An Interview with Richard Marson

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Richard Marson, author of "JN-T: The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner", discusses his book due from Miwk Publishing on May 30th.
This video was recorded March 3rd 2013 and pre-empts some of the press and fan concerns.
The photographs used in this video are the ones we didn't have room for in the book and are all from JN-T's private collection.
The book can be ordered at www.miwk.com
Filming & Post by Mark Frost
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@wardrutherford5669 5 лет назад

This is a great book. Not a microcosmic panegyric about ‘Doctor Who’ but a real look at the programme in an age where the BBC complained of its cheapness but gave it no money, consolidated a real mythology and trend for guest stars etc that the modern ‘Doctor Who’ stands on the shoulders on. Gary Downie is the monster behind the throne and JNT can be Caligula-lite but I implore fans to read it. It’s great.

@voyeurcoma638 7 лет назад

what a genuine geezer, rare in the business.

@MarkWhiteley 10 лет назад

Keep coming back to this video. Great interview.

@pferreira1983 7 лет назад

JNT certainly doesn't get enough credit. He did so much for the show.

@Quietstormusic 4 года назад

Yes, he got it cancelled in 1985.

@pferreira1983 4 года назад

@@Quietstormusic You mean Michael Grade, not JNT (wink).

@FreedSpiritProd 10 лет назад

I loved the book but often felt shell shocked by many of the incidents. It was a very emotional experience from start to finish. :)

@ununun 2 года назад

What a pity this book's now unaffordable or only released in tiny limited quantities. A print on demand option would be perfect.

@sadako24 2 года назад

It's getting a reprint, though I believe under a new title.

@m50iansmith 11 лет назад

Can't wait to read it! My copy has been dispatched today so it won't be long :)

@mikusguitarius 8 лет назад

It's a great book indeed!! Highly recommended. Just a shame it's not on the Kindle

@jezt42 Год назад

Very interesting interview. Would love to read the book, but can’t afford the eBay prices. Any chance of a reprint, please? 🙂👍

@Quietstormusic 4 года назад

The baggage of having Tom Baker -you're having a fuckin' laugh!

@normanby100 11 месяцев назад

He only got the job because nobody else wanted it. The awful truth dawned when he tried to do what every producer before him did, leave and start on a new show.

@martinjones8216 3 года назад

I think if you look at the Graham Williams era Doctor Who had become a bit silly . John Nathan Turner made some great stories during his time .I think Doctor Who would have been cancelled earlier if it wasn't for him .

@sadako24 2 года назад

Even Graham Williams' worst stories were practically masterpieces when compared to the likes of Time-Flight and Warriors of the Deep.

@normanby100 Год назад

In hindsight, it might have been more merciful if it had been cancelled then.

@ShamrockParticle 11 месяцев назад

@sadako24 Oh Niiiimon! Oh I don't think so!

@sidrat69 7 лет назад

Oh dear! Poor Richard Marson still under the JNT spell, championing his disastrous reign as producer of Doctor Who. I'm sure JN-T was a nice chap but what Marson is spouting is total revisionism. You'd think none of the appalling decisions JN-T implemented were nothing to do with him. Perhaps the fans and the public saw a different show to Marson in the 1980's but we all remember how it really was back then.

@sidrat69 7 лет назад

True. JNT and Saward should have left with Peter Davison after Caves of Androzani the we would have been spared the horrors to come (Twin Dilemma, Colins costume). The show had not yet been tainted with postponement or cancellation so another BBC producer would have not been put off from taking it on.

@tost6956 6 лет назад

It's not revisionism. Most of the arguments made against 80s Who hold no scrutiny, and the ones that do can usually be applied just as well to any other era.

@tost6956 6 лет назад

the show was far better in the mid-late 80s than the early 80s

@ShamrockParticle 11 месяцев назад

@@sidrat69he'd wanted to leave after season 20 but was asked to stay to do season 21 in return for making "The Five Doctors", which he had wanted to do.

@ShamrockParticle 11 месяцев назад

@@tost6956it's more "style over substance" qirh atmosphere and Easter egg references galore than actual storytelling. Ghost Light's main idea doesn't even hold up when compared yo key scenes such as moths coming alive for no reason (and nothing to do with the Husks or the stupid idea to catalog all evolution and the villain is a nit.) References to Bessie and a history book and namedropping old monsters was not "cool" when they detracted from the stories in the process.

@TheTwillerZone 11 лет назад

woah, sounds complicated.

@normanby100 11 лет назад

Unfortunately, a drama producer without any narrative sense is like a lorry driver without a driving license - a waste of space.

@ShamrockParticle 11 месяцев назад

Even McCoy's dodgy scripts had more of a defined mission and vision than the mid-80s that Later-Davison and Colin suffered through. This isn't to say their eras were bad, they're not - they're just different and season 22 did get respectable viewing figures... but Bidmead and Cartmel had the consistently strongest themes in the scripts they worked with.

@normanby100 11 месяцев назад

@@ShamrockParticle Themes be damned. Robert Holmes had the gift of writing a solid thriller adventure with no fat or padding.