Doctor Who: Season 23 (1986). The Terrible Timing of the Trying, Tiring Trial of a Timelord. 

"Ow...ow...ow my balls" 😂

Listen to the Big Finish audio dramas. Old Sixie (as the actor calls him) is a fan favourite in those.

From the start he was given a companion who looked good but could only ever argue with him. Light moments of companionship between the two of them would have helped.

This era of Doctor Who was not bad. Stop thinking it was because Michael Grade told you.

@@kennethraymondmoore Michael Grade later ate sh** when Dr Who returned to be one of the biggest and most popular BBC shows. *ahem until Jodie.

​@@purefoldnz3070Jodie's seasons are awful (not her fault; Chibnall is to blame) but it's a bit remiss to not acknowledge that the show's ratings were already in the toilet by Moffat's final season.

Have you even seen Doctor in Distress...?

@@stephenderry9488 about forty years ago.

I had the pleasure of seeing him as Sherlock Holmes recently. A great performance, very charismatic; with perfect comic timing where appropriate.

@@stephenderry9488 It's still better than K9 and Company theme!

Couldn't act....out of a wet paper bag.....😂

Basically they messed up the timeline.... It would have made more sense if Mindwarp had happened BEFORE The Mysterious Planet and The Doctor had originally got to Peri in time. After The Doctor found out about The Mysterious Planet The Timelords went back and took him out of his timeline during Mindwarp leaving Peri high and dry. - The Doctor shouldn't have known anything of The Mysterious Planet during his trial. - I like Terror of the Vervoids but The Doctor choosing those events to prove he shouldn't be convicted seems foolish and destined to lead to the charge of genocide. Saving Terror of the Vervoids for the next season and picking a different story {perhaps Graham Williams "Nightmare Fair" with Mel instead of Peri} for the third story of ToaTL would have made more sense. - Paradise Towers, Delta and the Bannermen, and even Dragonfire would have worked perfectly well with Colin Baker - Dragonfire could have seen him regenerate into McCoy at the end of episode 1 beginning of episode 2. Time and the Rani is an atrocity.....Terror of the Vervoids would have been a much better season opener.

If violence was an issue, the people hating Colin's era must loathe a lot of the modern series' scare tactics, visuals and metaphors. Especislly Mary Whitehouse.

@@ShamrockParticle Mary Whitehouse would have to be hating the new series via a Clairvoyant, having died 20 odd years ago.

Reminiscent of the scene I always remember from "Ark in Space" (Tom Baker's second story) where the actor really sold the terror at seeing his infected hand - despite the fact that it was clearly just covered with green bubble wrap!

@@johnpotts8308 DW was sold to me by the actors, not the special effects. If they believed what was going on, so did I.

@@diverguy3556 *EXACTLY!*

He wasn't a good supporter of new writers, he'd leave them to it and work on his own things instead of editing their scripts which you'd think would be in his job description. He was also overly enamored with Bob Holmes, who was passed his best days and a tiny bit old fashioned with the racial theories. Regards to your wife.

Exactly. I really can't imagine anyone with enough gumption to tell a larger than life character like Brian Blessed, what to do -- or how to behave -- under any circumstances ! 😄😁😝🤣👍🏽👍🏽

I think it's underrated and Pip and Jay's best. Have you seen the version without the Trial scenes?

@@JeremiahEcks777 It works just as good with or with out the trial. I like the whole trial story with all its cringe /cheese .

Keeps us going, mate.

All the actors have given 110%. They all deserve praise for the efforts.

The perm was JNT’s idea, like the jacket.

Me too!!

Also, I believe at that time the BBC (no doubt inspired by Thatcher) started outsourcing most of their production and stopped having the old in-house producers system anymore. I think JNT was one of the last and they wanted to make him so miserable he would just quit.

So why apologise? This season is fantastic and only a simpleton would think otherwise.

I do like Stam's voice. But even more than an Aussie, what Doctor Who RU-vid needs is more singing Daleks. Personally, I'm a fan of Council of Geeks' Doctor Who takes too.

One of my thoughts in trying make sense of the first part of series 12 was that's who the Fugitive Doctor was!

Jayston is a class act

I think it was even worse for us here in Britain because we were already overexposed to Bonnie Langford before she even started in Dr Who, and she was exactly as bad as we expected her to be.

If you really want to lose ALL respect for Grade, watch his interview on the Season 22 box set. Although he knew that the point of the interview was to provide insight and background regarding his decision to cancel Doctor Who, instead he puts on a pompous air and trolls the interviewer by feigning almost complete ignorance on the timeline and specific details of the cancellation

@@froggacuda1605 So he was incompetent at his job, conniving as a boss and petulant in retirement - what a complete smeg head.

@@froggacuda1605 A sharp contrast to the way Lew Grade handled "The Prisoner".

Lew Grade was actually his Uncle by the way, not his Dad, although of course they were all part of the same family really so then too. Thank you there though too.

I do kinda like that The Timeless Child can pretty much add context to many bizarre Classic Who moments. It's part of why I actually like the idea itself, despite its mixed execution, over the whole Hybrid arc in series 9.

@@AroAceGamer Yeah I think I came around after I started to figure out how much extra context it adds to some of my favourite parts of the classic run.

Gosh. Something that makes the whole Timeless Child thing less FUBARed.

"Take my hand".

Terrible. He was very insecure. I felt bad for him. None of his suggestions were being taken. He looked nervous. He was very concerned about his performance.

I met Colin. He’s a really, really nice guy.

It's the one I watch the most and the blu-ray also has a special edit that removes the trial bits and adds footage trims from the original. It's first rate

All of the Doctors, with the exception of Tom Baker, were like a band of brothers. Not to say that Tom is a bad guy, very far from it. He is a shy and gentle soul.

@@lakecountynaturalist7617 Their introverted brother/cousin

The Capaldi Era was great. What was your issue with it?

For me neither Davison nor Colin Baker were given challenging material. As for Capaldi, his stuff was so rough emotionally I don’t know how he didn’t start drinking.

You can’t blame the actor if he’s given poor material. They can only do so much.

JNT is fully responsible. He is the producer and oversees everything.

As an American, I have to say that Mel was an incredible breath of fresh air after the unbearably whiny Peri. Americans used to wonder why they had hired a British actress to do a really bad fake "American" accent. Nicola's interviews on the box set explained it; she had misled the BBC into thinking she was actually from the US and no one at the BBC recognized how fake her accent actually was! The saddest part is that Nicola's fake accent is what caused her to always sound painfully whiny and her real British voice isn't whiny at all.

Chalk it up to Mr. Personality: JNT.

Fortunately, Big Finish put Mel and computer skills to better use.

Don't have that problem now of course, unless you want to watch an episode of a show cancelled or bowdlerized by the BBC (the deleted episode of The IT crowd, for example)

If you listen carefully there's an implication the valeyard is some kind of shadow or temporal doppelganger of the Doctor, so maybe he can survive the Doctor's demise. Which just makes the whole thing more muddled and nonsensical.

@@cygil1 i disagree. The master claims that The Valeyard is “an amalgamation of everything that is bad about the Doctor”. It’s a real stretch to “listen closely” to that. You make it sound like The Master said it was bigeneration, or something.