calling Dr Who fans

[The-Doctor]

hmm tricky. The movie is worth a look as it covers stuff for the non fan. I also recommend the 9th and 10th Doctor series fairly watchable

If you want to look at the history of the show 1st and second doctor stories are worth a look. They have recently released on DVD the first three episodes, Unearthy Child, Edge of destruction and the Daleks. Unfortunately the Beeb had a clear out in the 70s and many early episodes are now lost though Tomb of the Cybermen was recently unearthed and restored. I guess its every Hard core Dr Who fans dream to find a missing episode.

In regard to new fans to the show what does everyone else think for suitable episodes?

Good question MN John!

 

[MN John]

I have so far....
1996 TVM
The Curse of Fatal Daeth
The Ark in Space

 

[A New Dawn]

I think "The 5 Doctors" is good as it brings the first 5 doctors together, as well as 5 of their companions, as well as many of their foes.

I think starting with the first episode is a good place to start. I started with the 5th doctor, and it wasn't too bad. I think that one can really start anywhere, but should make an attempt to understand who and where the Doctor has been in the past (and future )

I have

• Trial of a Time Lord
• The Keys to Time
• The Five Doctors
• The Aztecs
• The Resurrrection of the Daleks
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth

(and the next time I go to Sam's Club, I will get more. )

 

[The-Doctor]

I think "The 5 Doctors" is good as it brings the first 5 doctors together, as well as 5 of their companions, as well as many of their foes.

I think starting with the first episode is a good place to start. I started with the 5th doctor, and it wasn't too bad. I think that one can really start anywhere, but should make an attempt to understand who and where the Doctor has been in the past (and future )

I have

• Trial of a Time Lord
• The Keys to Time
• The Five Doctors
• The Aztecs
• The Resurrrection of the Daleks
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth

(and the next time I go to Sam's Club, I will get more. )

I agree with your list especially keys to time series and trial

I recently found a complete video version of Dalek invasion of the earth also a quality story from the Hartnell years.

 

[A New Dawn]

They should make a complete Dalek set. That would be so cool to have. My favorite is the Genesis of the Daleks.

 

[MN John]

I think I must have more somewhere. I will have to look around the house.

 

[The-Doctor]

I was also going to suggest Genesis of the Daleks another good story, recently voted the best Dr Who story.

 

[Lastie]

The early Tom Baker ones are very good. I also recommend 'Pyramids of Mars', which is probably my personal favourite story. If you want to get your head around the regeneration thing, try 'Caves of Androzani', (the last Peter Davidson story) which is also great.

 

[LadyNRA]

hmm tricky. The movie is worth a look as it covers stuff for the non fan. I also recommend the 9th and 10th Doctor series fairly watchable

If you want to look at the history of the show 1st and second doctor stories are worth a look. They have recently released on DVD the first three episodes, Unearthy Child, Edge of destruction and the Daleks. Unfortunately the Beeb had a clear out in the 70s and many early episodes are now lost though Tomb of the Cybermen was recently unearthed and restored. I guess its every Hard core Dr Who fans dream to find a missing episode.

In regard to new fans to the show what does everyone else think for suitable episodes?

Good question MN John!

We have ALL of them somewhere, even the Harkness to end of the Pertwee years. My husband swears he didn't miss taping a single episode. It's just that they are 'buried' somewhere in the house and getting to them would be unbelievably difficult. Sigh...

 

[The-Doctor]

Good choice Lastie another of my favorites (well I might be biased being a Tom baker fan) My personal favorite and another one to recommend to new fans is Robots of Death.

 

[A New Dawn]

I have quite a few taped from a long time ago, and I have even tried to watch them, but our current VCR isn't reading the tapes very well, and I have a lot of interference, or just plain blue screen.

 

[The-Doctor]

Dvd killed the video star huh?

I hope they find the missing episodes of Power of the Daleks one day. I'll be first in line to buy that one>

 

[The-Doctor]

Wow i just noticed we are the second most posted club on the forum for Christian Clubs...thanks for posting everyone I really enjoy hearing your views on our favorite Doctor(s)

 

[A New Dawn]

Dvd killed the video star huh?

I hope they find the missing episodes of Power of the Daleks one day. I'll be first in line to buy that one>

I don't know that I am familiar with that one. Which Doctor is/was it?

I could go look in my library (I have every single old Doctor's novelization.)

Are they novelizing the new Doctor's stories?

 

[MN John]

 

[Lastie]

I don't know that I am familiar with that one. Which Doctor is/was it?

It's the first episode of Patrick Troughton's run, immedeatly after the regeneration. I'd love to see it too, just to find out how they did the reaction to the Doctor's transformation, because back then no one would have had a clue what was going on. There's a good novelisation of it by John Peel, if you can find that.

 

[The-Doctor]

Dr Who wins three awards at TV Awards last night.

For the second year running Dr Who has won best drama, best actor for David Tennant and best actress for Billie Piper. The series won the same categories last year with billie Piper and Christopher Eccleston winning Best actor and actress.

 

[A New Dawn]

Great news!

Though in the past, Dr. Who would never have been considered a drama. It would have only fallen into the sci-fi category. And I don't know how Britain votes on sci-fi shows. The US rarely awards sci-fi with any of the "good" awards.

 

[The-Doctor]

The original idea behind Dr Who was to be an educational drama with the Doctor travelling in time. However once they started introducing bad guys like the Daleks it really took off and became a sci fi drama.

 

[A New Dawn]

Though it was originally written to be a sci-fi show, the producers wanted to make it educational, so they agreed to alternate and do every other show (story) a sci-fi one, and every other one an educational one. And it continued on that way through most of the second Doctor, and after that, it became almost completely sci-fi. They did do occasional historical stories in the 4th and 5th Doctor's tenures, the last one (of the old shows) being The Black Orchid, with the 5th Doctor.

One of my favorites with the 4th Doctor was the Masque of Mandragora.