The Doctors Revisited coming to Watch

[SiHart]

Coming in October folks

UKTV channel Watch, which has regularly run repeat broadcasts of the 21st century incarnations of Doctor Who, has stepped up to provide British fans with an airing of the Doctor Who Revisited documentaries which have been airing around the world during the anniversary year.

The BBC America series has included opinions from many notable contributors from both sides of the camera. Each episode has been followed by a representative story from the Doctor in question’s era, a move that Watch will emulate.

According to Watch’s website, the First Doctor programme will air on Saturday 12 October at 2 pm, followed by The Aztecs. Doctor Who: The Companions will follow at 4.30, and Doctor Who Explained at 5.30.

The Second Doctor Revisited will air on Sunday 13 October at 2, followed by The Tomb of the Cybermen at 2.30. The Third Doctor Revisited is Saturday 19 October at 2 p.m., with Spearhead from Space starting at 2.30. The Fourth Doctor gets Revisited on Sunday 20 October at 2 p.m.; Pyramids of Mars is the story representing Tom Baker’s reign. No further details have been posted yet, but it is logical to assume that the other Doctors will follow over successive weekends.

[Dirk Gently]

Nice, the sky+ box will certainly get a working this autumn.

[duncan]

Nice, the sky+ box will certainly get a working this autumn.

Same here! I thought this would have gone out on BBC3 or 4 to be honest. Is Watch available on all media including Freeview?

[Jonno]

Hi Duncan, I'm fairly sure that Watch is not a Freeview channel unfortunately. So I agree with you that BBC3 or 4 would have been more sensible and reached a wider audience.

[SiHart]

Maybe they didn't want to buy them in since they're doing their own programmes for the anniversary?

[Dino]

It starts this Sunday afternoon! Documentaries on the show!
The Aztecs! And then on Sunday, Tomb Of The Cybermen!!

Never mind the 50th... this is UK Gold all over again! (Well... slightly)

[Nyder]

So this starts today actually:-

2pm Hartnell retrospective
2:30 The Aztecs
4:30 The Companions
5:30 Doctor Who explained

[SiHart]

Sky+ is all set!

[Nyder]

So is my Virgin box (yes I know it sounds so rude!)

[Nyder]

Whilst I'm here, this is the schedule for tmw (Sunday):-

2pm Troughton retrospective
2:30 Tomb of the Cybermen
4:30 Who at the Proms (2010)

Shouldn't BBC3 or 4 be doing this?

[Perry Vale]

Shouldn't BBC3 or 4 be doing this?

They probably don't have the budget.

[duncan]

Thoroughly enjoyed seeing Tomb again. I havent watched it since it was first released and I didn't particularly enjoy it. But, Troughton is a marvellous Doctor and I'm glad two more stories of his have turned up. I wasn't overly enamoured with Victoria, I have to say though.

[Llordllama]

Thing to remember is that Watch is half owned by the BBC (BBC Worldwide in this case) so technically this is the Beeb doing something on its own channel. Saw bits of it yesterday (recorded Tomb for later in the week watching). But yeah, not quite sure why we can't have this on the official Beeb channels as part of the pre-anniversary frothing.

[Zbigniev Hamson]

It's taking over TV! Provided you pay for Watch.

[Nyder]

I see from yesterday's schedules they screened Spearhead from 2:30 - 4:30. That's clever of them :-)

It's the Tom Baker retrospective today at 2pm, then Pyramids.

[SiHart]

They're not too bad- bit slight, but nice little overviews of each era. I was very amused by Camille Cadouri lusting over Jon Pertwee in yesterday's one!

[Nyder]

Yes she had the hots for him big style! A pity Katy Manning wasn't there to add some sparkle.

[SiHart]

Yeah, Richard Franklin just isn't the same!

[SiHart]

I don't suppose anyone who recorded today's 4th Doctor revisited could do me a copy, could they? My sky box failed to record it after the first two minutes, as it coincided with a massive thunderstorm.

[Nyder]

Have you got the Troughton one as I missed it! I've still got the Tom Baker one so we could do a swap :-)

[SiHart]

I do as it happens!

[duncan]

How do you make a copy from a sky+ box?

[SiHart]

I have ours loomed to our DVD recorder and just copy it across.

[Nyder]

Using a loom to connect a Sky+ box to a DVD recorder - how very steampunk ;-)

[SiHart]

It's an interesting set up here