Dr. Who is BAAAAACCCCCKKKK !!!!!!!

[matriarch]

I have no idea if Dr. Who means anything to anyone outside UK, but its been a kind of a cult over here for the last 30 odd years.

And tonight the BBC are starting a new series, with a new doctor, a new sidekick, better special effects (although most of us were very attached to the laughable effects used in its early past).

So, I'm off to get some food, make myself comfy and prepare to relieve my past.

Dr. Who page on BBC website

Later people.

 

[minsue]

I'll stick with my knee jerk reaction that states all re-done tv shows are grave disappointments.


(If I'm wrong, you'll tape it for me, right? )

 

[rgraham666]

have no idea if Dr. Who means anything to anyone outside UK, but its been a kind of a cult over here for the last 30 odd years.

And tonight the BBC are starting a new series, with a new doctor, a new sidekick, better special effects (although most of us were very attached to the laughable effects used in its early past).

Oh yay!

Our provincial TV network used to play the old Dr. Who. My all time fave Doctor was Tom Baker.

And I loved the Daleks. "We are the superior life form of the universe! You will obey the Daleks! If you do not, you will be exterminated! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!"

I found then the most human of all the Doctor's foes. Don't they remind you of someone?

 

[Op_Cit]

Actually, well, we don't talk about Dr. Who much overhere in the states. It's a sore point of relations, however in light of the contributions of the Monty Python gang, and the likes of Douglas Adams, we don't mention it and have forgiven you.

This new thing you may be doing, however, will require you guys to scramble and make up for it, what with the MP folks getting on in years, DA passed, etc.

(And, I guess I better apologize to you guys for the Dukes of Hazard, Dallas, etc.)

 

[Dar~]

I personally have never seen doctor Who, but my husband loves it. I bet he will be glad to know they are remaking it. It always takes a cuplpe of years for items on the BBC to make it to our Television stations though.


Hi MAt, feeling any better?

 

[Guest]

That was absolutely brilliant!!!

Christopher Eccleston is a superb Doctor, and Billie Piper was also good. Very funny, entertaining and a little bit scary. My girls were frightened by the wheelie bin bit.

Yep, a BIG thumbs up from us.

Yay! Doctor Who is back!!!

Lou - who grew up watching Dr. Who on the telly.

 

[matriarch]

I personally have never seen doctor Who, but my husband loves it. I bet he will be glad to know they are remaking it. It always takes a cuplpe of years for items on the BBC to make it to our Television stations though.


Hi MAt, feeling any better?

Hey sweetheart. Yes, feeling a lot better, but everything tastes like sawdust. eeeuuukkkk.

Well, I watched it. It was very different from the old ones. I'm not sure if I'm going to like this new one much, but I'll give it a chance.

Tonight's was obviously a one-off story just to get us into the characters. He has some of the character of the Patrick Troughton Doctor, a dash of the arrogance of Colin Baker......I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and watch next week.

Plastic coming to life.........hmm............not sure about that. But par for the course. Silly scenarios. Good fun. And even Billy Piper wasn't bad. She got the Doc out of a tight spot.

to be continued.........

 

[matriarch]

That was absolutely brilliant!!!

Christopher Eccleston is a superb Doctor, and Billie Piper was also good. Very funny, entertaining and a little bit scary. My girls were frightened by the wheelie bin bit.

Yep, a BIG thumbs up from us.

Yay! Doctor Who is back!!!

Lou - who grew up watching Dr. Who on the telly.

I was only 14 when the first series started, but I don't remember watching it until very late in my teens, maybe early 20s.

 

[Guest]

I was only 14 when the first series started, but I don't remember watching it until very late in my teens, maybe early 20s.

I began watching it when Tom Baker was the Doctor (I must've been about 7) and loved him, then Peter Davidson, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. I did literally grow up on it. And now, I think it's briiliant, cos it's come back when my daughters are 7 and 8. They were amazed by it. Definitely loved by their age group and up.

 

[logophile]

That was absolutely brilliant!!!

Christopher Eccleston is a superb Doctor, and Billie Piper was also good. Very funny, entertaining and a little bit scary. My girls were frightened by the wheelie bin bit.

Yep, a BIG thumbs up from us.

Yay! Doctor Who is back!!!

Lou - who grew up watching Dr. Who on the telly.

Christopher Eccleston? I love him. He was absolutely brilliant as Jude in the movie of the same name. Depressing film, amazing acting.

Now I want to move to the UK so I can watch Dr. Who!!
(And so I can live in the UK...)

 

[Guest]

Christopher Eccleston? I love him. He was absolutely brilliant as Jude in the movie of the same name. Depressing film, amazing acting.

Now I want to move to the UK so I can watch Dr. Who!!
(And so I can live in the UK...)

Yep, that's the guy! He is a very good and accomplished serious actor, but is just brilliant in the role of the Doctor. His dry wit and humour shine through. Oh, and he's sexy.

Lou

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Tom Baker. I loved the episodes where he had a cold sore too.

I learned something very important from Dr. Who, and that's that good writing and acting trump big budgets and special effects every time. The special effects were laughable, and half the time they spent cavorting around what were obviously abandoned quarries and building sites, but in the context of the show all that worked brilliantly. You compare Dr. Who to American sci fi like "Space 1999" and there's simply no contest.

Which reminds me, are any of you Brits familiar with the Father Ted series on Irish TV? I just saw a CD of the first season and they're hysterically funny.

 

[Guest]

Tom Baker. I loved the episodes where he had a cold sore too.

I learned something very important from Dr. Who, and that's that good writing and acting trump big budgets and special effects every time. The special effects were laughable, and half the time they spent cavorting around what were obviously abandoned quarries and building sites, but in the context of the show all that worked brilliantly. You compare Dr. Who to American sci fi like "Space 1999" and there's simply no contest.

Which reminds me, are any of you Brits familiar with the Father Ted series on Irish TV? I just saw a CD of the first season and they're hysterically funny.

Yep, Tom Baker was the best.

As for Father Ted: hilariously funny programme. I haven't seen it in a while, but absolutely loved all the characters. Very rude a lot of it, too. I think only two series were made. They were planning more, but very sadly, Dermot Morgan, the actor who played Father Ted, died suddenly of a heart attack in 1998. He was a massive loss, not only to that show, but to Irish comedy as a whole.

 

[The_Fool]

Been so long ago since I saw Dr. Who...

 

[Dar~]

The only show I truly remember watching on the BBC as a kid was Are You Being Served. I still remember how funy it was. My mom has three seasons on VHS. I watch it sometimes when I fly home.

 

[scheherazade_79]

I loved the new Dr Who!!!!!!!

I wish the Beeb would resurrect more old quality programmes instead of putting on so much cheap-to-make reality bullshit. I used to be quite a little TV addict as a kid. Now the news is pretty much the only thing I watch - that and the new Dr Who!

 

[SweetVA]

Tom Baker. I loved the episodes where he had a cold sore too.

I learned something very important from Dr. Who, and that's that good writing and acting trump big budgets and special effects every time. The special effects were laughable, and half the time they spent cavorting around what were obviously abandoned quarries and building sites, but in the context of the show all that worked brilliantly. You compare Dr. Who to American sci fi like "Space 1999" and there's simply no contest.

Which reminds me, are any of you Brits familiar with the Father Ted series on Irish TV? I just saw a CD of the first season and they're hysterically funny.

Dr. Who is awesome. my FAVORITE BBC series is Maid Marian and her Merry Men.. I've seen The Office and Coupliing, The Office gets annoying after a while. Coupling started out kind of slow, but it got better as time went on. I've listened to the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show, but haven't seen the TV series.. A friend has Netflix and is bringing Father Ted tomorrow, so I'd be very happy to report back.

VA

 

[maggot420]

Tom Baker was the best. I loved that show.

 

[Remec]

I have no idea if Dr. Who means anything to anyone outside UK, but its been a kind of a cult over here for the last 30 odd years.

And tonight the BBC are starting a new series, with a new doctor, a new sidekick, better special effects (although most of us were very attached to the laughable effects used in its early past).

So, I'm off to get some food, make myself comfy and prepare to relieve my past.

COOLNESS!!!

Now, to begin laying the groundwork to get at least one of the local PBS stations to begin inquiring when the show will be available for exporting to this country...<g>

I used to watch it infrequently around here (Tom Baker, naturally), but discovered that the NC public station in Charlotte was in the midst of running the adventures of the second Doctor. They didn't run the entire thing, which I understand is because a large portion of those episodes (as well as almost all, if not all, of the first Doctor) were on tapes that had been lost and/or destroyed by the BBC.

They followed up with Pertwee as well as Baker, and kept right on through the end of the series. <sigh of reminiscence>

Just one of the reasons I wish I still lived down there sometimes.

 

[rgraham666]

So who were the bad guys this time. A one off, or one of the regulars.

Mat mentioned plastic and I immediately thought, "The Autons? Coolness. They were almost as much fun as the Daleks."

Sigh. When it makes it to North America, it will undoubtedly be on some station only available on cable. Which I can't afford. And I don't have a TV. Sigh.

 

[fifty5]

Good mix of scary (that first shop warehouse sequence - when were THEY going to appear?) and humour.

On the latter topic, courtesy of The Now Show:
Have you heard about the new Dr Who monsters, the Stanners?

Like Daleks, but they go up and down stairs!

 

[matriarch]

Good mix of scary (that first shop warehouse sequence - when were THEY going to appear?) and humour.

On the latter topic, courtesy of The Now Show:
Have you heard about the new Dr Who monsters, the Stanners?

Like Daleks, but they go up and down stairs!

Sorry to hijack this thread and message.....

Eff......URGENT PM INCOMING. PLEASE OPEN, READ AND REPLY, ASAP.

Hijack over.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Good mix of scary (that first shop warehouse sequence - when were THEY going to appear?) and humour.

On the latter topic, courtesy of The Now Show:
Have you heard about the new Dr Who monsters, the Stanners?

Like Daleks, but they go up and down stairs!

*L* Yeah, I used to wonder about that too. Out to rule the universe and they're helpless when it comes to stairs.

 

[Guest]

now if they would only bring back
Cell Block H
i could die a happy chick

 

[velvetpie]

There will never be a Doctor Who that registers in my universe unless it's Tom Baker.

We used to gather at a friend's room (the only one who had a TV) and watch it on PBS. No one else - NO ONE! - can be Doctor Who other than Tom Baker.

Just my opinion ...

Velvet