Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cryptoengineer Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho,rec.arts.sf.fandom,uk.media.tv.sf.drwho,rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Which Decade was the best for Doctor Who? Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 11:51:37 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 91 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:51:38 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="41aa7136354fa61d4929770aafbd147c"; logging-data="394456"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/iybUjMAjcEdrXahWMOn7ilxHbJwaEoLI=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:yEF3NGJU+vDC+LvbMjM6ofSSATs= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 5065 On 4/14/2024 4:11 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote: > On 4/14/2024 1:43 AM, The Last Doctor wrote: >> Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >>> On 4/13/2024 10:58 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote: >>>> On 4/13/2024 1:43 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote: >>>>> On 4/13/2024 7:38 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote: >>>>>> John Hall wrote: >>>>>>> In message , Ubiquitous >>>>>>> writes >>>>>>>> In article , doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> Ubiquitous  wrote: >>>>>>>>>> doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> 1970s? >>>>>>>>>>> 1980s? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I'm not sure which one, but leaning towards the 1980's. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The JN-T years. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I had Tom Baker and Peter Davidson in mind when I chose. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Wasn't Tom Baker the 1970s? >>>>>> >>>>>> The Best Decade was whatever decade you started watching. >>>>>> >>>>> Actually I would put it as "the best decade is whatever decade the >>>>> episodes you first see were produced in". >>>> >>>> In case its not clear, I'm riffing on the old SF Fan trope >>>> that 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction was whenever you were 13'. >>>> >>>> pt >>>> >>> >>> Close.  7 to 10.  1984 to 1987 which produced iconic movies like Aliens, >>> The Fly, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop I and II, Temple of Doom, Back >>> to the Future, Gremlins, Karate Kid I and II, Star Trek IV, The >>> Neverending Story, Return to Oz, The Princess Bride, Transformers: The >>> Movie and so much more!  40 years later these movies are still talked >>> about and loved.  Being a kid in the 80s will never be touched when it >>> comes to the movie going experience! >>> >> >> My first decade for TV was the 60s - aged 4 to 8 I saw TV change from >> back >> and white to colour and half of the TV I loved was imported - The Time >> Tunnel, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in >> Space, >> Batman, Spider-Man, The Man from UNCLE (not forgetting The Girl from >> UNCLE), The Addams Family, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, and of course >> the >> wonder that was Star Trek and, not to mention, the Apollo space program >> (the greatest TV of all for me in 1969). >> > > I watched all of these on reruns when I was a kid.  I know it wasn't > first hand experience but discovering all of these new shows when I was > younger was still loads of fun.  And sometimes I had no idea I was > watching reruns of long canceled shows. > >> But domestically we had The Avengers, The Champions, The Prisoner >> (which I >> didn’t understand one little bit but still loved), > > > I think the first episode I ever saw of the Prisoner was "The Girl Who > Was Death."  I knew nothing about the show, but that being my first > episode I was hooked and assumed the entire series was like that.  LOL Despite living in Britain 1968-78, I missed The Prisoner the first time around. It probably conflicted with some more popular show ion my boarding school's TV room. I was at university in London, when another student from America excitedly told me there was a rerun. I'd never heard of the show, and he told me a little about it, including the dreamlike set for The Village. 'Arrival' came on, and as soon as Number 6 starts exploring his new environment, I turned to my friend and said 'Oh, I've been there'. He was flabbergasted. But yes, I'd been to Portmerion. Indeed later, I stayed there overnight with my fiance. pt