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Doctor Who all over again...

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dlowan
 
Reply Wed 24 Sep, 2003 04:00 pm
The Australian ABC is repeating ALL the episodes of Doctor Who - from the very beginning!

Any other secret Dalek lovers out there?

I have sort of followed the good Doctor over the years - especially when he was Tom Baker (thud!) - without ever becoming really involved - but, the show is a part of my cultural background.

I wonder how many A2kers have heard of it? If so, did you like it? Favourite characters? (Apart from Tom, mine is K9).

Memories associated with the show?

Exterminate!
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sozobe
 
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Reply Wed 24 Sep, 2003 04:04 pm
Oh really??

I loved that show, but it was already in reruns when I started watching it, and the reruns were out of order, and that's right when I was going deaf, too, and it wasn't captioned, so I have a weird sort of impressionistic recollection of it. Phone booth. British accents.

But I loved it!
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dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 24 Sep, 2003 04:06 pm
LOL! Which Doctor?
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Wed 24 Sep, 2003 04:15 pm
Tom Baker was my favorite Dr. Bunny, have you seen this site?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/

They have an animated version of 'Shada'...very cool...
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 24 Sep, 2003 04:17 pm
The daleks do nothing for me, however . . .

Leela . . . mmmmmmmmmmmmm . . .

http://www.shillpages.com/dw/jamesl02.jpg
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Lightwizard
 
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Reply Wed 24 Sep, 2003 04:23 pm
Hopefully, the cable channel BBC America will rebroadcast the series. It's now on DVD so I guess I could rent them. It's also on the list of Columbia House subscriptions to buy (a couple of episodes at a time). I agree about the re-runs being run out of order even though each story is unique as there are references to past shows. I think I originally saw it from the beginning on our local KCET PBS station but that was many years ago.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 24 Sep, 2003 04:38 pm
Tooooom Baaaaaaaker! Thud.....

I liked Tegan - and the one with the long blonde hair, who Tom Baker married for a bit...

I have seemn the nicest Dalek salt and pepper shakers - but they cost a bomb.

Anyone else love K9?
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dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 24 Sep, 2003 04:41 pm
Actually, to be serious for a bit, it is interesting to see the way the female characters evolved - these first two (only a week or so of shows have been broadcast) are rather vaporous - but not vapid and bimboesque, as many SF characters of the time were - especially in SF. The Doctor is a sneaky so and so so far!!! Hartnell, of course - and soooo into real politik...
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sozobe
 
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Reply Wed 24 Sep, 2003 04:42 pm
Tom Baker was the one that made the biggest impression -- but I also remember the white-haired guy, who I liked MUCH LESS and got huffy about his displacement of Tom. He grew on me, tho.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 24 Sep, 2003 04:44 pm
yes - he was good.

The chappie who played Tristan on "All Creautures Great and Small" didn't, though...
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sozobe
 
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Reply Wed 24 Sep, 2003 04:53 pm
Oh that's right!! Young, sandy-haired, a bit manic. I LOVED him as Tristan, had high hopes.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 25 Sep, 2003 07:38 am
Just didna GEL - right? I once knitted a very long scarf - meant to imitate Tom Baker's - didn't really work, either...
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Setanta
 
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Reply Thu 25 Sep, 2003 07:48 am
Tom Baker was by far the best . . . he had a certain air of being comfortable in the role of a time lord . . . the white haired guy was too irrascible for me, and they were always shooting sequences in some rock quarry somewhere . . . i found those episodes largely boring . . . Baker's female companions were always quite knowledgeable and competent . . . and Leela . . . she was so . . . savage . . .
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 25 Sep, 2003 07:50 am
I see Leela gets the boy vote!!!!!
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Setanta
 
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Reply Thu 25 Sep, 2003 10:12 am
Here's the all-time favorite Dr. Who (according to every web site i've ever visited) with an insipid companion:

http://www.shillpages.com/dw/bakert03.jpg

Elizabeth Sladen survived from the Jon Pertwee era, to be Baker's earliest companion:

http://www.shillpages.com/dw/sladee20.jpg

One of his most popular companions:

http://www.shillpages.com/dw/k902.jpg

Two incanations of Romana:

http://www.shillpages.com/dw/tammm04.jpg

http://www.shillpages.com/dw/wardl02.jpg

A juvenile companion whom i believe was very popular among the ladies:

http://www.shillpages.com/dw/waterm10.jpg

At end of the Tom Baker era, Sarah Sutton debuted

http://www.shillpages.com/dw/suttos03.jpg

And, of course the boys like Leela . . . what's not to like ? ! ? ! ?

http://www.shillpages.com/dw/jamesl14.jpg
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Lightwizard
 
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Reply Thu 25 Sep, 2003 12:13 pm
Leela was in the tradition of the old sci-fi pulp magazines like Amazing Stories. Very inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Equus
 
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Reply Thu 25 Sep, 2003 01:32 pm
EX-TER-MIN-ATE! EX-TER-MIN-ATE!

Tom Baker & Jon Pertwee were by far the best Who's. The original one, William Hartnell, was okay. I have a hard time telling the later ones apart from one another. Is it just me, or does the Doctor keep getting younger with each incarnation?

There's something to be said for good, solid, schlocky science fiction. Doctor Who was among the best of that. I certainly hope they start rebroadcasting them in the US too.
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jespah
 
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Reply Thu 25 Sep, 2003 02:42 pm
Oh yeah, I remember it but I, like soz, saw it in reruns and out of order. So it was strange (er, stranger than it was meant to be).

I still see a British phone booth in a film and think: Tardis.
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Lightwizard
 
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Reply Thu 25 Sep, 2003 03:21 pm
In it's satirizing and lampooning serious sci-fi, it made such films as "Battlefield Earth" even look more ridiculous than they were. Or was "Battlefield Earth" actually a parody?
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Dartagnan
 
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Reply Thu 25 Sep, 2003 03:30 pm
I saw some of the Tom Baker chapters when I was in the UK in the early '80s. For all I know, they might have been reruns then. I enjoyed the show, because it was clever and, as others have noted, the production values were rather chintzy. There was even a pop band at the time called Dalek I Love You, if memory serves...
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