I'll start: DOCTOR WHO 4.1-the awesomeness
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UPDATED: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 21:07
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Quote:Originally the Doctor was Human as well. The back story has changed somewhat, at about the same time they needed to replace the first doctor. If you watch the first Dr Who Movie it's also clear that he is Human.
Originally posted by citizen:
I've unspoilered the following because it has nothing to do with the current series:Quote:
Originally posted by ImNotHere:
Back in 1963, the Doctor's first companion was his Granddaughter, Susan, who was presumably 'made in the normal way' (whatever the 'normal way' is on Gallifrey).
Point is, she and he weren't from Gallifrey, they were Human from Earth.
PLEASE tell me you aren't referring to 1965's "Doctor Who and the Daleks" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059126/
that load of rubbish, too many changes were made to the story to "make it more accessable" to thise not familiar with the series.(the main reason Peter "Grand Moff Tarkin" Cushing was cast, was they felt he would be more recogniseable to US aduiences.) also note the years. Doctor Who (tv show) started in 1963. "Doctor Who and the Daleks" was 1965. look for the first episode"an Unearthly child" on youtube. the doctor clearly states that he and his granddaughter " are not of this race, or of this earth." "we are wanderers of the 4 dimensions of space and time, cut off from our own race and our own planet by eons, and universes beyond the reaches of your most advanced sciences."" I tell you that bfore your ancestors had turned the first wheel, the people of my world had reduced movement to the farthest reaches of space to a game for children"
he might as well have been green, and wearing a t-shirt that said "ALIEN" with a big arrow pointing straight up.
thus endeth my diatribe, now back to your regularly scheduled threads...
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Uhhh. Those movies make me cringe.
Daleks that didn't shoot lasers but what looked like steam (fire extinguisher?).
Wasn't Bernard Cribbens (Wilf in the new series) in one or both of the movies.
And for the record those movies are not considered canon.
"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."
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Originally posted by deepgirl187:Quote:
Originally posted by lwaves:
The non-European world has something to be grateful for.
Grateful? Spoken like someone that hasn't had to sit through seven seasons of American Idol. We Yanks have our own ways of torturing the TV-viewing public.
speaking as a yank my self: you haven't HAD to sit through 7 seasons of idol. i've managed to miss all of it with the exception of 1 performance earlier this year, and that was only cuz the kid is from my home town.
Idol is just part of a Long and storied list of uk shows being adapted for us audiences.
many, ney, most successfully they include such titles as:
the office (DUH!)
All In the Family - (Till Death Do us Part)
Cosby[not "the Cosby show", the one on CBS with Doug E.Doug] - (One Foot in the Grave)
Trading Spaces - (Changing Rooms)
Trading Spouses [fox]/wife swap[ABC] - (Wife swap [Channel 4]
Dear John [NBC] - (Dear John[BBC])
Junkyard wars [discovery] - (Scrapheap Challege[Channel 4])
Men Behaving Badly [NBC] - (Men Behaving Badly [ITV(series 1&2) & BBC 1(series3-6)]
Queer As Folk [Showtime] - (Queer as folk [Channel 4]* created and written By Russell T. Davies
Sanford and Son [NBC] - (Steptoe and Son [BBC])
Three's Company [ABC] - (Man about the House [ITV]
The Ropers{ spin-off of Three's Company} - (George and Mildred {spin-off of Man about the House})
and quite a few game shows and other junk listed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_programs_based_on_Briti
sh_programs
now the one Glaring failure that stands out in my mind is Coupling.
the original had been a decent hit in the Uk, and NBC decided to bring it over here, but in one of the worst decisions ever made, they imported the scripts wholesale, no real adaptation was made for US Tv, they re-shot what were essentially the original British scripts,(only real changes being moving the show to America) with American Actors, who were poorly Cast. only 4 of the 10 episodes shot(11 counting the unaired pilot) were Aired.
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Originally posted by lwaves:
Uhhh. Those movies make me cringe.
Daleks that didn't shoot lasers but what looked like steam (fire extinguisher?).
Wasn't Bernard Cribbens (Wilf in the new series) in one or both of the movies?
yes, he was in the second "Dalek's Invasion Earth 2150 AD" listed as "Tom Campbell" the Time-displaced Policeman
Thank you IMDB!
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- Sue Blu
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Calm down sparky.
Quote:It's still the first Dr Who Movie.
Originally posted by optimus1998:
PLEASE tell me you aren't referring to 1965's "Doctor Who and the Daleks" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059126/
that load of rubbish, too many changes were made to the story to "make it more accessable" to thise not familiar with the series.
Quote:I know the movie came after the series.
also note the years. Doctor Who (tv show) started in 1963. "Doctor Who and the Daleks" was 1965.
Quote:It's possible I've gotten various disparate pieces of information mixed up, it's along time since I watched the older Dr Whos. Though I doubt being green would have helped much since Dr Who was originally black and white.
he might as well have been green, and wearing a t-shirt that said "ALIEN" with a big arrow pointing straight up.
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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Originally posted by citizen:
Calm down sparky.Quote:It's still the first Dr Who Movie.
Originally posted by optimus1998:
PLEASE tell me you aren't referring to 1965's "Doctor Who and the Daleks" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059126/
that load of rubbish, too many changes were made to the story to "make it more accessable" to thise not familiar with the series.Quote:I know the movie came after the series.
also note the years. Doctor Who (tv show) started in 1963. "Doctor Who and the Daleks" was 1965.Quote:It's possible I've gotten various disparate pieces of information mixed up, it's along time since I watched the older Dr Whos. Though I doubt being green would have helped much since Dr Who was originally black and white.
he might as well have been green, and wearing a t-shirt that said "ALIEN" with a big arrow pointing straight up.
ok, i'll give you that it was technically the first movie, but NO ONE (in their right minds that is) considers those movies cannon..
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And while we're correcting Doctor Who canon (I know, I know, we'll do UNIT dating next), Richard Briers was in Paradise Towers in 1987 (21 years before his appearance in Torchwood) while the Bertie Basset lookalike (actually called The Candyman) turned up the following year in The Happiness Patrol.
I also like my victims to die with smiles on their faces.
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OH, God, my eyes....
It's all a horrible blur to me, from the end of PD until the manic grin of Eccleston.
'Lots of planets have a North...'
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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
OH, God, my eyes....
It's all a horrible blur to me, from the end of PD until the manic grin of Eccleston.
'Lots of planets have a North...'
Yup - the show went to a very bad place for a while and needed to be put out of its misery. Mercifully, I had to rely on a communal TV for much of the late 80s and was spared the worst excesses (I failed to miss Bertie Basset, though - oh, the pain!)
I was struck by how - on the recent Dr Who Confidential - the 1970s Sontarans actually held up pretty well bearing in mind that they didn't have modern prosthetic make-up (or a budget), but the 1980s Sontarans were absolutely rubbish - it looked like some one had gone out and bought a couple of John Prescott masks from a joke shop.
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Hey, guys, home alone at the moment with no-one to squee with joy at.
Who's seen the latest episode, Silence in the Library?!
Oh my god, so very, very good!
I was watching with friends the week before last and kept having to explain that it was supposed to be tongue in cheek and you just had to accept the moments of supreme cheesiness and love it for the quirky humour.
I got some agreement and some dubious looks. Why couldn't it have been this weeks ep. I showed to my friends? They'd have all been hooked!
Plus I'd have people in the house to look after me because it's starting to get dark here.....
Hold me, I'm scared!
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