Micah Sweet
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Yeah, it's really annoying. We wanted to introduce the show to our kids recently, and ended up having to buy the DVDs (just 9, 10 and 11. My wife never liked 12, and neither of us have seen 13).
Doctor Who… Xmas Special in 2026
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Voadam
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This has been fantastic. I have been catching up on Old Who I had never seen before starting with Doctor One going forward in order and currently I am in the first season of Doctor Five. I had seen everything Netflix had on DVDs before that service went away, but there were big gaps.
Right. What I'm getting at is that it would be pretty annoying if the BBC makes a deal with, say, Netflix for new seasons and the old stuff (both classic and revival), but Netflix ends up with a two-season gap because of long-term Disney contracts.
ART!
Deluxe Unhuman
One bit of the news is that Russell T. Davies is writing this 2026 Christmas special. So, on the one hand I'd be surprised if he didn't reshoot or re-edit the Carole Ann Ford stuff into this Christmas special.
On the other hand, it's RTD2, so I also wouldn't be surprised if he didn't.
Here's my cockamamie prediction for the 2026 special:
Billie Piper is The Doctor, or the spirit of the TARDIS like Suranne Jones in "The Doctor's Wife".
Tennant is in it, too, as the 14th Doctor, with the TARDIS that the 15th Doctor gifted him by hitting the TARDIS with a big cartoony mallet.
Anyway, by the end of the special the two TARDISes fuse back into one, and Tennant and Piper fuse into the next Doctor.
Yeah, part of the charm of the show is that it's often very silly and doesn't take itself too seriously overall.
I'm doing the same thing, and I'm currently in the Tom Baker era, too! I've never watched an classic Who until this, so it's been quite an experience!
Voadam
Legend
Tom Baker on PBS when it first came out was my first experience with Who but it was very irregular so it was occasional single episodes only with no context, then occasionally saw an episode or two of Davidson and Colin Baker (Five and Six). I really got into it with New Who a couple years after that came out then I old Who on Netflix. They had some in streaming which I did and then more on DVDs but not a complete collection of stories for any old Doctor (except Doctor Eight, Paul McGann's single movie).
Same for me. The problem was that they were doing half hour episodes and some story arcs could take as much as 10 episodes to get through. That was annoying as they only showed one episode a week. They did end up switching to hour long episodes which was better. Then they went back to Pertwee (#3), jumped ahead to Davison (#5), went back and showed the Hartnell and Troughton episodes that still existed (#1 and #2), and then I went to college and saw no Dr. Who for 4½ years. By the time I saw another episode, McCoy (#7) was nearing the end of his run and the show was about to be cancelled (it probably already had been; US viewing was well behind the UK).
ART!
Deluxe Unhuman
Similarly, I came across Who on PBs when I was a kid, but I simply did not get it. I was all-in with Star Trek (still am), and had basically no exposure to British tv at that point, so Doctor Who was just weird and off-putting. So I never watched more than a minute or two here and there.
When nuWho was on Netflix, my kids discovered it and then I quickly joined in the fun. For reasons that my reason cannot comprehend, in the past 5 years or so I've really fallen in love with the show. So I've taken to watching classic Who from the beginning, reading novels, listening to audio dramas, etc. It's like I've discovered a new Star Trek, but as an adult.
When nuWho was on Netflix, my kids discovered it and then I quickly joined in the fun. For reasons that my reason cannot comprehend, in the past 5 years or so I've really fallen in love with the show. So I've taken to watching classic Who from the beginning, reading novels, listening to audio dramas, etc. It's like I've discovered a new Star Trek, but as an adult.
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