An Adventure in Time and Space. Hal Shinnie BBC 2013
An Adventure in Space and Time was a wonderfully crafted and at times very emotional drama based around the early years of Doctor Who. Harry Potter’s David Bradley was eerily like William Hartnell who played the title character when the show first aired and who was the focal point of this Mark Gatiss production. The real-life Hartnell was cantankerous to say the least and neither Gatiss nor Bradley shied away from exploring that side of his character. In fact, Hartnell was a surprisingly unsympathetic character in the early part of this production. As time passed, he mellowed and we saw how he relished the role and began to enthusiastically embrace his young fans. Bradley perfectly recreated the proud and “rather grumpy” old man. There was barely a dry eye in the house when he faced up to the realization that...
An Adventure in Space and Time was a wonderfully crafted and at times very emotional drama based around the early years of Doctor Who. Harry Potter’s David Bradley was eerily like William Hartnell who played the title character when the show first aired and who was the focal point of this Mark Gatiss production. The real-life Hartnell was cantankerous to say the least and neither Gatiss nor Bradley shied away from exploring that side of his character. In fact, Hartnell was a surprisingly unsympathetic character in the early part of this production. As time passed, he mellowed and we saw how he relished the role and began to enthusiastically embrace his young fans. Bradley perfectly recreated the proud and “rather grumpy” old man. There was barely a dry eye in the house when he faced up to the realization that...
- 11/22/2013
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