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|image = THWR 13.jpg
|thwr = [[Saul Metzstein]]
|subject = [[Direct]]ing ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[series 7 (Doctor Who)|series 7]]
|charity = The World Wildlife Fund
|charity url = http://www.wwf.org.uk/
|broadcast with = The Big Finish Podcast
|interviewer = Toby Hadoke
|interviewee = Saul Metzstein
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|format = [[MP3]]
|release date  = [[18 April (releases)|18 April]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]]
|runtime = 50 minutes
|prev = {{prev}}
|next = {{next}}
|series=''[[Toby Hadoke's Who's Round]]''
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'''''{{THWRt}}''''' was the {{THWRnth}} episode of ''[[Toby Hadoke's Who's Round]]''. In this episode, [[Toby Hadoke]] interviews the [[series 7 (Doctor Who)|series 7]] [[director]] [[Saul Metzstein]]. This was the first ''Who's Round'' interview with a member of the [[BBC Wales]]-era production team.

== Synopsis ==
In the latest segment of his ''Doctor Who'' 50th anniversary quest to interview someone connected with every single ''Doctor Who'' story, Toby Hadoke gets right up to date...and heads into the future!

We come right up to date with someone who has been at the helm of some of the [[Series 7 (Doctor Who)|most recent episodes]] and - in a first for ''Who's Round'' - we get an anecdote from a couple of stories that... have yet to be transmitted! This open and perceptive gentleman explains why he thinks that ''[[Doctor Who]]'' is a like a musical, tackles a couple of moral dilemmas, and explains which villain was modelled on Peter Stringfellow!

Nominated charity: [http://www.wwf.org.uk/ The World Wildlife Fund]

== Topics covered ==
* Why [[Saul Metzstein]] at first rejected offers to work on ''Doctor Who'': he hadn't seen any of the new series, and thought it was still a studio programme with cheap and creaky sets.
* How he got into [[direct]]ing at the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]].
* How much [[Matt Smith]] really carries the show.
* ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]''
** [[David Bradley]] as [[Solomon (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)|Solomon]], modelled on {{w|Peter Stringfellow}}.
** The [[Silurian Ark]], modelled on the car {{w|KITT}} in {{wi|Knight Rider (1982 TV series)|Knight Rider}}.
** Morality play in ''Dinosaurs'' and ''Mercy'': the Doctor killing Solomon.
** "Apocalyptic weather" while shooting on Southerndown beach.
* ''[[A Town Called Mercy (TV story)|A Town Called Mercy]]''
** The Doctor's gun wielding in ''Mercy''.
** Filming the episode like a Western without spoiling either element.
** Finding the right timing that works both on ''Doctor Who'' and on a Western.
** The choice to get American actors for ''Mercy''{{'}}s cast.
* Tendencies in ''Doctor Who'' directing, but great flexibility, allowing for much choice and variety.
* Shooting ''Doctor Who'' as if it's a musical, like {{wi|Singin' in the Rain}}.
* Using music in ''Doctor Who'', adapted to the modern era. Despite frequent complaints by those who worked on old ''Who'' about loud or excessive music, it's necessary to get with the times, and keep with the sort tempo that audiences are used to now, to keep them interested.
* Saul Metzstein had no part in casting. The producers decided on [[Ben Browder]] for the part of [[Isaac (A Town Called Mercy)|Isaac]]. Mostly, casting is done by the director and the [[casting director]], but he had little control.
* ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]''
** The return of the [[Paternoster Gang]].
** Working with [[Dan Starkey]] and [[Neve McIntosh]].
** [[Steven Moffat]]'s script for Christmas.
** Saul's favourite bit of ''The Snowmen'' was Clara finding [[the TARDIS]] on the [[cloud]].
* ''[[The Crimson Horror (TV story)|The Crimson Horror]]'' preview information
** "Gothic and weird", quite strange to film, but he loves the script
* The [[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|final episode]] of the series, not yet released, whose name he can't remember.
* Saul Metzstein's then-ongoing work on the first series of ''[[The Musketeers]]'', which starred [[Peter Capaldi]] at the time

== External links ==
* {{THWR BF|toby-hadoke-s-who-s-round-13---saul-metzstein-917}}
* {{THWR BF|doctor-who-toby-hadoke-s-who-s-round-13-april-4|podcast}}

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