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Date Posted: 15:53:36 09/14/06 Thu
Author: BDM
Subject: Contact has been made...
In reply to: Stardoe 's message, "Re: Eldrad must live.....say we who have seen the light of Kastria" on 12:33:15 09/14/06 Thu

I went to conventions alot when I was younger. Dr. Who was big in the US around the late 70s/early 80s but soon waned. There are enough of us to warrant releasing the DVDs & the new show might revive interest (it does good on the Sci-Fi Channel but not as good as Stargate or the new Battlestar Galactica). My biggest meet was Tom Baker in 1983. Still looked like he did as the Doctor. Got to shake his hand, but he didn't want to do autographs as there were far too many of us. I also saw some companions but forget who. I think Nyssa & Tegan as they were on the show then. Not sure if I saw Liz Sladen but she was at many of them. Ian Marter when to them alot too back then, I missed him. I also met lots of Star Trek cast members but not the big 3, just Sulu & Scotty & Chekov.

Have your midlife crisis, I'm having one too & I'm not even there yet. I don't dislike the 60s episodes, it's just that the era of the show you grew up with is the one most dear to you & that's Tom for me. I did have vague memories of Pertwee as he was shown here before Tom when I was very young. When I saw them later, I recognized scenes & remembered. I had thought he was the only one who played before Tom. We eventually got all the existing Hartnell/Troughton eps & all those after Tom but the mania died down & they kept just showing Tom only. So I got a bit tried of him but then 20 years went by so I'm all over it again.

BTW they now have 6 complete Troughton stories and there are 2 that are so close they will be released with the missing parts animated to the still existing soundtracks. That's great you got to see him back then. You saw some eps that don't exist anymore. Did you know that Aussie TV cut some of the violent scenes from the PT era & these shots were found recently & put on the Lost In Time set? Funny how they don't seem that violent now. Several from Fury from the Deep were real finds, one scene really blew everyone away. 2 men taken over by the weed creatures come upon someone and with amazingly frigtening expression emit some kind of poison gas from their mouths. Very effective scene for 1968.

I suppose I hate Peri as much as you hate Tegan. Guess those Brits thought they'd have the Aussies & Yanks happy about them but you have to make a likable character too. Peri wasn't played by a Yank, just want that on the record. At the time, the PR said she had dual citizenship but this was a lie. She talked way too formal & Brit like to be a true Yank. And she complained & whined constantly. Plus they gave her a lame ending, first they kill her off but then say "oh...that didn't happen...she married Brian Blessed"!!!!????

I like the Peter Davison era for the more sci-fi-ish stories that had been lost in the later Tom years. I thought Nyssa was good (hot too-this is the male domographic you're talking to), also Turlough was an interesting idea-a companion you couldn't trust. I liked Ace who ended it with Slyvester McCoy. They did alot with her the way they do with Rose now, stories were all about Ace dealing with her past & stuff like that. The last 2 seasons had McCoy play a much more serious & sometimes sinister Doctor, I liked where they were going but it was too little too late.

Genesis is a classic just for that Davros/Doctor conversation about the virus and the Sarah/Doctor/Harry conversation about killing off the Daleks being a bad thing. Also, Skaro in a thousand year war, the Nazi-like Kaleds, using the Daleks minimally to great effect. Sure there were some bad parts like harry attacked by a killer clam but overall, tops. Ark in Space, Pyrimids of Mars, Robots of Death, Talons of Weng-Chiang are all great too. I hope they put out Terror of the Zygones, Planet of Evil, Brain of Morbius, Seeds of Doom, Masque of Mandragora, Deadly Assassin, Image of the Fendahl.

Robert Holmes was the script editor during the early Tom years. He either wrote or touched up all the scripts duirng the sarah/Leela years. He was a big part of making the show great. Douglas Adams of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame was script editor for one season in 1979 & wrote The Pirate Planet, City of Death & the unfinished story Shada. The current writers & producers are taking cues more from say Buffy the vampire Slayer, lots of action but also drama, comedy, character development, etc. Holmes was more about making a really good story & there isn't much one can do with the Doctor as he's always supposed to be mysterious & unknowable. If you up the companions to much, who's show is it anyway?

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