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I like the Doctor by default. My ex was a huge fan so Doctor Who was staple fare every Saturday when we were together (Eccleston and early Tennant). Now, in my present life, my partner's eight year-old is a walking, talking encyclopaedia of all things Doctor-related. And we're all looking forward to seeing what Peter Capaldi does with the role. Me, because I'd love him to somehow reprise Tucker's Law in a way suitable for Saturday family entertainment...
THC | 23.11.13 - 6:18 a.m. | #
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I would like to have seen Chris Addison http://www.chrisaddison.com/ as the new Dr Who - I reckon he could be a brilliant doctor!
Happy Harry (in the UK) | 23.11.13 - 7:40 a.m. | #
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Another programme I am happy to have missed, although I do remember seeing an early episode back in the 1960's and thinking at the time it was poorly made and the special effects were awful. People tell me it has improved over the years and now goes out in HD, colour and 5.1 surround sound. No doubt you can see the hardboard scenery better.The Daleks must be included amongst the cheap monster/aliens creations ever thought up by effects department.
There were some pretty awful ones in some of the c1950 Sc-Fi films too.
"Journey into Space" on the radio was much better as were the Quatermass TV serials.
John | 23.11.13 - 10:13 a.m. | #
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A bit of time travel in the various spin off programmes, with Hartnell driving a D-suffix (1966) Series VI Singer Gazelle in 1963 in "An Adventure in Time & Space", and "The Science of Doctor Who" having the Prof Brian Cox drawing a diagram on the blackboard some time after it had first appear on screen.
Maybe a bit of regeneration too, as the actor playing the BBC's Head of Drama was billed as Brian Cox, but didn't look a bit like the learned Professor - about 20 years older.
I was taken by the strking resemblance between the junkyard in "An Unearthly Child" and the one run by the Steptoes (pere et fils)
timbo | 23.11.13 - 1:44 p.m. | #
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Ooh, talking of Doctor Who locations.
http://goo.gl/lzkVT2
Tetramesh | Homepage | 23.11.13 - 3:36 p.m. | #
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"These four Daleks were lurking in the scenery block at the back of Television Centre ..."
Great opening line for a joke.
thrown olives | 23.11.13 - 3:38 p.m. | #
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Is Doctor Who not the modern equivalent of The Emperors New Clothes? If one person was to say it was a load of old pants.....
IanB | 23.11.13 - 4:46 p.m. | #
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As a very old fan of Dr. Who (yes I can remember the first Doctor) I followed up your earlier references. You missed one location; the Kew Bridge Steam Museum which featured as Totters Lane scrapyard in Remembrance of the Daleks. Actual set area now largely built over but the Museum is still there.
Westville13 | 23.11.13 - 6:06 p.m. | #
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Exterminate.
Terminate.
What is the difference? Why the 'Ex' at the beginning of the former??
Chris | 23.11.13 - 6:22 p.m. | #
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'Back in 2003'
Ah.
Another Andrew | 23.11.13 - 6:53 p.m. | #
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Why is it that any time someone writes about how much they enjoy Dr Who someone else has to come along and write a comment about how they saw it once and decided it was rubbish. Dr Who is fab. And fezes are cool.
Clarence | 23.11.13 - 6:53 p.m. | #
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Not true, Clarence. About half of the time they haven't even seen it once. And reading John's comment on today's blog post strongly suggests he has a personal grudge to bear against the BBC and all of its output anyway.
Best to leave the whiners and free-marketeers alone to scream impotently in their cupboards, I find.
And I say this as someone who stopped watching Doctor Who a couple of years ago after finally having got fed up of all the clumsy Moral Lessons the revival is so fond of, helped along by Steven Moffat's signature completely-up-itself style of plotting. I did watch and enjoy the special, though, made all the better for the absence of so many of the faults which put me off in the first place.
swirlythingy | Homepage | 24.11.13 - 5:23 p.m. | #
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in February, around the same time as your visit, the BBC invited Google around TV Centre with their Street View trolley. The results are now online, and you can have a nosey around bits which weren't even open to the tours, plus some bits of the building dressed up as filming locations for An Adventure in Space and Time.
You can find it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/streetview/index.shtml
martin | 25.11.13 - 12:53 p.m. | #
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