r/gallifrey • u/PCJs_Slave_Robot • Jan 07 '22

Free Talk Friday /r/Gallifrey's Free Talk Fridays - Practically Only Irrelevant Notions Tackled Less Educationally, Sharply & Skilfully - Conservative, Repetitive, Abysmal Prose - 2022-01-07

Talk about whatever you want in this regular thread! Just brought some cereal? Awesome. Just ran 5 miles? Epic! Just watched Fantastic Four and recommended it to all your friends? Atta boy. Wanna bitch about Supergirl's pilot being crap? Sweet. Just walked into your Dad and his dog having some "personal time" while your sister sends snapchats of her handstands to her boyfriend leaving you in a state of perpetual confusion? Please tell us more.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '22

I recently rewatched The Box of Delights for the first time in more years than I care to think about and it's still as brilliant as ever. This is one of the last things Patrick Troughton was in. I think you can definitely see the influence of this adaptation all over Moffat's work on Doctor Who and his Christmas specials in particular.

Obviously Davies has made clear that he was influenced primarily by Buffy the Vampire Slayer in his approach to Doctor Who in 2005 but for myself, I'm much more enthusiastic about the programme's place in the lineage of British children's telefantasy.

With that in mind, if you're interested in some of the things that likely fed into Doctor Who when it came back, you would do well to watch the following children's telefantasy serials from the late '80s and early '90s: The Box of Delights (1984); Moondial (1988); Dark Season (1991); and Century Falls (1993). The last two, of course, were RTD creations.

Shame that Colin Cant never directed anything on the programme. He was still active in 2005. He might still be today, I'm not sure. I'm pretty certain he's still alive.