[floppydisk]

I've heard great things about this show, and I just got the privelage of seeing my first episode the other day. Granted, it was the new 2005 season, but it was still pretty good.

I'm just curious if anyone knows where I can get some of the old seasons. I can't find much on the torrent network other than a few seasons, and I can't find anything on circuitcity.com. I'd just like to get to know the origional show...

(barend, I'm looking at you )

This post has been edited by floppydisk: 28 March 2006 - 09:23 PM

[barend]

the BBC are being twats about it...

the leaving the DVD release of the first 26 season up to a group of fans who providing a particually quality release considering the bonus material... but the episodes of each story are being released in drips and draps in no particular order... and many of those stories (which run over an average of 4 episodes, compiled as a single release) run in succession with two others...

the BBC are obviously holding out to see how the sales go of these, which is lame becuase no real fan is going to want random episodes and so they'll be judged as having insufficient interest to justify a release...

by the same token, but opposite of SW:OT will never be released while every cock sucker bought the raped edition.

but that aside, you can get them from amazon.co.uk for a reasonable price... infact that's the cheepest i've seen them anywhere... aside from a local store (if you include the shipping).

i recomend the tom baker ones as he's my personal favorite.

(he's the one you see in simpons episode when TV figures gather because of sideshow bob)
he's also the narrarator of Little Britain, and was in Blackadder, and was in that unfortunate D&D movie as the king of the elves.

plus much more...

it was during his years that Douglas Adams (who wrote the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) was script editor and writer...

(also i recomend you buy the HGTTG TV series while you're at it...
it leaves the movie for dead. although be carefull... i noticed the DVD has an option to switch of the narrirator.... which is odd, and some DVD players will asume it off depending on your last setting)

[floppydisk]

Woah, Douglas Adams worked on Dr. Who? Now I must see the show.

I have heard that the HHTTG series is good, I'll probably check in on that.

[floppydisk]

Got the 2005 season from, err, well, I got it. It's pretty awesome. Caught any of it?

And before you get in a big stink, I'm actually planning to buy the 2005 season so I can watch it over and over. I just don't have the money right now.

I need a job.

[barend]

i think it's a real fucker that the actor left after one season...

that was a real shitty thing to do considering, there can be only 12 regenerations... one lousy year, and what happened to paul mcGann... so that's two incarnations wasted.

people should have to sign a contract tying them down for at least 3 years...

i understand he didn't want to be typecast, but if that was a concearn he shouldn't have taken the job. it was a bit selfhish to take the job for a lark, and leave it at that.

the new guy sounds pretty keep from all sources... so hopefully he sticks to it...

the BBC websire actaully has a very good site dedicated to classic Dr.Who episodes...

[Jane Sherwood]

Hooray for this thread, for I have recently become a noob to the Doctor Who fandom as well! I just saw my very first episode last week (the one with the last Dalek, to be specific)!

(And hooray for Wikipedia, but not so much for keeping me up past six in the morning trying to read everything they had to offer on the subject...)

I doubt I'll be able to get the DVDs anytime soon, mainly because I have no job and no money other than what my parents give me, and DVDs are expensive. On the plus side, I've been able to find quite a number of old episodes searching through SoulSeek. The only problem is how slowly these things download even with DSL, but still, given a few months and the hope that my computer doesn't run out of memory, I should have a nice little collection to hold me over until I've collected enough dead presidents to get anywhere (or they decide to shape up and release them in the proper order).

So far I'm waiting on The Daleks (that's series one, right?) to finish downloading, and the Planet of Evil serial because it was the first available Tom Baker set I could find, and right now I'm taking everybody's word for it that he is awesome. But I need recommendations and opinions!* What should I look for specifically? Special episodes or serials? Defining moments? Pivotal plot points? Only now I've gone and gotten myself all excited and babbly while trying to type all of this and have probably made this post much longer and more idiotic than it should be.

*...Barend, I'm also looking at you.

[Gobbler]

Hmm... SoulSeek, huh? Hmm... I think mininova.org had a rather large collection of Dr Who episodes, too... just a theory, though.

This post has been edited by Gobbler: 21 April 2006 - 03:31 PM

[barend]

*...Barend, I'm also looking at you.

yeah, well fair enough... i was wondering why you hadn't joined this one...

apparently the Tom Baker stuff is the most popular in the USA. and i don't want to rob the others of their rightful popularity but my recomendation is anything with tom baker in it. i did the longest stint and was most loveable... being funny, witty, elusive, and angry all at the same time...

i cannot stress enough...

City of Death is an episode (well story=4 episodes) that is newly available that i don't remember too well but can recomend on the basis that Douglas adams wrote it, and john cleese appears in it.

Genisis of the Darleks, Ark in space, are great but they are part of a bigger story... i don't how long it's going to take to bring them all out but the tom baker years was writen quite ambitiously and there are many stories that actually are part of a bigger story.

but you should be fine, i guess... i mean you can always make an effort to watch them again in order to put things in perspective...

although they just put out a 'The Key to Time' Box set which is a series of 6 stories that link together...

the thing about dr.who is that otherwise, all stories start with him appearing and end with him dissappearing so that you could watch them in any order...

personal favs though;

-the talons of weng chiang
-robots of death (largley based on 'I robot')
-seeds of doom (i don't its out on DVD yet, but its just awsome... baker does some intense stuff)
-Genisis of the Darleks (there's a speach in that one that changed my life)
-Revenge of the cybermen (also has a great speach)
-the deadly assasin
-warriors gate (which is part of a trilogy)

to name but a few of tom bakers stuff...

i can't think of any Jon Pertwee epsiodes to list as its been a while... but i was rather fond of him so i recomend checking him out.

with Peter Davison i have a similar problem... in fact it gets hard to name the episode outside my fav... but 'Earthshock' and 'the 5 doctors' are standout episodes...

the 5 doctors being of particular recomendation as it features the first 5 doctors working together (although tom baker was unavailable and so they used bits of an unaired episode to have him contributing to the plot)

well that should get you started...


here's an excellent episode guide with heaps and heaps of info... read through it all and you'll know more than I, that's for sure...

(except i've watched them all)

but the plot option does have a complete ending description so i'm giving you a spoiler alert...

BBC Doctor Who classic episodes

[Jane Sherwood]

I have a dilemma (and I mean other than slow, faulty downloads).

I made the mistake of watching a preview for season twenty-eight on YouTube, and now I want to download all the available David Tennant episodes I can find, even though there's still two episodes left with Christopher Eccleston, and I'll just being spoiling it for myself when they finally do air the next season on TV here.

Oh, the temptation...what should I do?

[barend]

wait... ?

[Jane Sherwood]

...I guess I should mention that I cracked shortly after posting. I guess now I'll just have to live with the consequences.

... ... ...etc.

[barend]

etc. indeed.

[barend]

i cracked and bought 'robots of death' and 'gensis of the daleks'

Tom Baker is funny as hell on the comantary and in interviews.

the tennant stuff is available now janney.

the one thing that irks me about the new series though (2005/2006/etc) is that they all revolve around earth... or at least human vessles/stations etc. I miss other planets, alien ships, e-space.

[Jane Sherwood]

the tennant stuff is available now janney.

I know. I downloaded all the episodes, then bought the DVDs when they came out.

the one thing that irks me about the new series though (2005/2006/etc) is that they all revolve around earth... or at least human vessles/stations etc. I miss other planets, alien ships, e-space.

YES!

It was always Earth, New Earth, Parallel Universe/Pete's World Earth, or orbiting Earth. There were only two episodes where they weren't anywhere near Earth, but it was still an Earth/human expedition. Great as they were, it still makes me want to scream "GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!" at the screen.

And now that Rose is gone, I hope they cut the Doctor romance back down. It was fun while it lasted, but now... Although, it is pretty funny how Ten's gotten more tongue than any other incarnation - Rose, Cassandra, Madame de Pompadour, Jackie (he didn't seem to like that one very much), and I'll actually put money on Captain Jack giving him another by the end of the new season.

[J m HofMarN]

This might be a bit off topic, but my friend Chris The Wizard once summoned up a techno remix of the orbital Dr Who theme. Anyone know anything about how to procure such a tihng?