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Time proves no match for the Doctor Doctor Who is returning to BBC One in 2005 in a live-action series - satisfying an army of fans who have waited for years.
His return to the screen after 14 years in the wilderness has been dogged with several false starts - as well as some interesting new directions for the intrepid intergalactic hero.
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Oh! It is Romana! It was so small on my screen that I didn't notice! Totally cool. Best avatar ever! Romana was the best sidekick of The Doctor's ever too!
Did you see the Black Adder where Tom Baker was the ex-pirate?
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no, i haven't. have you seen the dr. who spoof with rowan atkins and hugh grant? i haven't seen it either, but some day!
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Now you've done it, Chris/Celia! How can I get those old Tom Baker episodes? (This will haunt me now....)
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Yeah, Tom Baker was THE doctor. Of course Douglas Adams wrote a lot for the show in those days.
My favorite sidekick was probably Leela. She just rocked. The first Romana was good too. 10 points to anyone who remembers her whole name. The six segments to the key to time were some of the best episodes. Scringestone. Schrivenzaal. Moons of Madness.
I loved the names for the tardis components. Gravitic Anomalyzer and Transdimensional Stabilizer, for instance. Can anyone remember any more?
Favorite Dr. Who quote: "The more sophisticated the technology, the more vulnerable it is to primative attack."
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sigh - I used to have a 12 foot scarf, back in my Whovian days - early 1980s, when a bunch of us would gather every Sunday morning for coffee, doughnuts and Doctor Who. They would show a complete story every Sunday morning on the Denver PBS station. We had a very active group of Whovians - We had a great convention that had Jon Pertwee as the featured guest!
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Ah, but which Romana? The first one was completely lifeless; I was glad when they swapped her for the second one.
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Tom Baker apparently thought well of the replacement as well - since they eventually got married. Apparently, the mutual enchantment wore off rather quickly, though. I think they separated and divorced in less than a year.
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man, the joy of first seeing the BBC version of Hamlet. picard is king and ramana is ophelia, it's like an absurd crossover episode! and still a better dr. who episode than that fox one.
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Yeah, that Fox thing was a miserable piece of carp, wasn't it? I'm really glad that it didn't go anywhere.
I wonder what the special effects will be like in the new series? The incredibly cheesy special effects were always part of the charm for me. Since they said that it was going to be "modern", I can only assume that they'll be on par with the other SF currently on TV.
I have to say, celia, that while I was aware of your coolness before, now that I know that you're a Dr. Who fan, and specifically a Romana fan, I realize that you're even cooler that I'd thought.
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Noem, right back at you. You were already on the super cool list for familiarity with C. L. Moore, now you're just over the top!
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The dalek video game I played was for the Mac. It was a pretty simple game. I think it was public domain or maybe shareware. We played it in the mid 80s when I was in graduate school
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Long time to wait though, sigh... and I wonder how long it'll take to show the episodes over in the U.S. after they air on the BBC...
Growing up and watching Dr. Who, it was painful sometimes having to wait up to THREE YEARS to see new episodes here in the U.S. (I'd get desperate enough -- in those pre-Internet days -- to go over to the university library to look at the TV listings in the English newspapers and be sad to read about all the cool-sounding episodes I'd have to wait to see...)
The Rowan Atkinson/Hugh Grant spoof is VERY funny if you ever get the chance to see it. (Randomly enough, I came across it at our local public library. Manna from heaven...)
Hm, I actually LIKED the pilot that was shown on Fox. I didn't like the messing about with continuity, but the show had a good energy to it, and I was entertained.
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Oh yeah... random fun fact from reading Douglas Adams's The Salmon of Doubt: Adams introduced Lalla Ward (the actress who played the 2nd Romana) to Richard Dawkins (author of The Selfish Gene, etc.), and Ward and Dawkins are now married...
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Come, there's been a plot by an alien that crash landed at the beginning of time, and has been living as 6 different entities over the past history of the World, and we must stop him before he destroys the Earth. How can I have my tea if there is no earth?
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- Lala Ward is indeed married to Richard Dawkins. I think it shows profoundly good taste on both of their parts.
- I once made a pun on her name at a convention, waaaay back when. Everybody in the audience got it except for her because I spoke too quickly for her to make out what I was saying.
- She is the author of a knitting book called "Beastly Knits".
- She is titled. I can't remember what her title is, but I'm sure someone here will know or can find out.
- I'm a nodding acquaintence with the author who first wrote the character of Leela. (And who wrote that line, "It's true: the evil one does eat babies!")
- The Dr. Who episode "Shada" is available in animated form from the BBCi website.
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See, I remember that one. That was the Jaggeroth. That was the one where the doctor was reading Hamlet's line "take arms against a sea of troubles" out of the Jaggeroth's first folio Shakespeare and said "That's a mixed metaphor! I told him that was a mixed metaphor!"
Edit: written before Jeff's post above.
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Yes, Jeff, it has the flavor of Douglas Adams' writing. He wrote a lot of the stuff from around that time. Posts: 968 | Registered: Sep 2003
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Somewhere, in a box buried in my parents'house, are reams of notes passed back and forth between Alan and myself during 10th grade history - all about Dr. Who. I had newly discovered the series - it was the one and only thing I watched, for 30 minutes, each day. (We both had A's in the class, so we could afford the extracurricular activity of Alan answering all my questions, which were legion.)
Alas! My father found the notes (and my D&D set, and a few tapes by groups such as Iron Maiden, etc.) and not only took the lot but prohibited me from ever seeing Dr. Who again. He thought I lived in a fantasy world. I eventually got the notes and tapes back, but the show remained off limits. The man's got no sense of humor, I swear!
Anyway -
I had NO idea Fox tried bringing the show back, and now I, too, most ponder how/where I will see what the BBC is up to.
AK, I'm glad you caught the reference and knew what the episode in particular. ::smile cause too lazy to scroll down for graemlin::
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I got corrected on another bboard when I wrote Dr. instead of Doctor. Here's part of what grinner said:
quote: ...the show is NOT Dr. Who. It is Doctor Who. There is a HUGE difference between them. Dr. Who were 2 movies that were made in 1964 and 1965 to cash in on the Dalek Phenomenon that was occuring in the UK after the Daleks were introduced. The Producers of the movies were NOT allowed by the BBC to call the show Doctor Who because the BBC did NOT want people thinking these were movies that followed their, the BBC, television series. ...
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to see new episodes here in the U.S. (I'd get desperate enough -- in those pre-Internet days -- to go over to the university library to look at the TV listings in the English newspapers and be sad to read about all the cool-sounding episodes I'd have to wait to see...)![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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