D.G. Valdron - A Pirates History of Doctor Who

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A Pirates History

of Doctor Who

by

D. G. Valdron

A Pirates History of Doctor Who

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INTRODUCTION

What on Earth is a Pirates History?

W ell, theres the official history. The approved history, where all the rough edges are sanded off, the conflicts and disasters erased, the approved information and products are put forward, and the rest is erased.

A Pirates History is the unauthorized and unapproved stuff. Its the events and the productions that dont make it into the official history, whether its the high and mighty doing dirt to each other, or gatekeepers erasing or sanitising. A Pirates History is about the things they want to leave out of the official record.

For example, right now, Jody Whittaker is the first woman to play the Doctor, in October, 2018. Except shes not. Barbara Benedetti played the Doctor in September, 1984, thirty-four years earlier.

Barbara Benedetti played the Doctor through four stories, when the BBC series was being cancelled, uncancelled, put on hiatus, floundered through the Trial of a Time Lord, saw the official Doctor fired and McCoys awkward first year. And you know what? She was brilliant. She hit it out of the park. And shes erased, excluded from history. But you can watch her stories right now.

And after her, other women would play the Doctor. Particularly, Sharon Crookes, Lily Daniels and Krystal Moore would each play the Doctor for multiple episodes, all before Whittaker. Theyre all erased.

Jevocas Green was the first black man to play the Doctor, years before Ncuti Gatwa will take the role.

On the other side of the coin, Jon Pertwee, Sylvester McCoy and Colin Baker have all played the Doctor in unofficial videos not approved by the BBC.

How about the season of the Rupert Booth Doctor, twelve episodes and five adventures, when the show was officially cancelled?? Did you know that the BBC licensed Nick Scovell to play the Doctor through five consecutive stage productions? There are whole worlds of unrecognized, unofficial Doctors in great stories on video. There are stage plays, and audio adventures, licensed and unlicensed.