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Post by nucleusofswarm on Aug 18, 2018 0:06:54 GMT
Did one for movies, now one for the show. So what's yours?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2018 0:17:05 GMT
Grudgingly putting on a video to record this old show my parents seemed interest in watching. I had better things to do I thought, more important kid things, and then the monochrome Hartnell titles kicked in (fingers tearing through the screen). We were on Skaro, this planet felled by an indescribable heat with only a single gleaming city surviving the firestorm. These people, strangers to this lifeless world. Only not so lifeless. 4:3, black television set up on a cream-coloured TV stand, wooden floor beneath me -- something coming down the corridor towards Barbara. No escape. It won't relent. Nearer and nearer. It blots out her face. She screams! That's the end of the episode. Hook, line, and sinker for a small child. To this day, I cannot tell you what the "more important thing" was and I'm very happy with that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2018 0:41:20 GMT
I was 4 years old and had a sickness bug, cooped up in my parents’s bed for the day. I think I already knew what Doctor Who was due to going to a toy exhibition with it in I think (to be honest I can’t really put these memories in order), and so my mum and dad put on UKTV. It was Full Circle part 2 or 3, and my first memory is seeing Adric peer through a bush and whisper “the Marshmen”. I thought it was brilliant. My mum incorrectly told me that Romana was Sarah Jane because she had no idea herself, which is quite funny in retrospective.
The next day I ended up watching The Keeper of Traken, still off school ill. I watched the whole thing, and it’s absolutely magical. One of my absolute favourites up to this day.
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Post by barnabaslives on Aug 18, 2018 5:25:22 GMT
I'm still not entirely sure exactly what happened, but basically my friend called to tell me I had to watch this zany new Doctor on Doctor Who, of course in reference to Four's colorful debut in Robot, and apparently I first tuned in early into The Sontaran Experiment - the minute I saw it again a couple of years ago I recognized the scenes and characters as if it had been last week. (This probably helps explain why Sontarans always make my day?)
I was very surprised that I'd taken the hint to start watching so early in Tom's career, but I actually did remember Harry and Sarah Jane very clearly as the first companions I met when I saw The Sontaran Experiment again. Up until that, the first thing I could remember was Genesis. I missed the odd story here and there but I generally seem to have stuck with the show through the end of Sylvester's run.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Aug 18, 2018 5:25:27 GMT
4th Doctor era "Meglos" on it's 1st run on tv. Freaked me out seeing "the good Doctor "as he was advertised back then basically looking like a cactus! . I was 5
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Post by Whovitt on Aug 18, 2018 6:16:37 GMT
My first memory doesn't actually come from watching the show. I would have been five at the time. I remember packing up the books we'd borrowed from the library that we were going to return. Mum was holding a tape that she and Dad had borrowed, and I'd asked what it was. She said it was a show she and Dad liked. I made note of the cover format (can't remember which story it was), and when we got to the library I went straight over to the video/DVD section and grabbed every single tape I could find that looked like the one she was holding, because I wanted to helpful! Once I'd learned that it was called "Doctor Who" and they all had the same logo on the spine, I was pulling them off the shelf at great speed. Eventually, I had a stack of tapes about as tall as I was sitting next to me (they must have been pretty popular, thought I, but I was only as tall as the average five-year-old, and tapes are thick, so there likely weren't actually all that many ), and I carried the first four or five of them over to her (I was small, so I couldn't carry many at a time). When she saw me staggering over, peering around this tower of tapes in my arms, I remember she started laughing at me. She said what I'd done was very sweet, but they didn't need to borrow that many of them at the same time. She took me back over to the shelf and we put them all back. I asked if she wanted at least one of them though, and she said that would be alright. I looked at the covers and grabbed one that stood out to me, some thing called "The Invasion of Time", which had a man, a woman, and some sort of soldier guy with a black helmet on it, all of them surrounded by metal gears. She didn't think they'd watched that one yet, so she took it. Less than twenty minutes later, one of Mum's friends came over and asked her about the tape. "Have you seen the ads for it on ABC? It's going to be on TV again soon." Well, I bet you guys can guess where that led...
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Post by sherlock on Aug 18, 2018 8:33:01 GMT
Well this is gonna make me look very young compared to the ones so far....
Series 2.
Now I'm not sure if my family watched The Christmas Invasion (I have vague memories that could be of it, but that might just be re-contextualising seeing it later in life). I think I did see brief bits of New Earth and Tooth and Claw, emphasis on brief.
My first full episode was School Reunion. I can't remember much of my first reaction to it (obviously Sarah Jane's significance would have been lost to me)-but the next time trailer! The clockwork droids terrified me in the next time trailer! And then watched The Girl in the Fireplace the following week and am still watching 11 years later.
Come to think of it most of my memories of Series 2 are cliche 'hiding behind cushions'. The Cybermen and Ood were terrifying! Fear Her also freaked me out a lot, and I haven't watched it since for fear of spoiling that childhood impression with its actual quality.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Aug 18, 2018 8:37:08 GMT
Well this is gonna make me look very young compared to the ones so far.... Series 2. Now I'm not sure if my family watched The Christmas Invasion (I have vague memories that could be of it, but that might just be re-contextualising seeing it later in life). I think I did see brief bits of New Earth and Tooth and Claw, emphasis on brief. My first full episode was School Reunion. I can't remember much of my first reaction to it (obviously Sarah Jane's significance would have been lost to me)-but the next time trailer! The clockwork droids terrified me in the next time trailer! And then watched The Girl in the Fireplace the following week and am still watching 11 years later. Come to think of it most of my memories of Series 2 are cliche 'hiding behind cushions'. The Cybermen and Ood were terrifying! Fear Her also freaked me out a lot, and I haven't watched it since for fear of spoiling that childhood impression with its actual quality. I have 4 work mates who emigrated to Aust from UK in early 80's, about 10 years older than me.. they ALL had that reaction u had with the Cybermen and also the Daleks. Another work mate is 20 years older than me, from Liverpool- he remembers seeing the very 1st episode on tv and how it was huge "school time talk" the next day..!
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Post by Whovitt on Aug 18, 2018 8:37:40 GMT
Well this is gonna make me look very young compared to the ones so far.... Series 2. Now I'm not sure if my family watched The Christmas Invasion (I have vague memories that could be of it, but that might just be re-contextualising seeing it later in life). I think I did see brief bits of New Earth and Tooth and Claw, emphasis on brief. My first full episode was School Reunion. I can't remember much of my first reaction to it (obviously Sarah Jane's significance would have been lost to me)-but the next time trailer! The clockwork droids terrified me in the next time trailer! And then watched The Girl in the Fireplace the following week and am still watching 11 years later. Come to think of it most of my memories of Series 2 are cliche 'hiding behind cushions'. The Cybermen and Ood were terrifying! Fear Her also freaked me out a lot, and I haven't watched it since for fear of spoiling that childhood impression with its actual quality. I'm kind of jealous of you. I wasn't allowed to watch the Ood story, nor Fear Her, at the time as my parents didn't think they were appropriate enough (I was eight, my sister ten, and my brother six, so it was probably mostly for his benefit). I never had a proper 'scary' story from when I was a kid 'cause they kept sheltering me from them. It's one of those quintessential Doctor Who experiences I mostly missed out on.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2018 10:30:01 GMT
Well this is gonna make me look very young compared to the ones so far.... Series 2. Now I'm not sure if my family watched The Christmas Invasion (I have vague memories that could be of it, but that might just be re-contextualising seeing it later in life). I think I did see brief bits of New Earth and Tooth and Claw, emphasis on brief. My first full episode was School Reunion. I can't remember much of my first reaction to it (obviously Sarah Jane's significance would have been lost to me)-but the next time trailer! The clockwork droids terrified me in the next time trailer! And then watched The Girl in the Fireplace the following week and am still watching 11 years later. Come to think of it most of my memories of Series 2 are cliche 'hiding behind cushions'. The Cybermen and Ood were terrifying! Fear Her also freaked me out a lot, and I haven't watched it since for fear of spoiling that childhood impression with its actual quality. I'm kind of jealous of you. I wasn't allowed to watch the Ood story, nor Fear Her, at the time as my parents didn't think they were appropriate enough (I was eight, my sister ten, and my brother six, so it was probably mostly for his benefit). I never had a proper 'scary' story from when I was a kid 'cause they kept sheltering me from them. It's one of those quintessential Doctor Who experiences I mostly missed out on. I was very much the same; I didn’t see a load of series 1 and 2 until years later 😂. Never hurt my enthusiasm.
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Post by mark687 on Aug 18, 2018 11:38:23 GMT
January 1992 and I'm confined to my Bedroom while the Downstairs of my then house is adapted to my needs (I'm already into Star Trek and Star Wars by this point), and my Dad says (A Decision I'm sure he regrets LOL) "Their going to be showing repeats of something I think you'll like called Doctor Who". They showed an introductory Documentary called Resistance is Futile, and by end of it I was hooked and the rest as they say,,,
Regards
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Aug 18, 2018 12:10:38 GMT
I didnt realise it was DW at the time but i saw the seen with The Brigadier and The Destroyer from Battlefield on TV and the sight of the Blue creature always struck me. It wasnt till years later that i found out what i was
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Post by aemiliapaula on Aug 18, 2018 13:04:47 GMT
I don't know what story I actually saw first, but I have hazy memories of what must have been Brain of Morbius, since the Doctor was playing a game with a bad person in some kind of castle place. If he lost the game something terrible would happen. I also remember someone lumbering around, must be Chop Suey.
I wasn't scared of the stories per se, but I didn't like the music or graphics of the credits (now I do). The music was shrill and the spinning tunnel made me feel ill. I used to think it was very unpleasant for the Doctor when he travelled. I would go down the cellar stairs so I could still faintly hear the music and then come back up again to watch the story.(there was no sofa)
As an adult watching all the Classic episodes I experienced very intense deja vu during some 4th doctor episodes, all ones that had Leela, so I must have seen parts of them.
First modern Doctor Who I saw was series 1 with Eccleston. SciFi was having a marathon and I tuned in, thinking it was going to be Tom Baker (he was the only doctor I had ever seen at this point) I watched it all day and got quite attached to 9. I was confused and upset when he regenerated into Tennant. I then remebered an older cousin trying to explain "regeneration" to me back in the '80s but I didn't really get it until then. (After that I thought time lords had to die to regenerate so I spent the entire Armageddon Factor worried about what was going to happen to Mary Tamm)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2018 13:13:04 GMT
Sitting with the family, I'm watching a young blond girl backed against a metallic wall. A suave gentleman with a beard was threatening her with some strange alien technology. She was saying, "No, I will not submit, I will not submit," clearly distressed. If this were not enough, she (and the audience) was then confronted with images of truly horrifying creatures that looked as though they had stepped out of a nightmare. I remember thanking my lucky stars I had never been in such a terrible situation.
As I found out later, this was Jo Grant being menaced by the Master in Frontier in Space, which would have meant I was 5. Great times.
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Post by jasonward on Aug 18, 2018 21:28:44 GMT
My first memories of Who are Tom Baker in Planet Of The Spiders.
Now your thinking to yourself, but that was Jon Pertwee not Tom Baker, and you would be right, but that's not how my memory has it.
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Aug 19, 2018 1:20:46 GMT
Episode 1 of The Green Death on a Sunday night at my grandmother's house. I was probably 4. Shepherd's pie and Sunday night tv at my nanna's place was a tradition we had pretty much until I moved out of home. Even after that I saw her fairly often: on the first day of a job I had in the city I parked my car at her place because it was less than a kilometre away from it. When I came back to get it at lunchtime she asked me if I'd been fired. She was lost for words when I told her I had to go to the hospital because my wife was in labour with our first kid.
Really feeling the years with these threads, guys.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Aug 19, 2018 1:36:02 GMT
Episode 1 of The Green Death on a Sunday night at my grandmother's house. I was probably 4. Shepherd's pie and Sunday night tv at my nanna's place was a tradition we had pretty much until I moved out of home. Even after that I saw her fairly often: on the first day of a job I had in the city I parked my car at her place because it was less than a kilometre away from it. When I came back to get it at lunchtime she asked me if I'd been fired. She was lost for words when I told her I had to go to the hospital because my wife was in labour with our first kid. Really feeling the years with these threads, guys.
Your an aussie, please tell me you remember back in the day the ABC advertising Who as "The good doctor"..
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Aug 19, 2018 4:35:45 GMT
Episode 1 of The Green Death on a Sunday night at my grandmother's house. I was probably 4. Shepherd's pie and Sunday night tv at my nanna's place was a tradition we had pretty much until I moved out of home. Even after that I saw her fairly often: on the first day of a job I had in the city I parked my car at her place because it was less than a kilometre away from it. When I came back to get it at lunchtime she asked me if I'd been fired. She was lost for words when I told her I had to go to the hospital because my wife was in labour with our first kid. Really feeling the years with these threads, guys.
Your an aussie, please tell me you remember back in the day the ABC advertising Who as "The good doctor"..
That's a yes.
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Aug 20, 2018 9:29:25 GMT
Earliest memory is the part from Leisure Hive where Tom rescues Lalla and then appears to be putting on a lot of coats, which is a memory I always wondered about - surely that couldn't have been right?. Yet when I rewatched it years later there is a scene where Tom puts on about 3 layers.
Next up is the Visitation episode 2, the part where Adric escapes through the window and Tegan doesn't was well scary.
But what really terrified me, and I mean terrified, was the scene in Mawdryn Undead when Turlough is in the school sickbay and the headmaster turns into the Black Guardian and he can't get out of the room. Really scary stuff for a 5 year old.
Then I was allowed to watch properly from Planet of Fire onwards
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Post by Ela on Aug 20, 2018 14:36:00 GMT
I don't remember my first Who memory. It was too long ago.
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