"Comic Relief" is a British charity, which now has spinoff groups in Australia, the US, and elsewhere, in which comedians put together things, and solicit donations which go to various causes.
"Red Nose Day" is a telethon that the BBC puts on for Comic Relief, and, in 1999, this was one of the pieces that they put on. This was in the television hiatus period, after the Sylvester McCoy era ended in '89, after the Fox TV movie with Paul McGann in 1996, and before Chris Eccleston in 2005.
It is, of course, non-canonical, but a number of the people involved in it went on to be involved in the 2005 restart. For instance, the thing was written by Steven Moffat.
At the time, there wasn't any thought that there would be any more Who, after the Paul McGann didn't lead to any other television stuff (although there were a bunch of audiobooks and the like, and Paul McGann's Ninth Doctor IS canonical). Because of that, actors jumped at the chance to be in this Doctor Who parody, because it was, they thought, their only chance to do so.
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Date: 2012-07-29 10:41 pm (UTC)"Red Nose Day" is a telethon that the BBC puts on for Comic Relief, and, in 1999, this was one of the pieces that they put on. This was in the television hiatus period, after the Sylvester McCoy era ended in '89, after the Fox TV movie with Paul McGann in 1996, and before Chris Eccleston in 2005.
It is, of course, non-canonical, but a number of the people involved in it went on to be involved in the 2005 restart. For instance, the thing was written by Steven Moffat.
At the time, there wasn't any thought that there would be any more Who, after the Paul McGann didn't lead to any other television stuff (although there were a bunch of audiobooks and the like, and Paul McGann's Ninth Doctor IS canonical). Because of that, actors jumped at the chance to be in this Doctor Who parody, because it was, they thought, their only chance to do so.