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Subject: Re: SOT: Dr. Who on Disney?
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:07:57 -0700
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On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:42:27 +1000, "Gary R. Schmidt"
<grschmidt@acm.org> wrote:

>On 20/09/2024 23:29, BillGill wrote:
>> I saw a while back that Disney+ is carrying Dr. Who now.
>> Has anybody seen it and has it been all Disneyfied?
>>=20
>
>Yes/no/sort of.
>
>The Disney broadcast/streamed stuff *is* Disney-fied, but the=20
>BBC-released stuff is for those with sterner constitutions.  I.e. 5=20
>year-olds.
>
>IOW - get it from anywhere but Disney.

Back in the 80s, we recorded on VHS (T-120 SLP, six hours) about three
hours of a particular TV station starting at Midnight. We did this
because the early-morning programming included Dr Who. The problem is
that /when/ it appeared was hard to predict, as it depended on how
much of the time had been sold to infomercials and so on.

We then fast-forward to the start of Dr Who and watched it the next
morning.

We were not 5-year-olds. We were Science Fiction fans.

But thanks for one more reason to not sign up for Disney streaming.

It's a pity they can't put their efforts into producing films worth
watching. The last one I saw (/Wish/) was a downer from beginning to
end.=20
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"