unc40
Dennis Stamp
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Post by unc40 on Jun 4, 2024 16:10:16 GMT -5
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Post by BorneAgain on Jun 4, 2024 16:22:33 GMT -5
Him getting to come back in stuff like Big Finish and the show proper was wonderful to experience given the man's legacy. RIP to a performer who still knocked it out of the park in his 90s.
I think this also leaves Carole Ann Ford as the last figure from the start of Who still left.
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unc40
Dennis Stamp
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Post by unc40 on Jun 4, 2024 18:05:45 GMT -5
The only surviving regular cast members from the early series that was in black & white are:
Carole Ann Ford
Maureen O'Brian
Peter Purves
Jean Marsh
Anneke Willis
Frazier Hines
Wendy Padbury
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FinalGwen
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Particularly fond of muffins.
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Post by FinalGwen on Jun 4, 2024 18:41:18 GMT -5
Very sad to see him go, but what a life he lived. Did everything from Shakespeare to Superman, and Doctor Who was something that made him immortal. He's the template for every male companion that came after, and in many ways even the template for the Doctor we have now.
Met him a few times at conventions, and he was every bit as lovely as you'd expect.
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Totorob101
Hank Scorpio
Glob Glob Glob
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Post by Totorob101 on Jun 4, 2024 18:49:35 GMT -5
Still one of my favourite companions in Dr who history,a wonderful actor and lovely man. Rest in peace sir.
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Post by thechase on Jun 5, 2024 0:21:04 GMT -5
Of all the sparingly few male companions we have had over the years, Ian and Brig are the standouts for a reason. Russel was the man of principle and action and helped The Doctor ease more into that spark of humanity he now so proudly evokes and helped the viewer warm to his strange adventures, he was so essential to the spark that set the show alight back in the day.
To this day I still love how he sold that very first Dalek ray shot. It didn't kill there, or cripple him it only made him stronger, and he didn't flinch mentally or emotionally afterwards.
What a guy.
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Post by Ryushinku on Jun 5, 2024 3:56:09 GMT -5
99 is a hell of an innings, even though I'm still sad to see him go. A charming man by all accounts.
Ian and Barbara were such a great team, to bring viewers into the Doctor's world for the first time. Ian was the science teacher who always wanted to help and understand, but could also defeat someone with one finger.
An Unearthly Child, The Aztecs, and The Romans were where he got to really shine, I think.
He's also delightful in his last recorded work for Big Finish, in episode one of Susan's War. It's a wonderful farewell performance, as Ian accompanies Susan to the Sense-Sphere of the Sensorites one more time.
It's also very cheering that he lived to see the show climb such heights, fall, but then reach them again, and to make one last appearance himself. Sir Ian, Knight of Jaffa.
RIP.
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