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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2016 8:58:32 GMT
Memory is a funny old thing. We all forget the little details from time to time, particularly the things that we're fond of. The curious thing is that the things we misremember are sometimes just as interesting as the genuine article, so my question is this -- are there any half-remembered Doctor Who stories that turned out to be just as interesting as (if not more than) their real counterparts?
One example comes from friend of mine remembered a black-and-white Tom Baker story about "ooze with delusions above its station" and a primordial slime that was creating golems to kill the local inhabitants. It sounds vaguely like Planet of Evil crossed with The Horror of Fang Rock, but neither of us could really place it. Another was my own memory of Trial of a Time Lord where everything from Ravalox to Thoros Beta took place on Gallifrey. The Doctor was arrested by the Chancellery Guard for attempting to steal water for Peri and she fell in with a group of Shobogans (typified by Yrcarnos) in the maintenance passages deep beneath the Capitol. The Doctor managed to escape, but Peri was executed and he was forced to escape into his own future onto the Hyperion until he found himself in a twisted version of Victoriana created in an alternate timeline by the Valeyard. The two of them faced off and ended up in a time rent that resulted in the Doctor absorbing the Valeyard and regenerating into Sylvester McCoy.
Anyone else shared a similar experience?
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Post by aemiliapaula on Aug 30, 2016 22:49:38 GMT
Memory is a funny old thing. We all forget the little details from time to time, particularly the things that we're fond of. The curious thing is that the things we misremember are sometimes just as interesting as the genuine article, so my question is this -- are there any half-remembered Doctor Who stories that turned out to be just as interesting as (if not more than) their real counterparts? One example comes from friend of mine remembered a black-and-white Tom Baker story about "ooze with delusions above its station" and a primordial slime that was creating golems to kill the local inhabitants. It sounds vaguely like Planet of Evil crossed with The Horror of Fang Rock, but neither of us could really place it. Anyone else shared a similar experience? I wish this was real. Have there been any Golem stories in other media? Sometimes I wish there had been at least 1 4th doctor story in black and white. It would work well with the gothic ones. Plus Tom's face looks gorgeous in it, with his deep-set eyes. The only sort of memory of Doctor Who I had from childhood was 4th doctor in a dungeony place, having to play a board game with a villain, if he lost it would be the end of the world or some such. So maybe I had seen Brain of Morbius, but in my memory he was on the left and it was chess, which did happen in other stories. It kind of was a mashup with Never Say Never Again, my favotire James Bond movie. |
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Post by jasonward on Aug 30, 2016 22:58:33 GMT
When I purchased Planet Of The Spiders on VHS, I was very confused to by the revelation that the story was Doctored by John Pertwee and not Tom Baker, even as I watched it, it was just wrong, Tom Baker was ... yeah, memory, it is not at all what people think it is.
Just because you clearly remember something, does not at all mean it was that way.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 0:08:13 GMT
I wish this was real. Have there been any Golem stories in other media? Off the top of my head, there's The Beast of Orlok on audio for the Eighth Doctor and The Broken Man in DWM comic for the Eleventh Doctor. |
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Aug 31, 2016 1:44:23 GMT
Unless, some impossible how I've seen Evil of the Daleks, I've conflated Day and Destiny with Pyramids of Mars, having Daleks chasing Romana around a gothic house.
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Post by constonks on Aug 31, 2016 2:53:25 GMT
When I purchased Planet Of The Spiders on VHS, I was very confused to by the revelation that the story was Doctored by John Pertwee and not Tom Baker, even as I watched it, it was just wrong, Tom Baker was ... yeah, memory, it is not at all what people think it is. Just because you clearly remember something, does not at all mean it was that way. You're just remembering the timeline established in the EDAs where the Third Doctor regenerated early. Makes perfect sense to me. |
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Aug 31, 2016 12:04:50 GMT
I like some of the misremembered stories above. If they dont exist in any form, maybe we should write those stories  For me, i always remembered The Destroyer being a more active and main monster in Battlefield (Well it was snapshots from when i was Five), so when i watched it on Horror awhile back i was very surprised to find he only appeared near the end lol |
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Post by mrperson on Aug 31, 2016 13:24:58 GMT
I thought it was seven who tried to fix the chameleon circuit while traveling w/ Ace, resulting in a piano/organ disguise for the TARDIS when in fact it was six....though I already cannot remember which particular episode it happened in.
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Post by bobod on Aug 31, 2016 13:26:31 GMT
I thought it was seven who tried to fix the chameleon circuit while traveling w/ Ace, resulting in a piano/organ disguise for the TARDIS when in fact it was six....though I already cannot remember which particular episode it happened in. The Power of Kroll |
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Post by mark687 on Aug 31, 2016 13:33:41 GMT
I thought it was seven who tried to fix the chameleon circuit while traveling w/ Ace, resulting in a piano/organ disguise for the TARDIS when in fact it was six....though I already cannot remember which particular episode it happened in. The Power of Kroll 
(it WAS Attack of the Cybermen)
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Post by bobod on Aug 31, 2016 14:35:22 GMT
I must have misremembered an old story.
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Post by jason on Aug 31, 2016 17:13:35 GMT
When I purchased Planet Of The Spiders on VHS, I was very confused to by the revelation that the story was Doctored by John Pertwee and not Tom Baker, even as I watched it, it was just wrong, Tom Baker was ... yeah, memory, it is not at all what people think it is. Just because you clearly remember something, does not at all mean it was that way. Yes, when I was younger, for ages I'd thought I'd seen Tom Baker in 'The Mutants'. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2016 4:16:11 GMT
UK Gold in the early 90s was my Who-gateway. One of my favourite memories was the episode where Colin Baker ran around a lovely looking Spanish location.....pursued by a Dalek. Sontarans...Jackie Pearce....Shockeye....Troughton - NONE of that stuck in my memory as much as Colin fleeing from this completely fictitious Dalek in Spain.
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Post by Timelord007 on Sept 1, 2016 6:39:12 GMT
Logopolis, thinking that the Doctor's clothes regenerated along with the Doctor & the new Doctor stood up & said "come on back to the Tardis".
I obviously was sniffing to many Vickes nasal sticks.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Sept 1, 2016 11:50:31 GMT
UK Gold in the early 90s was my Who-gateway. One of my favourite memories was the episode where Colin Baker ran around a lovely looking Spanish location.....pursued by a Dalek. Sontarans...Jackie Pearce....Shockeye....Troughton - NONE of that stuck in my memory as much as Colin fleeing from this completely fictitious Dalek in Spain. hahahahahahaha |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2016 12:23:16 GMT
Logopolis, thinking that the Doctor's clothes regenerated along with the Doctor & the new Doctor stood up & said "come on back to the Tardis". I obviously was sniffing to many Vickes nasal sticks. Well his boots regenerated into shoes, so you're not far off |
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Post by Timelord007 on Sept 1, 2016 12:36:53 GMT
Logopolis, thinking that the Doctor's clothes regenerated along with the Doctor & the new Doctor stood up & said "come on back to the Tardis". I obviously was sniffing to many Vickes nasal sticks. Well his boots regenerated into shoes, so you're not far off Lmao, yes they did didn't they  |
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Post by mrperson on Sept 1, 2016 22:25:47 GMT
I thought it was seven who tried to fix the chameleon circuit while traveling w/ Ace, resulting in a piano/organ disguise for the TARDIS when in fact it was six....though I already cannot remember which particular episode it happened in. The Power of Kroll What? No it didn't. |
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Post by bobod on Sept 2, 2016 6:51:05 GMT
I'm sure it did. You must be misremembering. |
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Post by jasonward on Sept 2, 2016 10:16:21 GMT
You've both got it wrong it was "Revenge of the Night of Silver Nemesis of Omega of the Daleks", remember, the story where the Sontarons take over a base on the moon which is being taken over by man eating plants where the humans are metamorphosing into Wirm and the 9th Doctor along with Poly and Ace send a rescue rocket. Remember? Surely you do.
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