I just realized:
Jul. 20th, 2008 12:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
capri0mniEpisodes of Doctor Who I've (re)seen, so far, since the beginning of the Tom Baker era:
16 Episodes at roughly 25 minutes each = 400 minutes
Total number of interior shots of the TARDIS: 0, zero, nada, zilch.
We've seen a few exterior shots of the ship, but not many; I haven't been thinking to count, but it's certainly less than a dozen.
I haven't seen any of these episodes since they were aired in the early days, on terrestrial TV -- back before WNJN, New Jersey Public Television picked them up, back when they were edited for the independant commercial station, WWOR (and yes, they were sliced and diced for the inclusion of commercials). I'm certain I started watching sometime during Robot, missed an episode or two as I learned to remember when it was on, and saw some more in Ark.
I can't remember the episode in which I first caught sight of the console room... Of course, now as I watch it, I have the console room deeply imbedded in my psyche, so I "see" it there without actually seeing it (as it probably was for the contemporary British audiences). But back then, as a new American fan, I must have been very surprised, and, I imagine, a bit confused.
... I wonder how many people are now in that same boat, thanks to this being the first time Doctor Who is being broadcast, down here...
*But my, oh my! wasn't the Doctor's closing voice-over speech lordly?
- Robot = 4 Episodes
- The Ark in Space = 4 Episodes
- The Sontarian Experiment = 2 Episodes
- Genesis of the Daleks = 6 Episodes *
16 Episodes at roughly 25 minutes each = 400 minutes
Total number of interior shots of the TARDIS: 0, zero, nada, zilch.
We've seen a few exterior shots of the ship, but not many; I haven't been thinking to count, but it's certainly less than a dozen.
I haven't seen any of these episodes since they were aired in the early days, on terrestrial TV -- back before WNJN, New Jersey Public Television picked them up, back when they were edited for the independant commercial station, WWOR (and yes, they were sliced and diced for the inclusion of commercials). I'm certain I started watching sometime during Robot, missed an episode or two as I learned to remember when it was on, and saw some more in Ark.
I can't remember the episode in which I first caught sight of the console room... Of course, now as I watch it, I have the console room deeply imbedded in my psyche, so I "see" it there without actually seeing it (as it probably was for the contemporary British audiences). But back then, as a new American fan, I must have been very surprised, and, I imagine, a bit confused.
... I wonder how many people are now in that same boat, thanks to this being the first time Doctor Who is being broadcast, down here...
*But my, oh my! wasn't the Doctor's closing voice-over speech lordly?
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Date: 2008-07-20 09:16 am (UTC)I recall backstage stories from the mid-70s that shooting with the console was a pain because the set stagehands and the prop managers each said it was the other guy's responsibility. The first Tom Baker story with a console room scene
may be Masque of Mandragora, and that's the introduction of the wood-paneled one with the non-moving console; the standard white roundeled console room doesn't come back till Horror of Fang Rock or Invisible Enemy.was Planet of Evil. Then Pyramids of Mars, and then not again I think till Mandragora.no subject
Date: 2008-07-20 08:30 pm (UTC)BTW, I looked up ("Doctor Who" Broadcast History) on the Interwebs
last nightthis morning, and found a Wikipedia article that said that WOR (didn't even have the second "W," back then) started airing Doctor Who sometime after 1976, a few years before the "Doctor Who started airing in the States in the Eighties" meme that's out there... so I am not mad for remembering that I first got hooked on DW as a young teen, rather than an older teen....that makes me feel a little bit better, at least.
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Date: 2008-07-21 04:04 am (UTC)The final story made for s12, Terror of the Zygons, was held back to become the lead story of s13.
Don't be surprised if your public television station runs Pyramids of Mars before Planet of Evil. Pyramids was made first, probably because it had a lot of outdoor shots. PBS was always running it out of order in the three states I've lived in.
The two stories can generally play pretty well out of order, but there *is* a reference to something said in Zygons at the start of Planet of Evil.
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Date: 2008-07-21 04:12 am (UTC)I forgot to mention that it's the bleeding BBC Production Codes that threw PBS off. They indicate production order, not story order, but seem to have made the transatlantic crossing along with the tapes themselves.
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Date: 2008-07-21 06:34 pm (UTC)It is one of the most poignent stories about the futility and destructiveness of war ever written, imnsho -- historical or speculative fiction.
I was surprised by what happened to Davros, at the end... I'd forgotten that bit.
And Sarah Jane is just made of win, in this one, isn't she?
I forgot to mention that it's the bleeding BBC Production Codes that threw PBS off. They indicate production order, not story order, but seem to have made the transatlantic crossing along with the tapes themselves.
Well, this is the first time in its history that my local station has ever aired Doctor Who. Maybe they've got a new shipment, and maybe the confusion has been cleared up by now...
...fingers crossed.