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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: Which Decade was the best for Doctor Who?
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2024 08:43:59 -0000 (UTC)
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Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> 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 <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'.
>> 
>> 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). 

But domestically we had The Avengers, The Champions, The Prisoner (which I
didn’t understand one little bit but still loved), 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.

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.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!

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).

-- 
“The timelines and … canon … are rupturing” - the Doctor