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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: Which Decade was the best for Doctor Who?
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2024 13:53:11 -0700
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On 4/14/2024 1:43 AM, The Last Doctor wrote:
> 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).
> 

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.