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Subject: Re: Which Decade was the best for Doctor Who?
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 11:51:37 -0400
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On 4/14/2024 4:11 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> 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

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