A deepfake re-imaging of Dr. Who: The Five Doctors. The face of William Hartnell replaces the face of Richard Hurndall. Watch the full video:
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Dr. Who: The Five Doctors (William Hartnell) Deepfake
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This takes me back over 35 years.
I saw this story before I'd seen any other Fifth Doctor stories, since KSPS was still running the last couple of Tom Baker seasons when they aired The Five Doctors. I hadn't even seen the First, Second, or Third Doctors.
I'm not sure any US viewers had seen anything pre-Pertwee by this point.
I think here in Chicago, we'd only seen Tom Baker many times over and the first Davison episodes by the time we saw Five Doctors (but I could be wrong).
So no real idea how good or bad Hurndall was in the part, only that he looked the part based on pics in Starlog magazine.
I think here in Chicago, we'd only seen Tom Baker many times over and the first Davison episodes by the time we saw Five Doctors (but I could be wrong).
So no real idea how good or bad Hurndall was in the part, only that he looked the part based on pics in Starlog magazine.
Of course I'd already begun to form opinions of previous Doctors, since as soon as I realized I liked the show (first story was Pirate Planet - NOT a good one for a first-timer!; second was the much better Stones of Blood), I started prowling the local bookstores for the novelizations and some of those were from the first three Doctors.
So by the time I saw The Five Doctors, I'd already read some of the earlier Doctors' stories in novel form.
It's too bad that nuWho didn't go that route from the get-go. I might have liked some of the stories I otherwise didn't, if I didn't have to actually look at some of what's on the TV screen or hear some of the actors. For instance, I probably wouldn't have hated Clara quite as much in book form as I wouldn't have to read her dialogue as fast as the actress mumbled it.
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