Old Doctor Who episodes on Horror Channel (Sky, Freesat etc.)

[redsquirrel]

What they tried to do with C Bakers Doctor was actually a bold and interesting decision. Well played it could have been brilliant. Of course it tured out to be poorly scripted, even more poorly funded and especially poorly costumed. You just couldn't see them taking such a risk nowadays tho

Yeah I saw The Two Doctors recently and for a mainstream TV program it really was miles ahead of it's time, hell it's far ahead of the current series. The Two Doctors is actually one of Baker's better ones and, though not without some crap moments, it really is quite impressive in a many ways.

 

[Knotted]

The Two Doctors, shown straight after Mark of the Rani

Oh damn. I fell asleep watching Mark of the Rani.

 

[Chz]

What they tried to do with C Bakers Doctor was actually a bold and interesting decision. Well played it could have been brilliant. Of course it tured out to be poorly scripted, even more poorly funded and especially poorly costumed. You just couldn't see them taking such a risk nowadays tho

He's actually regularly turned in the best performances of the ex-doctors in Big Finish's audio stories. McCoy is variable depending on how much he's hamming it up (when he starts rolling his r's, it's time to turn off), Davidson just phones in most of the time (he admits to not reading the scripts before he shows up), and the few they've done with Tom B. are a bit excruciating. So I tend to agree with Colin that it wasn't all his fault that his Who episodes sucked, for the most part. It really helps that they gave him a new companion who wouldn't put up with his imperious ways. Tones the character down a bit without actually changing him. Though I have to admit that the most surprising performance I've heard out of anyone in the series was from Bonnie Langford. She was great!

I'd admit to the ones with Paul McGann being decent, but since I've never even seen the movie it lacks any sort of attachment for me. I can forgive the other ones when they're a bit crap because they're Doctor Who, but I don't extend that generosity to McGann.

 

[Bungle73]

It's not "Davidson" it's Davison.

I actually think his audio stories are the best tbh. I find them really enjoyable, and as entertaining and suspenseful as when I used to watch him in the TV series.

I like the Tom Baker ones too, but the ones I've heard are different from the others in that they are not new stories, just re-tellings of old stories from the show, and it is just him reading the story instead of a proper audio play with a variety of actors.

 

[Awesome Wells]

I wonder if Capaldi Dr will start off like Colin Baker's evil Dr, going by the first teaser trailer.

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm just waiting for the inevitable youtube mashups where someone splices MAlcom Tucker Dialouge tyo Dr Who video. Profanity in the tardis lol

 

[ginger_syn]

I thought it had been done already, this thread has bump started my intention of watching classic who again.

 

[discobastard]

I've got the following DVDs spare if anybody wants them (original single disc editions):

Tomb of the Cybermen (Troughton)
Robots of Death (T Baker)
Claws of Axos (Pertwee) - this one is well psychedelic

PM me and I will stick them in the post.

 

[danny la rouge]

I thought it had been done already, this thread has bump started my intention of watching classic who again.

Thanks for the tip about Aztecs. Did you notice Tomb of the Cybermen is on Drama on Sunday?

I have the series link set, as they said they'd be showing a different Doctor every Sunday.

Obviously I'm only interested in the first 4 (and the last 4).

 

[Awesome Wells]

Oh damn. I fell asleep watching Mark of the Rani.

i've just downloaded Sylvester's first season.

Time and the Rani is fucking awful.

I actually rather like McCoy. At the time i hated it. Hated it. Hated it.

But with the benefit of hindsight and knowing that his last 2 seasons (of 3) were actually much better and more interesting, I can see a great deal of that period in the New Who. Perhaps more so than any other doctor.

 

[belboid]

The couple of Sylvesters I've seen were nothing like as bad as I recalled. Curse of Fenric was proper great. Ace was fucking atrocious tho, I can see why Ms Aldred never really acted again. She couldn't.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Ace, like none of Moffat's companions, is interesting as a character, even if Sophie Aldred isn't much of an actor.

On the plus side she's not Bonnie fucking Langford!

 

[belboid]

Ace, like none of Moffat's companions, is interesting as a character, even if Sophie Aldred isn't much of an actor.

Utter, utter, bollocks.

On the plus side she's not Bonnie fucking Langford!

Utter, utter, truth.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Its not bollocks. Moffat is hopeless at writing female characters

 

[belboid]

He has his problems, as discussed on the other thread. But Clara is certainly an interesting and rounded character. Did he do Donna? She had her moments. Ace was a good idea, terribly executed.

 

[ginger_syn]

Thanks for the tip about Aztecs. Did you notice Tomb of the Cybermen is on Drama on Sunday?

I have the series link set, as they said they'd be showing a different Doctor every Sunday.

Obviously I'm only interested in the first 4 (and the last 4).

already booked to record and I'm looking forward to watching some new Who, for me anyway . I enjoyed The Aztecs far more than I thought I would and my granddaughter was riveted, but have to say I'm really excited to see the pertwee story as he was my first Doctor.

 

[danny la rouge]

Did he do Donna?

Steady on!

 

[DotCommunist]

to be fair to Ace, she took out a Dalek with a baseball bat. Which is well nails

 

[Awesome Wells]

To be even fairer...it was the late eighties.

I forgot, Ken fucking Dodd was in one episode.

Which also featured an american character calling from "wales, in england"

 

[Bungle73]

To be even fairer...it was the late eighties.

I forgot, Ken fucking Dodd was in one episode.

The dreaded "Delta and the Bannermen". Surely the worst story in Dr. Who's history.

Which also featured an american character calling from "wales, in england"

That was deliberate.

 

[Awesome Wells]

I couldn't watch the entiety of Delta. I just couldn't.

Watched Dragonfire instead. Will watch the rest of McCoy's run (including the appearance of Bertie Basset)

 

[hot air baboon]

...Spearhead from Space on Drama Channel freeview Sunday Nov 16 4pm...

...I've got the dvd but its now become permanantly locked to audio commentary...

 

[danny la rouge]

I've been enjoying these. I remember Spearhead from Space when it aired, and being struck by the Dr taking his shoes to bed. I did the same myself that evening, enjoying the zany alien vibe of it, and was threatened with Dr Who being banned if I ever did it again.

I also vividly remembered Pyramids of Mars with the real Baker Doctor. Great fun.

Sadly, though, this week they strayed into the 80s and the fake programmes that aren't really Dr Who. Couldn't watch it. Next week is another one.

Keep me posted when they get back to one of the real Doctors.

 

[ginger_syn]

I'm looking forward to the Colin Baker one, I liked his doctor, but haven't watched his episodes since they aired it will be interesting to see if I still do.

 

[danny la rouge]

I re-watched The Three Doctors on DVD last night.

I love the bits where bubble-wrapped monsters totter around in Santa's Grotto, ready to trip on the bubble-wrap.

 

[danny la rouge]

Watched the Five Doctors last night. It was ruined by the bits when it kept going back to Blondie. I can never believe him as the Doctor.

 

[hot air baboon]

I've been enjoying these. I remember Spearhead from Space when it aired, and being struck by the Dr taking his shoes to bed. I did the same myself that evening, enjoying the zany alien vibe of it, and was threatened with Dr Who being banned if I ever did it again.

.....this is definitely the earliest episode that really got lodged in my consciousness - (....apart from a couple of seconds of a scene in a b&w one where there was a girl screaming whilst being threatened by what looked like giant leeks swinging like pendulums from the ceiling..... ) mebbe as it was the first colour episode - that bit of him in the hospital , his child like behaviour was always part of that....and the auton patrolling around the woods, attacking the cottage ofcourse.....re-watching I recognised the shop window masacre scene as the high street in Kinsgton on Thames ....