"He comes from somewhere else ..."

TV Allyn has pointed me towards the news that the North American version of Doctor Who includes a short explanatory prologue in the style of Quantum Leap and low and behold here's a low grade copy from YouTube:



It's nice. It evokes the fairy tale values of this new version of the series and isn't the infodump which arguably ruined the TV movie.

US fans older than me with longer memories will know that when some of the Tom Baker era was broadcast in the 70s, they also featured story specific intros narrated by Howard Da Silva. Sadly YouTube hasn't been as forthcoming in that regard

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Allyn Gibson said...

US fans older than me with longer memories will know that when some of the Tom Baker era was broadcast in the 70s, they also featured story specific intros narrated by Howard Da Silva. Sadly YouTube hasn't been as forthcoming in that regard

If you absolutely must see them, get the North American DVD release of Robots of Death; it has, as a bonus feature, the Da Silva introductions and outros.