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Post by theotherjosh on Aug 22, 2018 19:41:17 GMT
It was in the early 80s and I was about 10 years old. I was bored and looking for something to watch. I turned on PBS and saw the bit in Full Circle where Romana was infected by Marshman DNA. I thought, "This is strange and I don't understand it, but it's science fiction, so I'm going to keep watching."
Soon Doctor Who was part of my weekly routine and my world was never the same after that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2018 19:48:52 GMT
My Dapol McCoy and K9 figures when I was about 5, just as the show was going off-air. My earliest memories of watching was Carnival Of Monsters on UK Gold in the early 90s with the TVM being my first "new" story - I was as excited for that as other kids were for the likes of Independence Day and Twister that summer. By then, thanks to UK Gold and the VHS range I'd seen most of the existing eps.
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Post by mark687 on Aug 22, 2018 20:04:24 GMT
My Dapol McCoy and K9 figures when I was about 5, just as the show was going off-air. My earliest memories of watching was Carnival Of Monsters on UK Gold in the early 90s with the TVM being my first "new" story - I was as excited for that as other kids were for the likes of Independence Day and Twister that summer. By then, thanks to UK Gold and the VHS range I'd seen most of the existing eps. Snap in regards to the TV Movie.
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Post by tuigirl on Aug 28, 2018 19:01:16 GMT
I have to admit I have not been a fan for very long. This is partly because I am German and we simply did not have it over there (as in Classic series on TV). But then I spent a decade in New Zealand... and my then flatmates, who were Whovians, inflicted the show on me and forced me to watch "The Daleks take Manhattan". Which I (as a Trekkie) found absolutely dreadful and it was the worst introduction to the series I could have gotten. I went on record telling my flatmates: "How can you in your right mind watch this bull***t??? This is crap!" Yeah, this came from the very same person who now has autographs of McGann and Colin Baker on her wall. What has happened to me??? ;-) Well, said flatmates later also showed me "Blink" and I was slowly converted to the dark side (plus there were always freshly baked cookies for TV nights). And in the end, nostalgia for my time in NZ did the rest.
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Post by ollychops on Aug 28, 2018 19:34:03 GMT
The first memory I have is the Cybermen tearing through the plastic sheeting at the end of Army of Ghosts. The first full story I watched was The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit, when UK Gold (I think?) was repeating S2 - then I got the S2 DVD boxset for Christmas that year and the rest is history...
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Post by CookieMaster on Aug 28, 2018 21:37:47 GMT
It was 1988 and I was three years old. This vague memory sticks with me to this day, I was watching TV and I saw a short man in a white jacket, he had an extremely shocked look on his face as he stood at the top of a flight of stairs. Floating up in front of him was this white robot thing, which I later discovered was called a Dalek!
I distinctly remember the feeling that the man had died in later recollections, as I don't remember watching the show again. Not until I found a video tape of a TV show called Doctor Who, this time with a man in a very colourful jacket running away from the same white robots.
Turns out one of my earliest memories was of 'Remembrance of the Daleks', followed by 'Revelation of the Daleks' on video. There are also vague images of me wearing the washing basket on my head and shouting "Exterminate!!" as I ran around the garden. Awesome.
I also saw the TV Movie on video, not long after it aired. I really really liked it.
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Post by CookieMaster on Aug 28, 2018 21:39:01 GMT
Btw, there are some wonderful stories on here
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Post by mark687 on Aug 28, 2018 21:54:37 GMT
It was 1988 and I was three years old. This vague memory sticks with me to this day, I was watching TV and I saw a short man in a white jacket, he had an extremely shocked look on his face as he stood at the top of a flight of stairs. Floating up in front of him was this white robot thing, which I later discovered was called a Dalek! I distinctly remember the feeling that the man had died in later recollections, as I don't remember watching the show again. Not until I found a video tape of a TV show called Doctor Who, this time with a man in a very colourful jacket running away from the same white robots. Turns out one of my earliest memories was of 'Remembrance of the Daleks', followed by 'Revelation of the Daleks' on video. There are also vague images of me wearing the washing basket on my head and shouting "Exterminate!!" as I ran around the garden. Awesome. I also saw the TV Movie on video, not long after it aired. I really really liked it. Now that's a Great first to have!
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Post by number13 on Aug 29, 2018 9:16:20 GMT
Thanks everyone for a great thread, I've loved reading all the 'first Who' memories! (And I'm feeling a bit older than I did at the start of the thread because my first memory is from 1971... ) I've mentioned it a few times before, but for completeness here it is... It's Saturday (of course!) January 9th 1971 (as I now know), I'm 6-and-a-bit and I am scared rigid by episode 2 of 'Terror of the Autons'... I can't remember if I saw episode 1 or not, what I remember is the black chair swallowing someone and that revolting doll killing someone else. Robert Holmes strikes again!! But I'm fairly sure I saw the rest of the story because I think I remember the final battle at the radio telescope and no 'Doctor Who' ever really scared me again (although years later the Cybermen were skin-crawlingly creepy and so were the Mummies.) Then I definitely didn't see 'The Mind of Evil' (parental censorship probably) but I know I was back for Axos (Axons are unforgettable!) and the rest of the season. The Doctor ('my' Doctor), the Brig. and UNIT were my heroes, the Master was a great villain (and I knew he'd never win!) and as much as any 6-year-old can, I think I'd fallen for Jo (ah, lovely Jo. ) One last, glowing memory from this first season was seeing the final, thrilling and explosive episode of 'The Daemons' at a friend's house - in COLOUR. We didn't have a colour TV at home for years after this (very expensive items in 1971), but that memory never faded and I was so excited in 1993 when they recolourised 'The Daemons' and I could go back in Time.
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Post by constonks on Aug 29, 2018 15:27:00 GMT
I'm sad that I never saw any Who as a kid. My first interaction with the show was probably seeing some Tumblr gif and going "hmmm I do like Christopher Eccleston..."
Not quite as poetic.
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Post by constonks on Aug 29, 2018 15:34:34 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. That just means you're from the timeline created in the novel Interference.
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Post by pazzer on Aug 29, 2018 22:35:51 GMT
I'm not really sure how I came to be watching it as I was four at the time. Though I think it had been recorded for my uncle and it was thought I might enjoy it. What ever the reason I was sat down in front of part 1 of Remembrance of the Daleks. Creepy schoolgirl, Doctor blowing up a Dalek and floating Dalek I was hooked and couldn't wait for more. At least until my uncle told me about Davros and then I was disappointed as he wasn't in it.
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Post by Jeedai on Aug 30, 2018 2:45:40 GMT
Dragonfire, whenever it came out in Australia. I don't remember much of that viewing except one of the big white icy rooms, and Ace and Seven talking. I'm not even sure whose house I was in when I watched it...
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Post by jerryrotta on Aug 30, 2018 13:28:14 GMT
In about 1997 I saw a television movie called 1999: The Year of Destruction (1999 -tuhon vuosi in Finnish). I was vaguely aware that it was based on some old British scifi series. I saw it. Bland. Boring. It was the TV Movie with Paul McGann.
I became a fan in 2006 with Christopher Eccleston. Collected the DVDs. Saw the Movie again some time later. Still don't like it but watch it occasionnally. McGann and Ashbrook are great.
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Post by Ela on Sept 3, 2018 5:58:21 GMT
Thanks everyone for a great thread, I've loved reading all the 'first Who' memories! (And I'm feeling a bit older than I did at the start of the thread because my first memory is from 1971... ) I've mentioned it a few times before, but for completeness here it is... It's Saturday (of course!) January 9th 1971 (as I now know), I'm 6-and-a-bit and I am scared rigid by episode 2 of 'Terror of the Autons'... I can't remember if I saw episode 1 or not, what I remember is the black chair swallowing someone and that revolting doll killing someone else. Robert Holmes strikes again!! But I'm fairly sure I saw the rest of the story because I think I remember the final battle at the radio telescope and no 'Doctor Who' ever really scared me again (although years later the Cybermen were skin-crawlingly creepy and so were the Mummies.) Then I definitely didn't see 'The Mind of Evil' (parental censorship probably) but I know I was back for Axos (Axons are unforgettable!) and the rest of the season. The Doctor ('my' Doctor), the Brig. and UNIT were my heroes, the Master was a great villain (and I knew he'd never win!) and as much as any 6-year-old can, I think I'd fallen for Jo (ah, lovely Jo. ) One last, glowing memory from this first season was seeing the final, thrilling and explosive episode of 'The Daemons' at a friend's house - in COLOUR. We didn't have a colour TV at home for years after this (very expensive items in 1971), but that memory never faded and I was so excited in 1993 when they recolourised 'The Daemons' and I could go back in Time. If you were six in 1971, you're not that old.
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Post by number13 on Sept 3, 2018 8:54:21 GMT
Thanks everyone for a great thread, I've loved reading all the 'first Who' memories! (And I'm feeling a bit older than I did at the start of the thread because my first memory is from 1971... ) If you were six in 1971, you're not that old. Thanks Ela for a very nice start to my week! I will try to feel younger again!
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Post by Ela on Sept 3, 2018 15:21:29 GMT
If you were six in 1971, you're not that old. Thanks Ela for a very nice start to my week! I will try to feel younger again! Yay. I won’t tell you how old I was in 1971. Suffice it to say a lot older than you.
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Post by mrperson on Sept 4, 2018 19:53:24 GMT
I can't identify a first memory. My parents introduced me far too young (which is kind of strange because they aren't serious fans and I don't know if they've even watched it since I was very young, other than S1 of the reboot which I got them, to see if they'd bite).
But....we did have a long-time pet cat called "racy", short for Rassilon (I suppose they didn't know how to spell the name...)
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Post by pegasusoftraken on Sept 4, 2018 22:25:49 GMT
My first memories were of the Green Death from the BBC2 repeats in the early 90s. Though it was mostly the images of maggots that stuck with me! Still is one of my favourite Pertwee stories.
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Post by doctorkernow on Sept 5, 2018 20:58:59 GMT
Hello again.
First complete Who story: Romana changing, weird spaceage humanoid robots, the Daleks attacking with that glass smashing at the end of episode 1.
Scariest Dr. Who memory, the terrifying spaghetti monster, no not the spaghetti monster, never mind behind the sofa, peeking through the door! Truly terrified 5 year old.
Apparently, though I spent some time presumably in 1977 running around shouting 'Robots of Death! " at the top of my voice!
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