Classic Who

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AnnaMarie

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i decided to start watching Dr. Who from the beginning. I am still in the first year.

Carol Ann Ford was the original “scream queen”. It does seem during this first year she has really developed as an actress, but still her main part is to scream.

A link posted in the other Dr. Who thread (about the current show) had mentioned a colour movie in 1965 starring Peter Cushing. It doesn’t seem to be listed and it’s in the middle of Hartnell’s run as doctor. No regeneration, so he doesn’t “count”, but 2 movies.

Anyone else watch the classics?
 
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i decided to start watching Dr. Who from the beginning. I am still in the first year.

Carol Ann Ford was the original “scream queen”. It does seem during this first year she has really developed as an actress, but still her main part is to scream.

A link posted in the other Dr. Who thread (about the current show) had mentioned a colour movie in 1965 starring Peter Cushing. It doesn’t seem to be listed and it’s in the middle of Hartnell’s run as doctor. No regeneration, so he doesn’t “count”, but 2 movies.

Anyone else watch the classics?

Hubby and I have watched all the Hartnell episodes that are available :) Some stories have animated episodes to replace lost tapes.

Besides being a scream queen, Susan was also a trip and fall queen lol.
 
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i decided to start watching Dr. Who from the beginning. I am still in the first year.

Carol Ann Ford was the original “scream queen”. It does seem during this first year she has really developed as an actress, but still her main part is to scream.

A link posted in the other Dr. Who thread (about the current show) had mentioned a colour movie in 1965 starring Peter Cushing. It doesn’t seem to be listed and it’s in the middle of Hartnell’s run as doctor. No regeneration, so he doesn’t “count”, but 2 movies.

Anyone else watch the classics?
Have watched all the classics that are available. AnnaMarie ck out the new links under spoilers I posted re Cushing
 

AnnaMarie

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Hubby and I have watched all the Hartnell episodes that are available :) Some stories have animated episodes to replace lost tapes.

Besides being a scream queen, Susan was also a trip and fall queen lol.

What I have found are some that look like they were recreated with cgi software. Others have taken still pictures from the shows and used them. I actually prefer the still pictures when done properly. Some flash the pictures to fast and I feel a bit car sick. In the cgi shows, Hartnell looks like a rocker or a hippie. I find that distracting.
 

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A lot of the Hartnell and Troughton episodes have been lost, either due to age, deliberate destruction (to make room for more 'worthy' things in the archive) or, more commonly, the tapes were wiped and re-used. Some Pertwee episodes went the same way.

Peter Cushing made two Dr Who films: Doctor Who and the Daleks and Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150.
IIRC, Doctor Who and the Daleks took elements from the series' pilot episode (though Susan is very much younger in the film and Barbara is an older grand-daughter) 'An Unearthly Child' (from the serial of the same name) and fused them into the body of the second serial, 'The Daleks'.
Either way I think Cushing was supposed to be concurrent with Hartnell for the purposes of big-screen release (making them one and the same incarnation), though there are glaring differences. For example, in the Cushing version, the Doctor actually introduces himself as "Doctor Who", where (as far as I can remember) Hartnell's Doctor never did.

Kudos for going right back to the beginning, though. I've threatened to more than once, but the gaps (thanks to BBC short-sightedness, cheapskating and/or snobbery) irk me more than a bit and assembling the DVD library comes with a fairly hefty price tag (one serial per £15 set, rather than a season (or series, to use the correct British term ;)) for around £20-25).