Doctor Who Geeks (not so) Anonymous

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(After our antenatal thread became somewhat hijacked with talk of Doctor Who)

Hello,

My name's (usually) MsMoss and I've been a Doctor Who Geek for over twenty years now. I grew up with McCoy, stood by it through its years in the wilderness and now watch, proud but slightly bemused, as it is no longer shameful to admit you're a fan.

Anyone else with me? You love the new series but don't want the old to be forgotten?

Join me, stand up and be counted!

Oooh good Stephen Moffat is writing one

Daleks in Manhatten sounds quite amusing !

I'm watching Inferno now!
Just read Tom Bakers voice is coming back to BT

UQD yes tell me what happens at the end!!!

Jackieno, rotfpmsl!! Esp. "Baby it's cold outside"!!

Basically the parallel world goes tits-up, because of the drill-head having penetrated too far - it's destroyed in boiling lava, but just before it happens, the Doc manages to persuade the Brigade Leader and Kinky Booted Liz to let him go! Then we get back to the real world where it's less far progressed, and the Doctor has to make sure it doesn't happen there. He gets them to "reverse all systems". (Also the politican who was murdered in parallel-Earth is still alive in real-Earth and so the Doctor realises things can be changed.) Stahlman has turned into one of the creatures and gets squirted with fire-extinguishers!

Oh, and it's Liz Shaw's final story but we don't see her leave!!

Oh now I'll have to get it on DVD. Along with goodness only knows how many others!

Liz Shaw was fab, I wonder why they didn't keep her on for longer?

well, the actress was pregnant and wanted to leave!

Think about that - especially when watching her run across that weir in "Ambassadors of Death"...

Think also she was too brainy as a character and they wanted someone who could ask "what does that mean, Doctor?" a bit more - hence Jo Grant.

Good grief poor woman! Oh I really feel for her, imagine that, she must've been on the loo every five seconds between takes!

Jo Grant was quite sweet I suppose but it was a bit like having a ten year old on the Tardis!

When my DD did her "season survey" for the magazine, she wrote on the back that the Doctor should have a 6-year-old as a companion, who could push all the buttons she wasn't supposed to and keep saying "I'm hungry, Doctor!"

Every time a newsreader says "Davos" on the radio this morning I keep thinking of Davros! Is it just me?

yeah!!!

Does anyone know what order these should be watched in?
Invasion of the dinosaurs
Inferno
Carnival of monsters
Ambassadors of Death
Frontiers in Space

I've been recording the Jon Pertwee episodes from UK Gold

Oh and what episode does Sarah JAne leave in ?

Ambassadors of Death
Inferno
Carnival of monsters
Frontiers in Space
Invasion of the dinosaurs

Sarah Jane left at the end of The Hand of Fear

A little more detail....
Ambassadors of Death March - May 1970 (1st JP season Liz Shaw)
Inferno May - June 1970 (next story same season)
Carnival of monstersJanuary - February 1973 (3rd JP season, Jo Grant)
Frontier in Space February - March 1973 (next story, same season)
Invasion of the dinosaurs January - february 1974 (Last JP season, second story with Sarah Jane)

Thanks, we watched 'School reunion' yesterday and dd2s wanted to know about the Dr leaving Sarah Jane and I realised I hadn't seen it!

She popped back for "The Five Doctors" in 1983 and got most of her scenes with Pertwee, including an amusing Roll Down A Not Very Steep Bank!

nikkie - you don't gain anything by watching them in order though. It's not like there is a running plot arc! "Carnival of Monsters" is great fun. My children liked it.

frontier in Space seemed to lead into another story??????Which is next?

Is five doctors worth watching? (as in hunting out ratherthan waiting for it to come to me!)

Love new, but Old Series - I can boast to this

I have seen all the original eposides of the Web of Fear - with yetis (1968) i must have been 3 or 4 at the time when Web Of Fear was on TV in New Zealand. oh no !

The episodes went missing and no fan anywhere had seen for over 25 years, and of course, there was also the fact that only a handful of people in New Zealand had ever seen them. " I WAS ONE OF THEM!!! They have now been found.

Web Of Fear - It was about the Covent Garden battle between the Yeti and Army soldiers with the Yeti stalking the tunnels of the London Underground, as well as their attack in the Army headquarters on Professor Travers.

These scenes were some of the most frightening in my childhood, and no-one in the UK can remember seeing them and i often thought i might have just dreamt them! I spent 2 years in New Zealand as a small child and apparently only a few of us ever got to see all the episode. They have been found in NZ after about 25 years of being missing and were never in the BBC archives.

I am jumping up and down as I now know i am not mad >>>>?

see link
www.gallifreyone.com/episode.php?id=qq

wotzsaname - are you sure? I know one episode of Web of Fear exists but I wasn't aware of any others having been discovered.

nikkie - it's fun in a "Doctor Who's Greatest Hits" sort of way. Tom Baker only turns up in clips. (Imagine a Beatles revival pre-George dying, with John only on video, and with a few high-profile guest musicians doing the odd twiddle.)

Oh, and yes, Frontier in Space leads into Planet of the Daleks .

UnquietDad - you see ive had to live with this - people just not believing me. thought id gone crackers, till i found this....

archive.whoniversity.co.uk/gateway/survivalofthefootage.html

explains my childhood memories, were screened on New Zealand TV, and were real and i did see them.

too late for fancy link, cut and paste.....

Oh, I never doubted that you'd seen the story. I'm very envious! I was still in the womb. I know there are clips - they're all collected among the numerous extras on this special DVD .

Episodes 2-6 of Web of Fear are still missing, sadly. full list here

UnquietDad, 'in the womb' no need ... i was very young.
I hated going on the London underground for years, the yetis were the worst for me.