i'm kinda new to the good Doctor. Luckily for the internet, I've somewhat caught up to the mythos, but I'm confused. Was Richard E. Grant in Shalka really meant to be the ninth doctor? If not is he like Peter Cushing's Doctor, existing out of mainstream continuity?
Enlighten me please.
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Look at this. It may help.
http://www.actionfiguretheatre.co.uk/drwho/mcgann/Infinityprogram.htm
At the time he was officially announced as the 9th Doctor, and even appears as such in the book the BBC released for the 40th Anniversary.
However, when the new proper series was commissioned it was at some point decided best to ignore him -- according to the production team (and many indications on screen to back this up), Christopher Eccleston is the 9th Doctor. Grant is now indeed some kind of 'other' Doctor, like Cushing's.
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He was indeed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_and_the_Curse_of_Fatal_Death
-- Rob
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I don't think he's bothered. He was born and grew up in Swaziland, so he's not really familiar with Doctor Who or bothered about it. From one interview he gave at the time of "Scream of the Shalka" he believed he was playing "a kind of Sherlock Holmes in space".
sharefor me, the Shalka doctor is real one. the new series are kinda crappy with too much of a reliance on CGI and its too short.
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I believe the Time Lords provided a get-out-of-jail card style tactic so that, during the Time War, the 9th Doctor could go from a Sherlock Holmes/Dracula cross to a more practical soldier's body and outlook - hey presto Ecclestone.
shareApparently, according to the Gallifrey Chronicles, there are three Ninth Doctors (Grant, Eccleston and Rowan Atkinson) in three different dimensions of the ''Whoniverse'', however, Eccleston is the Ninth Doctor in the dimension we have sadly been following. I say sadly, because Eccleston was a poor excuse for a Doctor (no offense to the actor intended) and whilst I do not think 'Scream of The Shalka' was too special Grant was a better Doctor. Infact the RTD years was complete tripe. the newer series with Moffatt is not as bad but it is not brilliant - it does have a decent but generic (in the same way that McGann was) Doctor, unlike the Eccleston and Tenant years, a better companion that in RTD's era and it is generally not as insulting to the franchise.
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