goes The Doctor:- here hou go my boy have one of these Jamie:- what is it Doctor some kind of thirst reducing tablet? The Doctor:- no no it's a sherbet lemon cue strang look on Jamie's face
I'm reminded of another scene in "The Pyramids of Mars" when the Doctor was disguised as one of the robot mummies. When he asked Sarah how he looked she said "It must have been a terrible accident." "Don't provoke me!" he snapped. It may not have been improvised, but it was clever.
My son & I were actually there during the filming of that scene from The Angels Take Manhattan (my son is actually in the DVD extras for the episode) and while we couldn't clearly hear what she was saying, nor what the context was, they were both incredibly emotional while filming. We were gutted when we finally saw the completed episode.
Donna was the best NewWho companion. No love anywhere, just friends hanging out together. That allowed the doctor to do what he does best, and I think Donna's capabilities really surprised him.
It's also a nice gesture as we know the Doctor seems to like noses, sometimes affectionate tapping or wriggling the nose of a companion e.g. : 1st Doctor, Vicki, nose tap, "The Crusade" : 5th Doctor, Tegan, nose tap, "Earthshock" : 6th Doctor, Peri, nose tap, "Attack of the Cybermen" : 7th Doctor, Mel, nose tap, "Dragonfire" : 7th Doctor, Ace, nose wriggle, "Battlefield" : 7th Doctor, Ace, quick stroke of nose, "Remembrance of the Daleks" : 11th Doctor, Amy, nose tap, sorry I don't remember the story title : 11th Doctor, River, nose tap, "The Impossible Astronaut
One another moment that was unscripted so we see the genuine reaction is in Dinosaurs On A Spaceship when The Doctor kisses Rory. Appatently it wasn't in the scripts but Smith thought it would be funny in the moment and felt like it would be something the Doctor would do so he did it and the reaction form Arthur Darvill in that moment is genuine.
One of the things I love that (as far as I know) never gets mentioned is how the Curator is talking about what's become of the home planet and tells the 11th doctor "who knows.......Who...knows". in my opinion can only mean "Who" is the only person that knows, but "no spoilers" for you
Another improvisation was with Peter Capaldi in the episode Mummy on the Orient Express. He said are you my mummy when he met the mummy. He improvised it.
I thought Tennant saying "I'll go and arrest myself" and marching into the TARDIS was improvised, too, was it not? . Matt Smith's Doctor seems like the British Robin Williams, only skinny, just this manic ball of energy that spouts off inane stuff constantly. I'm sure there's a bit more improv during his run.
There’s something that wasn’t ‘improvised’ exactly but it allegedly wasn’t supposed to happen: In ‘The time of angels’ Matt Smith holds onto some cloth handle while explaining about the angels and it breaks...The scene carries on but Alex Kingston’s face after he does it is priceless!
It makes you so thankful that everybody else in the cast goes along with it because if they had stopped acting, that scene may not have been used because the actors in that moment would have broken character. If I ever acted and I did something accidentally or intentionally different but turned out amazing I would be praying everybody else in the shot stays in line 😂
@@tvshowedits2383 that sadly didn't happen on the set of Alien Resurrection. There is the basketball scene where Rippley thows a ball backwards into the hoop. On the first take, Sigorny(?) actually got it IN the hoop, and one of the other actors instantly broke character because he was impressed. They had to cut away quickly rather than let the shot linger...
Tom Baker's improvisation with the broken sonic screwdriver in the scene outside the bunker in The Robot is a classic. He did it so well that it actually looked like part of the script.
Catherine Tate is the best Doctor Who companion of New Who, hands down! There will never be another like Donna Noble. Donna's second only to Sarah Jane Smith for best companions of all time.
Hard agree. I don't think Donna gets the respect she deserves from the fanbase. Absolutely my favorite plus, she gave us more Wilf. And Wilf is my second favorite companion. Such a great duo.
Having watched the show from back in the classic days, one of the things I most appreciated about Donna Noble as a character was how she went from being a brash, human/earth-centric person with the, "Oy, spaceman!" thing to being far more enlightened when she blurts out about the Ood, "Of course they're peaceful. They're born with their brains in their hands," line and the Doctor looks at her in amazement at her reasoning. I've had the ability to actually say this to Catherine Tate (saw her at Dragon Con one year) and how she is my favorite new era companion, and to thank her for bringing Donna Noble to life.
In Baker's story 'City of Death' there's a hilarious line that I believe was also improvised - where the 4th Doctor is talking to the villainess of the story and says to her 'Well you're a very beautiful woman... probably...' I vaguely recall reading that the 'probably' was improvised.
I always liked the bit where, in season 5, "Tomb of the Cybermen", the Doctor, Patrick Troughton, and Jamie, Frazer Hines, each reach for Victoria's, Deborah Watling, hand but end up holding each other's instead.
I'm afraid you got the Chunky Gilmore story slightly wrong. The prop Webley that was given to Simon Williams was prone to jamming constantly, you can even see this happen at the junkyard in the first episode, and so he began to call the gun "Chunky". After that, the nickname spread to Gilmore, and thus, an immortal line was born
Such a good comment that they ran with it. The Doctor(s) tells Tegan "Brave heart" in, of course, Earthshock, then Enlightenment, Warriors of the Deep, The Awakening, Resurrection of the Daleks, The Caves of Androzani. I was hoping for it in the 13th Doctor's finale The Power of the Doctor and wasn't disappointed (holo-Doctor to Tegan). The 11th Doctor says it to Clara in "The Crimson Horror" and to Canton in "The Impossible Astronaut". I might've missed some out, I'm afraid.
i heard that tennant just straight up forgot his line and said "are you my mummy" instead as a gag but they liked it so much they kept it in. idk if that's true but in my heart it is
I believe that Tennant also improvised the little speech at the end of Time Crash because he wanted to show Davison how much of a fan he was. And then there is of course the Hartnell era where companions would have to react to Hartnell either forgetting lines or messing them up unintentionally.
There was a brief moment in Tomb of the Cybermen where the Doctor accidentally grabbed Jamie's hand instead of Victoria's, then quickly pushed it away and grabbed Victoria's hand. From what I’ve heard, Patrick Troughton and Fraser Hines completely made up that little moment just before filming began.
I know I'm a bit late, but Hartnell's famous "And a Happy Christmas to all of you at home!" which couldn't be cut, and David Tennant's "New teeth" line was also improvised by Tennant!
I'm really glad you used clips from all the seasons and not just the reboot. So often with these Doctor Who Top Ten videos it will only include the recent reboot and that's such a shame.
Thank you for including one of my fav episodes of classic Who (w my fav Doctor/Companion combo): ‘ The pyramids of Mars’. One I enjoyed the most & remember the best. I enjoyed this video immensely; I’ve saved it to enjoy again in future.
Catherine Tait was actually asked to do another series during the filming of her Christmas ep and she said no - she was asked again near the end of Martha's run and this time said yes. She initially said no because she thought it would be exhausting - probably rightly tbh.
I saw Sylvester McCoy in a performance of the 39 steps . He suppose to climb a rope ladder. The Ladder broke lose and crash down on the stage, and McCoy landed on his rear. He yelled, "those villains cut the ladder" as he got up . Improvising on the fly.
I love the idea of Billie Piper expecting a light smoke machine for the disinfection scene or something similar then getting absolutely doused in probably cold water
The window miming has got to be one of my favorite bits of the entire series. It's even better when you pay attention to what she's mouthing, since it's essentially a recap of the episode up to that point.
I can't believe you didn't mention Tomb of the Cybermen! When Jamie and the second Doctor take each others hand before entering the tomb, that was totally planned by the two of them just before shooting the scene.
I remember Frazer Hines saying that they had to make sure they were held high enough up that they'd be in the frame. And since the production team was _very_ hesitant to stop and reshoot unless there was a complete breakdown, they figured they could get away with it.
Thanks for posting - I'm in Chicago, USA and I have been watching Doctor Who since I was in university in the late 70's. My favorite Doctor is Tom Baker and favorite Companion is Elisabeth Sladen - it was nice to see that both Tom and Elisabeth appeared in the video - please continue!!!!
I watched "The Day of the Doctor" with one of my best friends who sadly no longer with us, when Tom Bakers voice boomed out the pair of us started going nuts with delight, it was a great moment, RIP Mike miss you loads.
Dear Who: I am an on and off again fan. I started watching in the mid 1980's as a college student, dad, and court employee in Albuqueruque with all those space scientists wandering around town and the University of New Mexico. Wait ... who? NHG
At first I read that as the medieval spiky weapon mace, not the spray. In 'Doctor Who' either would be plausible depending which time era or planet you're on.
Well, at least I'm not the only one who likes Martha best. Yes, she had a crush on The Doctor. So, fucking, what? So does a lot of other people. What really matters is the fact that she was training to be doctor which made her very useful. She even saved The Doctor's life twice!
I got so excited when you first mentioned the pyramids of pyramids of mars. I expected this video to be just the new episodes. That was always my favourite episode as a kid!!
the ad-lib in older Who eps is even more impressed because it was recorded differently - now ppl just do another take without worrying about taking up precious film, but back then... i'm pretty sure i saw a documentary that said they only had like 3 chances per scene or something O.o so ad-libbing while knowing that if it's scuffed , it'll ruin an entire chance, then... wow...
IIRC, they could do 4 retakes per _episode_. It made it much more like live theater-if someone got a line wrong, as long as it wasn't a total train wreck, you dealt with it and kept going.
The third entry is wrong as if u watch doctor who confidential in that episode during the script reading they do the miming at the table as they were told to do it that way in the script so it's not improvised
Tate tells the story at fan presentation as being given a single sentence of what should occur when the Donna sees The Doctor again. She took it from there. It was shot in one take.
I thought all of Tom Baker's lines were improvised! This was probably in Robert Banks Stewart's script, but I loved this one from The Seeds Of Doom: "What do you do for an encore, Doctor?" "I win!"
The editing used to realise the Angels is excellent - some of the "worst" jump scares I've had in ages, and I'm an adult and have watched quite a few horror films.
He's returned twice (so far) in Big Finish Audios - voiced again by Gabriel Woolf - first facing the Seventh Doctor, then facing the Fourth Doctor again (a bit of Timey Wimey action there) I recomend giving them a listen. So a live action appearance in a new series will be welcome
Don't know whether I prefer Donna or Martha as my favorite NewWho companion, but the "Partners in Crime" scene between Donna and David Tennant's Doctor is certainly my favorite funny scene. The two are brilliant! Glad to hear that Tate improvised it. But what about Tennant's reactions?
When Catherine Tate first showed up I'll admit I was like oh no not her, by the end of her leaving and the way her character arc just grew I was like no you can't wipe her memory, would of lovd to see a season of Doctor Donna
Matt Smith as Prince Philip...? Love Matt Smith. I'll watch anything if he's in it. A friend tried to warn me watching "Terminator Genisys", but Matt Smith was in it so I watched it anyway.
Peter Capaldi says "are you my mummy" when he's confronted by the mummy on the orient express... Wish these videos would pay some fucking attention to Capaldi era. He was the best
@@zanelekgabo7067 yep. And if anyone watched the classic who's. They would know Capaldi era and him, himself is absolutely genius, the fact they brought old cyber men back, zygons. And also the old man doctor who we saw in classic. People don't realise the original doctor William Hartnell was a bit of a git, a moody git, he was kind and such, but would have easily thrown a punch or two. And actually mentions he enjoys the art of fights. Which I see why they got Capaldi, as they could bring this back and have it justified because he's Scottish, so he's instantly moody, aggressive, but absolutely loveable. Love Scots they are just brilliant
@@Cuddleshock I plan on getting his without hope, without witness, without reward tattooed on, even though it wasn't him that said it first I don't think. But still 👍 and Capaldi leaving speech was absolutely awesome.. Don't eat pears!
@@nzlemming Exactly-the two directors I've worked with locally have both been OK with a quick bit of improv if it works in the scene and fits the character you're playing. Some characters can allow you to improvise, while others really aren't written that way.
When you said that about the are you my mummy? I remember that when i was younger i was in love with this episode i made up an entirely new tiggy game at school called 'Are you my mummy?'
I heard somewhere that in the episode “Fear Her” where David Tennant picks up a jar of something off the counter in the kitchen and sticks his finger in and licks it was improvised too. Could be wrong
