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1 posted on 01/12/2006 5:04:34 PM PST by Panerai

Dullest...sci fi show...ever.

Whenever one criticizes this show, the fans respond that the show isn't about special effects or action. And yet the science fiction ideas are routine, and the characters are twits.

2 posted on 01/12/2006 5:06:42 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Corporate income tax collections totaled a record $73.5 billion last month-AP 1/12/06)

I watched it here (in the U.S.) for several years in the late '70s, I believe on PBS. Tom Baker was by far the best of the Dr. Whos.

3 posted on 01/12/2006 5:08:13 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

I remember my boys watching Dr. Who, during the late 70s and early 80s, I think, when Tom Baker was in the role of Dr. Who...they loved the series, and watched it faithfully...then we moved, and the new area we moved to, had no TV coverage of Dr.Who, so they just did not watch it anymore...I also enjoyed watching it...so maybe now, with Sci-Fi channel picking it up, I will begin watching it again...thanks for the heads up on this one...

4 posted on 01/12/2006 5:09:53 PM PST by andysandmikesmom

Really like the old version from the 80s with Tom Baker and the Darlicks.

The cheesy special effects added character. Like listening to a weak AM radio station.

6 posted on 01/12/2006 5:10:38 PM PST by dhs12345

9 posted on 01/12/2006 5:12:09 PM PST by xcamel (Exposing clandestine operations is treason. 13 knots make a noose.)

To: Former Military Chick

12 posted on 01/12/2006 5:14:53 PM PST by No Longer Free State (No event has just one cause, no person has just one motive, no action has just the intended effect)

NEW Doctor Who on Sci-Fi ping !

15 posted on 01/12/2006 5:19:08 PM PST by Panerai

Brings back memories of my college days, of being ad hoc faculty contact of my college's SF club (called the Survivors of the Big Bang abreviated SOB2), being a member of a group called Companions of Dr. Who and spending many hours at SF conventions....ah, those were the days...

But I don't think I want to do that again.

23 posted on 01/12/2006 5:51:52 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

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24 posted on 01/12/2006 5:53:55 PM PST by KevinDavis (http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)

To: Panerai; KevinDavis

"Rose, you were fantastic. Simply fantastic..."

29 posted on 01/12/2006 7:12:22 PM PST by mhking (Tell me what you don't like about yourself...)

Ohmygawd, so now there will actually be something worth watching on the Sci-Krap network!?! I watched the Twilight Zone marathon on New Year's Day this year and last year, and I don't think much of anything in between.

Doctor Who is definitely an acquired taste, it's an odd show and if you like British comedy you''ll like it, otherwise... well... The best description I've heard of it was as Star Trek done by the Monty Python troupe. The FX were cheap looking, the acting was over-the-top, the scripts were often silly, but the show was FUN! You never knew where or when the TARDIS would end up, say what you want but it was never boring.

The new show is IMHO the only SF show on worth watching. The FX are top notch, as good as or better than 'Enterprise' or any other Hollywood series and keeps the wacky off-the-wall mood of the original series. The current Doctor isn't my favorite though, and yeah Sarah was far and away my favorite companion, Rose is ok, but kinda in the boring, dime-a-dozen Hollywood blonde mold.

Anyway, fun show and waaaayyyyy too intelligent and well written for the Sci-Krap network. Wonder how long they'll run it???

36 posted on 01/13/2006 7:31:38 AM PST by Gamera977

37 posted on 01/13/2006 8:37:02 AM PST by exile (Exile - Helen Thomas tried to lure me into her Gingerbread House.)

What, I’ve been watching this on SCI FI for years now, I love it ...

39 posted on 01/07/2008 9:18:29 AM PST by Scythian

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