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Tom Baker is the version of The Doctor I'm most familiar with. It was a weird show that I had to watch on PBS and no one else watched it. It was obviously a very British show with a low budget but it had heart and told interesting stories like the classic science fiction I grew up reading.
I've never gotten into any of the reboots. I'm sure they were fine but my family doesn't want to watch them. Too different.
European and not the original series, but I really love the 2005 (?) reboot an watched it up to season twelve I think. The Doctor Who universe is truly one of a kind, I really enjoy the mix of classic science fiction and the subtle British humor. It's one of my absolute favorite shows
I never got into the show but i LOVED the theme song. Whenever i randomly stumbled across the show opening I'd listen to it every single time
Honestly same. Love the theme song even if the show is kinda meh for me.
Grew up in the 80’s and didn’t have cable tv, so I watched a lot of PBS at home after school. I remember being really invested in the Tom Baker and Peter Davison episodes but no one else I knew at school watched any of that stuff. The last story line I remember is Castrovalva. I should probably try to rewatch a few someday
I turned on PBS at midnight and this came on and I felt like I was in a different dimension where time had no meaning. And that was because of the pacing <3 I loved it, I was hooked.
It was in the 80s for me that I watched the 3rd Doctor on PBS. But Star Trek:TNG aired in the same time slot, and the tv was my parents, so when it came out no more Doctor Who for me.
It was not until about a year or two before the 9th Doctor that i was able to start watching it again. My then 4/5 year old daughter loved it. She is still a huge fan, all my kids are.
The couple years leading up to the release of the 2000s Dr Who reboot the Australian Broadcasting Corporation did an episode each week night starting from the original black and white episodes. Took a few years to get through the previous 9ish Drs.
Yes, but started in the late 70s. My best friend's sister turned me on to it. I watched it on KQED.
I'm probably about the same age as your parents.
I watched Doctor Who in the early '80s, but not on PBS. An independent TV station out of New Jersey, WWOR showed four episodes on Saturday mornings starting at 9 or 10. I don't think our local PBS station (channel 13) ever showed it, but channel 21 out of Long Island eventually did.
Edit: The American TV movie was 1996.
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