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Any hopes, dreams or no big deal.

I think the 50th anniversary should take the whole of Doctor Who history into account, utilizing characters since the early 60s.

I just hope they find some way to remember some of those who have passed. If not in the story maybe as a DVD extra. William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Ian Marter, John Nathan-Turner, Elisabeth Sladen, Anthony Ainley, Nicholas Courtney, Roger Delgada, Jacqueline Hill and Douglas Adams are a few that need to be remembered some way.

if they did something like the 5 doctors, i'm sure they could find footage for it, colorize some maybe. & i forget who the last 5 were at the top of my head. mind you i'm a bit tired so that's why i don't have any at the top of my head of who they were. though Christopher E. won't be doing this. cause he's a dumbass who only wanted to do 1 season! but i'm with everyone i dunno how they'd do something like this.

i'd LOVE to see Ian well of course an Older Ian. & of course an older Susan where we are with her grandkids. & it'd be funny if she called the young Matt Smith Grandfather. when he's clearly young enough to be her son. or grandson. i'm not sure on how old she is now. yet he's clearly older than her in the show. that'd make for some good comedy. cause let's face it a LOT of these older actors won't be around forever. weather it's from the 70's or 80's. D.W. and even going so far as the Doctor Who from the 60's especially the original cast.

i don't mean no special like they did but maybe a movie like they did with the 20th anniversary. or a 2 part episode?

it's be great that they'd bring everyone that they CAN back. just to give a nod to the original show. & let us know what the said original cast members are up to. like Zoe & Jamie who are MY favorite companions. yes i know they got the memory erased but timelines you see. since they are now older. there's nothing wrong with putting these people to certain things since they maybe can't move like they used to. like forgive me i'm tired the dude the played "Ian' he maybe wouldn't be able to do certain things like he did in the original show. also cause i'm to lazy & tired to start a NEW thread. i bought 'The Krotons' which is one of my favorite serials of the original show yesterday!

I'll tell you what I want (what I really, really want.) And that's an episode with McGann in it. Just the two of them, or one with McGann, Smith and either McCoy and Tennant. Any adventure with more than three doctors in it wouldn't work, Eccleston has ruled himself out of returning to the show and the Bakers are sadly too fat and grey.

A film version of The Ancestor Cell, with McGann's Grandfather Paradox regenerating into Eccleston, can wait until I win the lottery!

no i don't think he is. Christopher E. to him he ONLY wanted to do one season. regardless if the show was picked up for a 2nd season he was only signed up for one season. he had fun doing the show he's said that. but i don't think he think he was bigger than the show. to him he's been done with the since he finished filming it in what (2004) or (2005)

as for Tom Baker. in a way i think he was bigger than the show cause if you look at who's their favorite doctor they well most people it seems like will say Tom Baker. everyone has a favorite Doctor of course. i think Tom Baker and this is just my own opinion. yes he had bad ill towards the way he was treated at the end of his tenure. that also prolly led to him leaving the show as well.

it does seem like in recent years he's embraced the show again. i had thought i heard he was coming back to do the 50th even if he's fat and ugly. instead of skinny and ugly. let's face it he was at any age no model looking dude. oh hell even if he is near 80 now. they can i'm sure write that in some way. they did it with that short episode with Peter Davidson didn't they a few years back? he's heavier than he was back when he was on the show as well. and that's a great little special. in short anything's possible when it comes to Doctor Who. even ages.

if need be they could write around how old Tom Baker is now. and fat too. and i dunno maybe CGI him younger if they do the time split storylie or whatever it's called? either way i think anything can be done on Doctor Who. now if they put in the ones that have since passed away. that'd be more harder. old video of course. & maybe colorize some footage and splice together old footage to put it in the story. anything can be done on computer nowadays i'm sure. they already use CGI. either way i dunno how they'd do this so this is just speculation man.

I just don't think that age and weight will be that big of a deal for the real fan. I have no problem over looking both. I just want to see them together for what most likely be the last time for most of them.

oh i agree, it would be FANTASTIC to see Ian, Susan, Zoe, Jamie etc.. it'd be bloody fantastic! i'd love to see it cause it'd prolly be the VERY LAST time we'd ever see them on the show. since they are getting up there in years as well.

oh there's no doubt you know more about doctor who than I do. i was just going by what i think he said in an interview last year i read or it may have been this year? either way it's been awhile. so i may have gotten some of the stuff wrong. the sad thing is i recall didn't Jon Pertwee even say pretty much the same thing? that he'd love to do another one for the show after the 5 doctors was made? but for some reason or other he was NEVER asked back!

How many episodes do you think it willneed to be to do it right?

My news is late but two weeks ago Matt Smith hinted that at least multiple 50th anniversary stories are being done although Steven Moffat hasn't started writing them yet. Smith was also given some story plots for Series 8 which will probably mean Smith will be around at least another couple years.