Sylvester McCoy links - The Hartnell Years (1991)

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[@Shaun789]

Theme song always needed more disco

[@ReversedPolarity]

I don't know why but I love Sylvester's enthusiasm for "ghetto blasters".

[@RantsReviewsRaves]

I still have my VHS copy of this. I still have all the 'Years' series on VHS. I always found it a shame that we never got the Peter Davison and Sylvester McCoy years on video back in the day.

[@PhilDrury]

McCoy wasn't Rrrrolling the Rrrrr in the intro. I don't know which universe I'm in anymore. Thankfully he did later on. Phew!

[@reidtommy7352]

dont know if anyone cares but if you're bored like me atm then you can stream pretty much all the new series on InstaFlixxer. I've been binge watching with my girlfriend these days xD

[@brianuriah4273]

@Reid Tommy definitely, I have been using Instaflixxer for since december myself :)

[@minicle426]

​@@reidtommy7352 You have a girlfriend... 😏

[@zarrg5611]

@@minicle426 Hes a robot, so no

[@SammEater]

This version of the Doctor Who theme for the intro sounds like something straight from the Sonic CD soundtrack. lol

[@yui4779]

3:08 Who else saw the Daleks move by itself 😮

[@timeywimeybrony]

Nah, that's just your imagination.

[@mcaducker]

I bought this VHS in 1993 or 94. I watched it a lot with my father. We were both big fans of the show!

[@timrob12]

I'm still thinking the BBC should do a version for the New series: "Hi. I'm David Tennant. And welcome to the Eccleston years."

[@FacePimpd]

year.

[@timrob12]

@@FacePimpd What do we do with Paul McGann? The Paul McGann Day?

[@FacePimpd]

@@timrob12 The Paul McGann Nights (he got two! … well three if you count Power of the Doctor)

[@timrob12]

@@FacePimpd Power of the Doctor was more a guest appearance in another Doctor's story. A lovely appearance, but I don't count it as part of the Paul McGann era.

[@jonathanmurphy3141]

Good that the segments from these videos are being preserved on blu-ray, like the one for The Crusades is. I had these videos, back in 1991 - amazing to see some of the recovered episodes, back then. The theme tune is obnoxious!!! Sylvester does his part.

[@SurlyInsomniac]

Yes, the kindest thing one can say is that the arrangement is very "of its time", but speaking as someone who bought this tape when it was first released I can assure you that even back then I thought it was embarrassingly cheesy and my opinion hasn't changed at all in the intervening decades. More broadly I find most of the incidental music of McCoy's era to be unlistenable. Lots of drum machines, an overuse of musical "stings" and scores that sound like an unhip nerd's idea of "hip" music. The notable exception being Mark Ayres, whose scores for "Ghost Light" and "The Curse of Fenric" are some of my favorite Who music, ever.

[@timeywimeybrony]

I LOVE the theme

[@heidisierra1250]

Sylvester McCoy is so adorable 😋😊❤️

[@ThalLovingKaled]

Thanks for uploading this, I was 8 when this tape came out and my Dad bought it for me. After it was clear the show wasn't coming back after 89 it was this VHS that made me a fan for life - I watched it endlessly!

[@matthewbolitho-jones]

I like Sylvester McCoy

[@davidconner-shover51]

nearly as dastardly as Tom Hartnell IMO

[@SamuelBlack84]

My Doctor 😊

[@jonathanmurphy3141]

I had these vhs tapes, 1991- It was amazing to see these random surviving episodes Good these are getting put on the newest dvd/Blu to preserve them (recent news of The Celestial Toymaker/and with The Crusade)

[@lukegreen5341]

0:01 This Doctor Who Remix Theme Song Is So Funky. Thanks Mate. X

[@melon_baron]

Batmanmarch's Intro :D

[@mcaducker]

I used to have this VHS. I think I bought it in 1994.

[@ryan-tc3rk]

Must of been crazy being a Dr who fan in the 90s as loads of classic episodes from the 60s where never rebroadcast so their doctors are completely unknown by a good chuck of the fanbase and there was no way to find out who they were.

[@fjccommish]

Yes, they where never broadcast. "My Doctor" is New Who BS.

[@sg-zd8eb]

I love you kept the BBC VIDEO globe ident at the end. That music they used with the bongos was so cool.

[@SamuelBlack84]

Opening the shutters with a click of his fingers Is that where they got the idea? 😏

[@ms.antithesis]

slyvester mccoy is a tardis, cannon.

[@danielwaugh2215]

So he fixed the tardis’s disguise and became the doctor! Didn’t see that coming lol

[@BalrogsHaveWings]

Love it! A Time Lord materialised this way in the Master's first story. Must've seem Sly do it in the future...

[@jamesricardo8067]

I did not just hear this man say "ghetto blasters"

[@davidconner-shover51]

yes you did, and he referred to it as such in "Remembrance of the Daleks" I have old 240p copies of most of the '80s Doctor Who ripped from VHS, as well as a few Tom Baker episodes

[@josephryan362]

The first doctor is my third favourite doctor who

[@lukegreen5341]

Sylvester McCoy Is Also Started In The 2012 Warner Bros Pictures And Metro Goldwyn Mayer Children's Live Action Action Adventure Fantasy Family Blockbuster Movie Of All Time The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey With Ian McKellen And Martin Freeman. Thanks Mate. X

[@Jordan3DS]

Why'd you capitalize every single word?

[@imaginationstation5161]

Out of all of the photos they chose this one 0:21

[@communityrags6048]

That is an interesting picture... and you are right. It was the base of at least three TARGET novelisations - The Romans, The Edge of Destruction, The Gunfighters... either it was the only one they thought they had, or it was the most ready to hand and they were too lazy to look for something else. Same the Troughton one here... it seems to have been the bogstandard passport shot for his Doctor

[@thomaswhalley7088]

Its too bad the 7th doctor didn't get to his era in Doctor Who The McCoy Years VHS

[@SegaNintendoGuy64]

Well the sells for the other 'Years' didn't sell well, Heck it didn't even a 'The Peter Davison Years' VHS made.

[@SegaNintendoGuy64]

At the time of the VHS release only Ep 3 of The Crusade exist, And sometime years later Ep 1 of the story was found.

[@yui4779]

3:09 did anyone else see that dalek move by itself?

[@randomfish9910]

no i missed it

[@danielwaugh2215]

Yes

[@Nige031077]

I ain't got round to watching the DVD version of Galaxy 4, but I think it would have been a ideal place for the Hartnell Years to be included, as was the case for the Blu Ray releases, especially pleased that we got the full Tom Baker Years as I sadly no longer have access to my video collection. :(

[@nigelmathewsnrm]

@@theworldofwho The Classic Series Season 12 Blu-Ray boxset Disc 3

[@The_Lost_Subrosian]

Even the 7th doctor has a pair of brainy specs.

[@tomwheeler8728]

finding the missing episodes or transcripts turned into cartoons could take months or years maybe

[@seth1349]

They've done a lot of them already.

[@roundaboutwalks9763]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@peylix-ohm4701]

Ah, o vídeo que eu enviei ao TroughtonLover e tu salvaste-o!

[@SciFiRenegadeProductions]

Tenho praticamente os vídeos todos :D

[@tomwheeler8728]

question whereabouts is that store at, as in Sylvester's played as a host in it?

[@fragalot]

doubt you'll get a copyright claim on such bad video quality. Like everything is smeared in Vaseline.

[@Synthpopper]

This is delightfully tacky!

[@thefonzkiss]

Him wearing the costume for this is absurd.