The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (2013) on Netflix
Three actors who once led Doctor Who want to be part of the fiftieth anniversary special. When the invitations do not arrive, they scheme to get onto the set themselves.
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Plot summary
One of the former Doctors spends Christmas Day watching an episode with his sons, and they wonder whether the anniversary special will bring back only the two most recent leads. He dreams of being invited and given special treatment, then has a nightmare in which a warning comes that the production wants none of the old Doctors. He and two other former leads wait for invitations. The special's executive producer avoids their calls and deletes their messages. The three consider a plan to get onto the set, and one of them says he has a contact on the production.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (2013)
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- Peter Davison's original idea for the film was a video of about five minutes in which the classic Doctors tried to get a part in the anniversary special, and after he offered Steven Moffat an acting role at a party, Moffat gave him BBC funding and a camera crew.
- Tom Baker failed to answer Peter Davison's emails, so his absence from the film is explained with a Doctor Who clip from the unaired story Shada showing the Fourth Doctor trapped in the time vortex; impressionist Jon Culshaw performed Baker's voicemail.
- The Doctor Who production office, fearing the in-jokes would alienate viewers, wanted a ten-minute edit; Peter Davison refused and threatened to "tell the fans", and about six minutes of scenes were cut as a compromise.
- Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy were seen with prop placards outside BBC Television Centre in September 2013, and some fans wondered whether the former Doctors were genuinely protesting against the BBC.
- Sylvester McCoy's commitments to filming The Hobbit trilogy gave Peter Davison the idea for a scene with director Peter Jackson, a massive Doctor Who fan, which was recorded on The Hobbit's New Zealand set.
