Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arthur Lipscomb 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: Sun, 14 Apr 2024 13:11:11 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 126 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2024 23:09:49 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0f711ab685230901006fda3772cee6d2"; logging-data="4035618"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19x36j6oT7aTuhtSJwwK6GbcdSjwD0Wq8Y=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:JlLrQ7hRGCeBmEegs8ArZmwu/dk= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 6850 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 Adam Adamant Lives!, The > Saint, Department S, The Owl Service. All the Gerry Anderson glory years of > puppetry - Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Joe 90, Captain Scarlet > and the Mysterons, The Secret Service. And Doctor Who. > > I didn’t get to go to the cinema in the 1960s so that all passed me by. > > But the 70s - the 70s (9-19) were my golden age. The UK truly shone. > Catweazle. Monty Python. Timeslip. Jason King. The Protectors. The > Persuaders. Children of the Stones. Sky. UFO. Space 1999. Doomwatch. > Survivors. The Changes. Blake’s 7. The Tomorrow People. Sapphire and Steel. > The New Avengers. And Doctor Who. > A lot of the British sci-fi shows aired on PBS when I was a kid. I was generally aware of them, but other than Doctor Who, didn't really seek them out to watch. Some of these names I recognize (and watched) and some I've never heard of before. To this day I've never watched a single frame of Blake's 7, yet I surprisingly know a lot about it, including how it ends! LOL > And from abroad: Alias Smith & Jones (the only Western I loved as a kid). > Search. The Invisible Man. The Gemini Man. The Six Million Dollar Man (and > the Bionic Woman). The Incredible Hulk. Battlestar Galactica. The Fantastic > Journey. Logan’s Run. Star Trek TAS. > > And the movies: Dark Star. Silent Running. I've never watched Dark Star of Silent Running, although I am somewhat aware of Silent Running. That's the one with the talking bomb? Or is that Dark Star? Assorted Planet of the Apes > films. Star Wars. Close Encounters. Alien. Star Trek the Slow Motion > Picture. Willy Wonka. Young Frankenstein. The Black Hole. Damnation Alley. > Westworld (and Futureworld). The Omega Man. The Terminal Man. Death Race > 2000. I Am Legend. Sleeper. Time After Time. Superman. Soylent Green. The > Forbin Project. Mad Max. The Andromeda Strain. Rollerball. Invasion of the > Body Snatchers. Phase IV. A Clockwork Orange. The Man Who Fell to Earth. > Solaris. > > And that’s just the ones I can remember without looking anything up online! > Growing up I watched and enjoyed all of that on TV. :-) > The 60s were wonderful: the 80s were OK: but the 70s were my decade and my > golden age of sci fi and of Doctor Who. Even though I had loved Pat > Troughton as the Doctor, he was eclipsed by Pertwee and the earlier half of > Tom Baker (for me the rot set in with Romana II. The last great Tom story > was City of Death, the rest is just a coda). > I love "City of Death" it is one of my all time favorites.