The TARDIS Inside Out: Difference between revisions

''Inside Out'' is clearly skewed towards things JNT personally knows about the actors. For instance, he claims ''[[The Space Pirates (TV story)|The Space Pirates]]'' is his favourite [[Patrick Troughton]] story, not because it was Troughton's finest hour, but because it "was [his] first encounter face to face with the Doctor". [[William Hartnell]]'s section is tiny, because JNT admits he never met him, and the sections on Hartnell's next three successors focus largely upon their involvement with ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', a JNT production.

It is something of a forerunner to ''[[The Writer's Tale]]'', the work of a [[producer]] offering his thoughts on his involvement with ''Doctor Who''. It is not as detailed as [[Russell T Davies]]' book, which is effectively an annotated production diary. Neither does it include any primary source material, like internal memos, so JNT is allowed to claim anything he likes without reference to supporting documentation.

Because of the lack of proper sourcing, and his failure to admit to any conflict between himself and any of the actors, critical readers can find cause to doubt the accuracy of JNT's recollections.

* JNT's favourite story of each of the (at the time) six television Doctors

* JNT's working relationship with each man. Within the Tom Baker section, by far the biggest in the book, he devotes his attention to the circumstances surrounding Baker's resignation, and goes to great lengths to suggest that he and Baker had an amicable relationship. He also claims he "never stopped to think of Tom and [[Lalla Ward|Lalla]] as a couple", which seems unlikely, as their relationship negatively affected the production of the show under his watch. ([[DCOM]]: ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]'' and others)

* JNT's memories of working with each actor outside ''Doctor Who'' proper, particularly in {{w|panto}} and convention settings.