Talk:The Massacre (Doctor Who)

message: If anyone is familiar with the differences between the serial and the novelization, could you add a section listing some of them? Thanks! 23skidoo 07:42, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's many, many years since I read it but I think the novelisation has a framing device of a couple of Time Lords visiting the Doctor in his garden and accusing him of meddling with time. There's also something about a wood carving... And I think the Doctor is in it rather more than the TV story. Not much help, is it? Sorry. —Whouk (talk) 13:35, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I've read (although I've yet to read the book itself) the novelisation basically junks the televised plot and starts again. The Doctor is far more active and at one stage is impersonating the Abbot. The scene with Dodo's arrival is removed but she is mentioned when the Time Lords confront the Doctor. And erm... I'll post on Outpost Gallifrey to see if anyone can help. Timrollpickering 17:54, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Novelization differences

message: I was the one who put the information about a gateworld forum member claiming to find an episode. Here's the link to the forum area were it mentions it. I know it says the Beginning boxset but the episode information is mentioned around the first page. Here's the link http://forum.gateworld.net/showthread.php?t=22851 Finalwars 20:52, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for that. Unless the episode is confirmed found, I don't think this should be noted in the article though - anyone can post a message like that online. The fact that he refers to the episode as Bartholomew's Eve is pretty suspicious as that's not a title he would have found on-screen. —Whouk (talk) 21:01, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

text: It sounds decidedly dodgy to me. (Sorry, I removed the note as "no citation" because I hadn't seen this talk page yet, but I'm not restoring it just because the whole thing sounds extremely unlikely - copied video tapes of The Massacre? I don't think so.) --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 22:43, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Episode possibly found?

message: As far as I'm aware, the main source of "Lucarotti wasn't credited on screen" is Donald Tosh's memory (which has been proven false on other occasions, such as remembered modifications to the Myth Makers and the Daleks' Master Plan). Most references I've seen say that Lucarotti was credited on all four episodes and Tosh was given a co-credit on the final one because he had now left the production office (which makes his memory even more suspect) and so was not technically filling a dual role frowned on by the Writers' Guild. Timrollpickering (talk) 15:16, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Writer credits 

message: Much of the information, like when Anne tells the Doctor what day it is (Episode 4, which I find is important information to the plot), is missing. Could someone explain why? Vincinel (talk) 05:44, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information Missing 

message: What stills or fragments?  There is no offscreen whatsoever of any episodes of this story, only the audio and on-set photos.  (Mission to the Unknown is the only other full story where this is the case, plus 17 other odd episodes.) Romomusicfan (talk) 09:43, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Only stills and/or fragments exist" 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved. Rough consensus in the RM discussion and previous thread that the proposed name is the WP:COMMONNAME. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 12:15, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve →  – Formalising move request per the above rationale. This certainly seems to have slipped through the net for a long time. U-Mos (talk) 02:54, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

text: Oppose - both titles are used in the various published media and the more detailed title is helpfully more descriptive and less ambiguous.  I, for one, was briefly confused when I saw a reference online to just "The Massacre" but once I looked it up here and saw the title I knew which serial was being talked about (although I appreciate that this is anecdote, not data). Harris (talk) 07:50, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 19 May 2022