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Kotro wrote:

Shame about Paul McGann's little screentime - the few minutes he had pointed to a great Doctor.

McGann had a good run as the 8th Doctor on the radio and audio plays - if you haven't heard any of the Dr Who audio plays and like McGann's Doctor then (it's unusual for me to recommend anything but) I highly recommend them. They are far better than the 90 minute TV Film that introduced him.

His side-kick in many of them is Lucie Miller, played by the very excellent Sheridan Smith, her story line is (IMO) the most heartbreaking of all the Doctor's companions, it's a real shame she never got screentime in the role.

Lucie is mentioned as one of his companions in the Night of the Doctor mini-episode so she is canonical to other (TV) Dr Who companions:

Edited by Dean - August 06 2016 at 04:33

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Logan wrote:

As well as Doctor Who, I liked its spin-off Torchwood a lot, particularly for its season/series/serial Children of Earth (another dark one featuring a pre The Doctor Capaldi, hope that's not a spoiler).

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Capaldi also played Lucius Caecillus Ivcundus in Dr Who. Apparently Russell Davies had/has an explanation for why Caecilius and Frobisher look the same but as Davies wasn't involved in casting Capaldi as the 12th Doctor that explanation probably means very little now (and the subsequent Moffatt explanation for why the Doctor now looks like Caecillius seems a tad contrived to me, but hey-ho, if it works of him I'm not going to argue). What's curious about picking Caecilius is that he wasn't a fictitious character, he and his family lived in Pompeii at the time of the eruption. [Unfortunately the actual explanation for that is mundane and less interesting - his name was simply plucked from a textbook used to teach Latin in British schools]. The historical evidence suggests that Caecilius died in Pompey either in the earthquake of 62CE or the volcanic eruption of 79CE so the Caecilius in Dr Who is (now) an anachronism due to the Doctor's intervention.

Personally I think that the paradoxical anachronism could lead (or more accurately could have lead) to a more interesting explanation that ties in those of Davies and Moffatt, that changing history and time has consequences.

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Edited by Dean - August 06 2016 at 04:37

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A_Flower wrote:

Just watched the fourth episode "Aliens of London" and it terrified me so I'm sure this Rowan Atkinson episode will give me a good laugh!...

Aliens of London/ World War Three is maligned by quite a few, but I love the two parter. I think some people think it stinks just because the Slitheen break wind so much.

Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me.

Old pre 1980's Doctor Who is the best Doctor Who shows

"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes"
and I need the knits, the double knits!

Logan wrote:

"Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow".

I like both classic and NuWho. Of the classics I like the 3rd and 4th Doctors (Jon Pertwee and Colin Baker) the most, and, showing my age, lost interest in the show in the 80s, but the new series got me back into Doctor Who. I have yet to complete the first and second doctors episodes of the classic series, but have seen all the other episodes (other than the Paul McGann pilot/ TV movie which I couldn't make it through).

You're rather lucky to just be discovering the show now (or at least the modern series). It's too long a hiatus for me and my daughter while we're waiting for series 10 (my son doesn't really like it) and have watched all the modern eps multiple times already. Most of the shows I watch are too adult for family viewing, so it's great to have something like Doctor Who which I can safely watch with the whole family.

You're a long way off, A_Flower, but if I were to choose one favourite Doctor Who episode it would be one of the most recent ones (featuring Peter Capaldi) called Heaven Sent (a dark episode).

As well as Doctor Who, I liked its spin-off Torchwood a lot, particularly for its season/series/serial Children of Earth (another dark one featuring a pre The Doctor Capaldi, hope that's not a spoiler).

We had a Doctor Who appreciation thread from a few years ago, and I know there have been quite a few fans here.

For any fans of classic Who who still haven't seen The Curse of Fatal Death featuring Rowan Atkinson as the Doctor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do-wDPoC6GM

Just watched the fourth episode "Aliens of London" and it terrified me so I'm sure this Rown Atkinson episode will give me a good laugh!

And as for Pastmaster's question I have not seen any older episodes I am completely new to the whole show

Edited by A_Flower - August 05 2016 at 15:06

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Yup, although I'm a classic Who fan. Seen any of the old ones? The ones with the 4th Doctor are my favorites.

A few days ago, I just started the first season of the modern era of Doctor Who! Love it! Already through the first three episodes. Anyone else here a fan of The Doctor?

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