Doctor Who

[Ian Mackenzie]

Any Dr Who Fans here?

I bought some video's of Dr Who recently and after research at this site I figured the Tardis is an appropriate Avatar.

http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~abr/drwho/tardis/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/tardiscam/index.shtml

Here some of the Doctors

Ian

[Titanium Dome]

Boy, that Bill & Ted phone booth rip-off kinda blew if you were a Dr. Who fan, didn't it? The people who did that were true wankers.


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wanker&r=d

[Ian Mackenzie]

I found the "Police Box" on a link to Cambridge University. Apparently its a life size replica of a UK Police box!

For those not familiar, The Police Box was the physical state of the Tardis (Time and Relative Dimension in Space), The Doctor's time travel machine.

Ian

[dancing-dave]

EXTERMINATE!!! EXTERMINATE!!! EXTERMINATE!!!

[Ian Mackenzie]

Cybermen gallery (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/gallery/cybermen/index.shtml)

The cybermen always give me the creeps.........

Some members might have nightmares and wet the bed.

Parental guidance recommended.....that's about 1/2 the membership

Ian

[Titanium Dome]

I found the "Police Box" on a link to Cambridge University. Apparently its a life size replica of a UK Police box!

For those not familiar, The Police Box was the physical state of the Tardis (Time and Relative Dimension in Space), The Doctor's time travel machine.

Ian

It was the physical manifestation of the TARDIS setting #40, I think. (?) Stuck in that position for some reason I can't recall. Circuit malfunction? Which made the whole thing less than 100% safe.

[Ian Mackenzie]

It was the physical manifestation of the TARDIS setting #40, I think. (?) Stuck in that position for some reason I can't recall. Circuit malfunction? Which made the whole thing less than 100% safe.

Circuit malfunction? Well that summarises most human behaviour.

I liken that to Arnies Terminator 3 after the Girl terminator infects his processor with virus and he ends I trashing the bonnet of the pickup and shuts down.....hey woman do have that effect on us anyways!

Ian

[Titanium Dome]

I got your TARDIScam right here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/tardiscam/index.shtml

Also, here's a prior link that more or less corroborates my faulty recollection on the occasionally malfunctioning TARDIS.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/tardiscam/intro.shtml

[bottleneck]

Hard to believe that Doctor Who has spread so far across the world!

For us it was part of growing up - Doctor Who on a Thursday night. Our weekly knock-knee'd fright!

I thought it was a British only phenomenon?

[bbrown]

Always liked the Doctor, and I am probably in the minority for liking the movie.

Some of the shows were far deeper than one would first think, like all the old Andy Griffith shows.

Bruce

[Ian Mackenzie]

Hard to believe that Doctor Who has spread so far across the world!

For us it was part of growing up - Doctor Who on a Thursday night. Our weekly knock-knee'd fright!

I thought it was a British only phenomenon?

I watch the Dr Who since about 1966.

Ian

[Titanium Dome]

I watch the Dr Who since about 1966.

Ian

I've got Amazon Prime. Had it for a year or two when all of a sudden there's free, live streaming of movies and TV shows. The selection is small, but lo and behold the Doctor Who corpus is there lock, stock, and barrel.

I've watched all of the flippin' 2005 season yesterday and today. Using my 27" iMac, JBL Simply Cinema HTIB and Technics 5.1 processor, it's quite a treat to see the whole thing with no commercials. Bless the Internet, the BBC, and the Queen.

[Allanvh5150]

Splendid!!

[hjames]

I've got Amazon Prime. Had it for a year or two when all of a sudden there's free, live streaming of movies and TV shows. The selection is small, but lo and behold the Doctor Who corpus is there lock, stock, and barrel.

I've watched all of the flippin' 2005 season yesterday and today. Using my 27" iMac, JBL Simply Cinema HTIB and Technics 5.1 processor, it's quite a treat to see the whole thing with no commercials. Bless the Internet, the BBC, and the Queen.

Yup - Christopher Eccleston was just brilliant! My favorite Doctor (tho I did like Sylvester McCoy - the Scottish Doctor in the late 80s).
Eccleston really restarted the character in a marvelous way - its a pity he only did the one season ...
David Tennant was a hoot. Stretched the character & lots of fun ...
You owe it to yourself to watch his episodes ... some great stories in his arc - like "Blink!"

I'm still making friends with the "new" Doctor, Matt Smith - tho he is in his 2nd season ...

Haven't seen yesterday's or last week's episodes -
I grab them off the web and stream them from my mac Pro to my TIVOHD and watch them on the Viso flatscreen with the biAMPED 4341s, the B380 sub and all of those Adcoms ...

Another great British show is Spooks (its called MI-5 stateside) -
we've been streaming them from Netflicks - there's 80 episodes in the series so far ...

[richluvsound]

I love the new Dr Who ..... BTW Heather , final series of Spooks is out now :(

[Wardsweb]

I started with Tom Baker (Doctor #4) back in the mid 70's. I really like Matt Smith (Doctor #11), He brings a freshness, engery and kind of a kid's curiosity to the Doctor.

[hjames]

I think all of us stateside started watching Doctor Who during the Tom Baker era on all those BBC->PBS broadcasts.
I used to stay late at work and watch the weekday rebroadcasts on WETA TV26 circa-1982 and delay jumping into DC rush-hour. By the time the show was over traffic had thinned a bit and I could do the drive home in about an hour instead of taking 2!

[SEAWOLF97]

Another great British show is Spooks (its called MI-5 stateside) - ...

I was impressed with the UK series "The Sandbaggers" , an MI-6 drama ....and so I tried the "MI-5" series ....it just seemed a glossy, waste of MY time , and the viewing stopped after a couple of episodes. YMMV , of course. ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandbaggers

"The overall style is one of gritty realism. The series is particularly grim (though laced with black humour), depicting the high emotional toll taken on espionage professionals who operate in a world of moral ambiguity. The plots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_%28narrative%29) are complex, multi-layered, and unpredictable: regular characters are killed off abruptly, and surprise twists abound. The dialogue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue) is intelligent and frequently witty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wit)."

The Sandbaggers was created by Ian Mackintosh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Mackintosh), a Scottish former naval (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy) officer turned television writer, who had previously achieved success with the acclaimed Warship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warship_%28TV_series%29) BBC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC) television series. He wrote all the episodes of the first two series. However, during the shooting of the third series in July 1979, Mackintosh and his girlfriend, a British Airways (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways) stewardess, were declared lost at sea after their single-engine aircraft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft) mysteriously went missing over the Pacific Ocean near Alaska (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska) following a radioed call for help. Some of the details surrounding their disappearance have caused speculation about what actually occurred, including their stop at an abandoned United States Air Force base and the fact that the plane happened to crash in the one small area that was not covered by either US or USSR radar.
Mackintosh disappeared after he had written just four of the scripts for Series Three, so other writers were called in to bring the episode count up to seven. The Sandbaggers ends on an unresolved cliffhanger because the producers decided that no one else could write the series as well as Mackintosh, and they chose not to continue with it in his absence.

[svollmer]

My Mom (uh, I mean, "me Mum"), was a British girl from Peterborough. I think I got my love of Sci-Fi from her. During the summers, my brother, sister, and I would run home daily at 4:00 p.m. for a re-run of Dr. Who.

I'm passing on the tradition to my boys with a lot of BBC America watching. They love Dr. Who (and don't sleep well at night becasue of it), but their favorite British show is Top Gear. :applaud: Now, if I could only find reruns of "Rising Damp."

Sorry for the off topic comment; now back to "The Doctor." :o:

[hjames]

I'm passing on the tradition to my boys with a lot of BBC America watching. They love Dr. Who (and don't sleep well at night becasue of it), but their favorite British show is Top Gear. :applaud:



(British) Top Gear - heck yes!!
Wish they'd get some new episodes into the pipe!

[voice of theatr]

Did anyone see the "spoof" of Dr. Who on the NBC sitcom "Community" this past week? Funny reference......

BTW, my favorite current sci-fi TV show (today) is FRINGE on Fox Fridays at 9 pm. Directed by J.J. Abrahms (who directed the most recent Star Trek film--don't hold it against him!), it is really well done IMHO. Leonard Nimoy was in multiple episodes the last couple of seasons but that's not really the "draw" for me---it's just really well written/directed/acted--deals with things like parallel universes (I wonder if Spock has a beard in that universe!), futuristic tech, human/machine hybrids, to name a very few......

[SEAWOLF97]

(British) Top Gear - heck yes!!
Wish they'd get some new episodes into the pipe!

agree ....but wonder why so many UK shows are faves with us,
while so many US shows just fall flat ??

or does the UK just have that many clunkers too , and they
don't get exported ? (ie: we see the best of their offerings ?)

ah yes, that makes sense

:dont-know:

[svollmer]

(British) Top Gear - heck yes!!
Wish they'd get some new episodes into the pipe!

I tried the American Top Gear.............once! ;)

[richluvsound]

What did you guys do to my Shameless ?...

In my experience the appreciation of Brit humour and narrative is genetic. I could't imagine someone with Mexican heritage would find English TV so interesting . I am most certainly not meaning to be racist with this statement . But ,I'm addressing the sensible ones aren't I ?:bouncy:

Rich

[RedCoat23]

As my avatar name should have clued you in, I'm an ex-pat living over here. I do like a lot of US shows but I seem to drift back to ones from home...old habits I guess.

Though some US shows just annoy the (fill in your own expletive) out of me.

CSI (in it's many forms). I studied biomedical science at Uni and all this expensive suit wearing, pouting lip, sunglasses-flaunting investigation just rubs me up the wrong way. Totally contaminating a crime scene. When you watch British TV shows like Inspector Morse, Frost, Prime Suspect, Midsommer Murders etc. They show the true glamour of forensic work. Unflattering one-piece suits and wellington boots. Looking more like auto painters than anything CSI pretends is real... /rant-off\ :D

I think that's why British shows are popular - yes we do have dross too - but it's because the people are real/believable in their roles. Not a poster add for a hair or mens grooming product.

Anyway that's my two pence worth :D

[hjames]

You forgot to mention Cracker ...



CSI (in it's many forms). I studied biomedical science at Uni and all this expensive suit wearing, pouting lip, sunglasses-flaunting investigation just rubs me up the wrong way. Totally contaminating a crime scene. When you watch British TV shows like Inspector Morse, Frost, Prime Suspect, Midsommer Murders etc. They show the true glamour of forensic work. Unflattering one-piece suits and wellington boots. Looking more like auto painters than anything CSI pretends is real... /rant-off\ :D

I think that's why British shows are popular - yes we do have dross too - but it's because the people are real/believable in their roles. Not a poster ad for a hair or men's grooming product.

Anyway that's my two pence worth :D

[svollmer]

As my avatar name should have clued you in, I'm an ex-pat living over here. I do like a lot of US shows but I seem to drift back to ones from home...old habits I guess.

:D

Full disclosure - I own the Captain Scarlet box set! Now I have to get Thunderbirds and Supercar. :blink:

[richluvsound]

I own the Captain Scarlet doll :D

[brutal]

I started watching Dr Who reruns of all the past Doctors and current episodes with Tom (4th), who was soon replaced by Peter (5th) on BFBS (google it) when I was stationed in Germany 1981-1984. We were too far out to get AFN (google it) and there was a British base close to our housing area so we could get a few German stations and the BFBS broadcast.

I recall watching six and seven, but am totally drawing a blank on #8 who I think only lasted one season. Picked it back up when the show was revived in 2005 with Eccleston. I was crushed when Tennant left the show, but have enjoyed Matt Smith.

[jcrobso]

It seems that most started watching when Tom Baker was the Doctor on PBS. My PBS station then went back and ran some of the previous Doctors.
After Tom Baker the BBC then switched producers for the show and he wanted to take the show in a new direction. The show lost it's edge, excitement and became very dry (aka boring).:(:(:(
The current shows and the people playing the Doctor have been a breath of fresh air.
The plot line is gripping and very intricate, the other caricatures have been marvelous.;)
The show is a joy to watch!:bouncy:
Question: remember the show were David Tenant was cloned and he had a Daughter?
Were is she? :confused: For a while I though that River Song was his daughter, but she is Amy's daughter.:blink:

[hjames]

I started watching Dr Who reruns of all the past Doctors and current episodes with Tom (4th), who was soon replaced by Peter (5th) on BFBS (google it) when I was stationed in Germany 1981-1984. We were too far out to get AFN (google it) and there was a British base close to our housing area so we could get a few German stations and the BFBS broadcast.

I recall watching six and seven, but am totally drawing a blank on #8 who I think only lasted one season. Picked it back up when the show was revived in 2005 with Eccleston. I was crushed when Tennant left the show, but have enjoyed Matt Smith.


8 was Paul McGann - who only did that late-90s BBC-Fox joint venture movie that attempted to restart the franchise. It didn't actually go anywhere ...
Movie wasn't too bad - had Eric Roberts as The Master, but the new series from 2005 on has been excellent!

About The Doctor's Daughter ... - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctor%27s_Daughter


Georgia Moffett (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Moffett), who plays Jenny, is the real-life daughter of Fifth Doctor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Doctor) actor Peter Davison (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Davison) and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_%28TV_serie s%29) star Sandra Dickinson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Dickinson). David Tennant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tennant) described the episode by saying "We get to see the Doctor's daughter, played by the Doctor's daughter." Moffett had previously auditioned for the role of Rose Tyler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Tyler) in 2004 and a role in "The Unicorn and the Wasp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unicorn_and_the_Wasp)" in 2007. Her role as Jenny was not chosen because of her father; it was entirely coincidental but nevertheless a "great PR coup" for the series.

[brutal]

It seems that most started watching when Tom Baker was the Doctor on PBS. My PBS station then went back and ran some of the previous Doctors.
After Tom Baker the BBC then switched producers for the show and he wanted to take the show in a new direction. The show lost it's edge, excitement and became very dry (aka boring).:(:(:(
The current shows and the people playing the Doctor have been a breath of fresh air.
The plot line is gripping and very intricate, the other caricatures have been marvelous.;)
The show is a joy to watch!:bouncy:
Question: remember the show were David Tenant was cloned and he had a Daughter?
Were is she? :confused: For a while I though that River Song was his daughter, but ........:blink:

BIG SPOILER ALERT in for any that are still catching up...

[Allanvh5150]

Dont forget about the Doctor Who films in '65 and '66 that starred Peter Cushing as the Doctor.

Allan.

[hjames]

Dont forget about the Doctor Who films in '65 and '66 that starred Peter Cushing as the Doctor.

Allan.
Probably fun, but they don't actually count as canon because they depict his background differently ...

[jcrobso]

Probably fun, but they don't actually count as canon because they depict his background differently ...
But that was last June! :(

[jcrobso]

Probably fun, but they don't actually count as canon because they depict his background differently ...
But that was last June! :(
I didn't say who River was, thought.;)

[hjames]

But that was last June! :(
I didn't say who River was, thought.;)


Dont forget about the Doctor Who films in '65 and '66 that starred Peter Cushing as the Doctor.

Allan.

1965 and 1966 was not June - but that's the least of the problems with those old movies - there is NO GALIFREY, No TimeLords, no Rassilon, etc! And their Doc is 'sposed to be a Hu-Man!

Wiki sez: (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dr._Who_and_the_Daleks)

Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) was the first of two Doctor Who (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Doctor_Who) films made in the 1960s. It was followed by Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Daleks%27_Invasion_Earth:_2150_A.D.)


Several changes were made to the main characters. Cushing's Dr. Who (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dr._Who_%28Dalek_films%29) is portrayed as an Earth-born scientist and inventor (whose surname is actually Who) who built TARDIS (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/TARDIS) (not The TARDIS as in the television show), his time travelling (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Time_travel) ship. In the film, TARDIS is larger on the inside than on the outside (as with the television TARDIS), but its internals consist of masses of wires and switches, with blinking lights abound, rather than the simpler console room of the series. Cushing plays the Doctor as an amiable and absent-minded inventor, in contrast to William Hartnell (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/William_Hartnell)'s more prickly and mysterious persona, though Cushing's version does show leadership and determination in moments of crisis. Barbara and Susan are now both his granddaughters (and both, as a result, carry the surname Who; in the original series Susan adopts the surname Foreman). Ian Chesterton is now Barbara's bumbling boyfriend, and the entire subplot of them being Susan's teachers is dropped. Ian is the comic relief in the film, rather than the heroic version seen in The Daleks (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Daleks).


Because of this departure from the established continuity of the television series, this film is generally not considered canon (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Canon_%28fiction%29#Doctor_Who), although attempts have been made in various spin-off (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Doctor_Who_spin-offs) media to fit it in.

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Time And Relative Distance In Space - TARDIS ... (its bigger on the inside!)

[Titanium Dome]

I think I'd call that the Re-Engineered Time and Relevant Distance in Space, or a genuine RETARDIS.

[grumpy]

Now, now... If I had the time to build a tardis-looking entrance to my 'loo', as at least one other person in the world -has-, I'd do it :D

[Titanium Dome]

You mean this?

http://www.wheresthetardis.com/entry/313

or the guy with the TARDIS potty in his pinball barn?

[grumpy]

Don't be silly. Just a shallow façade for the door, as though it ended up embedded in the wall. Bigger on the inside... Time passes without it seeming so... Etc. :D

I suppose then, I'd have to assemble a small Dalek that would both hold the plunger and squawk "Eliminate" when an occupant had seated...

[hjames]

For whatever its worth, the current season ended yesterday (season 6, Ep 13)
tho there is always a Christmas day episode that's lots of fun ...

Next season will be shorter, as Steven Moffat (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0595590/), who currently guides Doctor Who, is also writing "Sherlock", the contemporary era series about Sherlock Holmes and Watson.
Both will be back with new episodes next year.

yeah, can you tell I'm a huge fan of both ... :D

And - none you caught my Gaff ...

TARDIS = Time And Relative Dimension In Space - (I always think D=Distance not Dimension)

[grumpy]

It -was- an entertaining multi-storyline pull-together :)

[pos]

Steven Moffat is the Man :thmbsup:
I just realized he also wrote one of my favorite episode of the 3rd season of Doctor Who: Blink (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_%28Doctor_Who%29)

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[bean_counter]

It seems that most started watching when Tom Baker was the Doctor on PBS. My PBS station then went back and ran some of the previous Doctors.


IIRC, they ran all, or nearly all, of the surviving episodes (many old B&W episodes had been sold off from the BBC archives for their silver content). I tried to watch them all, but it was tough going for a lot of the earlier work - I fell asleep a lot of Sunday nights :(

Wish they would air the old Tom Baker years again while we wait for new episodes.

[hjames]

IIRC, they ran all, or nearly all, of the surviving episodes (many old B&W episodes had been sold off from the BBC archives for their silver content). I tried to watch them all, but it was tough going for a lot of the earlier work - I fell asleep a lot of Sunday nights :(

Wish they would air the old Tom Baker years again while we wait for new episodes.

Wow - the Tom Baker stuff has gotten pretty long in the tooth these days ...
I don't see BBC America or anyone like that airing anything that old ...
but maybe someone like TVland could grab it up and air it ...
tho I'm not sure how much of an audience they'd get ...

[Titanium Dome]

The Tom Baker, Patrick Troughton, William Hartnell, Jon Pertwee, Sylvester McCoy, blah, blah, seasons are are all on Amazon Prime free streaming. I should write "whole or partial seasons," though virtually all of them are complete seasons. That's like 26 or so seasons as I recall.

Good luck staying awake through all that, eh? I know I've dozed once or twice.