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Originally Posted by Rainbow Six
I like them both, and think David Tennant has been great, but for me the golden era of Doctor Who will always be 1974 - 1976...Tom Baker's early years were awesome.
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I used to love Doctor Who when I was 7-10. They used to show it Sunday mornings on PBS back in the mid '80s. Tom Baker will always be
the Doctor to me. I had my mom knit me a 20' long scarf.
I've watched quite a few of them via Netflix and they're pretty dreadful. Terrible special effects, mostly poor acting, convoluted stories, and lots of dead space. When I was a kid, I thought I was watching an adult show. Now I know that they were purposely producing show for kids and now, as an adult, this is almost painfully obvious. Even so, I still get a nostalgic pleasure from watching them. I've made my wife watch them with me. They're good for a laugh, at least. Although a lot of it is pretty cliched, there are some really neat but relatively undeveloped sci-fi ideas sprinkled in there too. There was a lot of potential there.
I tried watching the new WHO and couldn't get in to it. IMHO, they've wasted the potential in the Doctor Who universe. Too much of it seemed to happen on Earth and it can't seem to decide if it's serious sci-fi or a campy parody of earlier incarnations. Neither of the "new" Doctors can match Baker's ability to go from earnestly serious to irreverently goofy without seeming phony. I just can't watch it.
I'm putting on my asbestos coveralls right now...