The next biggest problem was Frazer Hines—Second Doctor companion Jamie—who had to drop out after he couldn’t get out of obligations to his job as one of the stars of soap opera Emmerdale Farm.
You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. And Sarah Jane Smith, slated for the Fourth Doctor (who had dropped out anyway), met up instead with the Third. Saskatchewan’s doctors officially have a new deal with the province. A LIVE never-before-seen hilarious riffing of the 1983 Doctor Who feature length episode The Five Doctors. "The Five" on Fox News Channel airs weekdays at 5 p.m.
So, given that Susan shows up in “The Five Doctors” for the first time since that parting scene 18 and a half seasons ago, you’d think that there might be some fireworks. The Beatle-haired, Chaplainesque, second Doctor is removed from the grounds of UNIT H.Q.. Borusa uses his headgear, the Coronet of Rassilon, to compel the Doctor to his bidding. Borusa reveals he seeks to be the President Eternal of Gallifrey and needed the Doctors to disable the force field over the Tomb as to gain immortality from Rassilon's Ring and rule forever. The elderly, first Doctor is taken out of Wimbledon Garden. A mysterious and unseen villain dressed like an evil wizard begins to kidnap each incarnation of the Doctor, along with a handful of his old companions, and strands them in the Death Zone, a legendary and dangerous place on his home planet of Gallifrey where the Time Lords once held bloodsports pitting aliens they kidnapped from across time and space against each other. The dashing, dandy, white-haired, James Bond-like third Doctor is scooped off of Earth in his Edwardian speedster car, Bessie.
Gallifrey’s political process apparently includes jail time for people who don’t want jobs they’re elected to. This is one of those compromise decisions that kind-of-sort-of solved one problem while screwing up something else, because although the Brigadier’s first two encounters with the Doctor were with Troughton, he had much, much closer ties to Jon Pertwee’s version. Or, even if she’s forgiven him, at least a “How have you been? Five of your favorite Fox News personalities discuss current issues in a roundtable discussion. The Five Doctors may not be the best episode in Doctor Who history, but it sure is a lot of fun for any fan. The two of them meet up, and are glad to see each other, but there’s no gravity to the scene. When the Cyberman "missed his cue", I laughed so hard ICEE came out my nose. The opening short film was hilarious as was the actual riff itself.Nowhere near the top-level of Rifftrax material—the source is simultaneously too knowing, too silly, too beloved, and too dull, if that makes sense—but I bark-laughed aloud several times, so it passes my primary test for one of these. 120 mins Also, the British child safety short here was particularly spiky and grim, always a huge plus.As an institution, Doctor Who does NOTHING to live up to the massive amounts of fan goodwill it receives. A tentative agreement had … “The Five Doctors” is not at all thematically ambitious or concerned with what it might mean that I could complain, of course. There’s plenty that flops here. A LIVE never-before-seen hilarious riffing of the 1983 Doctor Who feature length episode The Five Doctors. This 20th Anniversary Special may not be without flaws but it is sheer magic and pure joyous celebration of the 20 years of the show's existence up to that time.Looking for some great streaming picks?
As Borusa expected, the other three Doctors and their companions have made it to the tomb chamber, bypassing the Yeti and Raston Warrior Robot, as well as phantoms of the Doctor's former companions In exchange for help, Rassilon frees the Fourth Doctor and Romana from the time vortex and returns the Master to his own time; the Doctors immediately refuse his offer for immortality.