Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited DVD Volume 3 (Doctors 9–11).
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of television’s longest-running Sci Fi series with The Doctors Revisited TV Series, a BBC collection of authoritative tribute specials to the 11 actors who have played this iconic character.
This Doctors Revisited: Volume 3 showcases three exceptionally gifted performers, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Matt Smith. The year 2005 was an historic year in the world of Doctor Who. After a 17-year hiatus broken up only by 1996's one-off Doctor Who television movie, the series made a glorious return to television screens worldwide. The newly launched Doctor Who features impressive special effects, powerful stories, monsters new and newly conceived, and most important of all, a trio of engaging actors who each brought their own unique individuality to this iconic hero.
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat leads this exceptional review special of each actor's tenure as the Doctor (including interviews & clips from the show) followed by a thrilling 2-part story for each Doctor.
9th DOCTOR – CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON (Series 1, 2005)
Special commentators include Neil Gaiman (writer of “Nightmare in Silver”),
Marcus Wilson (Dr Who producer), Steven Moffat (Dr Who showrunner and writer),
Noel Clarke (plays Mickey Smith), Corey Johnson (plays Henry van Statten),
Nicholas Briggs (voice of the Daleks), Camille Coduri (plays Jacki Tyler), John
Barrowman (plays Captain Jack Harkness).
Sometime between Sylvester McCoy's Doctor besting Davros in “Rembrance of the Daleks” (see “The Doctors Revisited 5–8”) and Christopher Eccleston's Doctor meeting Rose, Gallifrey is obliterated (as the Doctor mentions in episode 1.2 “The End of the World”). Eccleston's Doctor has a deep down haunted seriousness that we haven't seen before, making him a totally modern Doctor. As Moffat says, to end the Time War, the Doctor “commits double genocide. He does it for the best of reasons… But that is a terrible wound in him.” This Doctor has not a hint of the absent-minded professor about him.
This special is followed by the two part story made up by “Bad Wolf” and
“The Parting of the Ways”, the 12th and 13th (final) episodes of
Eccleston's Dr Who.
Something very very strong plucks the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack off the
TARDIS and onto a space station orbiting Earth 200,000 years in the future.
They don't know that at first. They don't even know where the others are. The
theme is game shows – Rose lands as a contestant on “The Weakest Link”,
Captain Jack meets Trine-e and Zu-Zana in “The Makeover”, and the Doctor is
dumped into “Big Brother House”. Just like the real shows, millions of
watchers on Earth watch contestants answer incorrectly or they vote which
contestants have to go. Unlike the real shows, the consequences are deadly. Rose
doesn't take her game seriously until Fitch loses and Ann Droid, the quiz show
host, zaps her into nothingness. “Big Brother House” has a vote, and the
Doctor sees the evicted contestant disintegrated…
10TH DOCTOR – DAVID TENNANT (2005 Christmas Special, and Series 2,3 & 4, through the 2-part Christmas Special 12/09–01/10)
The special is followed by the linked “The Stolen Earth” and
“Journey's End”, the last two episodes of Series 4 (2008).
…Skip to FAR ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, New York, Earth. Martha Jones picks herself
up after the earthquake flung her around at UNIT HQ. Then we see Rose, with a
gun bigger than any Supersoaker beam into London. Sarah Jane and her son rush to
their computer to find out what caused the upheaval. And Captain Jack, at
Torchwood HQ, weapons up to investigate. All four look up into the sky and see
the same impossible sight. Earth went from sunshine in the middle of the day to
darkness as in the middle of night. And the sky is filled with the presence of
26 other planets. Who would have the power to move 26 planets around the
universe? And, more important, why?..
11TH DOCTOR – MATT SMITH (Series 5, 6 & 7, and 50th Anniversary Special “The Day of the Doctor”, in total 2010–2013)
The Special is followed by “The Impossible Astronaut” and “Day of the
Moon”, episodes 1 & 2 of Series 6 (2011).
Amy, Rory and River receive mysterious TARDIS-blue invitations to appear at a
specific date, time and location in, of all places, the Valley of the Gods, SE
Utah. They arrive to find the Doctor, who gives them a picnic on Lake Powell.
The Doctor tells his friends, “I've been running. Faster than I've ever run,
and I've been running my whole life. Now its time for me to stop. And tonight,
I'm going to need you all with me.” He's just told them that they're all
going to 1969, because “a lot more happens in 1969 than anyone remembers.”
When, of all things, an astronaut walks out of the lake and shoots the Doctor
dead. As in Dead dead, not regenerating. Strangeness continuing, an old man
arrives with a can of gasoline. He shows them his TARDIS-blue invitation for
Canton Everett Delaware III, burns the Doctor's body, and leaves, telling the
three companions, “I won't be seeing you again. But you'll be
seeing me.”…
3 disc collection.