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Post by richardwoods on Aug 30, 2020 12:01:04 GMT
... the original start looked like Dr Omo, (like the old washing powder, it really does, check it out!!) ...
Actually, Doctor OHO.
There's a reason for that. They used an O and half an H as a seed for the howlround effect. Then they mirror-imaged it. And reversed the film, so that it seemed to emerge from the effect, rather than disappear into it.
Dr Oho, I love it. Bear in mind I was a barely literate 3 year old at the time & it was association of shapes & names, so it will always be Dr Omo to me. ππππ
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Post by richardwoods on Aug 30, 2020 12:04:02 GMT
The distinct impression I got from talking to people who grew up with the program was how much respect Doctor Who had. I remember my uncle saying to me back in '73 when he put it on and we watched Death to the Daleks that this was the only decent thing on television. A friend of mine, Terry Reason, who took those pictures of Evil that we saw some years ago, also told me how unique it was at the time - the rest of TV was *so* boring in comparison. You had some quiz program, or pop program, or soap - and then you had the Yeti in the underground! Bang on Richard, I remember watching The Man Trap, the first UK broadcast episode of Star Trek & it being mind blowingly good in comparison to a lot of what was on. Mind you, we did have The Saint & The Avengers so it wasnβt all bad!
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Post by Andrew Browne on Aug 30, 2020 13:54:23 GMT
Bang on Richard, I remember watching The Man Trap, the first UK broadcast episode of Star Trek & it being mind blowingly good in comparison to a lot of what was on. To be pedantic, the first UK broadcast episode of Star Trek was "Where No Man Has Gone Before" on July 12 1969. I remember watching it, thinking it was going to be part of the coverage of the Apollo 11 moon mission.
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Post by richardwoods on Aug 30, 2020 15:34:34 GMT
Nothing wrong at all about being pedantic, itβs important to be accurate. The memory cheats!
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Aug 31, 2020 10:06:29 GMT
The distinct impression I got from talking to people who grew up with the program was how much respect Doctor Who had. I remember my uncle saying to me back in '73 when he put it on and we watched Death to the Daleks that this was the only decent thing on television. A friend of mine, Terry Reason, who took those pictures of Evil that we saw some years ago, also told me how unique it was at the time - the rest of TV was *so* boring in comparison. You had some quiz program, or pop program, or soap - and then you had the Yeti in the underground! Actually Richard, I'm trawling through The Tomorrow People boxset at the moment and that also seems pretty wonderful as well (1973-1979).I loved Dr Who more in the 1970s so I ignored The Tomorrow People but it still has a huge international following so it was another great serial of the era!
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Post by richardwoods on Aug 31, 2020 13:12:36 GMT
The distinct impression I got from talking to people who grew up with the program was how much respect Doctor Who had. I remember my uncle saying to me back in '73 when he put it on and we watched Death to the Daleks that this was the only decent thing on television. A friend of mine, Terry Reason, who took those pictures of Evil that we saw some years ago, also told me how unique it was at the time - the rest of TV was *so* boring in comparison. You had some quiz program, or pop program, or soap - and then you had the Yeti in the underground! Actually Richard, I'm trawling through The Tomorrow People boxset at the moment and that also seems pretty wonderful as well (1973-1979).I loved Dr Who more in the 1970s so I ignored The Tomorrow People but it still has a huge international following so it was another great serial of the era! Great series ruined by dreadful special effects on a limited budget. Still loved it at the time.
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Richard Develyn
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Post by Richard Develyn on Aug 31, 2020 16:48:13 GMT
I enjoyed The Tomorrow People at the time, until that pop-star person joined it :-| I also enjoyed Blake's 7 and the original Star Trek, though none of these as much as Doctor Who. Mind you, I drifted away from Doctor Who after Horror of Fang Rock, only coming back to it because of The Five Faces of Doctor Who.
My golden era is really that covered by the early target books, which is to say odd Hartnells, odd Troughtons, most of Pertwee and the Hinchcliffe Tom Baker years. I later discovered the Troughtons that weren't really covered by those early novelisations but are still so brilliant (i.e. most of seasons 4 and 5), some Hartnells, Ambassadors and Inferno and the later Tom Baker stories. I would say that about 60-70% of the first four doctors' serials are what makes the series fantastic for me - and better than anything else I have seen on TV then or since.
Although I cannot find the source of this quotation now, I think it was Alexei Sayle who captured the sentiment of the program perfectly (and I'm likely misquoting this):
"Every saturday night Brtain's starship children would watch Pertwee, Baker, Troughton or Hartnell tackle the worst creatures the universe could throw at them armed only with sundry items from the BBC wardrobe department and a sonic screwdriver".
(I'd be fascinated if someone could find the orinal quote).
Richard
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