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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2014 18:42:54 GMT
I came across this site: underthreehundred.blogspot.co.uk/ And it got me wondering if anyone who was old enough to have watched Doctor Who in the sixties would care to share their memories of watching the show. I don't mind if you mention episodes that are in the Archive or not but I always love hearing people accounts of watching Doctor Who in the 1960s. Television has changed so much that these tales are a great testement of a bygone age where Television was treated as live theater in peoples living rooms. Thanks. |
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Post by Simon Jailler on Mar 17, 2014 22:29:35 GMT
That's a great article you've linked us to, James. The Abominable Snowman was one of the first Target novels I read and I remember getting it for Christmas. That's as far back as my memories go of that story but I was born in the year of its transmission. Both yeti stories are very special to me.
Wonder if anyone who saw them also found the earlier yeti too waddly?
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Post by Laura Ross on Mar 17, 2014 23:57:08 GMT
Great article thanks for sharing. Sadly I was born at the end of the 60's and don't remember Hartnell and Troughton but my older brother and Dad do, we were a Dr Who family and never missed an episode, which is where I got my addiction. My brother remembers both 'Snowmen' and 'Web' and says that the Yeti in Web were totally different and the orginal Yeti were just too cuddly. It's hard to get accross to people how big Dr Who was back trhen, I remember as a kid we'd all be playing outisde and somebody's Mum would shout 'Dr Who's on!' and the whole street would clear. My earliest memory is 'The Daemons' which I saw in black and white as we didn't get a colour set till around 73. I can still smell fish fingers and chips which was our Saturdy Tea everytime I watch the old Pertwees. Ooh, happy days!
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Post by Michael Grey on Mar 18, 2014 4:30:30 GMT
While I was only born in 1979 my first real memory of doctor Who was watching the Mind Robber in repeats. I was 5 years old at the time and I was dead scared of the Medusa! & Jamie having no face. I've loved Troughton stories ever since  |
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Post by Simon Bolton on Mar 19, 2014 10:06:03 GMT
Hi, one of my first childhood memories (besides the one with the tomatoes in the greenhouse...) is that of the alarming possibility of Jamie being infected with the Dalek Factor. With hindsight this is obviously the Evil of the Daleks and I'd be six years old. I don't have any Dr Who memories from before that, although it must have been on as my Dad was quite keen on it, and was very shocked eventually to discover that there had been a Doctor previous to Patrick Troughton.
Later on I spent a year commuting to Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital which included a great deal of tube travel; the scariest and most memorable bit of the wonderful Web of Fear being for me the Doctor shouting at Jamie not to touch the live line.
Next, and my holy grail of missing stories (or even just the one episode please)is being absolutely terrified by the fabulous weed creature and Mr Oak and Mr Quill in Fury from the Deep, which is so cruelly promised for next week at the end of my Web DVD, sob.
Interestingly I have no recall whatsoever of Enemy of the World, as others have reported, and tend to agree that it's probably due to the lack of any shuffling men-in-suits and its rather adult themes, none too gripping for the average six year old. Many years on, I think it's absolutely wonderful.
Things really hot up for the Mind Robber, still my all time favourite Who. I clearly remember the break up of the Tardis although I seemed to have missed out on Wendy Padbury's shiny back-side in the excitement. The clockwork soldiers, the white void, Troughton revolving whilst resisting the influence of the Master (come on, he must be an earlier regeneration...) and the brilliant alarm at Jamie being turned into a card-board cut-out and given the wrong face.
I particularly remember the true horror of missing an episode, gone for ever. I was told by a classmate that there had been a journey through a forest of letters and spent years imagining a trip through an enormous pile of envelopes until I finally caught up with a cinema screening of the whole story. No memory of the War Games and then, ping, Pertwee and on we went. Never grown out of it.
Simon
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Post by Neil Lambess on Mar 19, 2014 11:53:04 GMT
That's a great article you've linked us to, James. The Abominable Snowman was one of the first Target novels I read and I remember getting it for Christmas. That's as far back as my memories go of that story but I was born in the year of its transmission. Both yeti stories are very special to me. Wonder if anyone who saw them also found the earlier yeti too waddly? nope i found the early yeti creepy as hell .....and as for that whistly tweety silver ball...... still sends shivers up and down my spine (in fact Mr Preddle once whistled that sound in perfect pitch to me whilst holding a silver sphere in his hand many years ago.....we were in a fast food joint with a playground full of silver spheres.....perfect place for the GI to return ! ) i actually found the web ones more cuddly and robotic.... |
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Post by andyeves on Mar 19, 2014 12:59:15 GMT
That's a great article you've linked us to, James. The Abominable Snowman was one of the first Target novels I read and I remember getting it for Christmas. That's as far back as my memories go of that story but I was born in the year of its transmission. Both yeti stories are very special to me. Wonder if anyone who saw them also found the earlier yeti too waddly? nope i found the early yeti creepy as hell .....and as for that whistly tweety silver ball...... still sends shivers up and down my spine (in fact Mr Preddle once whistled that sound in perfect pitch to me whilst holding a silver sphere in his hand many years ago.....we were in a fast food joint with a playground full of silver spheres.....perfect place for the GI to return ! ) i actually found the web ones more cuddly and robotic.... I have a similar memory to share ... I recall watching DW during my friend's birthday tea when I was 6-and-a-half. I was always sure that it was WOF5 largely because I remember the wall giving way under the web at the very end. Further confirmation is that I recall my friend & I both admitting to being scared of the decorative miniature silver balls on his cake as they reminded us of the yeti spheres ... and of course E5 did heavily feature these. Shows what a freaky programme it was for kids! |
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Post by alf hughes on Mar 19, 2014 14:57:18 GMT
born too late I`m afraid! earliest memory is tom bakers first season...my earliest memory is the sontaran experiment and lynx dying!
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Post by andyeves on Mar 19, 2014 19:08:34 GMT
Hi, one of my first childhood memories (besides the one with the tomatoes in the greenhouse...) is that of the alarming possibility of Jamie being infected with the Dalek Factor. With hindsight this is obviously the Evil of the Daleks and I'd be six years old. I don't have any Dr Who memories from before that, although it must have been on as my Dad was quite keen on it, and was very shocked eventually to discover that there had been a Doctor previous to Patrick Troughton. I'm pretty sure I watched the later Hartnell but my earliest definite memories of DW are also from Evil, when I'd just turned 5. My most extensive memory of any Troughton story is the one that followed - i.e. Tomb, and my memories include the cybermen coming out of the honeycomb freezer, going back in and then coming back out again. I do recall getting really bored watching the beginning of one story, possibly to the extent that I soon gave up on it. From my brief memory and the age I would likely have been, I'm pretty sure that the story in question was The Space Pirates! Actually, I do have one memory that likely pre-dates Evil, and that is watching a clip on a children's teatime request programme that was almost certainly from Galaxy 4. I remember thinking that the Chumblies were a kind of baby Dalek! |
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Post by Sue Butcher on Mar 20, 2014 1:22:46 GMT
As has been mentioned before, many of us watched the old stories without knowing how many episodes they had. In my case, this left me wondering each week if the Doctor would save the world in the next 25 minutes, and could he please hurry up so I didn't have to wait until next Saturday.
Evil Of The Daleks 7 is the earliest missing episode I recall in any detail. The Dalek battle had a slapstick quality, with explosions of "porridge" and bits of Daleks flying off. We kids thought it was funny, anyway. Anyone else remember it like this?
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Post by Will Weller on Mar 20, 2014 9:19:23 GMT
I wasn't born in the 60s or 70s, however the first memories that I have of 60s Doctor Who is Tomb of the Cybermen episode 2, where they are coming out of the "honeycomb". I was at a friends house and we watched it on DVD, in about 2005. It truly sent a shiver down my spine seeing it for the first time!!! Still one of my Favourite Doctor Who stories nearly 10 years later!
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Post by andyeves on Mar 20, 2014 12:12:35 GMT
As has been mentioned before, many of us watched the old stories without knowing how many episodes they had. In my case, this left me wondering each week if the Doctor would save the world in the next 25 minutes, and could he please hurry up so I didn't have to wait until next Saturday. Evil Of The Daleks 7 is the earliest missing episode I recall in any detail. The Dalek battle had a slapstick quality, with explosions of "porridge" and bits of Daleks flying off. We kids thought it was funny, anyway. Anyone else remember it like this? That's 3 of us on this thread whose earliest memories are from Evil, and speaking to a fellow fanatic a few years ago, he confirmed that his oldest memory is from Evil too (the end of E7, like yours Sue). Obviously a very impressionable story! My memories from Evil (when I'd just turned 5) are: - E1: The Tardis being driven away on the back of a truck - E1: Doctor/Jamie hiding behind petrol pumps (and being watched, I think) - I recall being upset at a Dalek blasting someone. It was the special effects that scared me and I'm pretty sure it was from the start of E2 - Jamie & Kemel wrestling and Jamie establishing that he can't speak - I have a vague recollection of a Dalek downstairs talking to a man upstairs on the landing - is there a scene in Evil where that may happens, can anyone confirm? (Could be a false memory.) For stories to be rediscovered, Evil is definitely top of my list ... but I'm hardly unique in that respect! |
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Post by Patrick Coles on Mar 20, 2014 13:16:34 GMT
Some memories from sixties days:
Patrick Troughton Doctor:
In 'Evil of The Daleks' episode one the Doctor & Jamie go into a coffee bar after the Tardis has been driven off on the back of a lorry...The Beatles 'Paperback Writer' is playing on a juke box in the background - later passing through the doorway which has the Dalek factor device first Maxtible (Marius Goring) then later the Doctor (who it turns out is immune & faking being a 'Human Dalek') go all 'jumpy'/ 'shimmery' with lots of images of them ....then each are left staring blankly...
In 'The Faceless Ones' when an R.A.F. jet fighter (stock footage of take off & flight) pursues the Air liner the Chameleons leader flicks a switch...the pilot goes into negative picture & is electrocuted
Colin Gordon's Airport chief says for the air liner to vanish off the radar (apt now !) like that it's either gone down...or climbed vertically 100 miles - the damn thing would be in outer space...'
'Exactly' (or maybe 'Precisely') the Doctor replies from behind him over his shoulder...
In 'Power of The Daleks' we see the Daleks view from the eyestick...on reactivation it scans the room...then zeros in on a scared scientist's face...and immediately exterminates him...
Patrick Troughton's newly rejuvenated Doctor bemuses Polly & Ben by playing bowls with some fruit (oranges I assume)
In 'The Invasion' missing episode one Patrick Troughton , Jamie & Zoe emerge from 'nothing' in the field due to a Tardis malfunction...
(I believe the actual reason for this was either the, by then, quite old Police box prop had failed to arrive in time from BBC TV Centre ...or because it was in dire need of repair having just fallen apart/collapsed on being moved for the umpteenth time etc - thus they didn't have it readily available...so did one of their great 'quick rewrites' that Troughton's era often had that always worked superbly !)
then when helping Zoe get into the lorry cab Pat puts both his hands on her lovely bottom to give her a 'boost up' - like you do...!!!
while in missing 'episode 4' we get a great 'upskirt' view of Isobel (Lovely Sally Faulkener) on the helicopter rope ladder (but Frazer Hines kilt was lined with lead weights to keep his dignity !!)
William Hartnell Doctor:
earlier in 'Mission To The Unknown' an astronaught gets a needle from a varga creature in him...later he rolls up his sleeve...to find he has an armful !
we see a Varga creature...the camera pans down - it's wearing spaceboots !!
The Dalek Master Plan:
Mavic Chen (Kevin Stoney) runs off down a corridor pursued by a Dalek execution squad...he's cornered & exterminated with his arms spread out, with a look of amazement on his face...
Katarina & her captor are jettisoned out into space by her actions....we see the pair floating dead in space (done in slow motion) their eyes staring...quite scary for supposedly a 'kids show' !
later Sarah Kingdom (Jean Marsh) is walking behind William Hartnell's Doctor, he is carrying the Time destructor device...she ages, then an older actress is in her uniform, then we see her as a skeleton
After Steven helps The Doctor into the Tardis Daleks arrive & vainly try exterminating the Time Destructor...it pulsates on in negative picture....the Daleks casings crack open as they 'de-evolve' away - after they have gone the Time Destructor finally ceases to pulsate...and The Doctor & Steven emerge from the Tardis to view a barren landscape...
in 'Galaxy Four' one of the 'Chumblies' approaches the Tardis and moves around it carefully probing and scanning it - inside Vicki draws their attention to it moving around the Tardis and they can hear the walls of the ship being touched as it is probed by the 'Chumblie' which is spliced between footage of the Chumblie outside the Police Box moving around it...creating a clear parallel of the small box outside and vast console room inside...at the end of the story Steven throws a connecting fuel lead out side the Tardis doors which then close and they take off leaving the three evil female Dravhins firing at the Tardis as the planet as it begins to break up....
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Post by Neil Lambess on Mar 21, 2014 7:03:05 GMT
Some memories from sixties days: Patrick Troughton Doctor: In 'The Faceless Ones' when an R.A.F. jet fighter (stock footage of take off & flight) pursues the Air liner the Chameleons leader flicks a switch...the pilot goes into negative picture & is electrocuted as an aside....... although its meant to be a RAF fighter jet its actually an Italian Air force Fait G91 (in black and white the colours of the fuselage roundels do look like the british Roundels so they got away with it ...despite the fact the RAF has never flown that kind of aircraft...) |
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Post by Paul Edwards on Mar 21, 2014 7:29:11 GMT
Not directly for me, but my father recalls coming home on shore leave in the 1960s in Aberdeen and my grandmother saying to him, "Don't disturb your father, there's a new show that he just has to watch every week." My father went into the room with the TV, and sat silently watching this show; it was (in his words) to do with the French Revolution, so I'm guessing "The Reign of Terror" was it for him. I believe my grandfather finally spoke when the credits rolled |
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