{"id":34243,"date":"2005-09-12T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/09\/12\/richard-e-grant-as-dr-who\/"},"modified":"2005-09-12T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T10:00:16","slug":"richard-e-grant-as-dr-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050912-16\/?p=34243","title":{"rendered":"Richard E. Grant as Dr. Who"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While waiting for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/\"> the Ninth and Tenth Doctors<\/a> to reach the States, I was tipped off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/classic\/webcasts\/index.shtml\"> some animated Dr.&nbsp;Who episodes on the BBC web site<\/a>. These are really well done and managed to slake my Doctor cravings for a little while longer.<\/p>\n<p> In particular, Richard E.&nbsp;Grant&#8217;s second turn as the somewhat Earth-obsessed Time Lord in <i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/classic\/webcasts\/shalka\/\"> Scream of the Shalka<\/a><\/i> is a must-see. The tired frustration of his Doctor is a refreshing change from the more amiable personas he&#8217;s had in recent incarnations. After saving the Earth (nay, the universe) from certain destruction for over forty years, you kind of can&#8217;t blame him for being fed up with the whole thing. <\/p>\n<p> (Second turn as The Doctor? Yup. Richard E.&nbsp;Grant played The Tenth Doctor in <i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0212887\/\"> Doctor Who and the Curse of the Fatal Death<\/a><\/i>, a spoof produced for the charity organization <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicrelief.com\/\"> Comic Relief<\/a>. I think Rowan Atkinson makes an excellent Doctor, if I may say so myself.) <\/p>\n<p> [Raymond is currently away; this message was pre-recorded.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While waiting for the Ninth and Tenth Doctors to reach the States, I was tipped off to some animated Dr.&nbsp;Who episodes on the BBC web site. These are really well done and managed to slake my Doctor cravings for a little while longer. In particular, Richard E.&nbsp;Grant&#8217;s second turn as the somewhat Earth-obsessed Time Lord [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-34243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>While waiting for the Ninth and Tenth Doctors to reach the States, I was tipped off to some animated Dr.&nbsp;Who episodes on the BBC web site. These are really well done and managed to slake my Doctor cravings for a little while longer. In particular, Richard E.&nbsp;Grant&#8217;s second turn as the somewhat Earth-obsessed Time Lord [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}