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Post by timegirl on Mar 18, 2020 21:50:23 GMT
Snakedance Part 3 Martin Clunes is so good and creepy in this!๐๐๐
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2020 8:58:44 GMT
Power Of The Daleks in Colour
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Post by number13 on Mar 19, 2020 12:51:08 GMT
The Daleks Eps 2-4
Pushing 60 years now and what a great story it still is. Familiar from all that followed it and yet quite different in many ways. And after four episodes, a clever twist - it looks like the end of the story (and the only other one was sort of a four-parter - I think of it as 1+3 but hey ho ) and then it isn't the end!
Story lengths were fluid back then so nobody could predict where the link to the next one would come. (See what I did there? Fluid, link? No? I'll get my impractical Thal-style coat... )
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Post by timegirl on Mar 19, 2020 15:06:45 GMT
Snakedance Part 4
Brilliant suspenseful conclusion, with very chilling performances by Janet Feilding and Martin Clunes๐ My only gripe is with the costuming ๐ค๐when I first saw Martin in his ceremonial robes I burst out laughing ๐ also why did they put poor Nyssa in that hideous outfit, whatโs wrong with what she normally wears?!๐ค That scene when Tegan and the Mara merge together is just bone chilling!๐ฑ This and Kinda are definitely some of my favorites from 5โs era!๐
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Post by polly on Mar 19, 2020 19:19:59 GMT
The Pirate Planet - I really find most of Season 16 to be great fun. If memory serves Power of Kroll is the only really weak story. I don't remember Armageddon Factor all that well, though.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2020 22:26:46 GMT
The Pirate Planet - I really find most of Season 16 to be great fun. If memory serves Power of Kroll is the only really weak story. I don't remember Armageddon Factor all that well, though. It's one of my favourite seasons from Tom's years. I think the Key to Time was where they got everything perfectly balanced. They have this wonderful Doctor/companion team, a never before tried premise and a real energy to the production values. The Power of Kroll... I think Robert Holmes was much more interested in how the refinery worked than the titular beast of the marsh itself (although he did try). It feels like an interesting idea dropped into the lap of someone who's skills were honed in a different direction. Holmes's wheelhouse was much more in the vein of people vs. processes. The Gonds and their overlords' Teaching Machines, the Androzani population and spectrox, etc. It feels like a premise that might have suited one Douglas Adams or David Fischer... I've fond memories of The Armageddon Factor, but I'll keep schtum until you've seen it.
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Post by Hieronymus on Mar 20, 2020 2:59:15 GMT
Up next for me: Human Nature and Family of Blood.
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Post by number13 on Mar 20, 2020 12:34:05 GMT
The Daleks Eps 5-7
Three episodes with a moral dilemma, an epic quest through swamp and caverns and a full-on attack on the Dalek city! Within studio & budget limits, naturally but this is ambitious on an almost 'Web Planet' scale.
I love seeing the daring of early Who and this is a classic example, carried along by the actors, designers and directors as a fine piece of TV theatre, often made 'as live' with few resources and less technology - but huge imagination and determination. (I don't believe they really killed off the Daleks though, do you? I have this strange feeling they'll be back... )
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Post by timegirl on Mar 20, 2020 17:05:43 GMT
The War Machines Part 1
Very very swinging sixties London!๐
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Post by polly on Mar 20, 2020 19:29:18 GMT
The Daleks Eps 5-7
Three episodes with a moral dilemma, an epic quest through swamp and caverns and a full-on attack on the Dalek city! Within studio & budget limits, naturally but this is ambitious on an almost 'Web Planet' scale.
I love seeing the daring of early Who and this is a classic example, carried along by the actors, designers and directors as a fine piece of TV theatre, often made 'as live' with few resources and less technology - but huge imagination and determination. (I don't believe they really killed off the Daleks though, do you? I have this strange feeling they'll be back... ) I absolutely love that first season or so, when they seemingly swung for the fences no matter how ambitious the idea was. Everything was done with such conviction and imagination that the occasional shoddy prop or set doesn't matter to me in the slightest. I like most of the Doctor Who canon, but that black and white era might very well be dearest to my heart.
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Post by polly on Mar 20, 2020 20:44:12 GMT
Stones of Blood - I always get elements of this one and Fendahl thoroughly blended together in my brain. On our recent viewing of the latter story, I kept waiting for the aliens to show up and put the Doctor on trial.
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Post by melkur on Mar 21, 2020 0:04:57 GMT
I've just finished watching 'Evil Of The Daleks'. It's a good story, though part of me feels that parts 5-7 could maybe have been condensed down a little...
'Might start 'Tomb Of The Cybermen' before getting into bed.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 16:56:56 GMT
'The Macra Terror', in Colour
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 8:35:13 GMT
The Daleks Eps 5-7 Three episodes with a moral dilemma, an epic quest through swamp and caverns and a full-on attack on the Dalek city! Within studio & budget limits, naturally but this is ambitious on an almost 'Web Planet' scale. I love seeing the daring of early Who and this is a classic example, carried along by the actors, designers and directors as a fine piece of TV theatre, often made 'as live' with few resources and less technology - but huge imagination and determination. (I don't believe they really killed off the Daleks though, do you? I have this strange feeling they'll be back... ) I absolutely love that first season or so, when they seemingly swung for the fences no matter how ambitious the idea was. Everything was done with such conviction and imagination that the occasional shoddy prop or set doesn't matter to me in the slightest. I like most of the Doctor Who canon, but that black and white era might very well be dearest to my heart. "Conviction" is definitely the watchword of those first couple years. Jeff Bridges had a wonderful remark about his co-star Karen Allen when he was playing an alien visitor in Starman. Something along the lines of "You aren't a king if no one treats you as one. That goes doubly if you're playing an alien." It could be giant ants, it could be brains in jars, so much of those first two years was buoyed up by the sheer conviction of the main cast. Past, present or future. Happy, sad or mad. It's all there. When Ian, Barbara and the Thals make that final push through the City, it really does feel like the fate of an entire world hangs in the balance, on the backs of these ordinary people. Farmers and schoolteachers. And I love how ordinary doesn't mean they're incapable of learning. These are some genuinely clever people. Doing their best despite otherwise impossible circumstances. Hats off to Christopher Barry for his direction in The Daleks, in particular. It's all seamless from go to whoa and set the bar for what Doctor Who was capable of at its absolute best.
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Post by polly on Mar 24, 2020 19:25:30 GMT
"Conviction" is definitely the watchword of those first couple years. Jeff Bridges had a wonderful remark about his co-star Karen Allen when he was playing an alien visitor in Starman. Something along the lines of "You aren't a king if no one treats you as one. That goes doubly if you're playing an alien." It could be giant ants, it could be brains in jars, so much of those first two years was buoyed up by the sheer conviction of the main cast. Past, present or future. Happy, sad or mad. It's all there. When Ian, Barbara and the Thals make that final push through the City, it really does feel like the fate of an entire world hangs in the balance, on the backs of these ordinary people. Farmers and schoolteachers. And I love how ordinary doesn't mean they're incapable of learning. These are some genuinely clever people. Doing their best despite otherwise impossible circumstances. Hats off to Christopher Barry for his direction in The Daleks, in particular. It's all seamless from go to whoa and set the bar for what Doctor Who was capable of at its absolute best. Very well said!
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Post by Star Platinum on Mar 25, 2020 23:31:04 GMT
Today Is spearhead from space, the moonbase and the war games. With any luck, might even squeeze in the seeds of death The nice thing about working from home is technically Iโm being paid to watch these
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Post by polly on Mar 25, 2020 23:36:49 GMT
Androids of Tara - Probably one of the most straight up fun stories out there. Love that sword fight, and K9 drifting off in the little boat at the end is the funniest thing in the world.
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Post by melkur on Mar 26, 2020 12:25:27 GMT
'Hello Faithful Viewer...' 'Hard to believe that it's been fifteen years since it came back to the 'little' screen... Right then, there's only one story I have left to watch, there seems no better day to watch Bye world, if you need me I will be joining Marco Polo on his journey to Cathay...
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Post by mark687 on Mar 26, 2020 20:30:54 GMT
2 Debut stories
Robot on Blu-Ray (at last) and Rose
(Both component stories with confident takes on the Doctor)
Regards
mark687
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Post by frisby78 on Mar 26, 2020 23:15:22 GMT
The War Machines. Another of my favourites.
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