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I first got into Doctor Who when I went to college-- one of they people in my freshman class, and a handful of juniors and seniors happened to love the show, and organized a weekly get-together to watch reruns as they aired on PBS. (If you have never experienced being in a room full of theoretically adult people all screaming in horror because a robot dog may be about to fall into an incinerator, you don't know what you're missing.) The sets were hokey, the monsters were... also hokey. The acting and writing were largely superb.

The episode airing the night we began was The Face of Evil, and baring those episodes I missed due to vacations (as PBS didn't carry Who where my parents lived, and thus, I only watched it during the school year) I don't think I missed an episode until I stopped at or around (might have hung on a few more episodes, but not many) Planet of the Cheetah People.

When next I had a TV, PBS was, for reasons phenomenally unclear to me, doing the Third Doctor's run over and over, in an (apparently) endless loop. He'd regenerate and then, next week... have just regenerated into himself. It was odd. And frustrating. I bought a couple tapes, and watched those friends of mine had, but by and large I was much too poor to be out buying decades of British television. I sort of drifted away from Who after PBS stopped showing it at all.

Then New Who started, and I didn't watch it. Many reasons. Well, mostly, didn't want to see the Doctor with a love interest. Yeah, I got over that. But recently, I had the urge to rewatch (or, in some cases, watch for the first time) Classic. In the carefully determined order of "what dvds I happen to buy" combined with "what I can talk my housemates into putting up with" and a side order of "whim". Since my ability to remember titles is minimal, I decided to keep a reccord/log of my thoughts. Since it might, theoretically, be of interest to someone other than myself, I'm keeping on my lj. But since it almost certainly isn't of interest to most -though my instinct is that very few people actually see my journal- this constitutes your warning.

( The Keeper of Traken )

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I first got into Doctor Who when I went to college-- one of they people in my freshman class, and a handful of juniors and seniors happened to love the show, and organized a weekly get-together to watch reruns as they aired on PBS. (If you have never experienced being in a room full of theoretically adult people all screaming in horror because a robot dog may be about to fall into an incinerator, you don't know what you're missing.) The sets were hokey, the monsters were... also hokey. The acting and writing were largely superb.

The episode airing the night we began was The Face of Evil, and baring those episodes I missed due to vacations (as PBS didn't carry Who where my parents lived, and thus, I only watched it during the school year) I don't think I missed an episode until I stopped at or around (might have hung on a few more episodes, but not many) Planet of the Cheetah People.

When next I had a TV, PBS was, for reasons phenomenally unclear to me, doing the Third Doctor's run over and over, in an (apparently) endless loop. He'd regenerate and then, next week... have just regenerated into himself. It was odd. And frustrating. I bought a couple tapes, and watched those friends of mine had, but by and large I was much too poor to be out buying decades of British television. I sort of drifted away from Who after PBS stopped showing it at all.

Then New Who started, and I didn't watch it. Many reasons. Well, mostly, didn't want to see the Doctor with a love interest. Yeah, I got over that. But recently, I had the urge to rewatch (or, in some cases, watch for the first time) Classic. In the carefully determined order of "what dvds I happen to buy" combined with "what I can talk my housemates into putting up with" and a side order of "whim". Since my ability to remember titles is minimal, I decided to keep a reccord/log of my thoughts. Since it might, theoretically, be of interest to someone other than myself, I'm keeping on my lj. But since it almost certainly isn't of interest to most -though my instinct is that very few people actually see my journal- this constitutes your warning.

( The Keeper of Traken )