Well I was first going to do this as one blog but due to the absolute huge length of time, or eras really, between the two runs of the time travelling Time Lord in his blue box it seemed more logical to me to have two separate blogs for the two eras.
I, as my father was along with many others, were absolutely over the moon, if your American that means very happy and then some, when we first heard that the Doctor was to FINALLY return. Of course we were none too sure as this was not the first time there had been whispers of the Doctor returning in his Tardis but would it ACTUALLY materialise this time round, ohh sorry for the pun!
Over time there was more and more talk and eventually it emerged in the tabloid press that Christopher Eccleston has been cast for the role and I remember pictures emerging of him looking like a Tom Baker style Doctor Who complete with BIG HAIR!! But, alas, this was not to be the case and he looked like someone you would meet down the local pub, or bar. Luckily the same would not be said about his character and this mad him enjoyable to watch with the talent that Mr Eccleston possessed.
Just as I had get used to him a remark he made on appearing on a Doctor Who Mastermind special and I realised that he had agreed to do just one series and that there would be someone else standing in very early on in the Doctor's return. I remember thinking how curious this was as you are going to bring back a British TV Icon like this and likely the biggest after such a long time would take a long time for the public to adapt, well those that remember the Doctor of old, like me. So to then have an actor only wanting to do one series seemed somewhat bizarre to my mind and you would have thought that they would have started with David Tennant from day one?!
But I dare say that behind the scenes would be something similar to that of the other great British icon of James Bond and how Pierce Brosnan was always destined to play the super spy and indeed was all but signed up for The Living Daylights and with a script by his bed he received a phone call to say that he was not going to be released form his contract and in stepped Timothy Dalton.
Oddly and as much as I loved David Tennant he did take me a couple of episodes to get used to him and you when I first glimpsed Matt Smith I thought this process would take much longer still?! But by the end of the Eleventh Hour I was sold, oh OK after the end of the SECOND WATCH of the Eleventh Hour but still!!
Currently and while typing this we have just reached ... THE END? ... of the current series, or i should say like we had last year the end of the first part of the series?? Yes we have this odd thing going on whereby each series seems to have a longer one that the last, except the first of course, and is now being split into TWO mini series?! Not quite sure why this has come about and I doubt the American buyers can be that happy as they prefer series with over 20 episodes in them, not 13, 12 or indeed 6. Still, if your as popular as The Doctor you can do as you please I dare say.
Worrying news that was happily disregarded is that Matt Smith was finding the schedule tough going, could explain for the two odd breaks in between the last two series? It also added that at the end of the next series he would be quitting which i find an odd thing for someone to state and sounded like a gambled attempt to guess this correctly to acquire the 'false' reputation as someone in the know to attract viewers/hits and such like. After all this is Matt Smith's third series and matches David Tennant for longevity currently and at the end of the NEXT series would be the longest running actor of the Later Years to play the Time Lord! So to state that the schedule is getting to him then what did it do to the PREVIOUS actors when Matt Smith is on the verge of being the longest serving actor?!
Still there will o doubt come a time when the current Doctor's escapades will come to an end and possibly, HOPEFULLY, someone else will step into those admired shoes, err or box!!
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