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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2018 8:11:29 GMT
My earliest recollection?
The final episode of Warriors' Gate (I would have been eight years old). Vague memories of a lot of white background.. a spaceship parked up next to a ruin.. a woman and a robotic dog walking off into the distance towards what was clearly a photo of a building.. and a sense of not having any idea what was going on, but being intrigued enough to tune in the following week.
Which is just as well, because the following week saw the start of The Keeper of Traken and my falling head over heels in love with Sarah Sutton's Nyssa.. 😍😍😍
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Post by number13 on Sept 7, 2018 9:54:10 GMT
My earliest recollection? The final episode of Warriors' Gate (would have been eight years old). Vague memories of a lot of white background.. a spaceship parked up next to a ruin.. a woman and a robotic dog walking off into the distance towards what was clearly a photo of a building.. and a sense of not having any idea what was going on, but being intrigued enough to tune in the following week. I'd been watching for 10 years by then and it was just the same for me. 
I used to (audio) tape Doctor Who back then in my teens (Video? No chance!) and usually enjoyed relistening many times, visualising how scenes had looked and picking up on dialogue details I'd missed. But can you imagine an audio-only 'Warriors' Gate'?
If anything, I was more confused than ever. 'Oh yes, this was the bit with the silence and the white void I didn't understand - and so was this bit - and this one and...'  |
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Post by doctorkernow on Sept 7, 2018 18:04:58 GMT
Hello again.
You are not alone. I too used to record and relisten on audio. I had the odd older story, such as the curse of peladon which was an absolute treat. I have still never seen the TV version. Pyramids of Mars, Sutekh the scary at night in the dark, great!
I can probably quote you the whole of The Five Doctors nearly word for word. I have an auditory memory. It is how I learned lines for am dram productions in my twenties.
However, my obsessive recordings really start with Trial of a Timelord 13/14. Time and the Rani 3/4 I missed due to a family holiday and only found out what happened when the Target book arrived.
Unfortunately, this obsessive habit still occurred when the reboot happened and we had no video and babies rather than DVDs were the priority.
Therefore, somewhere in the loft lurking in tape boxes is a collection of Dr. Who audio season 1 to 4!
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Post by dalektimecontroller on Sept 7, 2018 23:46:34 GMT
The first episode I ever saw was the Christmas Invasion in mid-2006 when I was 10 (yeah... I'm a young'un). The ABC used to start broadcasting the series immediately after the last episode aired in the UK, starting with the Christmas special. I don't remember much about the Christmas Invasion, but New Earth almost put me off the show until Tooth and Claw came along the following week and I was hooked.
After that I went back and watched Series 1 and I was curious about this Sarah Jane character from School Reunion so I went to the local library and got out the Sontaran Experiment/Genesis of the Daleks double VHS pack. (I didn't know what Sontarans were at that time, so I decided to watch Genesis first even though it's chronologically second - I just loved Daleks.) I also went to my local Video-Ezy (the ubiquitous Australian video rental store) which had The Seeds of Death, Spearhead from Space and Horror of Fang Rock (on DVD! - the library only had VHSes).
The first Classic DVDs I bought was New Beginnings and I enjoyed Peter Davison so much that I went out and bought Time Flight/Arc of Infinity. Which I thought were brilliant at the time (I'd only seen a handful of Classic Series stories, remember). Also, what happened to Adric? I didn't find out until I borrowed Earthshock on VHS from the library and was horrified! (I didn't know companions could die back then.)
After getting the Bred for War Box Set in 2008, I really wanted to know what happened to Leela after The Invasion of Time. I found out about Gallifrey by Big Finish and I looked everywhere where I live for the CDs but I couldn't find them. Then I discovered the Big Finish website (I was only a kid, so ordering online wasn't immediately a prospect) and found they also made audios with my then-favourite Doctor - Mr Davison. I convinced my parents to order, wait for it... Red Dawn. Which I nevertheless loved and have never looked back.
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Post by Hieronymus on Sept 8, 2018 2:13:09 GMT
My first episode was Genesis of the Daleks, episode 2 or 3.
Not the original broadcast, because I swear our region was the last in the US to convince a station to carry Doctor Who, showing a single Tom Baker episode each ngiht (Monday through Friday). A friend had started watching the show and told me that I "had to" watch the show. The Daleks, Davros, 4th Doctor, and Sarah Jane had me hooked from the moment I watched. My earliest memory remains the moment that Davros called for a Dalek on a test run, while Sarah Jane watched from nearby.
The local station continued with Revenge of the Cybermen, Terror of the Zygon, but then inexplicably skipped ahead to Seeds of Doom. They also didn't air The Face of Evil, probably because they felt it was too sacrilegious. (I grew up in the Bible Belt, where radio stations only played expurgated versions of "Sounds of Silence" and "The Day the Music Died".) As a result of the station's decision to skip ahead, I wasn't able to see many of Sarah Jane's stories until much later, but saw all but one with Leela.
The station received lots of angry feedback over skipping so many stories, and also for showing Image of the Fendahl out of sequence. By that, I mean that they aired the episodes of that story out of their proper sequence, with episode three airing the night after episode one, and with the final episode shown the night before episode two. The negative feedback ked the station to drop DW, and they ceased broadcast of the show after episode three of The Androids of Tara. 
Addendum: Around that time local bookshops began carrying Target novelisations, so of course the final three stories in the Key to Time were among my first purchases. . .
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