Re: Which Decade was the best for Doctor Who?

On 4/14/2024 4:11 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 4/14/2024 1:43 AM, The Last Doctor wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 4/13/2024 10:58 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 4/13/2024 1:43 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 4/13/2024 7:38 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> wrote:

In message <uv67tu$10nsn$1@dont-email.me>, Ubiquitous
<weberm@polaris.net> writes

In article <uuvpup$lgg$2@gallifrey.nk.ca>, doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
wrote:

Ubiquitous  <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca wrote:

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1970s?
1980s?

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I'm not sure which one, but leaning towards the 1980's.

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The JN-T years.

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I had Tom Baker and Peter Davidson in mind when I chose.
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Wasn't Tom Baker the 1970s?

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The Best Decade was whatever decade you started watching.
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Actually I would put it as "the best decade is whatever decade the
episodes you first see were produced in".

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In case its not clear, I'm riffing on the old SF Fan trope
that 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction was whenever you were 13'.
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pt
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Close.  7 to 10.  1984 to 1987 which produced iconic movies like Aliens,
The Fly, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop I and II, Temple of Doom, Back
to the Future, Gremlins, Karate Kid I and II, Star Trek IV, The
Neverending Story, Return to Oz, The Princess Bride, Transformers: The
Movie and so much more!  40 years later these movies are still talked
about and loved.  Being a kid in the 80s will never be touched when it
comes to the movie going experience!
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My first decade for TV was the 60s - aged 4 to 8 I saw TV change from back
and white to colour and half of the TV I loved was imported - The Time
Tunnel, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space,
Batman, Spider-Man, The Man from UNCLE (not forgetting The Girl from
UNCLE), The Addams Family, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, and of course the
wonder that was Star Trek and, not to mention, the Apollo space program
(the greatest TV of all for me in 1969).
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 I watched all of these on reruns when I was a kid.  I know it wasn't first hand experience but discovering all of these new shows when I was younger was still loads of fun.  And sometimes I had no idea I was watching reruns of long canceled shows.
 

But domestically we had The Avengers, The Champions, The Prisoner (which I
didn’t understand one little bit but still loved),

  I think the first episode I ever saw of the Prisoner was "The Girl Who Was Death."  I knew nothing about the show, but that being my first episode I was hooked and assumed the entire series was like that.  LOL

Despite living in Britain 1968-78, I missed The Prisoner the first time
around. It probably conflicted with some more popular show ion my boarding school's TV room.
I was at university in London, when another student from America
excitedly told me there was a rerun. I'd never heard of the show,
and he told me a little about it, including the dreamlike set for
The Village.
'Arrival' came on, and as soon as Number 6 starts exploring his
new environment, I turned to my friend and said 'Oh, I've been there'.
He was flabbergasted.
But yes, I'd been to Portmerion. Indeed later, I stayed there overnight
with my fiance.
pt