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Post by Dale Rumbold on Dec 27, 2014 17:18:36 GMT
If by some miracle Santa found one missing episode and left it under your tree to share with the world which would you choose? For me it would have to be Episode 1 of Power of the Daleks. It was all change from there on. Troughton must have looked mysterious and amazing! I've been very tolerant of the New Series's Christmas Specials (and a couple have been rather good) but I have to admit that this year's (my TARDIS is still in 2014) entry was dire. I actually found this year's was the ONLY Christmas Special worth watching : I thought it was excellent, and probably in the Top 3 stories that they have made since Dr Who was brought back.
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Post by Greg H on Dec 27, 2014 17:39:42 GMT
If by some miracle Santa found one missing episode and left it under your tree to share with the world which would you choose? For me it would have to be Episode 1 of Power of the Daleks. It was all change from there on. Troughton must have looked mysterious and amazing! I'm a bit late for this poll as Santa has been and gone ... but a quick dash into my TARDIS and... here I am back on Christmas Eve... I second Andrew's choice as Power was the story that changed everything - and also because I joined the Dr Who bandwagon somewhere in 1967 and would so like to see the (almost) empty shelves of Season 4 filled up - starting with that first appearance of Patrick Troughton. I've been very tolerant of the New Series's Christmas Specials (and a couple have been rather good) but I have to admit that this year's (my TARDIS is still in 2014) entry was dire. To be honest, I stopped watching a while ago. It is Doctor Who in name only. That and a few familiar props. The first episode of Power would surely be high up on my list as well. Troughton's debut performance as the Doctor and we would also get to check out how the surface of Vulcan looked; I wonder if it was one of the really classic sets or a lesser one? We shall likely never know! Equally an episode from Macra would be most welcome if you are talking season 4.
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Post by Mark Vanderlinde-Abernathy on Dec 27, 2014 18:24:47 GMT
I'd go with Episode 12 of Dalek Masterplan.
I liked this year more than I thought. The trailer made it seem stupid, but then the sci-fi stunt they did with explaining Santa was cool.
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Post by richardwoods on Dec 27, 2014 19:57:29 GMT
I'm a bit late for this poll as Santa has been and gone ... but a quick dash into my TARDIS and... here I am back on Christmas Eve... To be honest, I stopped watching a while ago. It is Doctor Who in name only. That and a few familiar props. The first episode of Power would surely be high up on my list as well. Troughton's debut performance as the Doctor and we would also get to check out how the surface of Vulcan looked; I wonder if it was one of the really classic sets or a lesser one? We shall likely never know! Equally an episode from Macra would be most welcome if you are talking season 4. I agree Greg, it would be really interesting to see an episode from Power. Only the vaguest recollections of watching the serial first time around as I was very young, mainly of my father complaining about Pat's "OTT" clowning about, "not as good as Hartnell", etc, etc. He also thought it was wrong to see the creature inside the Dalek , (that was Power wasn't it?). The old man had firm opinions on everything, can't think who takes after him, LOL. I think that the Vulcan surface sets may have been a bit naff but I still hope to be proved wrong someday. As I've said before I've always been a bit sniffy about first serials of new Doctors as actors need time to bed in to the role, (I never liked Spearhead as I didn't think JP played it very well, (probably very biased as missing Pat), and as for Robot, well words still fail me). It's really difficult looking back and assessing Pat's start as there is such a small amount of footage to view, I think that by the time of his performance in the Underwater Menace he is beginning to tone it down a bit. Re:- Macra, let hope something comes of the research about the school sports day showing in NZ in the 70's.
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Post by John W King on Dec 28, 2014 0:23:52 GMT
I've had a Dickens of a Christmas. Up until Christmas eve I thought current Doctor Who was "Humbug". On that eve I fell asleep at the foot of my Christmas tree where, alas, there were no cans of film. I was woken at one o'clock to see two strange men beckoning to me. A white haired old man and an agitated scruffy dark haired man. The ghosts of Doctors past. They took me through a mist to........where? I couldn't make it out. Was it an old scrap yard with a bluepolice box. The scene blurred in rapid succession. Strange creatures on an alien planet - Daleks? The white haired man chuckled. He was standing in snow with his grand daughter and two of her teachers. The Himalyas, perhaps? For what seemed an eternity I saw these 4 people meet Marco Polo and travel acoss Asia to see the Mighty Kublai Khan. It started to blur again. Where now? The French Revolution? The Crusades? Then things slowed again and forever it seemed I was seeing those strange Daleks again getting up to all sorts of high jinks before being reduced to dust. Along the way the white haired man suddenly turned to me to wish me a very Merry Christmas! There was more long scenes of a religious massacre, an odd mandarin playing games, some tatty savages, smugglers and then tall silver men, lots of snow and finally the white haired man collapsed at my feet! As he disappeared the scruffy man was there in his place. I began crying. What followed was unsettling, strange, not what I was used to. I was a little boy again back in 1966 having my dreams destroyed. It took me a while to undestand what I was seeing (but yes, the surface of Vulcan did look naff). I haven't time here to relate all the long adventures the scruffy man showed me but the most exciting involved those Daleks once again being very evil and shooting each other to bits. All I can say is the 2 ghosts of Doctors past stood before me. Behind them was a big pile of film cans. Shadowy figures were tossing the cans onto a big bonfire where they glowed and exploded. I cried and yelled no! No! NO, STOP! But everything went black. The clock struck two. A thin elderly man stood unsmiling before me. The ghost of Doctor present. Behind him was a pile of shiny cans. "These are all mine. All new, all digital. Not old film. But digital." He smiled and showed me a screen behind him. "I expect you' re looking for these, aren' t you. 97 old film cans. Yes, they've all been found and are now ...." To my horror everything went black. The clock struck three. A dark hooded, unspeaking figure stood before me. The ghost of a Doctor yet to be. With his left hand he pointed to a pile of old film cans and before them a series of shiny DVDs. He raised his right hand a pointed to nothing. "What are you pointing to, ghost. A future that might be, a future that could be or, oh, please don't let it be. The future that already is. A future that cannot be?" The ghost was gone. It was morning. CHRISTMAS MORNING. I was lying beneath my tree with presents all around. And there amongst the presents....it was circular. I tore off the paper to find........that's the Power Christmas. It can be savage. It can be evil. It is after all.....the Feast of Steven. I had in my hands.........
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Post by John Green on Dec 28, 2014 2:53:42 GMT
If by some miracle Santa found one missing episode and left it under your tree to share with the world which would you choose? For me it would have to be Episode 1 of Power of the Daleks. It was all change from there on. Troughton must have looked mysterious and amazing! I'm a bit late for this poll as Santa has been and gone ... but a quick dash into my TARDIS and... here I am back on Christmas Eve... I second Andrew's choice as Power was the story that changed everything - and also because I joined the Dr Who bandwagon somewhere in 1967 and would so like to see the (almost) empty shelves of Season 4 filled up - starting with that first appearance of Patrick Troughton. I've been very tolerant of the New Series's Christmas Specials (and a couple have been rather good) but I have to admit that this year's (my TARDIS is still in 2014) entry was dire. We're all still in 2014.Has there been some timeslip-rift-thingy without our being aware of it?
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Post by Paul McDermott on Dec 28, 2014 3:31:49 GMT
I've been very tolerant of the New Series's Christmas Specials (and a couple have been rather good) but I have to admit that this year's (my TARDIS is still in 2014) entry was dire. We're all still in 2014.Has there been some timeslip-rift-thingy without our being aware of it? I could throw in a line about TOMTIT and the space between "now" and "now" but the big white bird might come down and eat my alarm clock!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2014 9:39:36 GMT
The episode I would choose to save is The Daleks' Master Plan episode 4 "The Traitors" - purely because it was safe for a few years at the BBC and then allegedly lost by Blue Peter - very annoying.
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Post by johnbarbour on Dec 28, 2014 11:03:55 GMT
I'm a bit late for this poll as Santa has been and gone ... but a quick dash into my TARDIS and... here I am back on Christmas Eve... I second Andrew's choice as Power was the story that changed everything - and also because I joined the Dr Who bandwagon somewhere in 1967 and would so like to see the (almost) empty shelves of Season 4 filled up - starting with that first appearance of Patrick Troughton. I've been very tolerant of the New Series's Christmas Specials (and a couple have been rather good) but I have to admit that this year's (my TARDIS is still in 2014) entry was dire. We're all still in 2014.Has there been some timeslip-rift-thingy without our being aware of it? Look, have you any idea how confusing this Time travel malarkey is? You try running a home, holding down a human job and dashing in and out of the TARDIS at the whim of those clowns in the BBC? I'm getting old and tired and it's possible that I need to regenerate ... oh no...it's happening again...
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Post by Will Weller on Dec 28, 2014 22:23:36 GMT
If I'd found one can under the tree on Christmas morning, it would have to be "The Power of the Daleks" Episode One.
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Post by John Green on Dec 28, 2014 22:29:12 GMT
We're all still in 2014.Has there been some timeslip-rift-thingy without our being aware of it? Look, have you any idea how confusing this Time travel malarkey is? You try running a home, holding down a human job and dashing in and out of the TARDIS at the whim of those clowns in the BBC? I'm getting old and tired and it's possible that I need to regenerate ... oh no...it's happening again... I have to admit that it doesn't feel like it's only three days since Christmas.More like three months.
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Post by johnbarbour on Dec 29, 2014 8:53:17 GMT
There's definitely some kind of rift in Time once we cross the threshold of Christmas Day...
I see that Will has gone for Episode One of Power too and having just re-read the novelisation (yes, finally got a copy a while ago without re-mortgaging!) I don't think I could stop at just one tape - I want the whole story. However, I've already voted for Episode One and will stick with it as the taster of what was to come and of course in itself Power has one of the best ever plots with the chilling refrain << I am your servant >> echoing down those empty corridors of Vulcan...
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Post by Richard Develyn on Dec 29, 2014 8:59:59 GMT
I'm torn between Power 2 and Fury 2.
Richard
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Post by Will Weller on Dec 29, 2014 15:02:19 GMT
There's definitely some kind of rift in Time once we cross the threshold of Christmas Day... I see that Will has gone for Episode One of Power too and having just re-read the novelisation (yes, finally got a copy a while ago without re-mortgaging!) I don't think I could stop at just one tape - I want the whole story. However, I've already voted for Episode One and will stick with it as the taster of what was to come and of course in itself Power has one of the best ever plots with the chilling refrain << I am your servant >> echoing down those empty corridors of Vulcan... I've noticed a lot of people have chosen The Power of the Daleks Episode One. I'm going to try and read the novel in the new year, because I managed to get a copy back in June.
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Post by johnbarbour on Dec 30, 2014 0:01:12 GMT
There's definitely some kind of rift in Time once we cross the threshold of Christmas Day... I see that Will has gone for Episode One of Power too and having just re-read the novelisation (yes, finally got a copy a while ago without re-mortgaging!) I don't think I could stop at just one tape - I want the whole story. However, I've already voted for Episode One and will stick with it as the taster of what was to come and of course in itself Power has one of the best ever plots with the chilling refrain << I am your servant >> echoing down those empty corridors of Vulcan... I've noticed a lot of people have chosen The Power of the Daleks Episode One. I'm going to try and read the novel in the new year, because I managed to get a copy back in June. Enjoy! I've been reading these novelisations since 1975 when i was astonished to find Dr Who and the Cybermen in a local small town bookshop. As many fans know the early versions had loads of extra detail in them and the best include The Cybermen, Abominable Snowmen, Daleks, Daemons, etc. But I have to say that Power ranks now as No.1
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