An Adventure in Space and Time

[parrot_knight]

Brief reaction as I have to get up and cross London to the ExCel tomorrow for the 'Celebration'... but it was corny, with some overdone sentiment and dramatised the mythology and communal memory of Doctor Who as much as it did (very selectively) the facts and personalities - but it was still a tremendous achievement within eighty-five minutes, with

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[philmophlegm]

Put us out of our misery - while we spotted William Russell, we completely failed to spot Carole Ann Ford. In fact, I even watched it through again at speed looking for any woman of around about the right age, or who looked like what I think Carole Ann Ford would look like today. She's in the credits as "Joyce". Who was "Joyce"?

[parrot_knight]

I have no idea - I'd forgotten she was in it! The camera lingered on Jean Marsh and Anneke Wills in the Verity farewell party scene (a few months too early, historically) but I didn't spot Carole Ann.

[parrot_knight]

She was the woman who called the children in from playing to watch Doctor Who in the town square scene, I learn.

[daniel_saunders]

Glad to learn this as I was similarly puzzled. I'm also glad to learn that it really was Jean Marsh and Anneke Wills, as I wondered if I was seeing things - I'd heard about William Russell's and Carole Ann Ford's cameos, but not theirs, so it was a bit of a double-take moment for me.

[daniel_saunders]

I think I enjoyed it more than you! As did my parents, but they quizzed me afterwards as to how accurate it was. I didn't find the sentiment overdone and I expected a lot of poetic licence in condensing and simplifying three years of material. I think I have grown used to groan-inducing in-jokes in contemporary Doctor Who and its associated programming. That said, now we'll never get rid of the myth that Sydney Newman was Doctor Who's only begetter (DWM has been repeating this recently too, less justifiably), nor that the repeat of An Unearthly Child was due to the Kennedy Assassination. But, on the whole, I found this very satisfying.

[parrot_knight]

I enjoyed it! My sister only saw the last five minutes and was extremely moved. Yes, some people are going to be misled...