Even the BBC don't know their own history

[sjn2004]

Doctor Who 'to be made into film'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15730665

Actually they've made a few already, at least three that I can remember going back into the 70's and beyond. How can they be so poor at researching something that they actually made? What a waste of the license fee.

[EDLT]

They mean the modern Doctor Who, the one that people actually watch.

[SC7]

EDLT said:

They mean the modern Doctor Who, the one that people actually watch.

People actually watch that ste?

[EDLT]

SC7 said:

EDLT said:

They mean the modern Doctor Who, the one that people actually watch.

People actually watch that ste?

Yes, quite a lot of people in quite a few countries. There is a rather long thread about it in the TV forum.

[davepoth]

I'm pretty sure the films weren't actually a BBC production.

[perdu]

davepoth said:

I'm pretty sure the films weren't actually a BBC production.

Rather think Hammer did them

[tubbystu]

davepoth said:

I'm pretty sure the films weren't actually a BBC production.

IMDB suggests AARU was the production company, which may well have been a Hammer vehicle as Peter Cushing plays the Dr in both and he was surely a Hammer contract actor.

AARU are credited only with the two Dr Who movies.

Dr Who & the Daleks - 1965

and

Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD - 1966

HTH

[thinfourth2]

tubbystu said:

davepoth said:

I'm pretty sure the films weren't actually a BBC production.

IMDB suggests AARU was the production company, which may well have been a Hammer vehicle as Peter Cushing plays the Dr in both and he was surely a Hammer contract actor.

AARU are credited only with the two Dr Who movies.

Dr Who & the Daleks - 1965

and

Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD - 1966

HTH

Which was mentioned on radio 4 this morning

But wasn't there a crappy american doctor who film

[Eric Mc]

There was also a one off TV movie in 1999 or so starring one of the McCann brothers as The Doctor.

[thebluebus]

sjn2004 said:

Doctor Who 'to be made into film'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15730665

Actually they've made a few already, at least three that I can remember going back into the 70's and beyond. How can they be so poor at researching something that they actually made? What a waste of the license fee.

They don't say there haven't been previous ones.

In fact they mention the PAul McGann one in the very link you posted.

[Eric Mc]

Sky are even worse.

In 2003 they showed live TV footage from a US Navy aircraft carrier moored off San Diego. It was covering the visit of George Bush to thank the US Navy for their contribution to the "liberation" of Iraq.

The Sky reporter kept stating that these were truly historic images as he expected it was the first time that live TV had been broadcast from a carrier at sea.

I wonder if he would have been surprised to learn that CBS were reporting live from the flightdecks of the USS Wasp and Intrepid as they steamed through the Atlantic waiting to recover the Gemini space missions - 1965 and 1966.