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This show is my favourite TV show and I have such happy memories of it, thanks Doctor Who for being so awesome❤️ can't wait for the new episode on Saturday and my Doctor Who top omg😍😁😃

”who even was the target audience of the 1996 doctor who tv movie starring paul mcgann?”

me, i was, it was made for me

Happy 65th birthday to Paul McGann. He is who I think is the hottest Doctor.

He still looks good now!

Doctor Who TV Movie (1996) film of all time Paul McGann I saw your Chanel boots I loved them

Hello!  I've been painstakingly replicating the TARDIS Key as used by the Eighth and Seventh Doctors in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.  Now you can buy a 3D print of it or, if you have access to the proper gear, download my file for free and print your own.

The key prop used in the film was an official TARDIS key replica available at the time from 800-Trekker, a now-long-defunct scifi memorabilia catalog, under license from the BBC in the early 1990s. The 800-Trekker key was a unique design largely based on TARDIS keys used on-screen by the Third and Fourth Doctors in the 1970s, but with many noticeable differences from those TV props. Rather than design a new TARDIS key for the 1996 film, the film's prop department just bought a supply of those keys from 800-Trekker and made them the canonical key design used by the Seventh and Eighth Doctors in their movie.

The newly-canonical 800-Trekker keys became very popular with fans, but had already been out of production and in limited supply by the film's release. They were also made of a very soft pewter which scratched and bent easily, so very few good copies of the Trekker key remain in circulation today. I happen to own one of the Trekker keys, ordered myself from the catalog around 20 years ago. Armed with calipers, 3D software, and a desire to replace my prop (which has begun to show noticeable wear, despite my best efforts to preserve it) with something more durable, I modelled this key based on it.

So, you can now order 3D prints of this key in a variety of metals and plastics right here on my Shapeways shop.  (Shapeways, for those unfamiliar, 3D-prints users' designs in a variety of materials on industrial-grade printers.)  What's more, if you have your own access to 3D-printing gear (or you'd just like the 3D source file to play with) I'm sharing that file freely here on Thingiverse so you can hack and print it yourself.

Add a wire loop and chain to wear your key in style, or just hide it in a cubbyhole above your TARDIS door.

Thanks for looking!  Please feel free to ask any questions you may have.

“Paul and I in a cottage, up a hill, near Penrith 26 years ago in a Polaroid.”

babes <3

Withnail & I (1987)

Directed by Bruce Robinson

Cinematography by Peter Hannan

Withnail & I (1987)

Directed by Bruce Robinson

Cinematography by Peter Hannan

Withnail & I (1987)

Withnail: Why can't I have an audition? It's ridiculous. I've been to drama school. I'm good looking. I tell you, I've a fuck sight more talent that half the rubbish that gets on television. Why can't I get on television?

I/ Marwood : Well, I don't know. It'll happen.

Withnail: Will it? That's what you say. The only programme I'm likely to get on is the fucking news.

Withnail & I (1987) | dir. Bruce Robinson

The film is a testament to the potency and sadness of friendship and the compromises required for the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

“To pronounce oneself immune to the charms of Withnail & I is to declare oneself a philistine, a Puritan and a snob.” - Kevin Jackson, 2004

At the end of Bruce Robinson’s much-loved journey through the dying months of the 1960s, Withnail (Richard E. Grant) walks Marwood ( Paul McGann ) through Regent’s Park on the way to the station. As his friend vanishes from his life, Withnail stands in the rain and quotes one of Hamlet’s soliloquies to the watching wolves.

Set at the fag-end of the 1960s, Robinson’s comedy of bad manners sees two struggling twentysomething actors – flamboyant, melancholic narcissist Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and his unnamed, unassuming friend (Paul McGann) – pursue booze, recreation, work and the meaning of life in Camden Town and the Lake District. Based on Robinson’s own experiences, this labour of love achieved cult status on the strength of its endlessly quotable dialogue and brilliantly eccentric performances (notably Richard Griffiths’ Uncle Monty and Ralph Brown’s Danny the dealer). The beautifully sodden photography and a cannily evocative pop soundtrack help fix the mood. The script references Bruce Robinson’s own acting work in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet (1968).

Withnail & I (1987)

ph. ©Murray Close

'Withnail was made by HandMade Films, George Harrison's company. Ringo Starr popped down one afternoon. It wasn't like this was a big film - everyone was saying, "Oh my God, Ringo's coming to see us..."'

Withnail & I (1987)

ph. ©Murray Close

Withnail & I (1987)

Paul McGann as "I" and Richard E Grant as Withnail on the steps of their Camden home

Withnail & I (1987)

Directed by Bruce Robinson

Cinematography by Peter Hannan

THE DOCTOR + first words

DOCTOR WHO - CLASSIC + MOVIE DOCTORS

- William Hartnell - 1963-1966

- Patrick Troughton - 1966-1969

- Jon Pertwee - 1970-1974

- Tom Baker - 1974-1981

- Peter Davison - 1981-1984

- Colin Baker - 1984-1986

- Sylvester McCoy - 1987-1989, 1996

- Paul McGann - 1996, 2013

I remember I'm with my father, lying on the grass, on a warm Gallifreyan night.

All Doctor Who Title Sequences: 1963-2023 | Doctor Who

Butterfly wings (1963-1967)

Howlround (1967-1969)

Suspiria (1970-1973)

Diamonds I: Vortex (1973-1974)

Diamonds II: TARDIS (1974-1980)

Starfield: Original/Fade In (1980-1981)

Starfield: Original/Slide In (1981-1984)

Starfield: Brighter/Flash In (1984-1985)

Starfield: Brighter/Flash In/Remix (1986)

Sylver & Ice (1987-1989)

"The TV Movie" (1996)

Past & Future: Orchestral/Plain Logo (2005-2006)

Past & Future: Orchestral/Firey Logo (2006-2007)

Past & Future: Rock Mix/Firey Logo (2007-2010)

Lightning storm: TARDIS Logo (2010-2011)

Lightning storm: Themed Logos (2012)

Swirl! Whoosh! Zaap! Zip! (2012-2013)

Time is spiralling (2014-2017)

Gloopy (2018-2022)

Diamonds III: Clouds (2023- )