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Post by johnnybear on Jul 13, 2022 7:14:19 GMT
I had the cassette too along with The Pescatons! JB
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Post by ant-mac on Aug 17, 2022 19:43:04 GMT
Loved this back in the day.... I had the cassette. He says he stepped from the TARDIS and 15 seconds later he's complaining to the Time Lord about how dangerous it is to intercept a transmat beam... Make up your mind! PS - I also have the cassette. Before I got a VCR, I actually audio recorded all of the episodes off TV via an audio lead I plugged into a cassette player... I think I've still got most of them, sitting in a drawer in the spare bedroom.
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Post by Cyggy on Aug 17, 2022 19:46:43 GMT
He says he stepped from the TARDIS and 15 seconds later he's complaining to the Time Lord about how dangerous it is to intercept a transmat beam... Make up your mind! I have honestly never noticed that before!
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Post by ant-mac on Aug 17, 2022 20:22:00 GMT
He says he stepped from the TARDIS and 15 seconds later he's complaining to the Time Lord about how dangerous it is to intercept a transmat beam... Make up your mind! I have honestly never noticed that before! I noticed the first time I listened to it, because the TARDIS wasn't in the TV serial. And here in Australia, we got regular repeats of DOCTOR WHO, 4 times per week for most of the year. So GENESIS OF THE DALEKS showed up more than once.
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Post by johnnybear on Aug 27, 2022 9:39:31 GMT
Yes the TARDIS mention was for those of us that didn't know about the last story and the transmat beam which was then mentioned by Tom from the actual episode!!! Maybe they didn't want to waste time with Tom explaining about Nerva Beacon as the ending of the tape was cut short with the Dalek leader going on about being entombed and then the voice shooting off into the vortex without Tom and companions leaving Skaro and going on about the greater good of the Daleks existing in the future despite their atrocities and conquests! JB
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Post by Servo on Aug 27, 2022 10:08:09 GMT
Not without its faults (all mentioned previously), but still a damn good story.
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Post by Black Orchid on Sept 25, 2022 15:30:16 GMT
"Tom Baker taken on the Skaro cave set in TC8 on Monday 10th February 1975 during camera rehearsals for ‘Genesis of the Daleks’ Part Three." Clayton Hickman twitter
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Post by Black Orchid on Mar 24, 2023 12:59:07 GMT
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Post by Future-Diver on May 18, 2023 6:15:55 GMT
I remember getting my very first cassette recorder for Christmas and taping the omnibus edition of Genesis Of The Daleks in December 1975, simply by placing the recorder next to the telly and staying as quiet as possible. Of course I still love GOTD, but part of my appreciation comes from the fact that it annoyed Mary Whitehouse so much!
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Post by Future-Diver on May 20, 2023 6:43:38 GMT
"We foresee a time when they will have destroyed all other lifeforms and become the dominant creature in the universe".
A wonderfully grim tale and one of the very best Dalek stories of the Classic series - parts of it feel more like a gritty war story than a Sci Fi fantasy. I've long been a fan of GOTD - as a kid I relished the shocking start to Episode One, where we see a group of soldiers mowed down by machine-gun fire, in slow motion, and then a ghostly Timelord appears out of the mist. Nowadays, I enjoy the scenes where the Doctor is taunting the Kaled Officer Ravon (Guy Siner); "I was just wondering how you propose to wipe the Thals from the face of Skaro with boy soldiers, no ammunition, and very young generals". Evil genius Davros is a truly iconic Who villain - a monstrous hybrid of Dr Strangelove and the Mekon, while Nyder (Peter Miles) is thoroughly unpleasant but a delight to watch. However, the Daleks don't really appear in this serial very much and there's a fair bit of padding (for instance, Sarah Jane and the mutos at the rocket site..). And as much as I like Davros, in some ways, it would have been better if GOTD had been his only appearance (Michael Wisher's Davros is the definite version for me and none of the others were ever quite as good) but I do love watching the moment at the end when the Daleks (like the Frankenstein Monster) turn on their creator.
9/10
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Post by GC on Aug 18, 2023 23:04:48 GMT
Doctor Who: The Tom Baker Years - Reaction to clip #4 Genesis of the Daleks
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Post by dsjr on Nov 9, 2023 22:38:17 GMT
I'm a follower of the Dalek Chronicals, so this tale has never sat with me, no matter its cult status and reverence in fandom. It's vertainly a good tale though regardless and the production is excellent and believable generally. The Daleks look just like standard props, so not 'early' as The Doctor suggests Anyway, I'm nit-picking and half a century on, it's stood up incredibly well I think
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Post by GC on Feb 10, 2024 16:03:30 GMT
Bit of a curio this. Strange mish-mash title sequence used for the Genesis of the Daleks omnibus that was stuck out by the long gone Super Channel...
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks 1987 Omnibus Titles
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Post by profh0011 on Feb 10, 2024 21:47:40 GMT
"Genesis" was one I definitely saw all the way through my first time. However, the 1st time Philly's PBS Channel 12 ran it, the STORIES were out of sequence.
They started with "Robot", "The Sontoran Experiment", "Revenge Of The Cybermen"... get the picture? This kept on from May 1979 all the way to January 1980. At that point, they moved the show to Saturday afternoons, began running complete sets of story episodes back-to-back (this was before they got "movie edits"), and, ran them in the correct order. (Well, until Seasons 16-18 arrived.) Partly because I'd sent them a list taken from STARLOG magazine. No kidding!
INCREDIBLY-well-made story, dark, nasty, viscious, blood-thirsty, downbeat, depressing, HOPELESS. I appreciate it for what it is, but for me, it's impossible to actually "enjoy" it. From the start, I compared it to DARK SHADOWS' "1795" story, which was "the origin of Barnabas". The difference being, that was 6 MONTHS of episodes (about 130 episodes!!), this was 6 WEEKS of episodes, and, actually 6 EPISODES. Unless you watched it in ONE AFTERNOON. Both stories share characters going back in time to witness the horrible events that led to something tragic happening, and NOTHING they do can change it.
And WAS anything changed? The Doctor said something about the Daleks being held back for a thousand years or so. WERE they? Were the events of the very 1st Daleks story "now never happened" ? Some have suggested the events in "Genesis" changed their history, made Davros aware of The Time Lords, and eventually led to the destruction of Gallifrey! Did The Time Lords thereby CAUSE their own destruction, by sending The Doctor back in time, where, in the long run, he COULDN'T bring himself to prevent their destruction?
I've seen this hopelessly downbeat story too many times over the years. That was why, the last time I watched the entire 26 seasons (what I have of them), skipping any stories I didn't like, the ONLY Tom Baker story I SKIPPED... was "Genesis". I know, "unthinkable" when so many vote this "the best WHO story ever ever made". Well, not in my book.
I have one regret connected to it. 5 years ago, I was abruptly REMOVED from a home care case by an ARBITRARY decision of a "healthcare insurance company" (translation: CRIMINAL PROTECTION RACKETEERS), without any explanation ever being forthcoming. For 3 years before that, my home care client, a wonderful guy who'd been in a wheelchair his entire life, had been like a brother I never had, and one of my very best friends. For a brief time, I had this idea that IF we ever had a chance to go to a Halloween party together, we might have gone with him as DAVROS... and me as NIDER. That would have been SO much fun.
In light of "Genesis", it's fun to see Michael Wisher's and Peter Miles' OTHER appearances on the show.
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Post by GC on Oct 1, 2024 22:15:11 GMT
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