• eddstarr88
    • 1 year 5 days ago
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    		 I've lived in Seattle since 1980 and it was by channel surfing one evening that I discovered the PBS station from Tacoma, KBTC, was continuously broadcasting Doctor Who episodes every Saturday night - that's from 1963 right through 1979. With each passing year a new season of The Doctor would be added to the mix!

    However, I was not interested at the time. I actually changed the TV channel whenever I heard that dreaded "EXTERMINATE!!" oozing from the tele, lol.

    In fact I never really paid attention to Doctor Who until I saw the episode called "Castrovalva". Here, for the first time, was a television version of that old optical illusion of "the never-ending staircase" in the form of a city that's dimensionally folding-in on itself. I just about fell outta my chair at the sight of this.



    The cheesy, low-budget, special effects of the Tom Baker and Peter Davison era Doctors seem to add to their charm. These old episodes of The Doctor from the 70's and 80's still have an open, friendly kinda appeal - they don't take themselves too seriously.

    Here's the scene, at the end of this clip, where an easy camera trick is used to express an rather awesome concept: if the fabric of space folds-in on itself, at what point do YOU cease to exist?

    The Eldorado is dead. Long live the Eldorado.
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    • Edgold707
      • 1 year 4 days ago
      • Posts: 474
      		 I first saw Doctor Who on PBS station KTEH channel 54 in San Jose, CA back in the late 70's. A friend of mine at school who had been watching it was trying to describe how the Doctor traveled through space in a telephone booth. That was just weird enough, that I had see it for myself.
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      • eddstarr88
        • 11 months 29 days ago
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        		 Doctor Who in the 70's and 80's was notable for concepts that really are cool to think about, but hard to pull off at a time before CGI.

        Take the episode called "Paradise Towers" from 1987.

        Imagine a building, miles across in all directions and thousands of floors tall. A building so vast that it can hold the entire population of a planet. That population would be divided into "tenants" and "administration".

        No problems so far. But what happens when centuries go by and the building's administration falls apart into disfunction?

        What if the Chief Superintendent of the building is a mental wack job?

        I like the idea of "Paradise Towers" but Doctor Who just didn't have the budget to pull of a convincing presentation. What could've been a great Doctor Who episode ends up only so-so.

        Still, it was interesting to see a building broken up into "neighborhoods":

        The Eldorado is dead. Long live the Eldorado.
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        • Guild_Navigator
          • 11 months 23 days ago
          • Posts: 2009
          		 I have to be honest,after Tom Baker stopped being the Doctor I stopped watching the show altogether. Regular Dr Who fans think I'm crazy when I tell them this,but its the truth. I don't doubt that there has been some great Dr. Who episodes (though I understand that the 90s and early 2000s runs were pretty bad),I just guess I'm too loyal to Tom's scarf...
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