The Fifth Doctor Plays Cricket! | Black Orchid | Doctor Who

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[@DoctorWho]

'Black Orchid' originally began airing on 1st March 1982 - 40 years ago today! 💙💙

[@ShameleonFactor]

Oh that explains it

[@bluefive1727]

I remember seeing it on the t.v. back then.

[@kinopash]

O my word!!

[@davidaston5773]

That sums up the early 5th Doctor perfectly. I have always imagined an entire season set in an 1920s - 40s village. As with Devil's End in "The Daemons" it's one of his homes he returns to through out his personas. A home away from the home of the TARDIS. In fact, long term readers of Doctor Who Magazine, will know of the town Stockbridge. It's a place he's returned to in comics and even Big Finish audios. Very much what I'm thinking of. The 5th always looked happiest in a setting of English simpler times. An Earth version of the Eye of Orion? When it came to science fiction he didn't fit well. Just not cricket.

[@davidaston5773]

Braveheart Tegan :)

[@Haaris.Qureshi]

Time Lords are not meant to interfere The Doctor: *completely dominates a cricket match*

[@something1600]

He did it again in a game of football.

[@johannahyde-parker8422]

He did it in one go

[@libertyordeaf]

Except for the Time at Lord's.

[@Squicx]

It's scenes like this that I love seeing. These casual blokes not knowing they're playing with a 700 year old alien.

[@QPRTV]

This happened during 11’s run when he dominated a game of football 😂

[@SamuelBlack84]

Oh, we've all done that

[@Tulf42]

I love these moments where the Doctor just gets to have a good time and enjoy the cultures, games and traditions of Earth where it won't cause a paradox in the space-time continuum, and then share them back at home on Gallifrey like the 4th Doctor sharing jelly babies.

[@chrisstory563]

well, the 4th doctor once said to Adric. his home away from home. a planet called earth.

[@feanenatreides]

I love the little detail that Nyssa and Adric, being alien, are utterly baffled by cricket. The Doc himself must've picked it up in an earlier incarnation (at a guess I'd say the rather athletic Third), because he himself was equally baffled by it in episode 8 of The Daleks' Master Plan.

[@Futures_End]

I'm sure he picked up a lot of Earth-isms in the Third Incarnation just on the basis of him being stranded there

[@kriswright]

Speaking as an American who knows nothing about cricket, I never related to Adric more!

[@TheBritFromOz008]

Whilst Tegan, being Australian, is loving every moment.

[@iandeeley9033]

The Doctor is indeed an all rounded sportsman, from playing Cricket in "Black Orchid" to playing Football in "The Lodger"!

[@brucebaxter6923]

To playing guitar

[@AvatarLevap]

@@brucebaxter6923 On the tank in the middle age.

[@MondySpartan]

He can also make percussions with spoons.

[@mkj1233]

And the recorder/flute

[@brucebaxter6923]

@@mkj1233 Oh snap yes. The recorder.

[@The_Lost_Subrosian]

The 5th Doctor plays cricket about as well as the 11th Doctor plays football.

[@Kryojenix]

@@abrow300 mainly running.

[@KEV.I.N24]

@@abrow300 I like that idea a lot. Perhaps 9th I'd see being into pool or snooker. 10th I'd also see being into football however. 12th I could see him fencing

[@astrosleep9625]

@@abrow300 first doctor and bowls

[@pvtrichter88]

@@abrow300 didn't the third doctor do something like Venusian jiu jitsu ?😅🤔

[@B__C__]

@@pvtrichter88 Venusian Aikido and they're one of the few two-armed individuals to have mastered it. 😉

[@ashleytuchin7693]

We need more stories like Black Orchid - a simple but interesting historical, where the Doctor gets to have some fun.

[@wstine79]

That's what happens when grab a cricket outfit in the TARDIS. You get roped into a match.

[@mikebasil4832]

This is one of my favourite moments from Peter Davison’s era. Thanks for posting it.

[@mikehorner5989]

Do you know of anywhere I can watch it I don’t have very much money so I can’t buy them all but I want to see more

[@SephoraBloons]

@@mikehorner5989 I do, are you on pc, android or iOS?

[@pvtrichter88]

it finally explains why he has that Cricket outfit on! 😅 now that sprig of celery i still don't know why he had that ! 🤔

[@ashleytuchin7693]

@@pvtrichter88 it's explained in his final story, The Caves of Androzani, that in that incarnation he was a allergic to a particular kind of gas. In the presence of that gas, the celery would turn pink and he'd have to eat it.

[@pvtrichter88]

@@ashleytuchin7693 thanks for the response i'll have to check out that episode , now i won't look at celery the same way again !😅 CHEERS .

[@ClydeRowing]

I'm not a cricket fan, but it seems Peter Davidson must have been relatively skilled at cricket to bat and bowl without use of a body double.

[@davidioanhedges]

The single shot of him clean bowling the middle stump is Peter Davison actually playing really well ...

[@paulwilliams8389]

@@davidioanhedges It only needed the one take for him to bowl that middle stump out as well!

[@finnstewart4747]

Davison didn't think he was particularly good at cricket despite being a fan, but he unintentionally bowled out the guy in the first shot. His reaction in the episode is probably Davison's actual reaction.

[@Kryojenix]

“I don’t always play cricket. But when I do it’s always in Edwardian England!”

[@kurtwagner350]

Cool seeing the doctor chilling and playing some cricket with the lads

[@adriansherlockdamondark.1094]

A lovely scene which really added some warmth and magic to the eclectic experience that was season 19. Still one of my all time favorite years of watching Dr Who after all this time.

[@tristanribeiro7903]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think 5th loves cricket.

[@SephoraBloons]

Who else really misses the classic doctor who days

[@AnnabellaRedwood]

Me!

[@SephoraBloons]

@@AnnabellaRedwood your awesome. Stay strong 💪

[@pearljam619]

Me. Thankfully have a few classics on DVD.

[@Howyaduing]

So this is where Moffat got the idea of having the 11th doctor playing soccer

[@Magmaster13]

This is the most British video on youtube

[@mattyoung4990]

same

[@adamslowikowski3085]

Wonderful cricketing moments with Peter Davison! Brings me happy memories of watching this when I was only 13 years old! 🙂🌻💛🙏

[@IsaacWhittakerDakin]

The final pure historical in Doctor Who.....so far.

[@josephkarl2061]

Apparently the part where the Doctor bowls that guy was unscripted, but was a happy accident caught on film 😃

[@TheBritFromOz008]

I think it was scripted, but even Peter Davison, as keen a cricketer as he was, wasn't expecting to do it first go (which he did).

[@David-ve5iq]

He might be dressed for it.

[@andrewhills9049]

This was one of my favourite episodes nice little division from the normal

[@kevinluis2000]

My favourite doctor

[@tobchamp5873]

The state of that pitch

[@bloctorflux3566]

Love this story! It’s underrated!

[@thomasstevens2746]

My guilty pleasure Obsessed with this story. Favorite from season 19 And great for Nyssa

[@andylikesstuffchannel]

Omg this is my first ever memory of Dr Who I a 6 year old I'm now in my 40s 😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@othyization]

That's Sir Henry Simmerson from Sharpe playing Cranleigh.

[@malfattio2894]

It's cool to see a proper HD scan of this

[@johnclay7644]

good sequence well photographed by Peter Chapman,

[@SJHFoto]

The actor here who we first encounter played a very similar role in a Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence) episode filmed around the same time. I love that classic British flavour he puts on!

[@scottybee8]

“ Good lord. Er, I'm so sorry. Do forgive me for staring. You look exactly like my fiancée. It's quite uncanny. This is Nyssa. “ “ Medium pace? Slow? Fast. Top hole. “ “ Well played, sir. Splendid! “

[@darthplagueis3488]

Imagine the Daleks attempting to play cricket

[@spartybrearly7221]

It would take a brave umpire to rule a Dalek out LBW

[@ShameleonFactor]

What happened to the rest of Four to Doomsday and all of Kinda and The Visitation?

[@barrycowan3134]

That’s a proper green wicket

[@Kryojenix]

Doctor Who KZbin channel today : “The Doctor Plays Cricket!” KZbin sidebar: “The Doctor Plays Cricket - Doctor Who KZbin Channel - 7 years ago” I guess that’s what you call “once more, with emphasis!”...

[@paulmurray5252]

It’s been about 40 years ago since Black Orchid was on BBC 1.

[@Discrimination_is_not_a_right]

I've always wondered if the running start actually helps throw the ball.

[@benbunyip]

Good fun! Bowling to the doctor was rather pedestrian though.😂

[@adamfowle8073]

Why does the umpire signal wide when the Doctor belts it past square leg for four?

[@MexieMex]

I remember watching this when it first aired.

[@judechannelimaginationcros8684]

Cool! I played cricket on Tuesday!

[@peterjoyfilms]

It would've been so wonderful if all of classic who had been shot on film

[@juliuscaesar2912]

Film is what gets remastered right

[@SamuelBlack84]

I once watched a game of cricket on a cool summers afternoon Definitely not a fan, but I really appreciate its laid back English atmosphere

[@coopercane500]

I can’t be the only one curious how different this story would have been if John Nathan Turner directed it, right?

[@finnsempire5671]

William Hartnell: oh right 5 as cricket was invented by the victories and since you are a Victorian gentleman myself Peter Davison: please don’t keep on babbling on one

[@parlinmains]

Slice of life Who is best Who.

[@williamsfan9237]

A bit weird that they’ve skipped Kinda and the Visitation, but this is my favourite Doctor Who tv story ever.

[@hopebgood]

Reeeallly??? That's cool though mate. Each to their own.

[@nzrockboi]

I hope the next Doctor is wicked at paint ball or something

[@SamuelBlack84]

I want the Doctor to do card tricks

[@9wayne9]

@@SamuelBlack84 that would be awesome actually. Imagine The Doctor going up to a Dalek and saying “Pick a card, any card…” 😆

[@SamuelBlack84]

@@9wayne9 "DALEKS DO NOT PLAY CAAAARDS!!!!"

[@B__C__]

B-but Time Lords are forbidden to interfere.

[@braxtonbobo4004]

Wow this scene looked like so much fun, and I don’t have any idea what the hell was going on with the game

[@seannetworkblogsandgames7504]

I adore this story. The last pure historical. I wish we could get more of them one day. It's funny - at the time I first watched this I had no knowledge of cricket and was as confused as Adric and Nyssa. Now, I'm just impressed.

[@lucyhardy-styles-shield2728]

They did something like that in Matt Smith's era, The Lodger episode, where he plays football with Craig's team and The Doctor is a quite talented player

[@willhorting5317]

I remember watching this when new! And I remember thinking at the time, "I wonder how an alien knows how to play the game so well?".😁

[@youcantakemehottogo]

The guy has at least 6 squash courts in the TARDIS, probably has other sport courts too

[@willhorting5317]

@@youcantakemehottogo yeah well, at the time I was a teenager. And as many teens, I didn't think that far ahead.😁

[@spacereviewer]

He probably invented it.

[@buzzybeepopman2009]

So the doctor likes both cricket and football

[@ununun]

I took up cricket at school when the Fifth Doctor arrived. I begged for a bat and red corky. I was rubbish at cricket ...

[@kekix12]

Estos británicos y su obsesion por el cricket, un clásico 🤣

[@mr.maxwell4955]

Can you put in the scene when nyssa meets anne

[@spartybrearly7221]

I’m not sure which would be the most unpleasant? Being target practice for a Raston robot or watching a cricket match? 🤔

[@pakelihe]

Doctor Who the name Dr.8 make a prequel series for the doctor

[@alex17_edits]

play cricket Dr

[@Lainva]

I remember seeing this

[@robertofulton]

Sir Henry Simmerson, sucks at war sucks at cricket.

[@bluefive1727]

I understood that reference. 🎵 Over the hills and far away ... 🎶🥁 😄

[@eseholmes4592]

Batting a century and bowling the side? That's Doctoring...

[@robertofulton]

@@eseholmes4592 My god that’s Doctoring.

[@mjpbase1]

More Edwardian than Mary Poppins.

[@dokidoki65]

I think British people are insane for making that a sport uniform

[@kingofpointless]

The only scene that justified this serial's existence.

[@yusufkhan-ig7dv]

Wdym

[@willhorting5317]

What?

[@peterdavies2960]

This scene’s VERY American

[@marcuscalcas9270]

Slartibartfast dislike

[@brucebaxter6923]

I can’t quite see an Italian bistro

[@brucebaxter6923]

He is a vet not a doctor

[@AnnabellaRedwood]

He'll always be Tristan to me! ❤

[@fifthdoctor]

Funnily enough there’s this one episode of all creatures where Tristan does everything he can to get out of playing a match of cricket

[@ss-mp8zu]

1st guy here

[@tatiana11158]

What a boring performance! 😬😬😬😂😂😂

[@chadas8460]

A paz do Senhor Jesus Cristo irmãos

[@mortal6134]

Jesus Loves You ✝️

[@LeighPankhurst]

God this was awful. Davidson sucked, the special effects sucked, the writing sucked. Only exceed in its awfulness by McCoy.

[@awesomecat458]

Who asked

[@spartybrearly7221]

Davison didn’t suck but I agree with your opinion of McCoy.