#keith boak

[nerds-yearbook]

On 1912, the Doctor was photographed on the eve of the launch of the Titanic and it was supposed that he talked a family out of taking the voyage. ("Rose", Doctor Who vlm 3, TV) After the sinking of the Titanic the Doctor claimed he was stranded and stuck clinging to an iceberg. ("The End of the World", Doctor Who vlm 3, TV)

[ghost-bison]

Aired: March 26th, 2005

Written & Directed by: Russel T. Davies, Keith Boak (respectively)

Main Cast: Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor, Billie Piper as Rose Tyler

Summary: Rose, a nineteen-year-old girl living with her mum, loses her job one night when a strange middle-aged man in a leather jacket and buzzcut blows up the mall after saving her from living dummies. He comes to her house the next day and when he leaves again, she still has no idea who he is. Or what he is. She only knows what he told her, that his name is the Doctor, and what she understands: wherever he goes, trouble follows. She sets to find him, but soon finds out that you don't find the Doctor: he finds you.

Opinion: for me, this one is a 10/10. I must have told this story a thousand times already, but I remember the night I watched it for the first time, in bed with a taco, and how it pulled me in immediately. How I had stars in my eyes. I didn't like science fiction back then, so I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but man did this episode pull me in. It's so camp, and the Doctor manages to be so silly, but also so impressive and mysterious at the same time that I couldn't possibly not like it. It gives you glimpses into his backstory, while also covering it up with the best crappy CGI you've ever seen as well as a hilarious and touching dynamic between him and Rose, and before you know, you're addicted. If you're looking for a place to start this show, look no more: this is it. There is no better starting point to New Doctor Who than the beginning, with Christopher Eccleston as, for me, the best Doctor Doctor Who has ever seen.

[midnightrings]

Favourite Doctor Who Episodes:

-> ROSE (2005)

written by Russell T Davies directed by Keith Boak

[strawberry-whump]

@febuwhump day 5: obedience | Doctor Who s01e06 Dalek / s01e05 World War Three / s01e13 The Parting of the Ways | @whumpbot-brian

s01e06 Dalek: writ. Robert Shearman | dir. Joe Ahearne

s01e05 World War Three: writ. Russell T Davies | dir. Keith Boak

s01e13 The Parting of the Ways: writ. Russell T Davies | dir. Joe Ahearne

Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor

[roadimusprime]

So when series 1 of Doctor Who was being made, production was a nightmare.

Crew were constantly treated poorly (bullied) by those higher in production, and the working conditions were not always safe.

Keith Boak, the director of the episode, Rose, wanted to have a sofa come flying out of the building Rose had worked in after it exploded.

When Christopher Eccleston spoke up to RTD and the other producers, he was ignored and they would feign innocence that they "didn't know what was going on."

In the end he made the decision to leave, and the BBC put out a statement saying he didn't want to do the show anymore because he was tired (Does that sound familiar to anyone?). He was also blacklisted by the BBC.

a man after my own heart 🥰

[doctorwho-rewind]

S1 E5: "World War Three"

The Slitheen have infiltrated Parliament and have the Doctor and his friends trapped as the Doctor works to prevent them from starting World War Three. (IMBD)

Episode: S1, E5: “World War Three” Date: April 23, 2005 Writer: Russell T. Davies Director: Keith Boak

Doctor: 9th Companion: Rose Tyler Main Villain in This Episode: The Slitheen

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I don't know why but this is the first one that I felt a bit bored watching. But then, even today, I still stand by the opinion that I love the one-episode stories, so a two-parter feels a bit long.

I also felt like some things were a bit easy, like Mickey being able to hack into UNIT databases and fire a LITERAL BOMB at 10 Downing Street... by using the password "buffalo". Like... he could get into super important records and whatnot and detonate a bomb with the password BUFFALO. What?!

One thing I'd completely forgotten is how creepy the Slitheen actually are – more so the sound they make. They're just big green alien blobby things, but the way they speak is WEIRD, and the sound of them screaming when they were being electrocuted will haunt my dreams.

One thing that does make this episode great, however, is that we get more of the iconic Harriet Jones, and that makes everything worth it. What a legend.

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⬅️ Previous episode: S1 E4: Aliens in London ➡️ Next episode: S1 E6: Dalek

[unlimited-rice-puddin]

Doctor Who Series 1 Review: The Trip of a Lifetime

Never before had there been as much public scrutiny on @bbcdoctorwho as the first series of New Who. Fortunately, Russell T Davies successfully reinvigorated the show, fully showing off the tremendous range of the programme in just 13 episodes

With everything to prove and nothing to lose, the first series of Revived Doctor Who truly demonstrates all that the show is capable of for a modern audience (more…)

[365daysofthedoctor]

212. ROSE

Little does Rose Tyler realise when she wakes up one morning that by the very next day, her job will have been blown up, her flat trashed and her boyfriend kidnapped. All because she met the Doctor…

Image from http://pastelitoschicotropicos.blogspot.com/2011/04/doctor-who-rose.html .

[lizardsfromspace]

It's amazing how Eccelston will go to a convention and say "sack Russell T Davies and I'll be back" and people will still insist that Actually, his problem was with a director named Keith Boak

Okay and who hired and defended Keith Boak. Like, traditionally, if the star of the show thinks a director is hurting the show, the star is not the one fired in that scenario. It's obviously Davies, and he's outright saying "fire RTD and I might return!" and people still deny it?

Speaking of past Doctors returning it's legit bizarre how most Doctor Who fans don't realize Eccelston won't return to the show because RTD is running it. It was RTD who inspired him to quit and it's RTD who he has a problem with

Not only that, but a lot of them think it's the opposite way round? "Now that Moffat and Chibnall are gone and RTD's back, maybe he'll rethink it". He almost did return under Moffat! Why do they think he was mad at the show being "bad" now when he's always been very, very clear he was mad at RTD for, not just how he handled his departure, but for his shitty treatment of the show's crew (or, more accurately, how RTD stood by and defended a director and others who mistreated the crew)

[madnessiskey]

Doctor Who (2006), dir. Keith Boak Season 1 Episode: World War Three

[becomingpt2-blog]

I mean, you lot, all you do is eat chips, go to bed, and watch telly, while all the time, underneath you, there's a war going on. 

Doctor Who: Rose (2005), dir. Keith Boak

[icewarrior2000]

Rose

(Series 1, Episode 1)

Summary: The Doctor’s back!  With bigger ears and a northern accent.  The special effects have aged terribly and Plastic Mickey may be a little ridiculous but when has Doctor Who not had a bit of ridiculousness?  It’s a great reboot – modern (for 2005) but with all the classic elements still present.  The Autons were always creepy, Jackie Tyler may just be the best character ever written and Christopher Eccleston balances perfectly between arrogantly alien, brilliantly bonkers and dramatically anguished.

Watch it because: “Nice to meet you Rose.  Now run for your life!”

Original Air Date: 26 March 2005.

Doctor: Christopher Eccleston.

Companions: Rose Tyler (Billie Piper).

Writer: Russell T Davies.

Director: Keith Boak.

Producer: Phil Collinson.

Executive Producer: Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner & Mal Young.

[thedoctorwhocompanion]

Reviewed: Doctor Who Series 1 – The Trip of a Lifetime

Reviewed: #DoctorWho Series 1 – The Trip of a Lifetime

We were hungry, to say the least. I compare it to 1987 when Star Trek: The Next Generation came on the air. Us Trek fans were so eager to get a taste of more that we ignored the first two very shaky, uneven, and at times awful stories. But that was Star Trek, still under the guiding hand of creator, Gene Roddenberry, who was no longer the creative force he used to be. This was Doctor Who, and it…

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evilqueenofgallifrey replied to your post “i gotta admit it’s been pretty ironic to hear about eccleston’s...”

what exactly happened between him and RTD? i'm v curious

shurithewakandanmemequeen

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“i gotta admit it’s been pretty ironic to hear about eccleston’s...”

@evilqueenofgallifrey it's not quite 100% clear on what happened. Chris said that was was uncomfortable with such a 'light-hearted' role (okay?). The only thing I can guess with this is that Chris wanted to push it in a more darker direction but RTD did not want that.

That’s nowhere near the only thing he says, and personally I wouldn’t have read it that way, rather that his unsurety about playing the role may have contributed to the fractious atmosphere on set: 

After recently claiming he was “blacklisted” by the BBC after leaving Doctor Who, former Ninth Doctor Christopher Eccleston has now revealed more about the tensions he felt on set during filming for the sci-fi series.

“My relationship with my three immediate superiors – the showrunner, the producer and co-producer – broke down irreparably during the first block of filming and it never recovered,” Eccleston says in the latest issue of Radio Times.

“They lost trust in me, and I lost faith and trust and belief in them,” he continues.

Describing the situation as “very” stressful, Eccleston claims that he felt out of place playing a lighter role, and believes it may have contributed to on-set difficulties.

“Some of my anger about the situation came from my own insecurity,” he says. “They employed somebody [as the Doctor] who was not a natural light comedian.”

He adds, “Billie [Piper], who we know was and is brilliant, was very, very nervous and very, very inexperienced. So, you had that, and then you had me. Very, very experienced, possibly the most experienced on it, but out of my comfort zone.”

In the interview, Eccleston goes on to reveal why he’s only elected to speak on the subject in recent months, with the Salford-born actor suggesting he’d made an agreement not to “damage” the reputation of the series.

“When I left, I gave my word to [then-showrunner] Russell T Davies that I wouldn’t do anything to damage the show,” he says. “But they did things to damage me. I didn’t criticise anybody.”

Asked if Davies was aware of the issues, Eccleston says, “If you’re the showrunner, you know everything. That’s your job,” adding that he “never will have” a working relationship with the screenwriter again.

Eccleston has previously on multiple occasions mentioned problems with the first production block and particularly with the director (which he hasn’t named, but was Keith Boak), and when you join these comments to ones made in 2011 the implication is that among other things RTD, Julie Gardner and either Mal Young or Phil Collinson did not do enough to curb a culture of bullying:

“I left Doctor Who because I could not get along with the senior people. I didn’t agree with the way things were being run.”

He added: “I thought to remain, which would have made me a lot of money and given me huge visibility, the price I would have had to pay was to eat a lot of sh*t.”

“It’s easy to find a job when you’ve got no morals. You can go, ‘Yeah, yeah. That doesn’t matter. That director can bully that prop man and I won’t say anything about it’.”

[multiprises]

The Word of Rao, Krypton, 1.04

Keith Boak (D), Luke Kalteux (S), 11/0418

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Doctor Who Series 1 Retrospective: World War Three Review

World War Three doesn't entirely match up to the promise from Aliens of London, but is supported by some commanding performances

World War Three doesn’t fully live up to the potential of its predecessor (more…)