Hello everyone! 🙂

Welcome to ‘Bradley’s Basement’ blog and I’m Tim Bradley!

I have mixed feelings about how the 50th anniversary of ‘Doctor Who’ was celebrated on TV. For many fans, the highlight was of course ‘The Day of the Doctor’, which was followed by the 2013 Christmas Special ‘The Time of the Doctor’ featuring the end of Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor. 🙂

Out of the 50th anniversary celebrations, I enjoyed ‘The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot’ more than ‘The Day of the Doctor’. The docu-drama ‘An Adventure In Space and Time’ is also a worthy celebration in showcasing ‘Doctor Who’s beginnings with David Bradley as William Hartnell, which is quite an irony.

For me, ideally, a ‘Doctor Who’ anniversary special should cater for every aspect of the TV show. I personally feel ‘The Day of the Doctor’ focused more on new series aspects than on both classic and new series aspects, even though that ‘all thirteen’ of the Doctors sort-of made cameos at the end. 😐

As well as ‘The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot’, I got more out of the 50th anniversary celebrations through the ‘Destiny of the Doctor’ audio series, ‘The Light At The End’ audio special and the ‘Prisoners of Time’ comic story. A pity the official 50th anniversary TV specials don’t match to that. 😦

With that said, it was great to see Paul McGann reprise his role of the Eighth Doctor in the mini-episode ‘The Night of the Doctor’, which featured his regeneration into John Hurt as the War Doctor. Again, whilst I have mixed feelings about the War Doctor as a concept, John Hurt plays him very well.

The 2013 Specials of ‘Doctor Who’ aren’t exactly what I would label as ‘ticking all of the boxes’ to celebrate 50 years of a TV show that I love. But clearly ‘The Day of the Doctor’ won its fans, and it’s fitting that Matt Smith should exit the TV series through the 50th anniversary celebrations in 2013. 🙂

Thanks for reading!

Bye for now!

Tim 🙂