[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Kamog:
Those episodes from the earlier Doctors had much better stories than the later episodes. I like the third and fourth Doctors best. The special effects were not very good but the stories were original and interesting. Later on, with the sixth and seventh Doctors, the special effects were a bit better (but still not good) and the stories weren't as well-written.

When I was a kid, I stayed up late and watched every episode. It was my favorite show back then. Everybody else in my family was asleep, and I'd be sitting at the TV alone and totally engrossed in it. It was wonderful! Ah, the memories. The episodes with the second Doctor were so funny! And with the third Doctor, all those aliens invading London and UNIT combating them... All those adventures with the fourth Doctor. I was so sad when the fourth Doctor fell off the radio telescope and died, or, regenerated into the fifth Doctor... but then shortly after that, the show went downhill... I kept watching until the very end. That was a long time ago.

I envy you watching the episodes as a kid. I don't remember exactly when I first learned of Dr. Who, but I remember in my early teen years trying to watch the episodes on my local PBS station in Oklahoma. Unfortunately, they only showed the 30 minute episodes, like they would show them in England. I couldn't watch it every Saturday night, and it was disconcerting watching an episode, miss a week or two of it, then find myself in a whole new storyline. So I stopped watching it. It wasn't until my 20's when I was stationed in Texas that I saw my first full combined "episode", and fell in love with the Doctor. I even remember the episode; it was "Genesis of the Daleks". I wish that would come out on DVD. I only have a few episodes in that format. I used to belong to the Columbia House Dr. Who club, so I have several of the episodes on tape, but not that one. Plus, something about those tapes I don't understand. Some of them would be of the combined segments to make a full episode, or they would be the separated segments as you would have originally seen it aired. I don't understand the rationale of that at all. To me, I'd rather see the combined whole episodes, as that's what they're showing now, if you can catch it on PBS. I got BBCA, but they haven't been showing Dr. Who or Red Dwarf, at least not when I can watch it.

And Kamog, I agree with you. My favorite Doctor's were 3 and 4. My wife's was Peter Davidson, when she would watch it. As a matter of fact, growing up, I thought Tom Baker was the only Doctor, because it seemed every time I watched an episode (which I already said was few and far between), it was a Tom Baker episode. I was surprised to find out that there were 3 Doctors before him.