NewEnglandGothic

My father only watched the Colin Baker episodes because of Peri.

I have to admit I'm liking Teegan's haircut.

How's the scene in the quarry. It always seemed way too grainy.

Now way. We'll keep to Leela for now... savage.

LoL. At one time, I thought she was American.

Leela

Mr. Bates?

Give the man some credit. He had remember his lines around a 70's Katy Manning in her prime. Once she wore those white go-go boots in the season 9 opener, "Day of the Daleks" she became the most iconic companion. Granted, she wasn't the sharpest tack.

"You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain." I love this thread!

I've been known to randomly quote "Sutekh must live" as well as "Contact has been made" from The Invisible enemy.

Love it!!! I can't tell you how much I love that episode! When I was a lad myself, that and Pyramids of Mars were my favorites!

I started watching it in '81. Tom Baker's "Robot." It was just starting on PBS (specifically Channel 2) and advertised for weeks, during This Old House and Nova. It was running on Channel 11 (another PBS station,) but it was during the news hour, so we couldn't watch it. On channel 2, it did something bizarre though for the first couple of years, it would just rewind right back to "Robot," after airing "Invasion of Time." So, I would just eventually watch the Pertwee's on the other channel too, when they rewound. Plus, you could watch entire Pertwee shows on Saturday afternoon, But one time, they just kept going right into "The Keys of Time" and so on, going right to the last Baker show, before rewinding back to "Robot.". The other channel was airing Davisons by then. It took a few years before they aired the Davisons. So, that's how juggled the series at first.

I should note whenever PBS ran reruns mostly from the Pertwee/Baker/Davison era on Channel 11, I would tune in still. They would appear Saturday afternoons or nights, Sunday nights or even on a Thursday night. You would be flipping through the dial and find "Inferno," "The Leisure Hive," "Kinda" or "Frontios." After the Fall of '91, that was it for Doctor Who in New Hampshire.

I was a SUPER fan from '81 to until around... '87. When the new series came out I was extremely skeptical, to the point of ignoring it. A couple boardies kept telling me I was missing the boat. But, I persisted. But, a year or so ago, I picked up a DVD copy of "Time of the Doctor" for $6 and I really enjoyed it. So, I went back to start with Matt Smith's Doctor with "The Eleventh Hour" and I was hooked.

No, no, no. I've seen this before. This can only be the work of The Master!

I thought Tom Baker was hilarious still obviously lusting after cute-as-a-button actress Harriet Philpin (rebel character Bettan) 30-years-later in the commentary. You would have assumed she would have got an 8 minute documentary.

Just saying. Tom Baker's "Genesis of the Daleks" was the best put-together DVD of "special features" for the entire series. Too bad "Stones of Blood" didn't get that kind of treatment.

I think Colin Baker tried to incorporate a lot of the past Doctors into his personality, whereas most of the previous ones tried to be individual but was obstructed by a bad-fashion sense and a depleting budget.

Yes, Tennent was definitely a good one, if not great.

To me it's the same show, just formatted differently for a new era (shorter). If you told me 30 years ago episodes would be as long as "The Sontaran Experiment" or "The Black Orchid," I wouldn't have not have believed it. One of the other things is that it grew up with you too. You could watch it when you were a kid and watch the more adult stories in the new series as a grown-up. Wish, I jumped back on the bandwagon 18 years ago. Instead, I started collecting comics and here I am, talking about Doctor Who.

That's just crazy. They should at least go to "Invasion of Time" for some continuity of a run. There's a lot of great ones like "...Fang Rock," "Brain of Morbius," "Pyramids of Mars," "Face of Evil," not mention fun ones like "Android Invasion," "Hand of Fear" and Invisible Enemy" (I might be saying some of their names wrong.) That's a shame, if they do this.