The Three Doctors Unite! | The Three Doctors | Doctor Who | BBC 

almost from the beginning, even 1st wore a version of it!

Always and forever

Perfect Explanation!!!!!

I also think that the doctor may have spent the longest time in his first body as the first doctor is an old man so we can assume he’s aged in that body for a while also it must take a few hundred years for a time lord to age into old age assuming he stays in the same body for long enough, like when Matt smith spent approximately 300 years on a planet and only looked like a man in his 70s.

@Panda. Beautifully put. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Hold that comment for one more dsy. When Chibnall retcons the first doctor being a black woman

@@dimitris6258 no, he didn't. That was just a conclusion someone drew up without watching throughout the whole episode. In fact, The Doctor says that she can remember all her past incarnations and she said that she doesn't remember the black female version of herself. My guess is that this "Doctor" is really The Valeyard. Or maybe the first regeneration of The Valeyard. The Master said way back in the 80s that The Valeyard is an amalgamation of the darker sides of The Doctor's nature created somewhere between The Doctor's 12th and final incarnation. Meaning that the events of the episode, "Fugitive of the Judoon" was just one part of a collaborative plot by both The Master and The Valeyard with The Master being the brains behind all this, of course. And that black female Doctor was acting pretty dark and could've killed the Judoon who were arresting her had the 13th Doctor not stepped in. All these clues lead to that "Doctor" actually being The Valeyard.

Better than nothing.

It wasnt just for the show but to honor what he made the show become. Without Hartnell their would be no Dr. WHO.

The strokes actually occurred in early 1975. At this point, his health had been going downhill for years due to arteriosclerosis.

​@@Sasfoot And that arteriosclerosis caused the dementia that inspired the regeneration concept and the Doctor's alien origins.

@@Desmaadnah, The Doctor was an alien long before his first regeneration. Susan brings up she comes from another planet during Dalek Invasion Of Earth and The Doctor outright contemplated returning back to his home planet at the end of The Massacre

Joseph Heston war of the granddads 🤣🤣🤣

They’re basically teens trying to be older than they are XD

Now that’s when u know he’s THE Doctor, the rest are just his rebirths 😂

If i could ammend that statement only the Doctor could insult himself twice in one shot in style while weaing a bow tie!

@@Drp_br_ *regenerations, different but yeah

Hartnell was always the best doctor.

Apparently, he was reading his lines from a teleprompter... He was too ill to remember them... 😕

A nice way to end his Doctor.

@@TristanPignon He still nailed the delivery.

@@Ray-mw1fx Nothing can beat the originals lol

One thing I've learned about the guy; he's happiest when he berating people.

He was probably happy being back on Doctor Who, he loved the show

Yea I think he realized this would be the last time he’d ever play the character...and he did a wonderful job! Good to see that the 2nd and 3rd Doctors Met him :’)

They said that it fell hard on him when he had to pass on the role and was quite reluctant to, as he'd grown to love it so much despite having doubts when he had first been offered the role.

That was the last scene he ever did as an actor before he died

Way better than the doddering senile idiot that Moffat and some extra material depicts him as. If the first doctor ever appears again, his personality should be this cantankerous and assertive.

He wanted to make the most of it.

"Ah, so you're my replacements, a dandy and a clown"

1:18 So, stop dilly-dallying... and CROSS IT!

@@sovietonion72 😒nice trolling

@@sovietonion72 this was William Hartnell! My mum and dad watched this as kids in the early 70s

It seems a Doctor thing to sass his future self. I guess it is his way of keeping his future in line.

nodreb123 I get the feeling there was some subtle commentary there on the inefficiency of bureaucracy. Whenever politicians tell you, “well we’ve assessed the situation,” they really mean, “we’ve done nothing about it.”

@@UnchainedEruption I was about to reply with something similar! 🤣

Well it's not easy, you know

@@RedJLP not as if we knew what that stuff is

10 was actually "Sandshoes", 11 was "Chinny" and War was "Granddad"

Niceguy3210 That was the Eleventh Doctor, not the First (and I think chinny was Ten's). Why would the First doctor call War "Granddad"?

***** 12. Eyebrows.

+Bryant Langmuir Hey, "Scarfy"'s not a nice name for Curls. It's almost as bad as "Celery chap" for Fratboy. And I don't think Leaper would like the name of "Pretty Boy."

+Nathaniel Robinson (Nathaniel Ryan Robinson) It's the day of the of the doctor reference.

Actors of that generation seemed to have incredible jowls. You don’t see it so much these days with all the botox!

Well, he does look like one of The 3 Stooges.

I'd cover my ears. :)

My head would likely explode

Seán Maxwell yep

The universe would fold in upon itself!

Why yes, Yes I Can.

+DarkHunter514 The other two Doctors did not find it funny.

It's aspects of themselves they do not like.

It's find it great to watch these kinds of episodes.

Him! HIM!

+MannyGentleman LOL XD!

SaviourMK2 I'd watch the entire run of 36 seasons with these two bickering.

Bob Dallas better story than the timeless child

I would watch 67 seasons with these two bickering

We need a crossover between Colin Baker, Christopher Eccleston and Peter Capaldi for 10 times the bickering.

It's really quite endearing, isn't it?

I applause you I wish i made that reference first!

+Jarek Gunther That reference belongs in a 5 Doctors video or the trailer to the Big Finish 50th Anniversary (where 8 of them all appear at once).

10th: Stop it

The fact that this comment has 69 thumbs up as of my making this comment is perfect.

Doctor Bane I was gonna like but then I noticed. 😂😂

at least they had some really fun dialogues between Matt Smith, David Tenant and John Hurt ^^ loved how John's comment about Smith's flapping his hands so much xD

War Doctor: who on earth was that 10 and 11: me....ME!!!!

Mr Critical The War Doctor only exists because Eccleston refused to come back. He wouldn’t be in the episode if the 9th was there. Imagine the Ninth going to destroy the world and interact with the entity which looks like Rose, and then this means he later went to see Rose in his regular time stream for a much deeper reason than just happening upon her.

Why not just bring 8 back? he has almost no screen time and surely would be willing.

Zarrg They could have done that, but apparently they underestimated how many people would actually want to see 8 again.

I agree. He is in my top 3 of doctors along with Pertwee and Smith. I was great to see him in all his glory in the recent Dr Who with Clara.

I saw this when I was still at School it was a bitter sweet moment seeing William as the Doctor once more but at the same time realising I probelly never see his Doctor again.

@@stephenhall6595 kinda sad that most of his and troughtons episodes are lost

hartnell in this is only 3 years older than capaldi now....

Even sadder this is also his last appearance as an actor overall before he passed away. Kinda bittersweet his last role is a role reprise of the First Doctor tbh.

You can called 10th and 11th in the same way. :)

I LOVE the way Patrick Troughton's face fell after that "dandy and a clown" line xD

And instead of looking elderly and ill, Chris would look annoyed and disinterested. I am going to hell for this joke.

Imagine the nicknames 9 would give to his 9 past incarnations and his 4 future incarnations

spongeyspikes09 9th: oh so you're my replacements a egotistical atention seeking emo (10th) and a clown (11th)

10th: Oh so you're my replacements. A baby faced brainiac (11th) and Mr angry eyebrows. (12th)

3: Oh, so you are my replacement... Teeth and curles = 4

War: Ohh so you’re my replacements: sand-shoes & chinny

5 was more of a public.schoolboy than a dandy- he wore a bloomin' cricket outfit after all

It was also completely unnecesary

Amen brother (or sister) I dont acknowledge 13th the doctors were 1-12

Simple fix is just have it be a genetic memory that can be seen using the matrix on any timelord, and that a side effect of the machine is that it also created false memories and incarnations

What about the Other theory? If reincarnation is a thing among Time Lords, then the Timeless Child can be from the Dark Times and reincarnated as the Other, (alongside Rassilon and Omega) who is then reincarnated as the Doctor. That's how I'm choosing to look at it.

Another reason why Chibnall is just such a shit producer.

Hmm... 4: a slacker. 5: a child (or an idiot for a Kinda reference). 6: an egotist (though clown would fit too considering his costume). 7: Machiavellian (?). 8: could be considered a dandy too, perhaps a pretty boy. War Doctor: abhorrent. 9: a thug. 10: ...Compensation? 11: a manchild.

Hi nepomusik. The comment the First Doctor made was actually intended to be the other way round, so he was calling the Second Doctor the "dandy" and the Third Doctor the "clown". Hope that clears things up for you.

Aspie183 No, he got it right. The 3rd Doctor is the Dandy.

Jay Kay 10: compensation for what?

Jay Kay You see, I think he'd approve of Eccleston's Doctor! Serious, no dallying about, gets the job done, a bit hard fisted but not to worry! The others, on the other hand, I quite agree! (Although I think McCoy and Tennant's Docs would probably be referred to as "Show Offs")

Whoops

they didn't want the secret to be known duh... plus there's a high possibility that only the 3 creators knew about the doctor's history and how the regeneration thing really began. The others probably truly believed that hartnell was the first face of the doctor... your theory is easily explained

​@Okay but the fact that it needs such a convoluted explanation is just bad storytelling. Its the same with the War Doctor, sure you can get behind the idea and its probably a fun idea but really thinking about Every Doctor after 8 being the number of regenerations +1 is rather dumb. Like, Comic Book Levels Dumb.

Theyve never said Ruth was pre-Hartnell

@ the time-lords were using a time-stream measuring device. even without a measuring device, even if they were "lied" to, that is the earliest doctor. Chibnall just made a mistake by forgetting this part of the three doctors story.

He was a treasure of facial expressions "DOCTOR, WE HAVE TO EVACUATE!!!" "Worry not Jamie, it's a small explosion it'll only affect the island -" "Mebbe so but we happen to be on the island!" 😏 -> 😒 -> 😱 OH MY WORD!

***** Kind of pointless, if you ask me. I can understand not wanting to get typecast as one particular role, but the fact is, when you play a role as big as the Doctor, that's what you're going to be remembered for above all else, and it'll be the same with Eccleston when all's said and done. This is all epically true here in the USA, since most everything these actors have done apart from DoctorWho isn't so well known either. When Eccleston's old and tired, no matter what else he did, DW is going to be the role that people ask him about, as opposed to, say, his 3 or 4 episodes of Heroes.

aunchient pistol only thing I know him from is Thor: The Dark World. Unfortunately as one of many pointless and forgettable Marvel villains

He was in the first GI Joe movie as Deathstro but didn’t come back for the sequel which makes no sense as the first one ended with him getting his iconic metal head and we never see it in action

Robert. Why are you in OK CORRAL!?

@Aunchient Pistol: I know Eccleston was Malekith, the dark elf, in _Thor: The Dark World._

Multiple personal disorder at its finest.

You my good commenter has just given me a 1000 angst fic ideas :)

"Typical. Absolutely typical." - Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge Stewart

It's pretty ironic

They're the doors to the TARDIS inner systems!! D'oh! (Moffat's writing really gets me sometimes)

DarthRushy Yeah, I know they are. Six pulled one out of the wall I remember to fix his chameleon circuit on the TARDIS.

Even thought you could tell he was frail, he still had the best lines in the entire story.

He wasn't that old at the time, just in very bad health. He was only 64 at the time.

I know that but at the time he was very bad at remembering lines so he was reading off prompt cards. He wanted to be in it for the kids. His parts were pre-recorded and inserted in later. His Cerebrovascular disease was preventing him from doing a LOT and later in the same year of this being broadcasted, he was hospitalised permanently. THAT is the point of my comment.

At times he had completely forgotten that he played the character

Radlers: Jack yeah, I wonder what Hartnell would think about his appearance in this episode.

He probably would’ve seen it as his one last hoorah and would’ve thanked Hurndall and Bradley for continuing his legacy

3 should have remembered he cheated at the coin toss thing when he was 2.

@@MichaelBradley1967 he did, that's why three just accepted it

@@adscott27 So 2's cheating is a "fixed point"?

@@MichaelBradley1967 Not at all the case actually. The way they avoid time paradoxes with Doctors meeting each other is that time will eventually "fix" itself, iron itself out so to speak, and only the most recent (or, in-universe, oldest) Doctor will remember anything that happened. Otherwise these stories just wouldn't work logically because the Third Doctor would already know how to solve the problem since he would've seen it as Two, who would have been involved as One, etc...

@Missy20201 I was making a joke, but that's the in-joke they had in Time Crash. Tennant only knew what to do because Davison watched him doing it.

Dale Baker what was wrong with him?

Health issues. Far as he got in production was recorded footage like here and the promotional images

But what about the footage at 0:17 He Is Literally Standing Up Walking Around Old Footage? Maybe

He could have seen something similar in his lifetime that they forgot.

the second doctor costume and resemblece to him, and the fact that the tadis had change

RaineV1 HOW COULD THEY FORGET THIS?!?

KwontumFisix A LOT of years!!!

That is of course the paradox...The First Doctor is often considered to be the oldest, wisest and most experienced - but of course he isn't. The most recent reincarnation will always have the most experience and knowledge. (In fact asking the first Doctor for help is akin to asking your Great Grandfather to help reprogram your computer for you....) I guess you just have to "ignore the elephant in the room" for this one - and instead concentrate on the character's traditional portrayal as fatherly, wise and protecting.

Well, he actually got to live out his life and mature. Each doctor is essentially a new man. New life cycle. I think they need to mature and grow into the bodies a but

RetroGuy3210 of course. He's the 1st

That doesn’t mean they suddenly become less smart. They change, but they remember everything they’ve done and can’t forget knowledge.

MaddoxProductions1 agreed

I like Troughton's reaction at 0:45 when Hartnell appears. Priceless.

Morbius Fitzgerald A Beatle who could outwit many and a Liberace who used moves similar to Steven Segal, minus the fatal injuries.

3baxcb ...Pretty much.

+Morbius Fitzgerald Good names

+Morbius Fitzgerald Better than Grandad and Sandshoes

+Morbius Fitzgerald Better than Grandad and Sandshoes

Forgive my shoddy memory, but I'm fairly sure there was a throwaway line by the Time Lords about trying to grab another future Doctor (since, if they grabbed two from the past, it should be possible) but having trouble getting a lock on the timestream or some other excuse.

@@elliot20201 Please, if this is ever remastered again, slap in some footage of them attempting to grab, say, a baffled Paul McGann.

Its pertwee the dandy and througthon the clown

@@-Marius I always assumed it was going off of their appearances, and I guessed Troughton was being called the dandy cuz Pertwee looks more like a clown

@@Glacial7 Pertwee look like more like an dandy too me with his coat ,his shirt and his bow tie . Trougthon is clown because he wear oversized cloths,got a red hankies in his brest pocket , play with a recorder and always making joke. Sorry for bad english

The Second Doctor is the clown since he was portrayed as being a silly sort of man in comparison to the more serious First Doctor. Three's the dandy since he was always well dressed.

because of the time passed it cant be done anymore 1-3 are no longer with us!

@@julieeverett7442 Unless we actually invent a time machine. Maybe for the 100th anniversary

maybe!

Ethan I'd been under the assumption that the entire reason John Hurt was hired in the first place was simply because Eccleston refused any involvement.

fyi, they weren't cardboard cutouts, they were real people in the doctors suits with the faces later put in

I fail to see how that is any better.

Bryce Lozier Based on the comments in the story "Dalek" I've thought that another regeneration, not The Ninth Doctor, ended the Time War, but The Ninth Doctor had to live with the emotional damage of those actions. To me, although The War Doctor might have been inserted in between The Eighth and Ninth Doctor due to Eccleston's apparent refusal to return, The War Doctor was such a strong character that he felt like a natural part of the story and not just as a place holder. I put much of the credit for this John Hurt's performance. Despite his short on-screen time, he came across someone who had lived through The Time War and was finally pushed to his limit.

I just think Eccleston doesn't care about doctor who like the others, to him it was just a job

Yes, despite already having health problems during his time on Who, he looked a bit better then. But at least he was still willing to play a minor pre-filmed part in "The Three Doctors" so he could appear as the First Doctor one last time.

Ironically in some exterior shots of this story the tardis exterior prop doesn't have the interior entrance and only has the back of the exterior prop

I guess it was just because he was the first....?

I think the idea is the FIRST doctor is also, IRONICALLY, the most MATURE and COMMANDING Doctor. While each of the Doctors take CHARGE the 1st is better able to think CLEARER because of it. The others tend to be TOO GOOFY for lack of a better phrase to really take command. The Second and Third are shown not able to LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE here due to their SQUABBLING. It REQUIRES the 1st Doctor's intervention. A shared STARTING POINT may also be the reason. Each of the Doctors had to be the FIRST. There has so far been no Doctor to show any DISRESPECT to the FIRST. This could be because the FIRST WAS well THE ORIGINAL. While I think some might find the First DISTASTEFUL they also RECOGNIZE his LEGITIMACY as them. They can "get over it" unlike what the 2nd and 3rd seem to do. So technically IN UNIVERSE one can argue he has the MOST EXPERIENCE, CAN THINK THE CLEAREST, IS RESPECTED BY THE OTHER DOCTORS, AND CAN FORCE THE DOCTOR TO WORK WITH HIMSELF. That's how I justify it.

not so. The 1st Doctor had lived about 743 years as himself before regeneration, while the 2nd Doctor only existed a mere 3 years before the Time Lords forced a 3rd regeneration and the 3rd Doctor also existed about 3 years when he encountered his previous selfs during this crisis. So even though the 2nd and 3rd has the memories and the accumulated knowledge of the 1st they're both lacking in personal actual experience which is why the 1st Doctor can take charge, with the confidence of true experience and age.

KAO S Hm, interesting theory.

KAO S Not sure where you got that because the second doctor in the tomb of the cybermen is around 450

First Doctor again: so you’re my replacements a Scotsman and a blond

More like 'sandshoes' and 'chinny'

Mr Critical you know, thinking about this comment, technically, he could be addressing either Six and Seven or Twelve and Thirteen.

The earliest doctor that the 2nd and 3rd knew

@@sarachin4945 That's not what the Time Lord said.

Chibnal must not be a fan, he would have known this scene otherwise

no the EARLIEST doctor!

Funguy31 yea tbh

I've always found it brilliant that the 1st Doctor (Despite being the youngest) seems to always be in charge when they come together.

JamminMage I think it's because he was the longest-lived of all his incarnations (with the possible exception of Matt Smith's Doctor) so technically, he was actually the oldest personality among them.

JamminMage I agree. In "The Five Doctors" The First Doctor was the one who figured out what was going on and defeated the enemy.

Kartissa Don't forget the Seventh Doctor, who also lived to old age. Or the Eighth Doctor and his bajillion audio dramas.

DarthRushy The First Doctor started the series as an old man, while the Eighth was still fairly youthful in the short prequel where he regenerated into the War Doctor. And if you're relying on non-television sources, you can trace a fairly consistent timeline of the Seventh through the Virgin New Adventures by the development of his companions. Timewyrm: Genesys begins shortly after Survival, because Ace is still a teenager, and Lungbarrow ends with the Doctor being given a mission to retrieve the Master's remains from Skaro, which occurs at the start of the movie.

@TheWhoLockManiac he got them attack eyebrows

@E. Motion not if 9th doctor barge in. He is tougher than 12th. He always calls human "ape" when someone did something stupid

New Doctor Who is pretty good too, it's just different. Maybe even better in some ways (series 1-4)

I don't think anybody is saying it's not. What a weird comment.

He got to meet Troughton while filming the regeneration scene at the end of "The Tenth Planet" in 1966...

Also Jon Pertwee died at the age of 76, switch the numbers and you get 67. Richard Hurndall who played the First Doctor in The Five Doctors also died of a heart attack at the age of 74. All four actors died of heart problems at an age where there as a 7 in it. Guess it's not as lucky as a number people think it is.

GhostPirate6 must be why when 7's era began, the show got cancelled after a few seasons with him. So,you are correct in your assumption that 7 is unlucky.

The Game Lords And Sylvester McCoy's era started in 198*7*. Probably also the reason why the non-canon 30th Anniversary ending up being the weird episode of "Dimensions in Time" instead of them writing a probably better episode called "The Seven Doctors".

Yeah. This getting creepy. Probably won't get a 17th doctor

Conspiracy anyone?

The Doctor*

Both are technically correct as the old series actors were credited as playing "Doctor Who" in the end credits.

Stallion'o War A long lasting error that the new series and several cases in the classic series successfully corrected. He is not "Doctor Who," just "The Doctor." Doctor Who is a question.

Peter Cushing was good at playing doctor who :)

Christopher Harper Yes, but at the beginning, the actors were all credited as well as Eccleston and at the end of Parting Of The Ways David Tennant were all called "Doctor Who" in the credits. It was only until 10th doctor came along that the credits stated "The Doctor - ____".

um I'm not sure where you got that but the three doctors was in 1973

Because the time lines are out of sync 1 and 2 can’t retain memories of this story

its probably like how say when you're 40 you won't remember everything you used to know when you were at school