Saw it a few weeks ago on UK Gold, who are currently showing the Jon Pertwee stories now for the 1st time in four years.Into Pertwee's 3rd season now.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 26 March 2006 11:49 (eighteen years ago) link
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― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
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― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link
3rd Doctor:
Green Death is probably the best one out there (giant maggots) as long as you can get past some of the Welsh stereotyping and the "aren't environmentalists mad" subplot. The extras are good. Spearhead From Space (Autons) is good for a "new Doctor" story and Claws Of Axos is a lot of fun (but with really 70s effects and an acid freakout).
4th Doctor:
You can't go wrong with any of the Gothic Horror stories - Pyramids Of Mars, Horror Of Fang Rock or Talons Of Weng-Chiang. We can argue over whether Robots Of Death fits into this category or not (I'd say it does) but that's another good one. If you don't fancy that, the recently released Genesis Of The Daleks is possibly the best-paced 6-parter ever and The Ark In Space is a great romp (if you ignore the at times very poor effects - bubble wrap will kill us all).
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link
The Web Planet is possibly the most ON DRUQS Who I've seen. Also The Aztecs is quite brilliant in places.The Mind Robber is probably the best Troughton on sale, and has the maximum ZOE UBER-CUETNESS factor (see also Tomb Of The Cybermen).Caves of Androzani is one of the best-written Who stories, probably.Vengeance On Varos actually stands up really well, with a Big Brother-esque plot 20 years before RTD did it, and Jason Connery topless.I can't think of any reason to recommend any of the McCoy releases except they're better than I remember them being.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link
I have very fond memories of 'Paradise Towers' from when I was a kid.
― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Dan's the McCoy fan I think, you might get him defending them. (I actually think McCoy himself isn't that bad, he was just crippled with the two worst comoanions in the history of the show.)
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Ghost Light is better than I thought it was at the time but MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE, which even the writer admits. If you watch it with the commentary on, he explains what happens in the scenes that were cut and you can see how it was supposed to work, but it barely saves it.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― BARMS, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 08:59 (eighteen years ago) link
And you know what - it would work.
― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 27 April 2006 09:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 27 April 2006 09:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 27 April 2006 10:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Er, hello? It's Doctor Who, not Senior Staff Nurse Who.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 27 April 2006 11:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 April 2006 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link
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― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Pretty much all of the 4th Doctor/Leela(/K9) stories are must-owns, ESPECIALLY "Talons", "Horror" and "Robots". Also don't sleep on the 5th Doctor; "Frontios", "Black Orchid", "Mawdryn Undead", "Enlightment", "Terminus", "The Caves Of Androzani", "Castrovalva", "The Visitation", "Kinda", "Snakedance"...
― Dan (SO GOOD) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Dan (Holy Shit I'm Old) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
C'mon, we both know I'm the regenerated version of you. The timeline just hasn't caught up yet.
― BARMS, Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
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― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lucretia My Amnesia (Lucretia My Reflection), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Doctor Who spin-off 'cancelled'Billie Piper in Doctor WhoThe show would have starred Bille Piper's character, Rose TylerPlans for a Doctor Who spin-off show starring Billie Piper were scrapped at the last minute, series producer Russell T Davies has revealed.
"It was actually commissioned by the controller of BBC One and budgeted," the writer told Doctor Who Magazine.
Davies later decided the programme, Rose Tyler: Earth Defence, was "a spin-off too far" and called it off.
Piper, 23, left Doctor Who earlier this year. She will be replaced by Freema Agyeman, 27, in the next series.
"We hadn't formally approached Billie," said Davies, "although we'd mentioned it to her."
Cold feet
"It was going to be fantastic. We'd have had a lovely budget and done brilliant things with it, maybe one Bank Holiday special a year."
However, the writer said he got cold feet while filming Piper's final appearance as Rose Tyler earlier this year.
Captain Jack meets the DoctorA separate spin-off, Torchwood, stars John Barrowman as Captain Jack"It spoils Doctor Who if we can see Rose... if we see as a concrete fact that her life continues to be as exciting without the Doctor," he said.
Davies added that the decision to abandon the programme cost him "a fortune".
A separate spin-off from the science fiction series is still going ahead, and will be shown on BBC Three this autumn.
Called Torchwood, it focuses on a squad of secret agents facing human and alien enemies, with actor John Barrowman reprising his role as time traveller Captain Jack.
The 13-part series will also be written by Davies, who acts as executive producer for the Doctor Who programmes.
Meanwhile, the third series of Doctor Who is currently being filmed in Wales.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Monkey Girl: Earth Defence would've been a better title.
Apropos, does anyone know if Bella And The Boys (starring B Piper) will be released on DVD? Torrents hard to come by I've found.
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Seriously, had anyone heard anything about this thing before it got "cancelled"?
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
"Mawdryn Undead"!"Mawdryn Undead"!"Mawdryn Undead"!
also, "Warriors of the Deep"! Davison just nails the tragic finish!
― literalisp (literalisp), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Hello ILE. I have decided to educate myself in the way of old-skool Who and am watching as much of it as I can, over the internet, in order.
I have got as far as the second episode, but that lengthy scene with the cavemen arguing about who gets to be the leader is interminable. Talking to someone who'd never heard of Doctor Who, you'd never be able to convince them that it would survive, on and off, for over forty years.
― Matt DC, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link