Talk:Disney Time (TV story)

Possible deletion?

Someone added a "delete" tag, and informed me that apparently, a page that must have covered this same special was deleted last year. Could I see the relevant discussion? On the face of it, unless it's a licensing issue, I can't possibly see why this wouldn't fall within the scope of things this Wiki covers.

This special seems almost precisely in the same mould as Search Out Space — a TV special, part of an established non-DW non-narrative series and adopting its format, except featuring the then-current Doctor as its host and a pretense of a narrative wrapped around it.

Edit: Digging further, I find that the rationale was that this is "Tom Baker as the Doctor, not the Doctor". While it may be true of other TV appearances by Tom, I really don't think that's a fair assessment of this particular special — the Doctor arrives and departs in the TARDIS, his reason for ending the special there is that the Brigadier needs his help for some offscreen adventure, he mentions traveling to Mars… and at no point does he break character as he might in, say, the 1990's linking segments for Shada. He does break the fourth wall right at the end, but that's a different thing; it's a fourth-wall-break that still refers to him as the Doctor, it's just that the Doctor is talking to his audience.

It's really no different from Search Out Space, in my opinion. Of course, I'm open to arguments otherwise, but I can't think of any. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 23:34, December 3, 2018 (UTC)

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User:CzechOut's reason for deleting the other page: "this is Tom Baker as Fourth Doctor, not the Fourth Doctor. Not a TV story, not strong enough connection with the DWU to keep)." Shambala108 ☎ 23:40, December 3, 2018 (UTC)

I'm completely with Scrooge MacDuck on this one. --DCLM ☎ 23:46, December 3, 2018 (UTC)

Relevant quote: information is scarce, but this is what Wikipedia has to say about Disney Time 1975:

Tom Baker (in costume and in character as the Fourth Doctor, not as himself) hosted the August Bank Holiday Disney Time on 25 August and introduced excerpts from Clock Cleaners, Blackbeard's Ghost, The Jungle Book, African Lion, The Apple Dumpling Gang, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Return of the Big Cat, Escape to Witch Mountain and Lady and the Tramp. The show ended with the Doctor leaving in the TARDIS to go to the aid of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, a tie-in with the start of “Terror of the Zygons” the following Saturday.

All bolds are mine.

I don't know about you, but I think this all is more connection to the mainstream series than Search Out Space had. It certainly had no direct tie-in to an episode of the main series. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 11:18, December 4, 2018 (UTC)