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Doctor Who Magazine Issue 413Peter! The Caves of Androzani is officially the most popular Doctor Who story ever!
Wow! Fantastic! Please do give my thanks to everyone at DWM, and to all the readers who voted for it..."
Give that you're a fan of the new Doctor Who episodes, what competition from the most recent few series do you think Caves might have been up against at the top?
The one that springs to mind, I suppose, is The Empty Child, probably... also I love the end of David's first season [Doomsday]. with Rose's 'death'. I love that the show is now written by the people who watched it when it was on in the old days, and that's what's given the show a second life. Of course, the truth is that the standard of writing is now very, very high. In those days, yes, we'd get some good writers - I loved Eric [Saward]'s scripts, and Bob Holmes, and quite a few others as well. But there were a few people wod'd be writing Softly, SoftlyCausality one week, and then Doctor Who the next, and you didn't geel that they really revelled in the possibilities Doctor Who presented, in the way that I think they do now. You get the sense with Russel's and Steven's scripts, for instance, that they're glorying these possibilities.
Were you aware, at the time, of the quality of Caves?
I think you immediately knew when you read the sсript, that it was a very good Doctor Who story - it was a Bob Holmes sсript, and he was one of the writes that you dreamed of having on Doctor Who. And I think a lot of elements came together, Graeme Harper directing it, probably more than anything else... I felt he gave the directing side of it a boot up the bottom, really. It wasn't anything that was wrong with Doctor Who as such, it was just the way television was made in those days, it was a very static format.
People didn't think in terms of action or pace so much, and a lot of scenes in dramas then - Doctor Who included - would start off with static shots, people standing around saying lines and then moving off. Graeme's philosophy - and also my feeling, although I was incapable of putting it into action other than running down corridors - was that it needed pace and it needed energy. So it was frustrating in previous stories, when things were cut a bit loosely. Graeme's input, and the fact that it was a great sсript, really lifted it, I think.
Did you think that Caves would be so well remembered, 25 years on?
Well, of course, at the time we didn't realise how close Doctor Who was to being taken off the air, but I don't know if I ever really thought about it. As I think David Tennant will be finding out now, it's a traumatic experience to leave Doctor Who, even if it's your own decision. So I didn't really watch Doctor Who after I left, until it came back, of course - and I always thought it would.
But it's hard to watch - I doubt that many of the Doctors have watched their successors, it's a tough thing to do. Part of you feels that when you say that you're leaving, the producers ought to say: "Oh well, we'll just call the whole thing off!" [Laughs] As though you're irreplaceable! You know it's not going to happen, but there's part of you that thinks they should just finish it off! But I was very, very happy to finish on this one - because after all the ups and downs over three years, and there having been some stories which were frustrating for various reasons, whether they'd been hit by strikes or they just didn't really live up to their promise, it was really great to finish on a story where everything just came together.
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12.11.2009 в 21:55Мало того, что мне постоянно хочется пересмотреть эру Третьего, так еще и Caves теперь. Пфф, оно все дома! Чувствую, как приеду на каникулы, как засяду, как разобидятся на меня друзья и родственники...
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12.11.2009 в 21:59Люблю его.
Спасибо!
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12.11.2009 в 22:02Но я рано или поздно доберусь до сканера!
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12.11.2009 в 22:03