Top 5 Doctor Who serials (1960s-80s)

[Vulpine]

Nah Tec, I was just talking about Lud and PIP. I know your.... Of grater experience.  

Out of interest Tec, as you have been around through all doctors, who's your frave? Or is it Hartnall as he was the first?

[Vulpine]

Pyramids of Mars (1975) - OK, so here we have Call of Cthulhu, Stargate, Agatha Christie, and a whole 'Green and Pleasant Land' Englishness rolled up into and insane 'end of Empire' style romp.  Bloody marvellous and one of the few series i'll still sit down and watch without thinking.

Just ordered this DVD on eBay, under your say so Lud. £6.13 (inc P&P) new!

However I've never seen a bad Tom Baker Ep... I've seen some that were so-so but no bad ones.

I want all the Tom Bakers but its around £300 for the remaining story's. However, one less! 22 (+E-Space trilogy) to go!

[Techno]

Nah Tec, I was just talking about Lud and PIP. I know your.... Of grater experience.  

Out of interest Tec, as you have been around through all doctors, who's your frave? Or is it Hartnall as he was the first?

No.....Definitely not Hartnell.....
I can remember really enjoying Tom Baker's version of the Doctor....I think of the first 5 Doctors he'd be my favourite without a doubt.
After those, I think I would vote for David Tennant's portrayal.

But.....It's a bit unfair to put the 'modern' Doctors against the 'old timers', as they seem to have far better budgets nowadays....better/'more realistic' (?) costumes for the bad guys (perhaps), better sets, better 'filming techniques' and then the technology for special effects has improved things beyond recognition.

Just as an aside....I was allowed to take the '5 Doctors' from the local market on 'sale or return'.....
Well....I watched it all the way through.....But it did seem so cheap and cheerful, I was rather disappointed.....I should have stayed with my memories from all those years ago.....They were better than the reality.  
Still had a wonderful charm about it though.

Cheers - Phil.

[Vulpine]

  

[Techno]

Sorry V.
This has given me the idea for a new thread.
I won't post it here yet.....Otherwise we'll go off on a real tangent.
Cheers - Phil.

[Vulpine]

Let me think... Program's from childhood that now don't seem as good?

[Techno]

Along those lines V....and what HAS stood the test of time.
But let's not start it here, otherwise we will go off on a tangent.
Cheers - Phil.

[Luddite]

Tom Baker IS the Dr.  Accept no substitutes.



Until, that is, they cast Ray Winstone as the Dr, playing him as a battered TimeWar veteran embittered and damaged beyond repair by a millennium of trying to stem the tides of chaos. 

A sort of 'John Constantine' figure, completely hollowed out by his experiences.

That might give Tom a run for his money.



If you could choose the next Dr, who would it be?


Stephen Fry?  Witty, eridite, enlightened, intelligent beyond imagining.

Michael Sheen?  So versatile an actor it could go anywhere...

Tilda Swinton doing the Dr as an androgenous inhuman sylph?

Personally i'd go with Philip Seymour Hoffman payling the Dr as a world weary idealist akin to the Gust Avrakotos character he played in Charlie Wilson's War.

[Vulpine]

Sean bean as a wiry yet at the same time energetic time vet!

Or Brian blessed! "THE TARRRDIIIISSS !!"

[Luddite]

Sean Bean?!?!?

He'd have to keep moving though or how would you tell him apart from the wooden scenery?

[Vulpine]

I love Sean!!! Only guy who could turn me!

[Techno]

 
You tart !! 
Cheers - Phil.

[Vulpine]

I know you can take it... But can you stand!