The Tour Honchos have just finished a watch of ‘Waking the Dead,’ a cold-case, and increasingly sour, procedural which ran for 9 series on BBC1 and ended in 2011. The final story, ‘Waterloo,’ featured an unexpected dual dose of Doctors, and they were both baddies.
Paul McGann was the most prominent, playing a very senior cop in the Met, but who was ultimately revealed to be under the thumb of mob-like boss David Bradley. The best part though, instead of having a near miss (or misses) in terms of their screentime–there are plenty of examples of those out there–viewers were ‘treated’ to a couple of scenes of them together.
But more intriguing, given the long sweep of history which the Tour dabbles in, is the, for lack of a better term, near-Doctor-like status for both actors. Of course this characterization is quite unfair to McGann, who was, and is, a Doctor, one whose all-too-brief glimpses, set 17 years apart, tantalized more than informed. An oh-what-could-have-been Doctor.
Bradley on the other hand is an almost-Doctor who made it into nu-Who somewhat indirectly by playing William Hartnell in An Adventure in Space and Time before going ‘legit’ alongside Peter Capaldi in Twice Upon a Time. Although the Tour has some problems with cognitive dissonance in terms of being a faux-Hartnell, we guess it still counts in some oblique way.
To that end we’ve put together a small-ish gallery of David Bradley images. Guess that makes Bradley ‘legit’ after all, doesn’t it?
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Time ticks until the short sprint which will comprise Season 14 soon. gotta it all those loose ends tied up before that happens.