Post by John S Miller on Jul 2, 2006 22:47:39 GMT
I recall the earliest Doctor who that actually gave me nightmares. Some scenes (i.e. Hartnells Doctor being placed on an operating table by the Daleks in 'worlds end'); were worrying, you might feel sorry for the character, but didn't inspire nightmares.
The earliest I worked out for me, was 'web planet'. Though I found the music and words 'Zarbi' etc. bizarre, it was actually the Menoptera and Optera that scared me. For sveral years after I ha recurring nightmares, where I'd be in a normal day situation with my Mum then suddenlt get haunted and stalked by the image of a black version of an Optera dressed in a black cloak.
The main one was where we were sitting watching a film in the capitol / ABC cinema and the film was interrupted by a giant shot of the head and shoulders on a white background silently appearing. Then it popped up everywhere I went. Really disturbing.
The other one I didn't understand, which nearly gave me nightmares was 'space museum' where Babara and the others are looking at themselves in glass cases. I didn't get it!
For most of the early ones, I ran out of the room when the 'tiger stripe' pattern titles came up, missing the whole thing!
By 'War machines' I was able to sit through the whole thing, which seemed ideally constructed to thrill a small child without terrifying. bearing in mind it was designed initially for older children.
Later 'Macra terror', and 'Fury from the deep' came close to nightmares.
Embarrasingly, it wasn't till my college years and drunken nights after the union bar the nightmares arose. After the 'Krotons' repeat' I had one about being chased out of a lift by a Kroton, then a cyberman.
Even worse, after the cliffhanger the other week for the cybermen one, I had a 'bad dream' but actually quite enjoyed it. I think we have to put this down to too many cheese sandwiches after the pub before bed!
In it, I was in an office block in the city, second or third floor. A large 'Invasion' style window looked onto helf of an otherwise hidden St. pauls Catheedral. I recall descending stairs and more, like Waterloo station out of it and turning right. There was a side street which led back onto the back of the building, where steps led down into the Thames, going under. I sudeenly realised the Cybermen were going to appear from under the water. There were camera men and directors going to film it (obviously the show), but when they arose, they seemed to be taken for real and members of the public were runnning away (not unlike the actual current episode)!
They were silhouetted, dark metal. like the sea devils. I then ran into the block to an upstairs office room, and ingeniouslyworked out, there was a false, liftable false wall panel behind two wardrobe style cabinets. I could slip these aside, then back together to conceal my entry point then hide in the wall behind this panel from the cybermen. It was then getting surreal with the panel turning into wall paper, me having to lift it like a skin and hide behind, then hide in the wall in th dark, and apparently assume I was able to burrow through into another building ?!
Weird!
Any other Doctor Who nightmares?
The earliest I worked out for me, was 'web planet'. Though I found the music and words 'Zarbi' etc. bizarre, it was actually the Menoptera and Optera that scared me. For sveral years after I ha recurring nightmares, where I'd be in a normal day situation with my Mum then suddenlt get haunted and stalked by the image of a black version of an Optera dressed in a black cloak.
The main one was where we were sitting watching a film in the capitol / ABC cinema and the film was interrupted by a giant shot of the head and shoulders on a white background silently appearing. Then it popped up everywhere I went. Really disturbing.
The other one I didn't understand, which nearly gave me nightmares was 'space museum' where Babara and the others are looking at themselves in glass cases. I didn't get it!
For most of the early ones, I ran out of the room when the 'tiger stripe' pattern titles came up, missing the whole thing!
By 'War machines' I was able to sit through the whole thing, which seemed ideally constructed to thrill a small child without terrifying. bearing in mind it was designed initially for older children.
Later 'Macra terror', and 'Fury from the deep' came close to nightmares.
Embarrasingly, it wasn't till my college years and drunken nights after the union bar the nightmares arose. After the 'Krotons' repeat' I had one about being chased out of a lift by a Kroton, then a cyberman.
Even worse, after the cliffhanger the other week for the cybermen one, I had a 'bad dream' but actually quite enjoyed it. I think we have to put this down to too many cheese sandwiches after the pub before bed!
In it, I was in an office block in the city, second or third floor. A large 'Invasion' style window looked onto helf of an otherwise hidden St. pauls Catheedral. I recall descending stairs and more, like Waterloo station out of it and turning right. There was a side street which led back onto the back of the building, where steps led down into the Thames, going under. I sudeenly realised the Cybermen were going to appear from under the water. There were camera men and directors going to film it (obviously the show), but when they arose, they seemed to be taken for real and members of the public were runnning away (not unlike the actual current episode)!
They were silhouetted, dark metal. like the sea devils. I then ran into the block to an upstairs office room, and ingeniouslyworked out, there was a false, liftable false wall panel behind two wardrobe style cabinets. I could slip these aside, then back together to conceal my entry point then hide in the wall behind this panel from the cybermen. It was then getting surreal with the panel turning into wall paper, me having to lift it like a skin and hide behind, then hide in the wall in th dark, and apparently assume I was able to burrow through into another building ?!
Weird!
Any other Doctor Who nightmares?
