But I had no idea it was still a program until people here mentioned it.

Started the weekend after JFK's assasination on BBC, played through 1989, then was brought back in 2005 not as a reboot (like Battlestar Galactica), but as a continuation of the classic series. Oh, and there was a Fox TV-movie in 1996 that has been incorporated into the show's backstory, but it really sucked.

Good god, Suzi. Colorado is crazy! Poor kid.

Here's a pic of Tom Baker in costume.

Yeah, that's the one. Didn't that iteration have a really woo-woo spiralling graphic in the opener, too? I know it sort of freaked me out for some reason.

I think you people are the only people I know who watch it. Of course, you people are the majority of people I know, so.

This.

I didn't watch the show, but caught end bits of it as it came on right before Monty Python. I thought Tom Baker was awfully cute. Something about the combination of the hangdog expression and the curly hair and insane scarf was really charming.

caught end bits of it as it came on right before Monty Python

Yes! That's the only reason I ever saw it.

Since I grew up in the UK, I have to know who Doctor Who is. I forget most of you people are foreigners.

Why would anyone spell my name iTa? Ita I get. I hate it, but I get it. iTa? You're just being difficult.

I'm drinking Mexican Coca Cola with lunch. It still gives me the squeaky teeth feeling that I don't like about Coke. I've been drinking way too much soda recently, even though most of it is purportedly-natural Izze.

and I am like, dud, you made it difficult-

Epically apropos typo

Oh, and there was a Fox TV-movie in 1996 that has been incorporated into the show's backstory, but it really sucked.

Poor Paul McGann. Such a great choice for the role, but so the wrong version to showcase him.

Didn't that iteration have a really woo-woo spiralling graphic in the opener, too?

Tom Baker credits start at about 2:50 in this video: [link]

OMG I can't believe I'm using the complete set of Doctor Who credits as reference material.

Anyway, most of the sequences have done spirally trippy tunnel things (I, err, think it's supposed to represent time travel or something), but you can totally see the state of special effects at any given time. The current show has way more budget than some of the earlier iterations, and correspondingly less effects consisting of turning the screen funny colors and spinning the image around. (Also less costuming with bubble wrap and spray paint).

The current show has way more budget than some of the earlier iterations, and correspondingly less effects consisting of turning the screen funny colors and spinning the image around. (Also less costuming with bubble wrap and spray paint).

The most recent iteration has raised some disturbing associations, though.

(Also less costuming with bubble wrap and spray paint).

Don't forget the wobbly walls.

And since they're no longer doing each story in four half-hour segments, there's less need to have tons of filler of the Doctor and his companion(s) running here and there, although they do still have a few minutes of it in most episodes. (I loved Donna Noble's line when she's describing life with the Doctor as "...running. There's a lot of running.")