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janc
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Dr Who?
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Nov 9 17:56 UTC 1995 |
I notice there is no Dr Who stuff in this conference. Is he on the air at
all? I never did see them all.
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gregc
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response 1 of 61:
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Nov 9 21:54 UTC 1995 |
I remember PBS was carrying it late night a few years ago. But they've
apparently dropped it. I havn't seen it on for several years now.
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tyche
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response 2 of 61:
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Nov 10 05:20 UTC 1995 |
I haven't seen Dr Who in ages...sigh. Scuttlebutt has it Fox is doing a
made-for-tv movie. I am scared, VERY scared....
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robh
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response 3 of 61:
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Nov 10 10:55 UTC 1995 |
And even that may not happen, it keeps getting pushed back...
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scott
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response 4 of 61:
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Nov 10 12:25 UTC 1995 |
Dr. Who used to be serious fundraiser material... PBS would say how much it
cost, and the Whovians would (supposedly) fork over lots of dough. If you
can imagine Trekkers for a PBS show. :)
Pretty fun show, but nobody has had it on for a while, and I don't really miss
the recent episodes they were showing. Too pretentious.
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matthew
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response 5 of 61:
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Nov 10 13:45 UTC 1995 |
It;s no longer in production over in England. People started got upset when
the Doctor regenerated into a woman.
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scott
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response 6 of 61:
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Nov 10 17:16 UTC 1995 |
You mean they made that mythical 26th (or 27th, I lcan't remember) season,
where they were going to have to replace Sylvester McCoy?
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janc
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response 7 of 61:
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Nov 10 19:01 UTC 1995 |
It's most the early episodes, notably the black & white ones, that I haven't
seen.
What's the deal with the SciFi network? They don't show Trek and they don't
show Dr Who. Is there something that requires them to show only crappy Sci
Fi?
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scott
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response 8 of 61:
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Nov 11 01:00 UTC 1995 |
Probably something to do with syndication prices.
Would be cool if they started show some of the old Hartnell episodes, or
perhaps the Troughton ones that I have almost never seen...
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kaplan
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response 9 of 61:
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Nov 12 16:06 UTC 1995 |
I thought the SciFi channel used to run DrWho. Three years ago, more or
less. Not the best place to watch because it buggs me that they leave that
logo on the screen almost all the time while the program is going. Also
Dr Who is designed to run 25 minutes between ads.
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scott
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response 10 of 61:
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Nov 12 17:20 UTC 1995 |
The PBS runs used to concatenate 3-6 episodes together, to make a complete
story (DrWho being a serialized show...). I think that when I first moved
back to Ann Arbor and got the SciFi channel for the first time ever, they were
showing some Tom Baker episodes at odd time slots.
And now scott is going to test his Whovian Quotient (WQ):
1st Doc: William Hartnell (the really old guy)
2nd: Patrick Troughton (the one in the huge coat)
3rd: John Pertwee (the best of the bunch! stylin'!)
4th: Tom Baker (the guy with the scarf)
5th: ??? (the guy in the cricket outfit)
6th: Colin Baker (the arrogant, unpopular one with the big hair)
7th: Sylvester McCoy (the one from all the "lets make it seem really
serious and tie in a bunch of old plots episodes)
I'm sure I'll remember the 5th doctor about 5 minutes after logging out! :)
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tyche
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response 11 of 61:
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Nov 12 17:47 UTC 1995 |
Doctor #5 was Peter Davidson, Scott...
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gregc
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response 12 of 61:
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Nov 12 18:16 UTC 1995 |
Who was the later one that seemed like an English version of Columbo?
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scott
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response 13 of 61:
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Nov 12 19:59 UTC 1995 |
That was sylvester McCoy... always solving massive plots involving dozens of
ancient enemies. The Hartnell episodes usually just had the Doctor & Co.
blundering into strange situations by accident.
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cyberpnk
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response 14 of 61:
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Nov 13 17:15 UTC 1995 |
I have a bunch of Doctor Who episodes on tape that I got from PBS. I also have
all the Sylvester McCoy episodes. And I also have copies of the Marvel
Premiere comic book <from waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy back> with the Tom Baker
Doctor in them.
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gregc
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response 15 of 61:
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Nov 14 02:21 UTC 1995 |
It wasn't the "solving massive plots" part that made him seem like Columbo,
I always thought he *looked* like Columbo.
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janc
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response 16 of 61:
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Nov 14 08:14 UTC 1995 |
I have seen tapes of a few of the older B&W Hartnell and Troughton episodes
and was very impressed by their quality, for the time. It's easy to see how
it won it's enormous early popularity.
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scott
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response 17 of 61:
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Nov 14 12:12 UTC 1995 |
Yeah, he *did* look like Columbo (probably still does ;) ). But his legacy
is that he was the last actor to play the Doctor. And there was some big
ongoing plot over the last season, with lots of twists and suprises.
I still like the Pertwee episodes a lot. And the Davidson ones as well. I
wasn't that huge a fan of the Tom Baker ones, even those were the most
popular.
How much of the Troughton episodes were set on Earth, in England? I gathered
that the Doctor "joined" U.N.I.T. during that period, and pretty much all the
Pertwee episodes had that setting, leading finally into the Tom Baker
episodes. The England setting helped the budget a great deal, no doubt!
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kaplan
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response 18 of 61:
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Nov 17 23:28 UTC 1995 |
Right, the second doc helped out UNIT. At the end of the second doc's
time, he was punished by his people. The punishment included denying him
use of the TARDIS for travel in space and time. He was exiled to earth and
helped out UNIT while he was there for about 4 years, I think.
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scott
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response 19 of 61:
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Nov 18 13:02 UTC 1995 |
So who has a big stockpile of episodes on tape? Sounds like a viewing party,
or perhaps a tape exchange (I only have a huge mass of Simpsons episodes,
myself :) ) would be in order...
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kaplan
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response 20 of 61:
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Nov 18 15:13 UTC 1995 |
I've got a bunch of DrWho tapes which I could lend. If you want to go to
a party at which Dr Who episodes are likely to be shown, check out the
Motor City TARDIS. It's been a while since I've gone to a meeting, but
I think they tend to be the third Saturday of the month. Send mail to
Mike Gardiner asking about MCT. mwg@mich.com
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janc
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response 21 of 61:
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Nov 18 18:23 UTC 1995 |
I have a few of the commericially sold tapes. One Hartnell (The Web Planet),
three Troughtons (The Krotons, The Seeds of Death, The Dominators), two
Pertwees (The Daemons, Death to the Daleks) and one Baker (Talons of Weng-
Chiang).
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gregc
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response 22 of 61:
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Nov 19 15:30 UTC 1995 |
The Krutons, The Seeds of Seseme, and the Dicemator? Sounds like a salad.
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janc
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response 23 of 61:
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Nov 19 17:29 UTC 1995 |
Yes, those were the salad days of Dr Who.
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aruba
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response 24 of 61:
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Dec 15 04:34 UTC 1995 |
I have The Five Doctors on tape. Jan, Maybe we could work a trade sometime?
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