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Time Crash - Behind the Scenes - Part Ten

Excerpts from Benjamin Cook’s interview with writer Steven Moffat in DWM #389:

DWM: David and Peter's Doctors work together wonderfully, don't they? Steven Moffat: In honesty, I think it's partly because they both really want it to. I agreed to do this for Children in Need without actually knowing what I was saying yes to. 'Eight pages? How wrong can I go?' I bumped into David at some Chiswick House concert thing, and we were having a bit of a laugh, and drinking too much, and he said, 'We should get Peter back in,' because he really loves Peter, and loves his Doctor and all that. He was dead keen. I know Peter reasonably well, because Sue [Vertue, Steven's wife] worked with him for a while [as producer of 2006 sitcom Fear, Stress and Anger, starring Peter], so we're friends, and our families are friends, our kids are friends, and he's a big fan of the show. He loves watching Doctor Who, and he was keen to come in and do it. I knew that he wouldn't be resentful. There's enough commonality between their Doctors, I think, for it to work. They're sweet together.

Behind the Scenes of The Giggle - Part Twenty Six

Excerpt from Benjamin Cook’s interview with David and Ncuti in Doctor Who Magazine issue #599

DWM: Working with another Doctor for the first time seems like fun. Ncuti: “It is. I’m loving it.” David: “Me too.” DWM: Were you nervous? David: “You’re a little bit nervy, because… it’s weird, you’re thrust together and… you know, there’s no reason why one should necessarily get on or have any shared experience, but it does feel like you do.” Ncuti: “Mm!” David: “Because yeah, it feels like this very unique club to be a member of, and you want to enjoy the collegiality of that. The kind of… gang. The companionship. That exclusive club.” Ncuti: “Yes. Yes, yes! I mean, you’re my… David is my Doctor. He is the Doctor I grew up with, the one that I remember from my childhood. The one that we all remember from our childhoods! He’s the one that I have in my head. I hope that’s not offensive to any of the others. [Laughs]” David: “They’re not here, it’s fine.”

Behind the Scenes of The Star Beast - Part Twenty-Five

Excerpt from Paul Kirkley’s interview with the directors of the three 60th Anniversary Specials from DWM #589:

DWM: Was there a particular moment that made you stop and think: "This is a really mad way to make a living..." Rachel Talalay [ Director of The Star Beast ]: I think for me it was when we were filming outside with the Wrarth Warriors for the first time. There are these eight-foot tall monsters on stilts, in massive plastic suits, who couldn't see a thing and could barely stand up... so a classic Doctor Who situation. Then David [ Tennant ] comes along and says he wants a photograph with them. And he says, "That smell - that slightly rubbery smell is exactly everything I remember!" And I just thought, "It's amazing that this is my job."

Time Crash - Behind the Scenes - Part Eleven

Excerpts from the Radio Times interview with Peter Davison (2007):

"The idea of coming back to play the Doctor was mentioned to me casually a few months ago: would I be interested? And I said 'Yes!' I didn't really have to think about it, partly because it gives me such credibility with my children. They're huge fans of the new show. Before it came back, they were huge fans of the old Doctor Who videos they saw of me - but they very quickly changed their allegiance to the new Doctor! "I didn't realize then what form my role would take, just that there would be some kind of Children in Need appearance, a little scene. But it turned out to be a brilliant little scene.

Behind the Scenes of The Star Beast - Part Twenty-Seven

Excerpt from the SFX Doctor Who 60th Anniversary issue - Darren Scott’s interview with David Tennant:

[David Tennant] laughs when we ask the inevitable question for someone leaving the role of the Doctor: does he think he'll ever play him again? "I think it would be disingenuous to imagine that I might never be asked again because history would indicate that it was always a possibility. So I'm not going to say never because I don't think anyone would believe me. "That doesn't mean I know that I ever will. But I suppose until I can't run down a corridor it's always a possibility. But I promise to have no plans." If Patrick Stewart can run down a corridor as Jean-Luc Picard at 82, we're not taking any excuses from Tennant. "Oh, how nice. Maybe that should be my goal, to have one last outing as the Doctor at 82. I've got 30 years to wait.

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Behind the Scenes of The Girl in the Fireplace - Part 11

Unused excerpt from a version of the script for The Girl in the Fireplace:

The Doctor: How long d'you wait? Rose: Five and a half hours The Doctor: Great! Always wait five and a half hours. Where's my horse? Mickey pops his head out of the police box doors. He's got a shovel. Mickey: We are not keeping the horse! He disappears again. Rose: We're dropping him off in a field somewhere, okay? The Doctor: Okay! Next field we find. Rose: Good! The Doctor: And what about the horse? Rose: Funny guy! The Doctor: I know! Okay, into the TARDIS - with you in a sec!

Behind the Scenes of The Fires of Pompeii (Part Ten)

Excerpt from Nick Griffith's interview with writer James Moran for the Radio Times (12-18 April 2008):

It may come as some surprise that the people of Pompeii had no word in their vocabulary for "volcano". James Moran, writer of The Fires of Pompeii, explains, "There had been a big earthquake about 17 years before the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 and ever since, there had been lots of tremors, which they thought were the gods rumbling or shouting. They'd make an offering to the household gods every time there was a tremor. They just didn't know." Moran happens to have been a huge Who fan since childhood, which he imagined would make getting into the Doctor's head rather easy. Au contraire. "It was one of the hardest things I've ever had to write. They say that upfront: 'It's the hardest show to write for.' I thought, 'For everyone else, maybe; I think you'll find that I won't have any trouble!'" Some 20 deleted versions of David Tennant's opening line later, he admits, "I went mad for a while: over 40 years of history... eight million people watching every week... the ten-year old version of myself watching as well... I thought, 'Am I going to have to phone them up and say: I really appreciate this, but you'll have to find someone else, because I can't cope!'" He didn't, happily, as you will see. Indeed, James Moran came up with something rather explosive...

David Tennant dancing on the set of The Giggle - Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials

The Doctor doesn't even dance in the UNIT scene - this is all pure, joyous David Tennant