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Subject: Re: Which Decade was the best for Doctor Who?
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 13:58:34 -0400
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On 4/13/2024 1:43 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 4/13/2024 7:38 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
>> John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> wrote:
>>> In message <uv67tu$10nsn$1@dont-email.me>, Ubiquitous
>>> <weberm@polaris.net> writes
>>>> In article <uuvpup$lgg$2@gallifrey.nk.ca>, doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Ubiquitous  <weberm@polaris.net> 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'.

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