Frazer Hines

David Gillespie Pratt, who's always got something interesting to say.

says, make the most of Fraser Hines in episode six, as he's about to vanish from the story.

He gets five very short lines in episode seven, and I think one word in the final episode.

Considering Jamie is quite instrumental in the first half of the story, he promptly vanishes.

So you have to be artful and to depict an invasion by all of these people under siege, I think is...

I think is effective, but maybe it should have felt harder for everybody to get from building to building.

You know, you had the IE guys pulling up on Watkins House and that sort of shooting in there and the rather stark and shocking shooting of Jamie to get rid of Fraser Hines after, as has been suggested, just a handful of lines.

And I wonder if he was not in rehearsals as much then so he could go off and do his... do his business uh wherever he went on holiday or whatever um but i don't know it it it felt it felt um it it it does feel that there's a there's a bit of But a promise there that is not delivered from the cliffhanger last week.

And this is almost played out between Jamie and Ben.

I know Gene's got a bit of a thing for Fraser Hines, but I've got more of a thing for Michael Cray.

So it's kind of good seeing them up against each other and fighting for script lines.

And then you've got Polly.

So, this is an hour audio drama.

This is Michael Troughton as the Doctor with Wendy Patmer and Fraser Hines.

Is this our first Michael Troughton? No, we've had a

bit here and there.

Not the best.

So this is the Lost Stories range.

So it's Wendy Padbury, Fraser Hines narrating, and we've got an extra actress there playing.

Is it Annette Badland? No, it's somebody else playing Hecuba.

I've got to put...

Tony's got a pile of Fraser Hines' old kilts in the shed, so I usually make do with one of them.

Well, something like that will do, won't it? So, in you come.

Well, I mean, two years and the machine's not working.

I am a brilliant fan of, a great fan of the brilliant Brian Hodgson, both as, I'm a brilliant fan of his too, both as a sound genius and as a lovely, gentle person.

wry charming man i i do love brian but he's a genuine legend i mean he's the man that created the sound of the tardis for goodness sake uh john hall is back uh i forgot to answer your query last episode about how jamie's kilt fared during the helicopter rescue of isabel and so he did i ask that Apparently, after Fraser Hind read the script for the episode four, he had a word with costume designer Bobby Bartlett.

She sewed a series of small lead fishing lure weights into the hem of Jamie's kilt so that the winds generated by the helicopter blades wouldn't reveal to viewers that, unlike true Scotsman, Fraser wore football shorts beneath his kilt.

Now, I didn't know that.

So I don't know.

So I don't know why I queried that.

But anyway, thanks, John.

However, Fraser swore Bobby to secrecy about this alteration so that on the day of filming, Sally Faulkner and Wendy Padbury's skirts predictably flew up to reveal their knickers.

Yes

... where she may have cooked Fraser Hines.

That's right.

Um, I'm not too sure the context or the...

You, you might know a bit more.

I saw it on, um...

I'd seen it on Twitter that someone was saying, "Oh, Anneke Wills has said this against Fraser Hines.

I hope they give Fraser the opportunity to have his say on this." And I was like, "Oh, I wonder-

Uh, but then," you see, she hesitates.

Um, "Then Frazer Hines came in.

Everything changes.

Then he came, ugh, with Patrick, Mike, and me, and he changed the whole dynamic." He came in to play Jamie, obviously, for the Highlands, um, Highlanders.

He went for Patrick and wiggled his way in.

I'm sorry, but he did.

Mike and I sat and watched him do it, then we were out, and he was in." So she's not happy with Frazer Hines.

When he arrived for The Highlanders, he was only contracted for those four episodes, which is, yeah, it's true.

It's redressed quite a bit in the next one.

Um, speaking of recasts, obviously you've got Fraser Hines doing his Patrick Troughton voice.

That is something he kind of honed in the Companion Chronicles and obviously, uh, Big Finish were really happy with it, 'cause they went, "Well, yeah, you can just be the Doctor then for a bit." Um, much in the vein of Peter Purves and, and William Russell.

Uh, it's, it's very good.

Ben's great.

Jamie's great.

I, I do really like Fraser Hines' Troughton.

Have to admit, while listening to these I have sort of thought to myself, I, actually I've really missed this.