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D J Dog Toffee said:
I used to love it as a kid. It scared the hell out of me. I still watch it now, just due to the nostalgia really, but it's not as enjoyable now I've aged.

When I were a nipper this was Doctor Who:

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He had some cracking story-lines, a couple of them even written by Douglas Adams. I stopped watching the new ones when Catherine Tate was brought on board. She is ghastly, in every sense of the word. As a kiddie I always fancied the assistant, the poor kids these days have had to put up with that munter :eek:

Saying that the new one is quite fit and has kept me watching this new series so far. It doesn't have nearly as much charm as it used to and it just doesn't sit right with the new Doctor. I think the main reason being that Doctor Who should never be younger than me, that's just weird.
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I hate Catherine Tate as much as the next sane person, but she wasn't on the last episode of Doctor Who that I looked at, there was this hot young Scottish redhead.
 
Wonder Pigeon said:
I hate Catherine Tate as much as the next sane person, but she wasn't on the last episode of Doctor Who that I looked at, there was this hot young Scottish redhead.
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Yeah, that's what kept me watching the latest two episodes, even though the new Doctor is mildly annoying and looks a bit like that ginger kid in the Cher movie Mask.
 
Looks like I'm the only Doctor fanboi on here. Been watching it for 40 odd years and I must say its my favourite show. 50% of the episodes are cheesy but the other half are really good. My 3 year old grand loves them all ! Self confessed addict here.
 
BahamaRed said:
Looks like I'm the only Doctor fanboi on here. Been watching it for 40 odd years and I must say its my favourite show. 50% of the episodes are cheesy but the other half are really good. My 3 year old grand loves them all ! Self confessed addict here.
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feckin hell:eek: how long has it been showing???:eek:


...let me guess...40 years...:wenger:


Doctor Who is Chuck Norris of television series!
 
Mockney said:
Oop, there's another.

Does anyone in here ever form opinions after they've watched something...or is pathalogical hatred only reserved for thing you've never seen?
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It's more then a pathalogical hatred actually.
 
BahamaRed said:
Looks like I'm the only Doctor fanboi on here. Been watching it for 40 odd years and I must say its my favourite show. 50% of the episodes are cheesy but the other half are really good. My 3 year old grand loves them all ! Self confessed addict here.
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Plus one except the granddad and 40+ years bit.
 
CROmanc said:
feckin hell:eek: how long has it been showing???:eek:


...let me guess...40 years...:wenger:


Doctor Who is Chuck Norris of television series!
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Actually 47 years, with a 16 year break from '89 to 2005. It was always on Saturday evening prime time and used to watch it when I was 15 years old after returning from whatever game was at Old Trafford that day. I have all the new series 1-5 on DVD and watch them over and over.
 
BahamaRed said:
Actually 47 years, with a 16 year break from '89 to 2005. It was always on Saturday evening prime time and used to watch it when I was 15 years old after returning from whatever game was at Old Trafford that day. I have all the new series 1-5 on DVD and watch them over and over.
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There was a TV Movie in 1996, which gave us the 8th Doctor, also.

People have bitched about Eccleston not staying long enough - poor Paul McGann only got 90 minutes, less since they had to kill off the previous guy first!
 
Spammy said:
The current tragedy of a program, is the worst television I've ever seen, ever.
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:lol: you sound like a City fan talking about United!

Awards

Although Doctor Who was fondly regarded during its original 1963–1989 run, it received little critical recognition at the time. In 1975, Season 11 of the series won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for Best Writing in a Children's Serial. In 1996, BBC television held the "Auntie Awards" as the culmination of their "TV60" series, celebrating sixty years of BBC television broadcasting, where Doctor Who was voted as the "Best Popular Drama" the corporation had ever produced, ahead of such ratings heavyweights as EastEnders and Casualty.[100] In 2000, Doctor Who was ranked third in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the twentieth century, produced by the British Film Institute and voted on by industry professionals.[101] In 2005, the series came first in a survey by SFX magazine of "The Greatest UK Science Fiction and Fantasy Television Series Ever". Also, in the 100 Greatest Kids' TV shows (a Channel 4 countdown in 2001), the 1963–1989 run was placed at number eight.
The revived series has received particular recognition from critics and the public, across various different awards ceremonies. These include:

BAFTAs
The British Academy Television Awards (BAFTA) nominations, released on 27 March 2006, revealed that Doctor Who had been shortlisted in the "Drama Series" category. This is the highest-profile and most prestigious British television award for which the series has ever been nominated. Doctor Who was also nominated in several other categories in the BAFTA Craft Awards, including Writer (Russell T Davies), Director (Joe Ahearne), and Break-through Talent (production designer Edward Thomas). However, it did not win any of its categories at the Craft Awards.
On 22 April 2006, the programme won five categories (out of fourteen nominations) at the lower-profile BAFTA Cymru awards, given to programmes made in Wales. It won Best Drama Series, Drama Director (James Hawes), Costume, Make-up and Photography Direction. Russell T Davies also won the Siân Phillips Award for Outstanding Contribution to Network Television.[102] The programme enjoyed further success at the BAFTA Cymru awards the following year, winning eight of the thirteen categories in which it was nominated, including Best Actor for David Tennant and Best Drama Director for Graeme Harper.[103]
On 7 May 2006, the winners of the British Academy Television Awards were announced, and Doctor Who won both of the categories it was nominated for, the Best Drama Series and audience-voted Pioneer Award. Russell T Davies also won the Dennis Potter Award for Outstanding Writing for Television.[104] Writer Steven Moffat won the Writer category at the 2008 BAFTA Craft Awards for his 2007 Doctor Who episode "Blink".[105]
The series also won awards at the BAFTA Cymru ceremony on 27 April 2008, including "Best Screenwriter" for Steven Moffat, "Best Director: Drama" for James Strong, "Best Director Of Photography: Drama" for Ernie Vincze, "Best Sound" for the BBC Wales Sound Team and "Best Make-Up" for Barbara Southcott and Neill Gorton (of Millennium FX).[106]
In March 2009, it was announced that Doctor Who had again been nominated in the "Drama Series" category for the British Academy Television Awards; however, it lost out to the BBC series Wallander at the Awards on Sunday 26 April.[107] The series picked up two BAFTAs at the British Academy Television Craft Awards on Sunday 17 May. Visual Effects company The Mill won the "Visual Effects" award for the episode "The Fires of Pompeii" and Philip Kloss won in the "Editing Fiction/Entertainment" category.[108]

Other British awards
In 2005, at the National Television Awards (voted on by members of the British public), Doctor Who won "Most Popular Drama", Christopher Eccleston won "Most Popular Actor" and Billie Piper won "Most Popular Actress". The series and Piper repeated their wins at the 2006 National Television Awards, and David Tennant won "Most Popular Actor" in 2006 and 2007, with the series again taking the Most Popular Drama award in 2007.[109] At the 2008 National Television Awards Tennant won "Outstanding Drama Performance" and the series again won the Drama category;[110] they repeated these victories the next time the awards were held, in 2010.[111]
A scene from "The Doctor Dances" won "Golden Moment" in the BBC's "2005 TV Moments" awards,[112] and Doctor Who swept all the categories in BBC.co.uk's online "Best of Drama" poll in both 2005[113] and 2006.[114] The programme also won the Broadcast Magazine Award for Best Drama.[115] Eccleston was awarded the TV Quick and TV Choice award for Best Actor in 2005; in the same 2006 awards, Tennant won Best Actor, Piper won Best Actress and Doctor Who won Best-Loved Drama.[116][117]
Doctor Who was nominated in the Best Drama Series category at the 2006 Royal Television Society awards,[118] but lost to BBC Three's medical drama Bodies.[119]
Doctor Who also received several nominations for the 2006 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards: the programme for Best Drama, Eccleston for Best Actor (David Tennant was also nominated for Secret Smile), Piper for Best Actress and Davies for Best Writer. However, it did not win any of these categories.[120]
A panel of journalists and television executives for the annual awards given out at the Edinburgh Television Festival voted Doctor Who as the best programme of the year in 2007 and 2008.[121][122]
 
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Science-fiction awards
Several episodes of the 2005 series of Doctor Who were nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: "Dalek", "Father's Day" and the double episode "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances". At a ceremony at the Worldcon (L.A. Con IV) in Los Angeles on 27 August 2006, the Hugo was awarded to "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances".[123] "Dalek" and "Father's Day" came in second and third places respectively.[124] The 2006 series episodes "School Reunion", "Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday" and "The Girl in the Fireplace" were nominated for the same category of the 2007 Hugo Awards, with "The Girl in the Fireplace" winning.[125] The 2007 series episodes "Blink" and "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood" also secured nominations in this category in the 2008 Hugo Awards,[126] with "Blink" winning the award.[127] The 2008 series episodes "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead" and "Turn Left" secured nominations in this category in the 2009 Hugo awards.[128]
On 7 July 2007, the series won three Constellation Awards: David Tennant won "Best Male Performance in a 2006 Science Fiction Television Episode" for the episode "The Girl in the Fireplace", and the series itself won "Best Science Fiction Television Series of 2006" and "Outstanding Canadian Contribution to Science Fiction Film or Television in 2006". It was eligible for the latter award because of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's involvement as co-producer of the series.[129]
On 12 July 2008, the series won three Constellation Awards: David Tennant won "Best Male Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode" for the episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood", Carey Mulligan won "Best Female Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode" for the episode "Blink" and the series itself won "Best Science Fiction Television Series of 2007".[130]
On 19 September 2009, the series was the first winner of the British Fantasy Award for "Best Television Programme".[131]

Overseas awards
On 8 November 2007, Doctor Who received its first mainstream American award nomination when it was nominated for the 34th Annual People's Choice Awards in the category of "Favorite Sci-Fi Show". The awards, broadcast on CBS on 8 January 2008 are voted on by the people via an Internet poll. The series faced competition from American-produced series Battlestar Galactica (itself a revival of an older series), and Stargate Atlantis.[132] It was defeated by Stargate Atlantis.[133] In June 2008, the series won the inaugural Best International Series category at the 34th Saturn Awards, defeating its spin-off, Torchwood, which was also nominated.[134] The Seoul International Drama Awards 2009 honoured it with an award as The Most Popular Foreign Drama of the Year.[135]

21 January 2010
BBC One's Doctor Who has scooped two awards at the National TV Awards in London, including best drama for the fifth year in a row.
David Tennant, who has now quit as the Doctor, left the show on a high by winning outstanding drama performance.


Quite a trophy cabinet for a pile of shit.
 
Bearded but no genius said:
There was a TV Movie in 1996, which gave us the 8th Doctor, also.

People have bitched about Eccleston not staying long enough - poor Paul McGann only got 90 minutes, less since they had to kill off the previous guy first!
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I haven't watched that in a while. Given me the urge to watch it again tonight.
Time travelling has always intrigued me and HG Wells' Time Machine was my favourite movie as a child. Watched it again recently and still enjoyed it.
Maybe when I grow up I'll lose interest.
 
i loved Doctor Who when i was growing up - William Hartnell was the best Doctor for me ( although we are talking here about episodes shown 47 years ago so I doubt they've stood the test of time )

Isn't the new Doctor a huge United fan?
 
I look forward to the next doctor episode almost as much as the next United game.
Best entertainment ever made for TV.
Recommend you watch the final two episodes of the current series 5. Rated a 10 out of 10 by most critics including some heavy doctor critics at
www.gallifreybase.com , the leading doctor forum.
 
You're wasting your breath on here Bahama...most of 'em slate it as childish nonsense without actually having seen an episode for years...The new series has been superb from start to finish and the worldwide acclaim for Dr Who is something us Brits should be proud of!
 
Youngie said:
You're wasting your breath on here Bahama...most of 'em slate it as childish nonsense without actually having seen an episode for years...The new series has been superb from start to finish and the worldwide acclaim for Dr Who is something us Brits should be proud of!
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I gave it a go, I watched the first episode of the new season (mainly because I know someone who was in it). I thought it was bloody awful though.

Give me Red Dwarf anytime, now THAT is some British tv to be proud of.
 
Best ever Dr Who story was "Fury from the Deep"... Scarred me for life! :nervous:
I was scared of seaweed and foam for years!
Mr Quill and Mr Oak were very eerie,too!



Patrick Troughton - probably the best Dr followed by Jon Pertwee and Christopher Eccleston.
 
Man Utd Mrs said:
Best ever Dr Who story was "Fury from the Deep"... Scarred me for life! :nervous:
I was scared of seaweed and foam for years!
Mr Quill and Mr Oak were very eerie,too!



Patrick Troughton - probably the best Dr followed by Jon Pertwee and Christopher Eccleston.
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That one was well scary when watched as a kid. And also the first story ever to feature a sonic screwdriver
 
i like the modern doctor who most of the time, there is always the few episodes that are too childish for my liking though
 
RedSky At Night said:
I gave it a go, I watched the first episode of the new season (mainly because I know someone who was in it). I thought it was bloody awful though.

Give me Red Dwarf anytime, now THAT is some British tv to be proud of.
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But if you had persevered to the last episode of the series that 'opener' would have made a lot more sense as all the episodes are interlinked and reasons why it seemed rather vague answered!

By the way which cast member do you know? Not Amy Pond is it???:drool:
 
Youngie said:
You're wasting your breath on here Bahama...most of 'em slate it as childish nonsense without actually having seen an episode for years...The new series has been superb from start to finish and the worldwide acclaim for Dr Who is something us Brits should be proud of!
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Totally agree.
All of Space and Time.
 
Youngie said:
But if you had persevered to the last episode of the series that 'opener' would have made a lot more sense as all the episodes are interlinked and reasons why it seemed rather vague answered!

By the way which cast member do you know? Not Amy Pond is it???:drool:
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Amy Ponds the red head?

I know Tom Darvill, who's Amy Ponds boyfriend/friend? The one with the glasses and used to be a citv presenter. This was a while ago now when he was at school :)
 
I am not a fan. However I heard on the radio that Eric Cantona will be in an episode next series. I will be watching that one.
 
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