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Post by Brad Phipps on Jun 1, 2014 5:55:27 GMT
I'm thinking of putting a 'Memories' section on my site. If anyone wants to contribute I can add whatever people put here if they have no objection...?
Might be a couple of months though, real life is a bit busy at the moment.
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Post by andyc on Jun 1, 2014 6:27:32 GMT
I was born in 1967 so am too young to actually remember seeing the 60's episodes first time around. My Father was a big fan though, so doubtless I was sat in front of the TV with a bottle and a rusk, watching the weird and wonderful monsters.
My first memory of the 60's stories would have been watching clips in the Whose Doctor Who doc in 1977. But for the full episodes then of course it was the season of repeats in 1981. I have rarely felt such anticipation when I knew that the BBC were repeating An Unearthly Child and The Krotons. I actually recorded them on VHS, and I still remember trying to hit the "record" and "pause" buttons at exactly the right time at the start and end of each episode to try and make it one continuous story with no breaks, and to fit as many as I could on one 3-hour tape. It sounds primitive now of course, but we had only just bought our first VCR a few months earlier, and it was such a joy and a novelty to be able to watch these episodes and record them.
Unfortunately the tape in question has long since gone......
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Post by johnbarbour on Jun 1, 2014 8:46:59 GMT
Evil with what appeared to me to be a very sinister robot playing or carrying Patrick Troughton and very old doors (they reminded me of the flapping doors of a ghost train we had in an amusement park in the 60s) though at the age of five and a half I had no concept of Dr Who itself but it was on at tea-time... You knew that these daleks were something to stay away from. I do have very vague memories of what could have been the Patrick Troughton crew hiding on a stone-littered slope which could have been the Abominable Snowmen but then that could be a number of Troughton or other 60s TV! But when I saw the Lost in Time episode it did seem just about right. In between these two stories I definitely remembered bits of Tomb because the cybermen were standing in a group [ordering up the cybermats] in one room and as a kid I was terrified as the humans seemed to be "just next door" to these creatures and I couldn't understand why they didn't just get out! Then the cybermats appeared... Ice Warriors I insisted on watching because I saw the "advert" where a couple of explorers find the warrior encased in ice and I just had to watch this one! No idea when this "advert" was shown but if it was at the end of the preceding story then I must have seen The Abominable Snowmen's final episode? just don't remember. no recollection of EOTW but absolutely crystal clear recollection of many scenes from Web - the one where Troughton realises that a storeroom in the Army base has been visited by the yeti - you really didn't want him to open that door. After all this I was hooked and never missed an episode until the late 70s when it just wasn't the same anymore (came back and stayed with the new Dr Who series though!).
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Post by Richard Marple on Jun 1, 2014 9:09:15 GMT
I've heard that Gerry Anderson used porridge as lava in Fireball XL5.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2014 15:26:11 GMT
Hi James. Just to clarify, I think the gunk in Evil 7 was actually wallpaper paste and dye, but on screen it looked liked porridge. (Like the Grand Marshal in Seeds of Death looking like he had cornflakes stuck on his face.) Thanks for that Sue. You have got to love the old sixties special effects. I still find the Cybermen hanging by the wires in epsiode 4 of the Moonbase very amusing. It is those sort of things that make you love the old shows. You wouldn't get it now with the new series.
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Post by markjhaley on Aug 19, 2015 14:38:22 GMT
Coincidentally I recently decided to try and find an episode I remember watching when I was 5 or 6 years old. The memory I had (before ducking behind the settee) was of a man sitting at controls with what looked like a virus racing up the blood vessels of his arm. It was the first time I'd thought of searching online and quickly discovered it was from a story called The Moonbase. I was relieved to see that a couple of episodes had survived and the rest had been animated. I've now seen it and think that the first man seen to collapse at controls is probably the scene that has stuck in my memory. If so, the animators seem to have missed the black virus going up his arm and into his neck before he keeled over. Nonetheless it was great to finally see the storyline through to its conclusion after 49 years.
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Post by lousingh on Aug 20, 2015 15:55:09 GMT
There was a British kid in my high school who had some great memories. He was born in 1962, so he remembered very little of Hartnell. Even so, after almost 40 years, I've never forgotten the looks in his eyes and the sound of his voice when he described these:
The Dalek Master Plan, Traitors - The death of Karatina. The Tenth Planet, Episode 4 - Hartnell's regeneration The Power of the Daleks, Episode 4 - The Dalek assembly line. The Evil of the Daleks, Episode 6 - Alpha, Beta, and Omega talking after playing "Trains". The Tomb of the Cybermen, Episode 4 - Toberman closing the doors on Telos. The Web of Fear, Episode 3 - Professor Travers speaks for The Great Intelligence. Fury from the Deep, Episode 2 - Quill and Oak attacking Maggie Harris. The Mind Robber, Episode 1 - The white void. The Invasion, Episode Six - The Cybermen emerging from the sewers. The War Games, Episode Ten - The Time Lords. Spearhead from Space, Episode 1 - Colour. Doctor Who and the Silurians, Episode 7 - The Brigadier blows up the Silurian base. Terror of the Autons, Episode Four - The first face-to-face meeting between The Doctor and The Master. The Mind of Evil, Episode One - The Doctor in the fireball. The Three Doctors, Episode One - The appearances of the Troughton and Hartnell Doctors. Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Part One - As he put it, "paper mache".
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Post by John W King on Aug 23, 2015 23:39:46 GMT
I am very lucky to have seen Doctor Who from the trailer for an Unearthly Child. Using my memory I helped to recreate that trailer on another thread on this website. The remarkable thing about memory is how vivid those very first Hartnell episodes were. I began to write brief notes on each episode from part way through the Daleks.I later (in the 70s)wrote more detailed notes of an Unearthly Child. Then came the 5 Faces and I was amazed how accurate my detailed notes were. That's why this sort of thread is invaluable especially when recreating the missing episodes particularly those without visual material. Perhaps as someone suggested, Missing Episode Web Site is needed to capture those memories.
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Post by lousingh on Sept 1, 2015 19:01:31 GMT
I massively envy those of you old enough to remember the initial broadcasts. I wish I could have seen all the episodes since day 1. I imagine this is what my co-workers feel like when I describe how cool it was to watch the first moon landing or The Beatles on The Smothers Brothers. You are so lucky, John et al. I feel so lucky that I have seen almost all of the scenes that were such powerful memories of my old schoolmate.
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Post by richardwoods on Sept 2, 2015 6:11:57 GMT
I massively envy those of you old enough to remember the initial broadcasts. I wish I could have seen all the episodes since day 1. I imagine this is what my co-workers feel like when I describe how cool it was to watch the first moon landing or The Beatles on The Smothers Brothers. You are so lucky, John et al. I feel so lucky that I have seen almost all of the scenes that were such powerful memories of my old schoolmate. Only problem is of course that we are old enough, LOL.
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Post by Charles Daniels on Sept 9, 2015 9:42:17 GMT
Does Ian Levine have an incredibly detailed journal with sketches of all the monsters and plot outlines? I think this book has been referred to a few times when doing animations or other projects on missing stories. Has anyone ever seen this book? Or, I assume probably, multiple books?
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Post by Marty Schultz on Sept 9, 2015 9:58:55 GMT
It exists. I haven't seen it but I certainly know people who have.
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Post by Charles Daniels on Sept 9, 2015 10:09:13 GMT
It exists. I haven't seen it but I certainly know people who have. Someone who knows Ian, who has his ear, should really discuss making absolutely sure that all that material is digitized and preserved. Even if its not released or made accessible in any way, I think it would be a pretty damned important and unique document which would certainly be deserving of preservation. There is undoubtedly unique and valuable information in there.
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Post by gregbakun on Sept 21, 2015 18:16:39 GMT
It exists. I haven't seen it but I certainly know people who have. Someone who knows Ian, who has his ear, should really discuss making absolutely sure that all that material is digitized and preserved. Even if its not released or made accessible in any way, I think it would be a pretty damned important and unique document which would certainly be deserving of preservation. There is undoubtedly unique and valuable information in there. It is incredibly detailed. I have a few pages that we used on various projects. I have spoken to him before about digitizing it which I am sure will happen at some point.
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Post by Charles Daniels on Sept 24, 2015 5:29:09 GMT
Someone who knows Ian, who has his ear, should really discuss making absolutely sure that all that material is digitized and preserved. Even if its not released or made accessible in any way, I think it would be a pretty damned important and unique document which would certainly be deserving of preservation. There is undoubtedly unique and valuable information in there. It is incredibly detailed. I have a few pages that we used on various projects. I have spoken to him before about digitizing it which I am sure will happen at some point. Does it include highly detailed sketches? What sort of notes in general? Are there sketches of sets and locations?
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