Doctor Who: Dimensions In Time - 1993 Children In Need 

you have doubts? I mean santa might not be real but the Doctor? she is legit...

Yeh but not what you call serious progams looking at you Deal or No Deal

@@MecdiAn She, he and it

@@MecdiAn SANTA DENIERRRRR

@@kobimitchell7807 that's our cover he wants to keep it between friends

+MeBeMat Agreed. You just switch your brain off an wallow in Doctor Who. And it's great. I think that's what the late, great JN-T wanted.

For a second I thought you said "If you view this as a proper episode, you're awful". A viewpoint which I would readily agree with.

Similar to Time Crash imo

With a dash of EastEnders.

And yet... still better than about the whole of Moffat Who and three RTD Who season finales.

Right?? He looked exactly the same

Also it's spelled Jon lol

And why I hope they'll include his son for an episode at some point since he looks so much like John Pertwee, there's a good representation of 1 and 2 and Tom Baker is still alive so I don't see why another full live action doctor story of them meeting each other can't happen at this point. We're so limited in time for a full meeting from past and modern who era 1-15 so please let it happen sooner than later.

@@CommacazyFreak sean said before in interviews when asked that he would never do it because he doesn't want to even try to replace him out of respect. He said it just wouldn't feel right doing it without knowing if he would have been ok with it pretty much.

It's cause he was already old during his era.

The Jeff Sentence - I got more of a kick out of McCoy and K-9

I got that much from Big Finish.

@@bul13ts Yep and eight with the brigadier as well

"Splendid fellow isn't he, all of them."

Same here. :-) 6th and the Brig finally got on screen together!

And the conviction with which he delivers it XD

Thankfully Kate O'Mara still steals the show, playing the Rani with the right tone. A lot of the story is cobblers. But I'm still glad Kate knew how to pronounce the full word, "technology".

Now, I'm tempted to ask Chatgpt this and see what it does. Lol.

HMM we got the movie at least

A lot of rumors say that the BBC would be interested for the reconstruction of the missing episodes by using AI technology (deepfake) and original audio. In the future, We could totally film some new footage and using deepfakes and the big finish audio for the 6th and 7th doctor

@@hothemeep1219 that would be so weird but awesome if they pulled it off right

A glimpse of what could have been.

@@joshuahughes5761 The movie got so much hate it didn't deserve... It's a great watch.

What if...Jon was the Doctor in real life?

The Creepiest Of Pasta But of course he was. He's the Doctor!

+TehMondasianSpartan What do you mean "what if?" He was!

OMG WHY DID YOU HAVE TO HAVE RED MIST SQUIDWARD AS YOUR AVATAR!? Sorry. That's just my worst fear. If i lived in derry, maine, and pennywise attacked me, he'd transform into red mist squidward

@@secretblue0290 *eyeroll*

THIS is the "Doctor's Secret" Eleventh was talking about, the ONE thing he didn't want other people find out.

Fun fact, the Doctor did really acknowledge Dimensions as his bad dream at a novel.

@@MondySpartan maybe it resulted from having too much Ginger.

@@MondySpartan Which novel?

"She hates me, she even hates children."

+Magatsu Orpheus Ohhhhhhhhhhh noooooooooooooo

"You don't know what that last one is yet but trust me when I say that that is a crime on high itself."

she cancelled Firefly? That bitch!

Magatsu Orpheus she's a monster!

Magatsu Orpheus Man, he REALLY phoned that part in.

I know your comment is old, but just had to respond. It would have been so easy to have the 3rd Doctor in the 50th special, Jon's son Sean looks almost exactly like him, and has even done 3rd Doctor cosplay. The resemblance is uncanny.

Sinsemilla4u No worries. I've noticed that as well. But I believe I've read that Sean Pertwee was unwilling to play the 3rd Doctor officially because he didn't feel he could play him as well as his father did. Still he could've stood with the other doubles during the end where we see all 13 Timelords.

GhostPirate6 David Troughton played (what appeared to be) the Second Doctor in an audio play with Tom Baker and did an excellent job. I think Sean would do as well.

MaskedMan66 Well that's David isn't it? Sean Pertwee likely feels differently.

GhostPirate6 And he needn't.

The “fruit market” is on the set of EastEnders Albert Square if you don’t know

The daleks were ment to appear in this originally but didn’t

"OK lads, your budget for the 30th is 400 pounds..."

John Burke I think that's a bit generous. It was probably more like "Okay lads, our whole budget for the thirtieth is 10 quid, half a ham sandwich, goodwill and a favour.

That's not how that happened.

But the character apparently did :3

Also, what was she wearing? I love the character, but that wardrobe...

Well anyway, thanks, I haven't seen that arc, but obviously look forward to it!

Jagfan 28 It was the striped overalls she wore in her final story, "The Hand of Fear." They looked really cute back then, but on the Elisabeth of 1993...not so much.

That makes me think that, that was the only wardrobe they had left, lying around!

MADAM, WHAT YEAR ITH THITH

TWO FAUSAN AN FIRTEEEN!

1965!

I'm from the future... it's 2019, and the Doctor's a WOMAN... mad, isn't it? (That's a joke btw)

@@trustmeimthedoctor5749 omg ... really? ... but just once: Everbody dies! ^^

Agreed, it was a huge missed opportunity.

This was all the BBC would give them for the 30th.

Well,it was in the hands of someone who had let it slide...a similar thing done today would be genuinely funny and clever!

They only had half an hour what did you expect? I mean if they'd dropped all the EastEnders dross they mightve got a little more out of it but just having loads of companions in split second cameo roles wasnt going to amount to anything, this was for charity anyway, dr who was officially off television it was just a bit of fun and certainly not canon.

despite all the constraints they had to battle, i still feel like they could've pulled off some more substantial monster scenes. give us a vervoid popping up through one of the clothing piles!

really cant believe its considered canon, pretty sure it must have been uncanoned though

hammataz Well it's like I said, just a bad dream the Doctor had.

Mr. Nutt when was this confirmed?

***** I don't really know, this was something I got from TV Tropes.

***** In the Doctor Who novel " First Frontier," the Seventh Doctor says, "I once had [a nightmare] where all my old foes chased me round a soap opera." This seems to be a reference to "Dimensions in Time."

Well, he is still the coolest one. Tom Baker is awesome.

EGADCOMICS TM My favourite is Christopher Eccleston.

DarthRushy me too but i dont get why there are so many people who dont like Eccleston :/

schmalzschmudonuts Maybe it's his costume, maybe the accent, maybe the fact he stayed for only 13 eps and is really out of contact with DW... I dunno, plenty of reasons. I don't care, he's still fantastic as the Doctor.

I liked Chris Eccleston too. I wish he chose to hang around for at least one more season.

Pertwee was the most savage Doctor (While looking at a picture of a young Brigadier:) "Ha Ha! Well, if this is true I can see why you grew that mustache!" "There's a considerable difference between courage and reckless stupidity." (What are you? Some kind of scientist?:) "All of them!" . ███████████████████████████████ ▀█▄▀▄▀████▀ ▀█▄▀▄▀████▀ ▀█▄█▄█▀ ▀█▄█▄█▀

Lol, massive thug life hahahaha.

I herd he was t h i c c

Liam Haley he was thug life but the 4th and the 1st could be more savage

Ex Royal Navy ⚓️😁

21 years is indeed a long way!! But what a ride. I remember watching this when it was on originally. I was 15 and so excited for new Who. Didn't care what it was like. I loved this. :)

Agreed! this was where the other Doctors were before they went to save Gallifrey :D

At least this had all the then-living Doctors in it instead of cardboard cut-outs.

MaskedMan66 They didn't use cardboard cutouts. They had doubles standing in front of the green screen with red dots on their faces and digitally placed the original actor's faces onto them. I'm just wondering why they didn't have the real Paul McGann for that or for the scene where all 13 Doctors were saving Gallifrey. I mean they got him for the prequel.

GhostPirate6....... I was being facetious.

How do you figure?

No shit this was 20 years prior

I would re read the first comment my good man. I do believe you've grabbed the wrong end of the stick.

Why does he look like a pimp in a Windows 95 screensaver!

He looks very tired here. At least as The Curator, he has some energy below the surface.

It would be McGann to Smith because Matt Smith at the time The Day of The Doctor is released is still the Doctor (Although Capaldi did briefly appear saying "no sir, all 13!")

UranusRemixer No, it wasn't Capaldi's line. He said nothing. He was being cool for 2 seconds

The closest we've got to that was The Power of the Doctor, with versions of 5, 6, 7, 8, and David Bradley's 1 interacting with 13, together with Tegan and Ace, as well as a cameo of several surviving past companions together and, of course, 14.

Ace: YOU'RE NOT THE DOCTOR! Doctor: YES I AM, ACE Ace: *Quietly accepts and moves on*

ChadtheDJguy Well, Ace did vaguely find out in her debut story that he could change his face thanks to Sabalom Glitz.

True, but it's not like she's ever seen 6 before, so it could be just some dude. Still, it's a 15-minute low budget charity show, there's not much to critique about it lol.

It's even better in the Big Finish 50th anniversary audio adventure "The Light at the End." Temporal images of Doctors 1 through 6 and 8 appear before the Seventh Doctor and Ace, and he has to explain that they are all him. Her response? ACE: So, are you seriously telling me that all those blokes-- Old man, white hair; Beatles haircut; frilly shirt; long scarf, big eyes; Cricket Boy; Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; and Lord Byron-- all of them, they were all you? DOCTOR: Erm… yes. ACE: WICKED!!!!!

I was so hoping that Amy Pond could have a throwaway line like that while she was in the TARDIS; in fact, I wish the companions would occasionally say this, just for a laugh.

This is actually canon in EastEnders I like to think.

Colin looks terrible considering its only 6 years since hes been on screen.

@@ianmalcolm7782 only 6?! He looks like he aged 15 years here.

his just has a hair cut... looks exactly the same. They all do other then Tom

Jon was already aged to begin with though.

I was thinking the same! Jon has aged the least since his tenure and he was The Doctor before any of them!

The Rani hates everyone.

Spectacular Spider-Man And I hate the Rani

And puppy’s and Ice Cream!!!

That's not The Rani,you're talking about Anne Robinson!!!

And she put doctor who on an 18 month hiatus in 1985

He's an alien, it doesn't affect him

She hates me, She even hates children!

to be fair its pretty much 50/50 shot if the Doctor was right or not.

JACKIE YOU GOTTA WAIT YOUR TURN! XD

Are you sure that's her and not Katy Manning?

That's funny lol

He's also right about Noel still being on TV as the 2010. JON PERTWEE IS THE REAL DOCTOR.

Nope. Jon Pertwee did a special. That was jon pertwees last appearance. It was called Devious

This... thing is a wonderful, laugh-filled, chock-a-block full of FUN, DW home movie.

He appeared posthumously in Big Finish's "Zagreus" in 2003.

Nick Ferrazza But sadly, his dialogue, borrowed from the aforementioned "Devious," was overfiltered and barely understandable.

William hartnell, wasn't in the three doctors. It was a different actor

Hey, the Doctor has never courted popularity, so you're in good company. This is a fun little DW home movie!

@@MaskedMan66 Just needs to be released with curse of fatal death as a charity specials box set with time crash , space and time ,pond life and any other charity stuff

I only enjoy this because i watch eastenders

Yes I do to it’s fun but not as a proper episode tho

The ending is pretty good

I've seen worse. *looks at Day of the Doctor*

Spectrum Storms *OOF* XD

I mean, this is more of a parody than anything. So it's not really meant to be taken *that* seriously.

@THETIMELORD1963 exactly!

​@@SpectrumStormsDay of the Doctor looks like Citizen Kane compared to RTD's return to Doctor Who.

Sadly, of course, Wendy Richard did not make it.

A very late reply because even though I’ve been a fan of Doctor Who since 1963 I never saw this special. Great to see everything mashed up together - various doctors and the, at the time, eight-year-old EastEnders. But it’s not great writing and editing but just wonderful nevertheless. And the curse of the fatal death is without a doubt the best Doctor Who charity special.

Antony D'Andrea Even weirder now Bonnie Langford is in EastEnders for real

thinking, that it's fuck all like the actual 2013

It's always surreal when you watch old sci-fi set in the future yet even that future date is now in the past in real life.

@@UnchainedEruption like back to the future part 2. They went to 2015, and here it is a few months away from the end of 2018.

James Tilsley Basically what I was thinking. Exactly what this is.

What? You mean they, actually, HAD one...?

He travels through time and space, duh!

He was referring to David Tennant running around with colored 3D glasses on.

you should be a fan of the classic series, when it was good.

Susan, knew about regeneration and may have witnessed a few in her youth on Gallifrey

@@BobBarnett Plus Ace had travelled with the Doctor for several years at this point. He might have told her.

At least we had him around for this. (And Tom Baker in the 50th too.) :-)

Oh yeah! Definitely Tom in the 50th, I couldn't believe my eyes! :D

Still one of my favorites. Who else could solve problems in time with Jelly Babies?

At least we had him and Patrick back for Devious.

Yeah, had a similar feeling regarding Colin Baker. Especially as I'd missed the first few minutes of Time and the Rani and had no idea at the time why the tall, sarky bloke with blonde curly hair that I liked was suddenly short, Scottish and kept falling over!

This is basically like a video made for RU-vid in 2010, but created 20 years before. Lol

While I can see the general idea of that sentiment, I think it is incorrect. For the 50th to look like this they would've had to have next to no budget, next to no run time, and a failure to coordinate most of their actors to be in the same place together at once for any scenes. It's also important to note that this got a lot more love for coming along at a time when the show had been dead for 4 years, a time when not even the TV Movie with Paul McGann existed yet; it was novel to be making some form of Doctor Who at all. The 50th came out good and all, but even with huge differences it could never have been *this* awkward. I do think a little more actual appearance by some of the surviving doctors could've been cool, or still could be if they work them in somewhere else (poor Colin Baker particularly), but at least they get some good audio dramas, and that fun "Five-ish Doctors" comedy. But new show is new show, and good in it's own right, too, so whatever works. This old special is an interesting novelty, but bizarrely clunky and excessively dated. It's funny how much classier-looking the old Hartnell serials sometimes (...not always, but sometimes) come across than some of the late 80s ones do, and this is cheesier than the late 80s episodes.

Mitsukara I like that someone else thinks the same regarding the Hartnell seasons. Low budget, sure, and excessively dated, of course, but extremely mature. Even since 2005 I'm not sure we've come across episodes as glorious as "The Tenth Planet." As far as The Day of The Doctor goes, I think if Moffat were to include Colin Baker, Davison, and McCoy, he couldn't have had them reprising their roles as the Doctor (they've simply aged too much), and I think that's what they wanted. He basically did all he could with Tom Baker's cameo, which was phenomenal, but to do that three more times would have been redundant and taken the effect away. What I am super pissed about is this doctor eight-and-a-half-or-something thing. Not that I didn't like Hurt's doctor, but Moffat had an incredibly example to give McGann some more screen time as the doctor. Hurt seemed unnecessary when we had one of the doctors with the most unexplored potential just sitting there.

Richard MacDougall I agree with most of that. (I've been kind of spotty about catching up on so many seasons of the show's history, so while I've seen serials from most of the different eras, I haven't actually seen the three existing episodes- or reconstruction of part four- of The Tenth Planet yet... but I am pretty fond of the William Hartnell serials I have seen, and I'd like to follow through and see the rest of it). I don't necessarily think visible signs of physical age is as detrimental to an old doctor coming back, but I can also see the reasoning why they weren't included (and am very, very glad they made the Five-ish Doctors Reboot as a secondary 50th celebration, lots of fun- and I love to think that really was the three of them under the shrouds). Though I am starting to wish they'd keep an old doctor on screen for more than five minutes at once (...Time Crash, Night of the Doctor, Tom Baker...). Speaking of which, it's really poor old Colin Baker's turn by now, isn't it? He always got kind of a bum deal from what I've seen. Speaking of five minute appearances, I agree even more about Paul McGann. John Hurt was nice and all, but why come up with a new 'not counted' doctor from the time war when, since 2005, most people thought it must've been the eighth who was in the war offscreen, and then only work him in for a small webisode when the perfect story opportunity comes along? He's only had the one movie, which is sad. That also would've made it a real three doctor reunion, too, instead of the two newest doctors and some kind of pseudo-doctor. Alas, a wasted opportunity. The sad part is, for McGann especially, Doctor Who is probably one of- if not the- easiest TV series in the world to work in an excuse (at any time, not just a big anniversary) for him to reappear and be in a full-length episode, but I doubt they'll ever do it. : (

> Implying the Day of the Doctor was not shit

NO, JAMIE NO!

Y E S

W E M A D E I T

RTD brought it back but he sent up things just as much as Chibnall and DiT had. One wave of the sonic and all the Cybermen turn around is something no 20th century episode of DW would stoop to and it did plenty in making the cybernetic baddies ineffectual too...

Don't forget Sir John Hurt and Jo Martin 😁😁💙💙

@@MatthewCYN15 Jo Martin may only have been the Doctor for around 10 minutes, but she was far more of a Doctor-type character than how Thirteen was written any day.

@@MinimalistTheatre333 Thirteen is the Doctor just like the others

I know. But Ruth was better written and not as bitchy.@@MatthewCYN15

Fourth Doctor live reaction:

She probably didn't recognize the doctor because the last time she saw the doctor it was the first doctor and she probably whined because she got used to the first doctor that look is what comes to her mind when she thinks of her grandfather not his regeneration

Possibly, I just find it odd how a race of aliens who can change their appearance and with it, their personalities to a slight degree, to be like "Oh no, you're not him". You'd think they'd accept it more

Russell Tietjen in the five doctors she only calls the 1st Doctor Grandfather, but in the audio dramas she calls the 8th Doctor that when she gets used to him, it makes more sense.

Fair enough

Russell Tietjen Please note that only Time Lords can regenerate, not Gallifreyans. Susan could possibly be a Time Lady, but she is probably just Gallifreyan.

It’s sad but also hilarious.

Minor point but they’re not CGI- somebody actually made some rather loose likenesses that were spun on green screen and composited in

Imagine the shock for people who watched this in 2013 XD

That's what I thought as well XD.

why?

CreeperSlayer it's called east london

I thought she _was_ Jackie Tyler!

very true

However, I think we all wish that john pertwee could be with us now. may he rest in peace.

yes very true....

Well CiN did force him into doing a crossover with Eastenders after the whole incident with Rigelsford and the plans for Lost in the Dark Dimension

He made it hugely popular to younger viewers in the 80's who otherwise would not have cared for the show.

JNT was a producer, he didn't write any scripts. Don't hate JNT, the man saved Doctor Who after the terrible seasons in the late 70s, and he stayed on long after he wanted to quit just so the BBC wouldn't cancel the show.

Mr. JustAGuyWithALightsaber There weren’t any “terrible seasons in the late 70s”. There was a slight dip in quality near the end of Baker’s run but nothing as garbage as the typical 80s JNT garbage.

@@UnchainedEruption no such thing as a terrible season.. unless it was last years

Classically trained actor is forced to yell at the east Enders cast for charity 😭

@@Paccyd33 he loved it really

"Madam, WHAT YEAR IS THITH?!" 😂

At least a few of them were interested in appearing, but scheduling conflicts prevented that

She was the one who went up to The Rani and went "'ere, you leave 'er alone!".

I mean I think fandom really was expecting a lot out of a charity special made on donated time

It's not as far off the modern era, only they added the domestic life of Rose.

Could this mean...time travelling exists, or we were able to predict what will happen years later?

I'll say. It's so funny, even your avatar is laughing. 😉

She rescued Liz from the Rani!

MaddoxProductions1 ?

MaddoxProductions1 No, she's saying it to the Rani.

Big Ron's version was better

So glad I'm not the only one. I was so disappointed at the reveal that I haven't watched a single new series episode since.

Thomas Rayner fuck I thought it was after

^^this 😊