Why the 8th Doctor?

There are Doctor Who websites everywhere: doctorwhonews.net, tardisnewsroom & kasterborous.com to name only a few. In all the websites on the World Wide Web, there are no websites devoted to the 8th Doctor. Sadly the Paul McGann Doctor has received little press mostly because he had only one TV appearance. But the 8th Doctor has lived on beyond the FOX movie. He has had adventures in a range of books and not to mention the Big Finish Audio Series (which this website counts as Doctor Who Cannon). The 8th Doctor is as much apart of series history as any of the other actors who played the part. So I ask: Why not the 8th Doctor.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Series 2: Seasons of Fear

On New Year's Eve, 1930, the Doctor lets Charley keep her appointment at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. But his unease at what he's done to time by saving her life soon turns into fear. Sebastian Grayle: immortal, obsessed, ruthless, has come to the city to meet the Time Lord. To the Doctor, he's a complete stranger, but to Grayle, the Doctor is an old enemy.
An enemy that, many years ago, he finally succeeded in killing. And this is his only chance to gloat.
The Doctor and Charley desperately search human history for the secret of Grayle's power and immortality. Their quest takes in four different time periods, the Hellfire Club, the court of Edward the Confessor and the time vortex itself. And when the monsters arrive, the stakes are raised from the life of one Time Lord to the existence of all humanity.

Cast:
Paul McGann (The Doctor); India Fisher (Charley Pollard); Stephen Perring (Sebastian Grayle); Stephen Fewell (Marcus / Richard Martin); Robert Curbishley (Lucillius / Nimon Voice); Lennox Greaves (Edward the Confessor); Sue Wallace (Edith); Justine Mitchell (Lucy Martin); Don Warrington (Rassilon); Gareth Jenkins (Waiter / Prisoner)
Writer: Paul Cornell andCaroline Symcox
Recorded: 19 and 20 January and 27 2001 February 2002
Director: Gary Russell
Released: March 2002
Music: Jane Elphinstone
No. of Discs: 2
Sound Design: Gereth Jenkins @ ERS
Duration Disc 1 (58' 10"); Disc 2 (61' 37")
Cover Art: Clayton Hickman
Production Code: 8H

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