5.15pm GMT, 23rd November 1963

 'An Unearthly Child' was shown

 the show was only supposed to run for a few weeks....but then they showed the Daleks...

And I'm - tragically - old enough to remember the first episode.

My favourite Doctor was Patrick Troughton though.

;o)

Laurie

You'll enjoy the mars one when you get to see it Kaibach! 

At the risk of a) repeating myself (which I do, all the time!) and b) hijacking the thread, my late brother Jim was an SFX designer on the show in the 1970s......he went on to do Blake's 7 and Red Dwarf, but never forgot the skills he learned with The Doctor.

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Damn straight!

Finally a "special" that lived up to the name.

Hmmm.  I'm confused!   "The Doctor"?

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Who? Who??! What Doctor?? ;o)

Doctor Who of course ;o)....lol.

Laurie

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As above; Doctor Who.  The longest running TV SF show in the world.  Arguably one of the biggest (if not the biggest) money makers for the BBC.

Watched it from the first episode onwards.  Fell out with it around the Peter Davidson years, regained my enthusiasm when it was relaunched a few years back with Chris Eccleston as The Doctor.

You know, I can honestly say that I don't think I've ever seen an episode of that show.

I was more into "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Bewitched" and "Gilligan's Island"  etc.

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I was more into "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Bewitched" and "Gilligan's Island"  etc.

You should give it a go.  You'd probably not like the early stuff due to the low production values.  The new stuff is definitely more newbie friendly.

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I was more into "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Bewitched" and "Gilligan's Island"  etc.

You should give it a go.  You'd probably not like the early stuff due to the low production values.  The new stuff is definitely more newbie friendly.

I used to watch the first Doctor when I was a kid. It was worse than the original Star Trek episodes for the sets...lolol. But I watched Star Trek too. I was a kid, what did I know...lol.

Here in the U.S. you could only see it on PBS at the time. I used to soak up PBS tho, because I could watch all the British shows I loved like Doctor Who, Faulty Towers, Are You Being Served? and even Masterpiece Theater ;). There was no BBC America then.

Laurie

I found out about The Doctor back in the 80s when  I stumbled across an episode with Jon Pertwee as The Doctor. Watched every episode I could find. I even have some of the episodes on Beta tapes. including the 4 doctors, the five doctors and if I'm not mistaken the two movies that they made with Peter Cushing as The Doctor :P

Here in Germany DOCTOR WHO was not show until recently when they broadcast the relaunched Doctor starting with Christopher Eccleston - at that time (2008) David Tennant was already in his third year at the BBC. So it came really too late and was badly advertised. It was shown Sunday afternoon on a private channel to low ratings, it got cancelled then broadcast again to better ratings, but not a real hit even though it build a large fan base.

The spin-off TORCHWOOD is far more successful, shown in the evening, where it has the best ratings for the channel, especially CHILDREN OF EARTH (broadcast only two months after BBC), I assume because the viewers who are not familiar with the decades long history of DOCTOR WHO feel not like outsiders. Even though I like Tennant as the Doctor I prefer Torchwood's Captain Jack Harkness - I would not say that about anyone else but he really looks good in the Luftwaffe jacket.

I think the first time I came across Dr Who was in the very early seventies
in movie form with Peter Cushing. Iwas fascinated by the Daleks.

Quote - At the risk of a) repeating myself (which I do, all the time!) and b) hijacking the thread, my late brother Jim was an SFX designer on the show in the 1970s......he went on to do Blake's 7 and Red Dwarf, but never forgot the skills he learned with The Doctor.

OOOOHHHHH!!!! I LOVED Blake's 7... In my opinion, it was better than Star Trek at the time but since it was shown on different days and time from Star Trek, I was able to watch both.  But I digress. This thread is about the good Doctor... I do like almost all of the Doctors starting from the ones in late 1980's to the present. Each one had their peculiar quirks and likability. Tom Baker (?) is the one I'd like but he's not my favorite one tho...

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Wrong!

We had the shows with the 4th Doctor, Tom Baker, over here in Germany and IIRC it was on ZDF afternoon kids program during the 70'. I remember him very well, that was the only Doctor I knew, the funny guy with the curly hair and the long striped scarf.

I've caught season 1 and 2 of the new Doctor Who on SciFi but since no TV channel over here in Germany is going to buy the other seasons I've bought the Doctor Who 1-4 complete DVD box in english. That is anyway much better than this awfully german dubbed stuff they usually show over here. Anyone who ever heard Chris Eccelstone or David Tennent in english will never go back to the german versions. The original is far better.

I'm not sure if Ilike Nine or Ten better ... I think they're both great. :) Although ... I'm a big Ten/Rose fan so maybe Ten is two points ahead Nine ;-)

The new series and its moral relativity is crap.

The old stuff is terrific.  The first Doctor had the great historic episodes.  You won't see better TV than when the Doctor visited ancient Rome.

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Wrong!

We had the shows with the 4th Doctor, Tom Baker, over here in Germany and IIRC it was on ZDF afternoon kids program during the 70'. I remember him very well, that was the only Doctor I knew, the funny guy with the curly hair and the long striped scarf.

Really? I don't remember watching TV before the late Seventies. But it's not even mentioned on the German Doctor Who page on Wikipedia. They mention that there were some episodes shown in 1989 on RTL though, I don't recall that either, probably afternoon TV.

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Wrong!

We had the shows with the 4th Doctor, Tom Baker, over here in Germany and IIRC it was on ZDF afternoon kids program during the 70'. I remember him very well, that was the only Doctor I knew, the funny guy with the curly hair and the long striped scarf.

Really? I don't remember watching TV before the late Seventies. But it's not even mentioned on the German Doctor Who page on Wikipedia. They mention that there were some episodes shown in 1989 on RTL though, I don't recall that either, probably afternoon TV.

Wikipedia is only as complete/accurate as the user input that fills it out.

If'n I remember correctly, they pre-empted the first Dr Who because of the Kennedy assasination?
yeah, it started that long ago...;)

Saw some Tom Baker Ones, then 'the guy who work the cricket outfit', and then nothing until the last two (the rough guy, and the one in the Harry Potter movie...;)

Raises hand as one who watched the early episodes crouching behind the sofa, the first Doctor let alone the Daleks was damn scary and the theme tune, there was nothing in my world at the time that sounded so weird, Subsequent interest in weird and experimental music has taught me just how unique and special it was,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_theme_music