{"id":39875,"date":"2013-12-03T21:20:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T04:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/03\/tv-movie-review-an-adventure-in-space-and-time.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T15:46:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T21:46:41","slug":"tv-movie-review-an-adventure-in-space-and-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/03\/tv-movie-review-an-adventure-in-space-and-time.html","title":{"rendered":"TV Movie Review: &quot;An Adventure in Space and Time&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Lovely.<\/p>\n<p>And, as an added note, David Bradley (as William Hartnell) effectively joins the ranks of Harry Potter \/ Doctor Who cross-over actors, which include most prominently David Tennant, Roger Lloyd Pack, John Hurt, \u00a0Michael Gambon, Zo\u00eb Wanamaker, and Shirley Henderson. (And, before you object that Bradley\u00a0wasn&#39;t in the actual series &#8230; he was:\u00a0more at <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/0Q2UtG\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/0Q2UtG<\/a> .)\ufeff<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/LFngbx1b90zjIJ0SDCOpAAz84xljyIApY7p_1yQOZoYC4lN8y8YlT3GwX5ZgWWZcmeuM_Jxzl1iHSzZwVjB-e_mBDqaO896Xm5vOk4IFMoL0nCOAG-KUVX_GLq-BVzEuldNd37A91Gjmm07_LhpmOADvlphgDP9Db1axC7iIzC9N3I8vnGXQFhI61gE=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/an-adventure-in-space-and-time\/'>A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Just finished watching (courtesy of the DVR) this BBC TV movie about the creation and early years of &#8220;Doctor Who&#8221;. I&#8217;m pleased and impressed. David Bradley&#8217;s rendition of William Hartnell, reborn and slowly declining, is beautifully, tragically done. The other key actors do a splendid job as well, capturing the time and place and spirit of the early 60s and what that &#8220;kiddie show&#8221; did to a nation. Half drama, half documentary, it&#8217;s a lot of fun a&#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/hxuWhELbQXD' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely. And, as an added note, David Bradley (as William Hartnell) effectively joins the ranks of Harry Potter \/ Doctor Who cross-over actors, which include most prominently David Tennant, Roger Lloyd Pack, John Hurt, \u00a0Michael Gambon, Zo\u00eb Wanamaker, and Shirley Henderson. (And, before you object that Bradley\u00a0wasn&#39;t in the actual series &#8230; he was:\u00a0more at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/03\/tv-movie-review-an-adventure-in-space-and-time.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TV Movie Review: &quot;An Adventure in Space and Time&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,43,527,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv-doctor-who","category-harry-potter","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27728,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/03\/always-amusing-when-actors-cross-paths-in-different-places.html","url_meta":{"origin":39875,"position":0},"title":"Always amusing when actors cross paths in different places","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-May-12 12:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We watched the Cybermen two-parter from Series 2 of Doctor Who last night, and were trying to remember where we'd seen the actor playing John Lumic, the mad creator of those cyborg menaces. 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But Benedict Cumberbatch doing impersonations of Alan Rickman and David Tennant is almost as good.Reshared post from +Les JenkinsHeh. View this post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":134380,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/22\/bradley-walsh-tapped-to-be-the-next-doctors-companion.html","url_meta":{"origin":39875,"position":5},"title":"Bradley Walsh tapped to be the next Doctor&#8217;s Companion","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Aug-17 7:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's not surprising that, given the First-Ever Female Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), her Companion would be cast with a male actor. Reading the early morning news from the UK, there seems to be a fair amount of panic in the streets over this one, as Walsh seems most known for his\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/unnamed-5.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40638,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39875\/revisions\/40638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}