The Two Doctors

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*Working titles for this story included "The Kraglon Inheritance" and "The Androgum Inheritance".Brief | id=6w | title=The Two Doctors]
*Robert Holmes, a vegetarian, wrote the serial as an allegory about meat-eating, hunting and butchering. "Androgum" is an anagram for "gourmand".
*Elements from Robert Holmes's aborted project "The Six Doctors" were carried over to this story (as the production subtitles for the DVD release reveal).
*Holmes's original brief from producer John Nathan-Turner was to write a serial taking place in New Orleans, involving the Sontarans, the Second Doctor and Jamie, but the setting had to be changed to Spain instead when the expected funding for location filming in the United States fell through. Holmes was particularly disappointed that much of the humour involving the differences between Britain and America was lost in the rewrite. The only hint we get of this humour is in Episode 1, when the Sixth Doctor looks at Peri and says that Columbus "has a lot to answer for".
*During the transmission of the story, the news that the series would be put on hiatus for a year was announced. Much controversy still surrounds this period and action, with disputes over whether or not the series was facing cancellation outright at this stage, and the roles of various BBC officials such as BBC One controller Michael Grade and Head of Drama Serials Jonathan Powell.
*Discounting the 1996 TV movie which was produced entirely in Canada, and the 2006 episode "Daleks in Manhattan" which included some second unit footage shot in New York City, a regular series episode wouldn't be substantially filmed outside the UK until "The Fires of Pompeii" which was broadcast in 2008.

In print

Doctorwhobook
title=The Two Doctors
series=Target novelisations
number=100
featuring=


writer=Robert Holmes
publisher=Target Books
coverartist=Andrew Skilleter
isbn=0 426 20201 5
set_between=
pages=
date=5 December 1985
preceding=The Krotons
following=The Gunfighters|The novelisation of this serial, by Robert Holmes, was published in August 1985 as the 100th "Doctor Who" release by Target Books.

Broadcast, VHS and DVD releases

*This story was released on VHS in November 1993.
*This story was released on DVD in the UK in September 2003 in a two-disc set as part of the "Doctor Who" 40th Anniversary Celebration releases, representing the Colin Baker years, with many extra features, including the "Jim'll Fix It" sketch "A Fix with Sontarans".
*The DVD contains a full-length commentary provided by director Peter Moffatt and actors Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Frazer Hines, and Jacqueline Pearce.

References

External links

*BBCCDW|id=twodoctors|title=The Two Doctors
*Doctor Who RG | id=who_6w | title=The Two Doctors
*OG|6w|The Two Doctors

Reviews

*OG review | id=6w | title=The Two Doctors
*DWRG | id=twod | title=The Two Doctors

Target novelisation

*DWRG | id=twodnov | title=The Two Doctors (novelisation)
* [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/1985/two/85two.htm On Target — "The Two Doctors"]