So, my first doctor was really 9.
That other doctor was Colin Baker?
(I really am clueless.)
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sumi - Jul 06, 2017 11:34:12 am PDT #625 of 2020
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Connie Neil - Jul 06, 2017 12:12:56 pm PDT #626 of 2020
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There is also Tom Baker, the Great and Glorious 4th Doctor (my true doctor)
Dana - Jul 06, 2017 12:16:46 pm PDT #627 of 2020
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sumi - Jul 06, 2017 12:17:22 pm PDT #628 of 2020
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My BFF in Doctor Who-dom is also a 4th doctor adherent. I believe Sunday nights on PBS in the 70s and 80s were her drug.
Connie Neil - Jul 06, 2017 1:14:23 pm PDT #629 of 2020
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I believe Sunday nights on PBS in the 70s and 80s were her drug.
It was Saturday night, here, we'd gather in the house of someone with decent TV reception and watch that night's half-hour episode.
beekaytee - Jul 06, 2017 2:42:49 pm PDT #630 of 2020
Compassionately intolerant
9 was my gateway to true fandom, but Tom Baker is definitely a favorite.
An old boyfriend was one of the first VJ's in the country, showing vintage Doctor Who on WQEX in Pittsburgh. I'd watch his set at 12:30am and then we'd chat on the phone for at least an hour per 30 minute episode!
billytea - Jul 06, 2017 2:59:11 pm PDT #631 of 2020
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
So, my first doctor was really 9. That other doctor was Colin Baker?
Colin Baker was the Sixth Doctor back in the classic series, his tenure being 1984-1986. It's probably the least popular era of Doctor Who.
There've been a ridiculous number of Bakers involved in the program. The immensely popular Fourth Doctor was played by Tom Baker. One of the longer-running writing duos for the show were the Bristol Boys, Dave Martin and Bob Baker. They were the ones who created the Doctor's dog, K-9. Baker also co-wrote the Oscar-winning The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. And then there's Pip and Jane Baker, who wrote four of the worst adventures in Doctor Who history - three of them for the Sixth Doctor, and the one where he gets written out.
billytea - Jul 06, 2017 3:08:43 pm PDT #632 of 2020
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I believe Sunday nights on PBS in the 70s and 80s were her drug.
For me it was every night from Monday to Thursday, when the ABC showed an episode of Doctor Who virtually every week of my childhood. Mostly the Third and Fourth Doctors. Truly it was a Golden Age.
There were a total of 158 adventures in the Classic Series. 140 are available on DVD, the others lost to the BBC's archiving policy (namely, "don't"). I own precisely 100 of them, which I use to drive Biyi spare by watching at least an episode or two most nights. I've just finished rewatching The Tenth Planet, in honour of the current season's finale.
beekaytee - Jul 06, 2017 3:15:15 pm PDT #633 of 2020
Compassionately intolerant
It's probably the least popular era of Doctor Who.
I was just having this conversation the other day!
I can't quite decide, of the many things that were awful about it, which is the most-bad element of C. Baker's tenure.
In the end, I just don't much like the actor, which I know isn't fair, but sheesh. He was/is a job of work.
I can only take Sylvester McCoy in small doses (I have a low slapstick threshold), but really quite admire all the other Doctors' secret identities.
beekaytee - Jul 06, 2017 3:16:43 pm PDT #634 of 2020
Compassionately intolerant
There were a total of 158 adventures in the Classic Series. 140 are available on DVD, the others lost to the BBC's archiving policy (namely, "don't"). I own precisely 100 of them, which I use to drive Biyi spare by watching at least an episode or two most nights. I've just finished rewatching The Tenth Planet, in honour of the current season's finale.
I bow to your fan-aticism, billytea!