Paul McGann Doctor Who Night of the Doctor Interview

[@BrotherTree1]

He's such an intriguing actor. Incredibly charismatic and likeable. We could talk to him all day. In my opinion, he is the greatest Doctor ever. The Night of the Doctor episode confirmed it for me.

[@ppy]

His voice is so lovely. Listening to the audio plays is now a must for me.

[@ellenmurphy2150]

ppy he also is a narrator for some Timeline shows.

[@sirsplendid309]

I came here to listen to his voice

[@lynzg6819]

Is it just me or is he like a million times hotter now than he used to be despite being in his 50's?

[@MrSontaran3]

Yes he so is! He has aged very graciously, still has that youthful charisma about him, which for his youthful Doctor, is fitting indeed :-D

[@timbogymbro66]

It's because he's a vegatarion ;)

[@Risket]

Paul McGann is awesome

[@TerryLightfoot]

Always.

[@LetterNo1]

This guy needs more. More parts in tv Doctor Who. I swear i will love the writers and BBC even more if they do this.

[@georgesikorski9891]

Severely underrated doctor

[@timrob12]

I love how Paul can say something funny in a really serious way and you never know if he means it or not. Oh, and I'm glad Colin finally got his regeneration on audio.

[@GreatVideosOfLeo]

He doesn't look a day older than he was in the movie. What a great and down-to-earth man. :) quite handsome too HAHA

[@13jasonvoorhees]

He actually looks kinda younger... TimeLord!

[@GreatVideosOfLeo]

13jasonvoorhees what I call "fine wine" haha

[@nateowen1064]

Don’t you mean down-to-gallifrey?

[@davidyoung5114]

If only Steven Moffat would create another Children In Need special like Time Crash where the Eighth Doctor would cross paths with Capaldi's Doctor.

[@michaeliscandy79]

that would be cool!! :)

[@bengrout4103]

That be c😎😎l

[@smolyne2988]

@@Chaos-94 Ew why would they kiss? That's selfcest. The Master got a boner for Missy and even they knew that was wrong, selfcest would be just as bad if not worse than incest.

[@benwilo2398]

@@smolyne2988 ye but wouldn't masterbation be selfcest. Infact nevermind I think everybody agrees its Probably best doctor who doesn't go near this idea.

[@CameronMulder]

I hope that the 8th Doctor shows up more often in the future. He really should have had his own series

[@Filmathon]

This guy is just absolutely epic. So incredibly likeable. I would kill to see him in a mini-series as the 8th. He deserves it.

[@PokedexGameplay]

the interview is longer then the special

[@Terri_MacKay]

I loved "The Night of the Doctor", and one of my favourite moments was when he called on his former companions because it firmly established that his audio episodes are canon...and I'm so glad that Paul McGann is "learning the jargon". :)

[@DavidNicholson101]

Yeah, really. Shoot, I was happy when they finally established that McGann was actually the 8th Doctor in the first place.

[@Terri_MacKay]

David Nicholson Me too!! Maybe the BBC felt that they were "stuck" with him as the 8th Doctor because of the regeneration scene in the movie. And I think that they underestimated how many fans actually liked his Doctor. He is the one Doctor that I've always wanted to see in the post-2005 show. I've always wanted to see him brought into an episode and made a part of the TV series. And I'm so glad that they brought him back for "The Night of the Doctor". He wasn't just brought back for some meaningless fan-pleasing cameo...he gave us the darkest moment the show has ever had. I hope we see him again...a 3 or 4 part prequel series would be nice. :)

[@Anbob658]

Paul went from the Doctor with the least canon adventures to the most in a few mere seconds

[@a.penguinwithcastielpfp]

3:38 hearing Paul said 'canon' is such an experience

[@blazeofglory6674]

"Clash of the hairstyles, on a planet near you." oh good lord xD

[@DarthRushy]

Poor Paul. His role as the Doctor was over before he could blink an eye. Again.

[@MrCleaverhook]

To be fair, he did get four series of audio adventures to play the Doctor in :D

[@jplegend98]

Captain Reagan way more than 4 seasons. he had the charlie era the divergent storyline the other charlie episodes, the 4 seasons of edas and a few box sets

[@ninjaahjumma]

Moffat and RTD, please please PLEASE give the Eighth Doctor his run on the telly. He'd be absolutely wonderful, I just know it.

[@ninjaahjumma]

I know, but he could always go back as a guest writer, right? I loved his episodes.

[@MrFunkMeSideways]

McGann is so sharp in this interview!

[@JammoYT]

7:43 Mcgann: send your hair Colin: oh i will

[@me-dc8pj]

Okay straight up this guy is immortal. He's what, 60 now? He doesn't look a day older than he did in 1996

[@bradleyconder9700]

The bit where he pointed at Colin Baker and called him bitter. I laughed hard.

[@Chaos-94]

He does have something to be bitter about. They fire him and then they have the nerve to be like "oh, could you come back and film one more scene, even though we fired your ass?"

[@yannatoko9898]

Well I don't think they used the word "ass".

[@chewie211171]

It's such a pity that we never got to see Paul on tv after the 96 movie; he really had potential. His audio 'appearances' in the Big Finish stories really prove this. I guess by doing 'the night of the Dr' he (and the fans) got some sort of closure.

[@JackWolf10]

This guy doesn't age

[@PathFinder1490]

We need more Paul McGann and Christopher Eccleston !!

[@superchubbles]

I've just recently started working through some classic Who, and I haven't gotten to Paul McGann yet - but wow! I really like him just from this interview. So charming!

[@KerryProchaska]

I have such respect for this man! He speaks for all of us who were born in the 50's. A great actor!

[@Drakelx55]

I like how you can kinda hear Colin Baker in the background

[@rebelbelle1388]

McGann is my favorite Doctor. I really wish he got a proper season or two of the show to call his own, but at least we have the novels and the audiobooks which are now all canon!!

[@christophertravis9522]

I'd honestly do anything for Paul to have a full season, he's the reason why I started watching Doctor Who lol

[@jhibbitt1]

what moffat did irks me a bit. his initial thoughts were to have christopher eccleston as the war Dr, rightfully seeing that thats what fans would want. eccleston declined, so the logical plan b would be to ask paul mcgann to be the war Dr. instead however he gets carried away by his own idea of a forgotten Dr and as a result McGann gets the shaft yet again.

[@dayschange2]

THANK YOU! I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing! If not 9, then 8 should have been the logical next choice for the war Doctor. Now the Doctors and their regenerations don't match up, and that bothers me so much. Whenever someone accidentally calls David Tennant the 11th Doctor, there's a tiny part of my brain that whispers, "Well, TECHNICALLY. . ." And that's to say nothing about the fact that Paul McGann is just brilliant. I hope that he gets another chance someday.

[@joshmcgee1053]

Ha! I love him! I was so excited to see him back in the minisode, but he's pretty cool himself!

[@TerryTanktop]

Paul is a fantastic voice-over artist and you have probably heard him narrate several non Dr Who documentaries and not realised it's him. He can make his Liverpool accent disappear at the click of a finger. Very clever.

[@blackham7]

I love how chill and mellow he is in real life lmao his level of zen is infinite.

[@TerryTanktop]

***** I agree

[@VicMourahimself]

We need more Paul Mcgann as the doctor! The guy is such na amazing actor!!!

[@KevinSullivanYo]

What a classy guy and a great sport. I can sense just a tiny bit of bitterness in him when he talks (and understandably so) but he still comes across as someone very gracious and happy to be part of the whole Who mythology. McGann is a class act all around.

[@killdianette]

And all that time we hear Colin laughing in background sound ^^ awesome

[@cottontrackpants]

I'm so excited to meet him in december oh my god he is literally perfect

[@TheIbbotron]

I remember my dad coming home years ago and telling me what a great guy Paul was after working with him on The Twilight Kingdom. Always made me really happy and excited

[@icraigg]

we need more Mcgann in Doctor Who perhaps put a future series on hold to make a prequel series...

[@ArchivistSN15]

Agree - give Capaldi a series then have a retro series for McGann - can't see why it couldn't be done; they did Enterprise as a prequel for Star Trek, so this would be same sort of idea. I LOVED the minisode but it was far too short and we want to see more of McGann.

[@icraigg]

Archivist SN my feels precisely!

[@Dylandevs]

Archivist SN Remember, he's a very secretive guy… For all we know he's already been called for such a series ;)

[@TwistedSynn]

seeing how amazing he was in that little minisode, they really do need to bring him back and give him a spin off mini series about the lost adventures of the 8th doctor in those missing years.

[@audiophelia]

Oh Give this man his own Who series, PLEASE! He makes an awesome Doctor!!! I was so bummed when they didn't pick him back up on the BBC.

[@Greymalkimn]

In my thought one of the top 2 best Doctor of em all. Great Work Mr M. keep it up.

[@mayahedgehog2326]

Zagreus, hell yeah! My favourite audio story. McGann is brilliant in it, and I'm happy to know now that he enjoyed doing it.

[@Hhhhhh-sz9ud]

I liked John Hurt as the War Doctor, but I wish we got a new clip of Paul McGann in the 50th when they sealed Gallifrey instead of what they used.

[@whitleybayman123]

Great to see Mcgan get his moment, and his regeneration as one who loved his Doctor Who movie

[@kritsinini]

his voice grew butterflies in my stomach

[@Obsessedandstuff]

Paul is such a wonderful doctor! Wish he had more episodes..

[@bugslayerprime7674]

I like his scarf.

[@TapTapTech]

Paul sounded more scouse in this than usual. Never noticed that accent from him before.

[@riccardoarpea9966]

i want his series SOOO BAD

[@loolinonilool]

My dude's really becoming the 8th doctor, forgetting everything he's worked on recently.

[@thewalkingpotofjam]

He seems like such a nice guy! :D

[@alexridgway1100]

Crowdfunding hair~ XD That's awesome~

[@APHHyder]

Ahhhh, now I can't decide which incarnation of the doctor is my favorite, I'm stuck between 8th and the 10th doctors

[@AlaskaRS]

Haha, exactly the same for me too.

[@APHHyder]

Miss Alaska RS so your your a Paul McGann fan eh?

[@APHHyder]

Miss Alaska RS oh btw, i just subscribed to your channel

[@AlaskaRS]

It's a bit strange really. The 1996 movie feels like such a fail for some, but the more I watched it the more I liked it. So I'm listening to all of the Eighth Doctor audio plays now. Need more Paul McGann!! He has so much potential as an actor it's saddening he hasn't done more. But if you watch one of the Steven Moffat interviews on this channel, he seems adamant on not creating more Paul McGann content....pssssh.

[@APHHyder]

Miss Alaska RS Ive never heard any of the audio plays of any of the doctors, but I'm definatly going to check out the ones with Paul McGann.

[@CaptainConstantinople]

Paul the god McGann being the definitive ASMR Doctor

[@Elnont]

Give eight his OWN SERIES. Like now. Also, why couldn’t 8 be scouse? Mcganns accent is great!

[@katie9918]

The Eleventh Doctor might be my Doctor, but the Eighth Doctor was my first Doctor and the only reason I decided to check the series out when it finally reached the U.S.

[@TheUlitimateFoe]

Oh Colin upstaging everyone (you hear him most of the time in the background) gotta love it... them... wonderful chaps all of them.

[@redrune4314]

"You wanted to be in Doctor Who." Oh my, that had me laughing.

[@russelltietjen4407]

As a ginger, I would be proud to donate my hair to The Doctor! MCGANN HATH SPOKEN!

[@synobyte2123]

6 years on and the Doctor is STILL not ginger.

[@jarredstuart6943]

damn it, they should continue with Paul at start and continue it,

[@thelilster]

I want to be honest.I like his hair better now than his wig in 1996

[@ArcanineFire]

We shot that in a day...erm in May... Why did I laugh at this as much as I did?

[@kylemccrory2031]

GET PAUL BACK PLEASE!

[@davidanato5701]

Since Tom Baker as the Curator stated that The Doctor will be revisiting a few faces, but just the old favorites. It's possible that Paul can come back. Maybe even faces like Colin, or Peter or even Sylvester can return! I Know they're all old, but hey a guy can dream ;). But right now I just want Tom Baker to return for a while.

[@clarissaallan]

+David Anato They did bring back the Shalka doctor as someone else, so they have done it once, but I want others back too.

[@clarissaallan]

That would be awesome!

[@rjmcallister1888]

The interview took longer than the 'minisode'. A shame Paul didn't get more chances to be the Doctor on TV. Having finally acquired a copy of the TV movie, it's not as bad as advertised, though it has many problems. They tried to Americanize the Doctor, one of the most British of characters. But "Night" does get the storyline in place, from McCoy to McGann to Hurt to Eccleston.

[@phenixdwn]

Bring me knitting!

[@jordanwoods9742]

He is amazing and wholesome and all the doctors are so nice

[@petersmernoff9590]

8th and 6th Doctors (Paul McGann and Colin Baker) are the two ultimate audio Time Lords, via Big Finish.

[@3rdAutisticCuckoo]

Damn, he's looking well for 54.

[@allilliendahl6687]

I appreciate the mini episode, but the 8th Doctor still has only one full-length episode! The 8th Doctor’s audio companions are now canon, but we still have not SEEN them. Let’s see a mini series of select stories already written as audio dramas. This can be done. Let’s make it happen.

[@curtyeomans8446]

Paul McGann: "They'll just move the goalpost" (on regenerations) Chris Chibnall: "THE DOCTOR ISN'T A TIME LORD AND CAN REGENERATE AS MANY TIMES AS HE/SHE WANTS. NO MORE LIMITS!!!"

[@choclatina40]

Paul was a hottie in 1996 and even more a hottie in 2013. Ugh I'm such a fangirl LOL !

[@MrSontaran3]

Too right! He certainly looks very well as The Doctor, in his striking variant new costume, as compared with 17 years ago! And, amazingly, he's still almost exactly the same character... wouldn't it be great to see him back for a full episode, or more? And by-the-by, hooray for groovy fangirls, choclatina! :-D

[@choclatina40]

IKR the new (distressed) costume makes the look even dare I say sexier lol. Thank goodness for whovian fangirls ....right haha ?

[@themaypole]

McGann looks SO alien and powerful. Watch Withnail and I and see him, even as a younger man he has such presence. Would've loved him to be a more substantial TV Doctor.

[@Lionelrm]

anyone else catch the "make it so" via Picard of startrek fame, from McGann?

[@ForboJack]

I started watching Doctor Who with new series 2005, but thanks to the webisode with him, I'm gonna watch the Movie. They really should have made his regeneration to Hurt into an hole episode.

[@DoctorWhoHome1]

I need this chap back in the 60th, we storm the bbc if not

[@christophertravis9522]

start a petition, I can safely say there'd be many people who'd love to sign it lol

[@8000Kakaroto]

He's a great Doctor. They should invent some excuse so Peter Capaldi regenerates into him, like coming back to an old form, so we can have a McGann series.

[@calebpike]

He sounds like he'd have been happy to feature prominently in the 50th episode.

[@ianharrington9187]

man he sounds really disappointed that he only got to come back to die. If we have to wait the better part of 8 months for the 12th doctor series I really think that we should get some more minis with McGann. Or just like two specials. I know there was a petition for a bit.

[@kaimcnamee3658]

Paul mentioned Zagreus! AAAHH!

[@Abi2000LOTR]

He's so funny XD I really wish there was more of him as The Doctor!

[@obiwankenobi687]

Why does he still look so young and attractive my god 😭👏🏻👌🏻

[@TiannaRawnee]

Here's my thought - he himself said in the interview that he didn't want to be a hero all the time - why not bring him into the TV show as the Valeyard? According to the chronology, the Valeyard should be making his appearance soon, and I could easily see him taking the Eighth Doctor's face.

[@briemiracle]

Paul McGann is a gem.

[@MatiProbably]

Just makes you want to go to the pub and get a pint with him. :) Donate your hair. The Doctor *HATH* spoken.

[@synobyte2123]

Forsooth

[@christophertravis9522]

@@synobyte2123 and what are you gonna do about it

[@synobyte2123]

@@christophertravis9522 Verily

[@ljwatt5362]

Why don't they make a mini series about Paul's time as the doctor

[@gev2323]

This guys is 54...holy butts. He looks good.

[@LordChristoff]

Paul McGann to get a new Series for himself following the 8th Doctors Story !!!!!!!!

[@karlawilliams3259]

I love him!! !he is so funny!

[@RichSouthby]

Doctor Who: Battle of the Hairstyles on a Planet Near You!

[@cruiseny26]

I love McGann!

[@caster1118]

Same eighth doctor is my fav!

[@cjgillett]

he got the regeneration he's desperately need thank you Steven thank you

[@georgesikorski9891]

A legitimately cool guy and a brilliant actor. So few of those these days

[@roisinkennan1781]

I'm sending in my hair, if they use it the Doctor could finally have red hair.... Definitely worth it.

[@vincentv1078]

i hope he gets a mini series. Very underused doctor, wasted mostly on a crappy tv movie, wasnt his fault he gave a good performance and his doctor got some redemption here

[@Armageddon0uttaHere]

Would have been great to see more of paul mcgann as the doctor.

[@alexhadzima9268]

Mcgann and Tennant = my favourite Doctors. Tom Baker is also SPECTACULAR Doctor.

[@noahsmith1260]

I have an idea for a Doctor Who companion. Danny West. All he ever wanted was to have a great adventure. He could have been a skilled military sniper, but didn't because he realized he didn't want to kill people. So he became a mall cop in London. When he meets the Doctor, he sees a chance to have a great adventure, and the Doctor finds creative ways of using his talents.

[@MyPs3gamer]

Is he from Liverpool

[@royalewithcheese9291]

4:27 "They'll go backwards" ha McGann predicted the Timeless Child arc 7 years before. In all seriousness, though give this man a series he deserves to have more onscreen adventures. Here's hoping that he'll be in the 60th 😎.

[@RhiniedaGenie]

he's adorable

[@jcraigwilliams70]

Holy cow... I wouldn't have recognised Colin Baker at all. And some are saying McGann hasn't aged well.... He looks absolutely amazing in comparison.

[@peterq1978]

McGann looks good

[@DavidNicholson101]

Yeah, Collin Baker really changed a lot, but that doesn't matter to me as I think he may be my favorite Doctor because of his attitude.

[@shecklesmack9563]

Who said McGann hasn't aged well? If he aged any better, it would literally be suspicious.