Dalek’s invade London, again.
“An Adventure In Space and Time”, Mark Gatiss’s story about the start of Doctor Who, starring David Bradley as the First Doctor, William Hartnell is under way.
The script covers the months leading up to the creation of “Doctor Who”. The Doctor has traveled through time and space in the longest longest-running sci-fi television program of all time. Classic moments of the early episodes will be reenacted for “An Adventure In Space and Time”. One reenactment is the Daleks coming over Westminster Bridge and in to London during “The Dalek Invasion of Earth”.
On Sunday Feb 17th, the Daleks were filmed by Mark Gatiss himself. This video of the early morning invasion is from the Doctor Who website.
Fraser McAlpine on BBCA asks “There’s definitely a moment where those things stop being upended garbage bins with men inside and start being Daleks, isn’t there?”
“An Adventure in Space and Time” it is known that Mark’s former “League of Gentlemen” colleague Reece Shearsmith will be in the role of Patrick Troughton, who became the Second Doctor when William Hartnell’s failing health caused him to retire. It seems there will be a part for actor William Russell, who played Ian Chesterton, the Doctor’s first male companion, in 1963. He will have a cameo part playing a character called Harry.
Brian Cox (the international film star, not the prof ) is playing the “father” of “Doctor Who”, Sydney Newman, a flamboyant Canadian who was BBC head of drama.
Director Waris Hussein, the last member of the original “Doctor Who” crew, helped with research for the story and said, “I am to be portrayed by my doppelganger, Sacha Dhawan, a handsome actor. Vanity prevails!”
David Bradley (Argus Filch in the Harry Potter films) is playing William Hartnell
Lesley Manville as Hartnell’s wife, Heather.
An Adventure in Space and Time is due to air in November on BBC2.
