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The Night of the Doctor is a BBC prequel to The Day of the Doctor, the 50th anniversary episode. Being a big fan of the 8th Doctors (Paul McGann) Big Finish audio adventures I was thrilled to find out about this mini episode. Since the 2005 release of the new series everyone has wondered how the 8th Doctor (Paul McGann) died and is regenerated into the 9th Doctor (Christopher Eccleston). The answers and many more questions are in this mini episode. There is even a petition to get a new 8th Doctor series. I for one hope this happens.
Favorite 8th Doctor quote: “I’m the Doctor, but probably not the one you were expecting”
Favorite 8th Doctor companion: Charley Pollard
Favorite 8th Doctor adventure: Shada
So I got into watching Doctor Who a couple years after the show was relaunched in 2005 and ever since then I have been watching all the old episodes that I can get may hands on. Everything from William Hartnell to Colin Baker and everything in between. Then I find out sometime in the nineties there was a movie made. Not the greatest movie (some parts are down right unbearable) but it had a lot of great parts and a really great actor (Paul McGann) as The Doctor. I always thought it was a shame that he never had his own series until I discovered the audio dramatizations by Big Finish Productions. They are done so well that you would swear you had just watched an episode on TV. To top it off they even got Paul McGann to do the voice of The Doctor and talented voice actors like India Fisher (Charley) and Conrad Westmaas (C’rizz) to play his companions. One of the episodes even had Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier). This audio series is a great way to continue the adventure were the movie left off.
Favorite Doctor – Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker)
Favorite Companion – Leela (Louise Jameson)
Favorite Villain – Cybershade (They’re just weird looking)