This is one of the general Doctor Who knowledge quiz topics of yore. It's said that the rights issues over this sequence are one reason for the failure for The Chase to appear in the DVD release schedule; the other is that apparently it's not that good. I've got a copy but haven't got very far few it because the first episode is very uneven and misjudged - it's difficult to believe that this is the same series that produced the first Dalek story, or An Unearthly Child for that matter.
That's interesting. The excerpt doesn't inspire confidence in the story, though I did like the slight suggestion that Barbara was shaken up by the sight of something from her own period (or maybe she was more a Stones girl...)
The scenes involving 'looking in' on Shakespeare at the court of Elizabeth I, and Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address, are even more painful. It's as if the series is already desperately trying to recapture its sense of wonder, mislaid somewhere in The Space Museum.
He didn't meet Shakespeare in The Chase in fact, only watch Elizabeth I order him to write what becomes The Merry Wives of Windsor, and then be given the idea for Hamlet by Francis Bacon!
The Doctor has mentioned meeting Shakespeare before - in City of Death he claims to be able to authenticate the first draft of Hamlet because it's in his handwriting; but from Shakespeare's point of view The Shakespeare Code is their first meeting. Unless the Doctor has forgotten something and this is why Shakespeare knows that he's a time traveller...
Apparently it's a rather joky serial all told, according to the plot summary I saw -- and a bit of trivia is that this is supposedly the only surviving clip of the Beatles on Top of the Pops. :)
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Date: 2007-04-23 11:41 pm (UTC)The Doctor has mentioned meeting Shakespeare before - in City of Death he claims to be able to authenticate the first draft of Hamlet because it's in his handwriting; but from Shakespeare's point of view The Shakespeare Code is their first meeting. Unless the Doctor has forgotten something and this is why Shakespeare knows that he's a time traveller...
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