DotCommunist
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1) Pink TARDIS
2) Bertie Basset monster
3) 'I'm glad you're happy' 'And I'm happy you're glad'
4) Thatcher parody
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1) Pink TARDIS
2) Bertie Basset monster
3) 'I'm glad you're happy' 'And I'm happy you're glad'
4) Thatcher parody
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This fucking useless article:
Though Adric runs it a close second.
chameleon was pretty bad, though it only appeared in its first and last episodes didn't it? presumably being kept in a cupboard in the intervening stories.
belboid
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yes, they are four of the reasons it was shite.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Yeah I remember thinking it was odd that he didn't ever come out to play. I remember quite liking him, not sure why. There is a new chameleon DVD set out soon.
danny la rouge
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This abomination makes me very glad I didn't watch Dr Who during those years. FFS, no wonder it was cancelled.i can never decide if the kandyman was great or a bit naff.
edit: oh dear, nick got confused. kandyman was in 'the happiness patrol' as others later mention.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
it was an ironic nod to the fact that in the land of the happy even the monster is made of sweets.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Even when I watch GOOD old who I wonder what the hell I was thinking to waste so much time on so much crap (30 minutes a week). I was glued to doctor who, he could have done an episode where he sat in the tardis watching a jelly set and I would have loved it (because he was dr who and in the tardis).
It seems impossible that they could have fucked it up so badly that I would stop watching, but they did it, they really did it. Fuckers.
can fully understand that, i would never have stopped watching doctor who.
danny la rouge
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I've only seen stills. But I can't imagine the context that would make that ridiculous thing work.
belboid
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it didn't. It was rubbish.
danny la rouge
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I can tell.
an amusing snippet from a doctor who guide re the kandyman -
'Nothing in the world could have prepared me for the sight of the Kandyman,' commented [Jonathan] Way. 'Oh yes, I'd heard reports, mutterings of discontent from fans who had seen glimpses of the costume, but somehow my imagination could not rise to the challenge. But then, on 2 November, there it was - squeaky voice and all. A sight to challenge the Nimon as the series' all-time clanger.'
elevendayempire
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Poor Peter Davison. He was the best actor they'd had up to that point, but they saddled him with beige PJs and half-a-dozen companions at any one time. He looked like a fucking mother duck trailing this lot around with him:
danny la rouge
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Good god. He has children with him, and it looks like they've been at the dressing up box.Poor Peter Davison. He was the best actor they'd had up to that point, but they saddled him with beige PJs and half-a-dozen companions at any one time. He looked like a fucking mother duck trailing this lot around with him:
belboid
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the Nimon might be making a come back in the two remaining specials!!!
danny la rouge
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~Yes, spoilercode pu-leez!
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i was considering putting her on the poll, but i knew it would get little support because she appeared in her bikini in one episode.
are you insane?...............................!
danny la rouge
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This made me Google her. I never saw her, but she is now one of my favourites.
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danny la rouge
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It's OK, it looked pretty bad back then. I'm just glad the new revitalised programme is such a quality product.that's (some of) what you missed danny
i loved davison, it only started to go downhill near the end of the sixth doctor's incarnation.
DotCommunist
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Battlefield was quality who, and had sylvester mcoy 
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elevendayempire
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It went downhill from earlier than that - moving the show to weeknights, bringing back old monsters for the sake of it rather than because of any compelling story reason, dressing the Doctor (and, unforgivably, his companions) in costumes rather than clothes... Colin Baker's casting (which came about because the producer liked a speech he gave at a wedding - no audition process, ffs) was the beginning of the end. He's a fine actor, but they made him play it as a shouty, unlikeable fuckwit and dressed him in a clown suit - which was so gaudy it buggered up the colour balance on the cameras, forcing them to turn the studio lights up and thus limiting the directors' ability to make the show scary.
By that point Michael Grade was looking to cut show budgets across the board for his big new series like EastEnders; Doctor Who was looking increasingly tired, it was a natural decision to stick it on hiatus for a year. Budget cuts meant it couldn't compete with glossy US shows like Buck Rogers and The A-Team; the fans' lunatic response to the hiatus (death threats, for crying out loud) only cemented Grade's decision to be done with the fucking thing.
Basically, they should've found a new producer for Davison's last year, cast an up-and-coming actor like the young Stephen Fry as the sixth Doctor, dressed him in a decent costume, stuck it back on Saturdays and turned the fucking lights down.
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