ables@ut-ngp.UUCP (King Ables) (07/21/84)
[Anybody know the University of Gallifrey's football schedule this year?]
I'd like to hear what people's favorite stories of Dr. Who are and why.
Our PBS station has run through Tom Baker at least twice. The last
time through I became hooked. I was looking forward to seeing the
ones I had missed when they went back around, but they made so much
money during a fund raiser around the program that they bought Pertwee
and Davison and ran Baker into Davison. We're almost through the 2nd
season of Peter. It's an interesting point (maybe, at least it is to
me) that I watch a few Baker episodes months before I became hooked and
really thought it was trash so I stopped. Then I watched a little more
a few months later and didn't love it, but the endings of each episode
were so cliff-hanging I had to tune in the following night to see how
they got out of whatever it was they were in. With no comercials, I had
no opportunity to come back to reality and before I knew it, they had
cliff hung me again. Pretty soon, I began to like it. Did it have to
grow on anyone else?
But I digress. My two favorite episodes are "City Of Death" (Baker) and
"Mawdryn Undead" (Davison). I think it's because they use the paradoxes
involved in time travel in the story rather than just traveling to some
place in the past or future and solving whatever problems are there.
I loved how they followed two different "time zones" six years apart and
as the scene changed, the later time zone would treat what was just shown
as a flashback! It kept on my toes trying to figure out where we were.
Gonna be sad to see Nyssa go next week.
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-King
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UUCP:{ctvax,ihnp4,kpno,seismo}!ut-sally!ut-ngp!ablesjjsk@ihu1g.UUCP (jim kent) (07/23/84)
my two favorite Dr. Who episodes are both Tom Baker episodes.
1. City of Death(is there an echo in here)
2. The Pirate Planet
Both of which were written by Douglas adams of "Hitchhiker's guide" fame.
Next up is a Pertwee episode:
3. Carnival of monsters (look for Harry Sullivan in a different role)
However, my favorite camp episode is "meglos" (you know the vicious cactus)
Incidentally, to those of you in the Chicago area, City of Death, is on
tonight.
Doctor T.
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