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Post by HappyGoLucky on May 2, 2023 8:17:23 GMT
A belated Happy Beltane to everyone one of you Pagan Bastards out there!! ( i'm more Pagan than Christian) A day late but in about an hours time i will watch this very story , the latest Blu-ray version of course, magnificent folly!! Take care everyone. Regards HGL.
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Post by Servo on May 2, 2023 10:41:15 GMT
And here was me thinking it was just the English wearing silly clothes and dancing around phallic symbols to their old Strawbs records.
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Post by Servo on May 2, 2023 10:45:45 GMT
These days “Morris” dancing consists of dressing up like Indiana Jones dancing around a film can with QQ 3 written on it in crayon, whilst singing bad 80’s tunes in an incoherent Scouse accent.
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Post by HappyGoLucky on May 3, 2023 9:18:08 GMT
These days “Morris” dancing consists of dressing up like Indiana Jones dancing around a film can with QQ 3 written on it in crayon, whilst singing bad 80’s tunes in an incoherent Scouse accent. I bet your not far from the truth there mi old cotton sock. Regards HGL.
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Post by GC on Sept 6, 2023 12:59:41 GMT
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Post by GC on Aug 1, 2024 18:25:59 GMT
34. Doctor Who Locations Guide - The DÆmons{Spoiler}
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Post by profh0011 on Aug 1, 2024 18:58:22 GMT
Back in the early 70s, Philly's channel 17 started with "The Silurians" and ended with "Day of the Daleks". So instead of the 3 seasons I read were supposed to be in syndication, we got 2... sort of.
When they were running it the first time, it was M-F at 7:30 PM. I missed the 2nd half of "Silurians" and the middle of "Ambassadors", so "Inferno" was the first one I saw all the way thru.
The 2nd time around, they ran one episode per week, Saturdays at 11:30 AM. But I didn't find out until halfway thru "Axos". So, "Colony", "Daemons" and "Day" were the only stories I actually saw in their entirety, IN COLOR, twice.
"The Daemons" was in B&W in the 80s, so it didn't turn up until the 2nd batch of Pertwees, and that's how I have it... in "movie edit" form. (Strangely enough, I only have the show in its original episodic form from "Robot" to "Terminus". Why they stopped running it that way at that point is beyond me.)
I suspect I saw FIVE MILLIONS YEARS TO EARTH on TV several years before I saw "The Daemons", so I realized it felt like it begins as a variation on a theme, that then goes off in its own direction.
I've always liked this story, though I wondered why it was constantly pushed as "everybody's favorite".
The Brigadier was long my favorite character on the show. Sadly, I never got to see Nicholas Courtney in person. He was supoposed to be at a big convention in Valley Forge around 1985 or so, but didn't show up that day.
As for The Doctor being cranky, well, the FIRST time he seemed to relax and become nicer, for me, was in "Day of the Daleks". Which, of course, was the LAST story they ran here in the 70s. (GRRR.) In retrospect, I suspect that could be down to the simple fact that by then, The Master had been arrested and locked up safely, after 5 STORIES IN A ROW of him causing trouble.
Amusingly (well, to me, anyway), in early 1991, I got to be friends with a Lutheran minister who, physically, reminded me a lot of Roger Delgado. One day, when he invited me over his house, I ran " Terror of the Autons" for him-- The Master's introduction. I don't know if he quite realized the "joke". His main comment about that story was, that Jo Grant seemed too typical of a "helpless woman" who gets into trouble and has to be rescued. Of course, she got much better in the next story. I wonder what he might have said if I'd run " The Daemons" instead...
Back in the 70s, that first time around, I very much preferred Liz Shaw to Jo Grant. I still rank Liz as one of my top favorite girls on the show. Jo took a LONG time to really grow on me. The crazy thing is, the last time I re-watched the entire series, I wound up liking her MORE than Sarah! Did NOT see that coming at all.
It would have been nice to see Liz make occasional return appearances. I feel that way about a LOT of characters on a LOT of shows. In her case, it would have been VERY comparable to "Chris Caughlin" (Diana Muldaur), who kept leaving and then returning here and there over the course of McCLOUD. I've been comparing the Pertwee run of WHO and McCLOUD a lot lately, as the format AND main characters are SO similar! And the SPOOKY thing is... the two shows DEBUTED within a couple weeks of each other. It makes me wonder, what was in the air at the time? (McCLOUD, of course, was definitely based on COOGAN'S BLUFF from 1968. Could anyone connected with setting up the Pertwee era have seen and been inspired at all by THAT?)
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Post by GC on Aug 25, 2024 23:09:29 GMT
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Post by GC on Sept 29, 2024 21:00:48 GMT
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