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celia60
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Ok, got rid of the VCR but still have lots of videos. If you'd like my collection of Doctor Who episodes, and you're the kind of person I'd trust with my home mailing address, drop me an email.
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You have the ones with the alien who had like, 6 of himself throughout history? I saw the first few episodes, but didn't finish it. And if you know what I'm talking about, good job, cause it's incredibly vague.
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Of course I would be a much cheaper and easier recpiepent of this Doctor Who but I have shamefully never seen an epsiode, and couldn't take away such a gift from someone more deserving, and more faithful to the series.

Hobbes [Smile]

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Faithful!? Pssh, I saw 2 or 3 friggin episodes of it in that series, and possibly 5 of the others.
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I used to watch that show all the time with my brother. I miss it...If they still work, I'd sure as anything take em. That is, if you trust me with them. [Evil Laugh]
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Oh wait, there's a catch here huh. You don't know me well enough to trust me with your home address. S'allright. I wouldn't trust me either. On a side note, Ebay works sometimes.
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Anti-Chris (I forget, what's you regular signon when you aren't in landmark avoidance?), I love that episode! One of my favorites. Of course, now I'm drawing a blank as to its name. City of Death maybe? I can remember everything else about it. Written by Douglas Adams, shot in location in Paris, Lala Ward (playing Romana's second incarnation) as The Doctor's companion, guest appearance by John Cleese...I really should be able to give you the name with complete certainty. I'm not going to do better than City of Death though, not tonight anyway. And who knows, that could be right.
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I'll trust you with my home address if I can have em. [Big Grin]

I used to have just about every Doctor Who episode that aired on PBS taped (started when I was age 10). I had over half of Pertwee, all of both Bakers, all of Davison, half of McCoy, the K-9 spinoff pilot, and the Peter Cushing movie. Unfortunately, my dad stored them all in the attic one summer whilst I was staying with my mom. In Texas that is a very bad thing... they all melted. [Cry]

And yes Noemon, it was the City of Death, although my guide says that episode was written by David Agnew, the only episode Douglas Adams wrote that season was the ill-fated Shada. [Smile]

Edit: Wow, I am a geek

[ October 18, 2004, 02:03 AM: Message edited by: Misha McBride ]

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"David Agnew" was a pseudonym for Douglas Adams and another writer who collaborated with him

Once a Dr Who geek, always a Dr Who geek... [Smile]

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Was it really? Wow. [Eek!]
I learn something new every day.

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You do know that a new series is being filmed with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and Billie Piper (Mrs Chris Evans) as his companion right? Due out next year - reclaimed by us Brits after the somewhat contradictory installment with Paul McGann.
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Noemon
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Misha, thanks for confirming that title. I was a huge Tom Baker Fan, a middling Pertwee fan, and not much of a fan of Davidson at all. I've seen a bit of Traughten, and...well, that's about it really, so I'd say you're much more well versed in Dr. Who than I am.

A K-9 spinoff? Tell me about that--I'd never heard of it.

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Nathan, I think one of my lab mates already took City of Death, but I'll send it to you if he didn't.
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Ah, that answers that (my trying to remember who Anti-Chris was, that is; my question about whether something as awful sounding as a K-9 spin off series could actually be good remains unanswered).
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I've never seen a single episode of Dr. Who, but I would like to.
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Really Porter? Oh, man, you're missing out! Start with the Tom Baker episodes though. None of the other actors who have played the Doctor have measured up, in my opinion. Of course, good luck finding them, unless you can convince Celia to mail them to you instead of the other people who have been asking about them.
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If Celia mails them to me, I'll gladly pass them along to somebody else when I'm done. [Smile]
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Misha McBride
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I don't think the K-9 series got past the first episode.
The premise is the Doctor makes a third K-9 and sends it to Sarah Jane as a gift. Then her nephew gets kidnapped and she and K-9 have to rescue him from a cult of Hecate worhippers who want to sacrifice him for the winter solstice. I assume that had the series gone on, she and K-9 would have been a sort of crime fighting team.

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celia60
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Misha already is getting them, but if the ones I gave to the lab guy come back to me after he watches them, I'll pass them along to you. I can't remember which all he took, but he got The Sun Makers, which is one of my favorite Tom Baker episodes.

edit: which is why she has K-9 in The Five Doctors, right?

doubleedit: hey, Porter, *cough*

[ October 18, 2004, 09:57 AM: Message edited by: celia60 ]

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Noemon
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When I was a kid I loved K-9, but my god he grates on my nerves now that I'm an adult. Of course, he was basically designed to make the show more kid-friendly again, wasn't he?

In any case, I'm not a big Sarah Jane Smith fan either, so this doesn't sound like a show that I'd be able to stomach. Not that it matters, since it never made it past its pilot anyway.

My favorite companions were Leela and the second Romana, by far. What about anybody else?

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Same [Smile] though Turrlough will always have a special place in my heart, even if I can't spell his name.
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Yup, that's why she has him in the Five Doctors (loved that episode).

I never really liked Sarah Jane in the series, she always struck me as whiny. In the pilot she grew a backbone. I've always liked K-9, but then its been a while since I saw an episode with him in it.

Ohhh the Sun Makers, wasn't that the one with the little corporate guy on the chair who turned out to be (literally!) slime?

I really liked Romana but I'd have to say my most memorable companion was Adric. He was the first major character in anything I had seen that actually died, which made quite an impact on me as a kid. I remember sitting in front of the TV in shocked disbelief with tears pouring down my face when they killed him off. Plus he was pretty young, so I may have identified a bit more with him.

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By the way, if you're a fan of the Tom Baker era, it's worth picking up the comic PS238 for an amusing homage. [Smile]
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Celia -- I've been trying the one month trial of netflix, and I haven't been all that impressed. In one month, we've only been able to watch one season of one show. For just a few bucks more, I could have bought it off of ebay.

I think I'm going to cancel netflix today.

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I cried when Adric died too. And wore a black armband to school the next day.
I really miss Dr. Who.

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Thanks Tom, I'll have to check that out next time I'm at my local used bookstore/comic book place.
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By the way, speaking of comic books, I came across a Neil Gaiman quote the other day on The Anisble that I like quite a bit

quote:
If sci-fi is the gutter of literature, comics are the place that the gutter flows into.


[ October 18, 2004, 11:25 AM: Message edited by: Noemon ]

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I have never heard of this at all.

[Frown] Sometimes I doubt my geek credentials.

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Porter, I knew you were doing the trial, I didn't know it wasn't proving suitable to your lifestyle. btw, we watched Last Man Standing. Is that one you told me about? I can't remember why it was on the queue.
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I go through phases where something like Netflix is ideal for me, and phases where I want to rent almost nothing at all, and it would be a tremendous waste of money. I think I'm coming out of the former and into the latter phase at the moment.

Katie-- [Eek!]

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Netflix saves me about a billion dollars because, even if I don't quite get money's worth on occasional months, it means I don't buy movies impulsively and I don't have late fees at the video store. I am incapable of returning DVDs on time, so this is much better.

Plus, I can say "I'll put it on the list" and mean every word.

Noemon - I know. It's horrible. I've also never read LOTR all the way through. [Frown] And I hate programmers and consider a computer to be an occasionally-bothersome tool. [Cry] Do I even belong here?

[ October 18, 2004, 11:34 AM: Message edited by: katharina ]

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Noemon
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By the way, has anybody watched Curb Your Enthusiasm? I rented the first disk the other day, and watched the first episode last night. It struck me as kind of funny, but I disliked all of the characters so much that I can't imagine watching the show on a regular basis. Is it still on the air? Does it get better?
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Haven't seen that, but we did start watching Dead Like Me. My reaction to the pilot was "it's interesting, but I'm not sure it's entertainment." The subsequent episodes have been getting better, but I don't think it's ever going to be laugh out loud funny.
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I watched the first two disks or so of Dead Like Me, and never got into it. I had the same reaction you did to the pilot, and somehow just didn't find the show interesting or satisfying enough to bother renting the rest of the first season.
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Maybe it appeals to the way I view general social interactions in day to day activities or maybe that one undead guy is just really cute. We just finished the second disc over the weekend and the third is pretty high on the queue, so we should be getting it soon. I know, I know, I'll get to Firefly eventually.
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The problem with netflix is that out here in Utah Valley, it can take more than a full week from when I send out a DVD until I can get the next one.
"Unlimited" rentals per month equals out to only seven for me.

Celia -- yeah, we talked about "Last Man Standing" when we were talking about Kurosawa films, and I mentioned that "Last Man Standing" was an Americanized version of "Yojimbo". What did you think?

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*THAT*s what it was. We couldn't figure out what it reminded us of. We both enjoyed.
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quote:
The problem with netflix is that out here in Utah Valley, it can take more than a full week from when I send out a DVD
My turn around is about four days - if I put one in the mail on Monday, I'll get the next one on Thursday and sometimes Wednesday. It really works.
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I wonder why it hasn't worked for me. [Grumble]
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Yet another reason you should be living here. [Razz]

Where do yous get shipped from? Our come from a distribution center in Indy or occasionally Chicago.

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quote:
Netflix saves me about a billion dollars because, even if I don't quite get money's worth on occasional months, it means I don't buy movies impulsively and I don't have late fees at the video store. I am incapable of returning DVDs on time, so this is much better.

Plus, I can say "I'll put it on the list" and mean every word.

I have SUCH a huge Netflix list... well I think it is, some of you would probably scoff LOL

And I get mine in 2 days from when I send off the prior disk because I live less than 30 miles from a distribution center. Yay me! I usually have a movie for about a week before I get around to sending it back.

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