Remember Doctor Who?

[The Coca Cola Kid]

Wow, guys ... a little off-topic banter, every once in a while, is cool.
But, do you not think that the number off off-topic posts, currently
inundating the group, is a wee bit over the top?
Here are a few questions ...
1. What originally got you interested in Doctor Who?
2. What keeps you coming back to Doctor Who?
3. What would you do, differently, with it, if you could write or
produce Doctor Who?

[Your Name]

In article <chine.bleu-AA61D...@news.eternal-september.org>,
"Where's all the China Blue food?" <chine...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In article <k6jrob$qr3$1...@speranza.aioe.org>,

> "The Coca Cola Kid" <thecoca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Wow, guys ... a little off-topic banter, every once in a while, is cool.
> > But, do you not think that the number off off-topic posts, currently
> > inundating the group, is a wee bit over the top?
> > Here are a few questions ...
> > 1. What originally got you interested in Doctor Who?
>

> The PBS station started showing this weird bunch of English running from
> a giant robot or running around a space station or running from Mr Potato
> Head on a moor or running from tin men and guys with ridiculous makeup.
> It was so cheesy I caught a few more episodes and eventually watched it
> regularly. It was only later I found out it had been going for some years.

The Coca Cola Kid is joking ... there's no such show as "Doctor Who". ;-)


I wonder if The Coca Cola Kid related to The Milky Bar Kid?? ;-)

[James Boe]

On 28 Oct 2012, Your...@YourISP.com (Your Name) burbled, glooped, and
managed to scrawl:

> In article

>> In article <k6jrob$qr3$1...@speranza.aioe.org>,
>> "The Coca Cola Kid" <thecoca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Wow, guys ... a little off-topic banter, every once in a while, is
>> > cool. But, do you not think that the number off off-topic posts,
>> > currently inundating the group, is a wee bit over the top?

Not at all. Don't you think it might be presumptuous for you to
make such a statement?

>> > Here are a few questions ...
>> > 1. What originally got you interested in Doctor Who?
>

> I wonder if The Coca Cola Kid related to The Milky Bar Kid?? ;-)

Or maybe The Coca Cola Cowboy...?

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[Brian]

"The Coca Cola Kid" <thecoca...@gmail.com> wrote:

Answers
1 I enjoy science fiction that has a mystery.
2 the same as in answer one.
3 change the Tardis back to the old one and have an older person as the
doctor. Add a few useful gadgets to the story.

--
Regards Brian

[jack....@gmail.com]

The Coca Cola Kid wrote:

>Wow, guys ... a little off-topic banter, every once in a while, is cool.
>But, do you not think that the number off off-topic posts, currently
>inundating the group, is a wee bit over the top?
> Here are a few questions ...
> 1. What originally got you interested in Doctor Who?

Back between Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica (it gives me a twinge
down my right arm to put "the original" in front of either) my brother
found a magazine at the drugstore with a photo of a large,
hypercomplex starship on the cover -- a preview of BSG. That issue,
or the next month's, had a small news item about a "Dr. Who" being
syndicated. Just a few paragraphs; it came from England, these
stations had bought it, it was about a 700-year old time traveler; and
about a two-inch b&w photo of a fellow leaning out of a wooden shack,
his scarf running parallel to the door from his neck all the way to
the ground. Somehow, I knew I had to find out more about this show.

One of the stations, WOR in New York, was becoming a "superstation" by
bouncing its signal off a satellite to the whole country, and our
cable company (up until now, these were just shared antenna(e) picking
up TV from nearby cities) picked it up, luckily, in time for me to
have missed "Robot".

> 2. What keeps you coming back to Doctor Who?

Oddness, quirkiness? Something surprising in every episode, or at
least enough episodes.

> 3. What would you do, differently, with it, if you could write or
>produce Doctor Who?

To any extent that the solution to a problem is the application of
superscience, tone that down.

--
-Jack

[The Doctor]

In article <chine.bleu-EAA1E...@news.eternal-september.org>,

Where's all the China Blue food? <chine...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>In article <XnsA0FB26C89EF0...@202.177.16.121>,

> James Boe <bi...@bobbity.com> wrote:
>
>> On 28 Oct 2012, Your...@YourISP.com (Your Name) burbled, glooped, and
>> managed to scrawl:
>>
>> > In article
>> >> In article <k6jrob$qr3$1...@speranza.aioe.org>,
>> >> "The Coca Cola Kid" <thecoca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Wow, guys ... a little off-topic banter, every once in a while, is
>> >> > cool. But, do you not think that the number off off-topic posts,
>> >> > currently inundating the group, is a wee bit over the top?
>>
>> Not at all. Don't you think it might be presumptuous for you to
>> make such a statement?
>>
>> >> > Here are a few questions ...
>> >> > 1. What originally got you interested in Doctor Who?
>> >
>> > I wonder if The Coca Cola Kid related to The Milky Bar Kid?? ;-)
>>
>> Or maybe The Coca Cola Cowboy...?
>

>Cola Kid was a friend of mine.
>He drank whiskey;
>newsgroup made the whine.
>
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>You flamed my father. \' At least I can stay in character.
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>Stop posting that! `/ the void looks into you, and fulfills you.

LOL!
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[The Doctor]

In article <1913736989373201429....@free.teranews.com>,

Hopefully Matt will stay on for a bit!

[James Boe]

On 29 Oct 2012, "Where's all the China Blue food?"
<chine...@yahoo.com> burbled, glooped, and managed to scrawl:

> In article <XnsA0FB26C89EF0...@202.177.16.121>,
> James Boe <bi...@bobbity.com> wrote:
>

>> On 28 Oct 2012, Your...@YourISP.com (Your Name) burbled, glooped,
>> and managed to scrawl:
>>
>> > In article
>> >> In article <k6jrob$qr3$1...@speranza.aioe.org>,
>> >> "The Coca Cola Kid" <thecoca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Wow, guys ... a little off-topic banter, every once in
>> >> > a while, is cool. But, do you not think that the number
>> >> > off off-topic posts, currently inundating the group,
>> >> > is a wee bit over the top?
>>
>> Not at all. Don't you think it might be presumptuous for
>> you to make such a statement?
>>
>> >> > Here are a few questions ...
>> >> > 1. What originally got you interested in Doctor Who?
>> >
>> > I wonder if The Coca Cola Kid related to The Milky Bar Kid?? ;-)
>>
>> Or maybe The Coca Cola Cowboy...?
>

> Cola Kid was a friend of mine.
> He drank whiskey;
> newsgroup made the whine.

G** D@#N IT!! You owe me a keyboard!!

Seriously, nice one, China Blue. Verra nice.

[The Coca Cola Kid]

On Monday, October 29, 2012 1:30:37 AM UTC-5, Where's all the China Blue food? wrote:

> Cola Kid was a friend of mine.
> He drank whiskey;
> newsgroup made the whine.

Not far off the mark ... :-)

[The Doctor]

In article <slrnk92qj...@pjr.no-ip.org>,
Peter J Ross <peadar...@gmx.com> wrote:
>In rec.arts.drwho on Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:58:36 -0500, The Coca Cola

>Kid <thecoca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wow, guys ... a little off-topic banter, every once in a while, is cool.
>> But, do you not think that the number off off-topic posts, currently
>> inundating the group, is a wee bit over the top?
>> Here are a few questions ...
>> 1. What originally got you interested in Doctor Who?
>

>It happened to be on the TV one day in 1970, when I was five. I
>watched regularly until about 1977, then intermittently for two or
>three more years, before giving up completely long before the overdue
>cancellation happened.
>
>My interest was revived one day in 2007, when I saw a New Who episode
>on the TV and did some research on YouTube to see if I was right in
>thinking that Doctor Who used to be much better in the 1970s.
>
>I was right. I also learned that many of the episodes from the 1960s
>were even better.

>
>> 2. What keeps you coming back to Doctor Who?
>

>It's probably the best TV programme of TV's golden age, i.e. the 1960s
>and 70s. I don't come back to the boring nonsense from the 1980s
>onwards much.
>
>I also keep coming back to RADw, because it's hilarious to watch a
>bunch of sci-fi-obsessed virgins fantasising about how New Who is
>becoming better and better and being watched by more and more people,
>when in fact it's declining into the same kind of unwatchable rubbish
>that Real Who became in the 1980s.

>
>> 3. What would you do, differently, with it, if you could write or
>> produce Doctor Who?
>

>I'd cancel the current spin-off instantly, and keep it
>cancelled for at least ten years. Spend some of the money scheduled to
>be wasted on the current spin-off on one last search for
>missing episodes of the real thing.
>
>
>--
>PJR :-) | οἵη περ φύλλων γενεὴ, τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν.
> | φύλλα τὰ μέν τ' ἄνεμος χαμάδις χέει, ἄλλα δέ θ' ὕλη
> | τηλεθόωσα φύει, ἔαρος δ' ἐπιγίγνεται ὥρη·
> | ὣς ἀνδρῶν γενεὴ ἡ μὲν φύει ἡ δ' ἀπολήγει. (Homer)
>

How would you like your crow served?

[Charles E. Hardwidge]

"Peter J Ross" <p...@example.invalid> wrote in message
news:slrnk92qj...@pjr.no-ip.org...

> I'd cancel the current shitty spin-off instantly, and keep it

> cancelled for at least ten years. Spend some of the money scheduled to

> be wasted on the current shitty spin-off on one last search for

> missing episodes of the real thing.

Nobody in the BBC from the management responsible for intellectual property,
to producers, to writers, directors, actors, and PR have a clue.

ITV is a lost cause.

Sky dropped the ball.

Recent revelations suggest the BBC blatantly steals intellectual property
off people making pitches.

If scraping around the barrel for lost shows is the best anyone can do you
may as well stick a fork in British sci-fi. It's done.

Wake me up after the revolution.

--
Charles E. Hardwidge

[Charles E. Hardwidge]

"Peter J Ross" <p...@example.invalid> wrote in message

news:slrnk932i...@pjr.no-ip.org...
> In rec.arts.drwho on Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:46:43 -0000, Charles E.

> Hardwidge <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Recent revelations suggest the BBC blatantly steals intellectual property
>> off people making pitches.
>

> Were these "revelations" revealed to you when you were sitting on the
> loo reading yet another rejection letter?

I read the allegations in one of the online newspapers this week.

If you're going to turn nasty it's perma-killfile time...

--
Charles E. Hardwidge

[The Doctor]

In article <slrnk92vf...@pjr.no-ip.org>,

Peter J Ross <peadar...@gmx.com> wrote:

>In rec.arts.drwho on Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:28:31 +0000 (UTC), The Doctor

>> How would you like your crow served?
>

>Have you taken the trouble to write a comprehensible reply to The Coca
>Cola Kid's post?

>
>
>--
>PJR :-) | οἵη περ φύλλων γενεὴ, τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν.
> | φύλλα τὰ μέν τ' ἄνεμος χαμάδις χέει, ἄλλα δέ θ' ὕλη
> | τηλεθόωσα φύει, ἔαρος δ' ἐπιγίγνεται ὥρη·
> | ὣς ἀνδρῶν γενεὴ ἡ μὲν φύει ἡ δ' ἀπολήγει. (Homer)
>

You still need to eat your crow!

[The Coca Cola Kid]

In rec.arts.drwho on Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:25:28 -0000, Charles E. Hardwidge <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:

>>If you're going to turn nasty it's perma-killfile time...

On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 7:25:06 PM UTC-5, Peter J Ross wrote:

>Go on then. Plonk me, juvenile wannabe.

Can not we all just get along?
There are plenty of things for us to be negative about, in Doctor Who, in the world in general, without us being negative toward, and about, each other. Your earlier ad hominem, in response to Charles' statement, about plagiarism, and 'intellectual property' theft, by the BBC, really seemed to come out of left field. What was that all about?

[Charles E. Hardwidge]

"Peter J Ross" <p...@example.invalid> wrote in message

news:slrnk93gb...@pjr.no-ip.org...
> In rec.arts.drwho on Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:25:28 -0000, Charles E.

> Hardwidge <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
>> "Peter J Ross" <p...@example.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:slrnk932i...@pjr.no-ip.org...
>>> In rec.arts.drwho on Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:46:43 -0000, Charles E.
>>> Hardwidge <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Recent revelations suggest the BBC blatantly steals intellectual
>>>> property
>>>> off people making pitches.
>>>
>>> Were these "revelations" revealed to you when you were sitting on the
>>> loo reading yet another rejection letter?
>>
>> I read the allegations in one of the online newspapers this week.
>>
>> If you're going to turn nasty it's perma-killfile time...
>

> Go on then. Plonk me, juvenile wannabe.

With pleasure, sweetie.

--
Charles E. Hardwidge

[Brian]

Peter J Ross <p...@example.invalid> wrote:
> In rec.arts.drwho on Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:58:36 -0500, The Coca Cola
> Kid <thecoca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

>> Wow, guys ... a little off-topic banter, every once in a while, is cool.
>> But, do you not think that the number off off-topic posts, currently
>> inundating the group, is a wee bit over the top?
>> Here are a few questions ...
>> 1. What originally got you interested in Doctor Who?
>

> It happened to be on the TV one day in 1970, when I was five. I
> watched regularly until about 1977, then intermittently for two or
> three more years, before giving up completely long before the overdue
> cancellation happened.
>
> My interest was revived one day in 2007, when I saw a New Who episode
> on the TV and did some research on YouTube to see if I was right in
> thinking that Doctor Who used to be much better in the 1970s.
>
> I was right. I also learned that many of the episodes from the 1960s
> were even better.
>

>> 2. What keeps you coming back to Doctor Who?
>

> It's probably the best TV programme of TV's golden age, i.e. the 1960s
> and 70s. I don't come back to the boring nonsense from the 1980s
> onwards much.
>
> I also keep coming back to RADw, because it's hilarious to watch a
> bunch of sci-fi-obsessed virgins fantasising about how New Who is
> becoming better and better and being watched by more and more people,
> when in fact it's declining into the same kind of unwatchable rubbish
> that Real Who became in the 1980s.
>

>> 3. What would you do, differently, with it, if you could write or
>> produce Doctor Who?
>

> I'd cancel the current shitty spin-off instantly, and keep it

> cancelled for at least ten years. Spend some of the money scheduled to

> be wasted on the current shitty spin-off on one last search for

> missing episodes of the real thing.
>

Or they could try to recreate the old series.
Sometimes when a new series is not as popular as an older series they study
why the old series was popular and make changes to the new series.

For me one of the best moments in the early Doctor Who was when the two
school teachers entered the Tardis. The atmosphere was heavy with the hum
in the background of the Tardis and his grand daughter panicking. Like
someone wrote it seemed like something from the walls of the Tardis was
going to leap out at them.
The other moment which had a big impact on the audience was the first
encounter with the Daleks.

Todays Doctor Who is some young person running around fixing things with a
screw driver like a magic wand and the writers of the show thinking that
this is science fiction so the impossible is possible. These day its add a
few monsters, a few danger moments and use of the sonic screw driver a few
times and there's your Doctor Who show. The same thing happened to other
science fiction TV series like 'Lost in space'.
The Doctor Who's of the old series were more believable and used their
minds to get out of danger. There were also a good cliffhanger scene at the
end of each half hour show which make people want to watch the next episode
to find out how he escapes from danger.

--
Regards Brian

[Charles E. Hardwidge]

"The Coca Cola Kid" <thecoca...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:c8e884dc-2e12-4f4b...@googlegroups.com...

> Can not we all just get along?
> There are plenty of things for us to be negative about, in Doctor Who,
> in the world in general, without us being negative toward, and about, each
> other. Your earlier ad hominem, in response to Charles' statement, about
> plagiarism, and 'intellectual property' theft, by the BBC, really seemed
> to come out of left field. What was that all about?

Who knows but I'm sure there's a theory for it.

A theory? A THEORY, YOU SAY?

Yes.... A *pinkie* theory.

RIGHT!!! That's enough of this silliness.

--
Charles E. Hardwidge

[The Coca Cola Kid]

On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 2:47:03 PM UTC-5, Charles E. Hardwidge wrote:

> Nobody in the BBC from the management responsible for intellectual property,
> to producers, to writers, directors, actors, and PR have a clue.

Case in point ...
http://www.kasterborous.com/2012/10/rtd-bbc-books-turned-down-graphic-novel/

[Charles E. Hardwidge]

"The Coca Cola Kid" <thecoca...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:20aeda4c-93d9-4b9d...@googlegroups.com...

Thanks. That was a really unexpectedly cool link.

I know RTD bungled things but I think he gets it. It's intriguing (and
slightly worrying) that we're on a similar wavelength.

I have an IP I'd like to see turned into a movie but the odds of that
happening are near zero so have been pondering a comic book adaptation. I
asked my art therapist last week if she knew about any (shortish) courses
that covered life illustration and shading. She thinks there's something out
there that will do the trick so this could be a go.

--
Charles E. Hardwidge

[The Doctor]

In article <slrnk93gb...@pjr.no-ip.org>,

Peter J Ross <peadar...@gmx.com> wrote:

>In rec.arts.drwho on Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:25:28 -0000, Charles E.

>Hardwidge <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
>> "Peter J Ross" <p...@example.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:slrnk932i...@pjr.no-ip.org...
>>> In rec.arts.drwho on Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:46:43 -0000, Charles E.
>>> Hardwidge <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Recent revelations suggest the BBC blatantly steals intellectual property
>>>> off people making pitches.
>>>
>>> Were these "revelations" revealed to you when you were sitting on the
>>> loo reading yet another rejection letter?
>>
>> I read the allegations in one of the online newspapers this week.
>>
>> If you're going to turn nasty it's perma-killfile time...
>

>Go on then. Plonk me, juvenile wannabe.
>
>

>--
>PJR :-) | οἵη περ φύλλων γενεὴ, τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν.
> | φύλλα τὰ μέν τ' ἄνεμος χαμάδις χέει, ἄλλα δέ θ' ὕλη
> | τηλεθόωσα φύει, ἔαρος δ' ἐπιγίγνεται ὥρη·
> | ὣς ἀνδρῶν γενεὴ ἡ μὲν φύει ἡ δ' ἀπολήγει. (Homer)
>

The battle for the basement continues.

[The Doctor]

In article <k6sgvg$b0u$1...@dont-email.me>,

Charles E. Hardwidge <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
>"Peter J Ross" <p...@example.invalid> wrote in message
>news:slrnk93gb...@pjr.no-ip.org...
>> In rec.arts.drwho on Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:25:28 -0000, Charles E.
>> Hardwidge <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> "Peter J Ross" <p...@example.invalid> wrote in message
>>> news:slrnk932i...@pjr.no-ip.org...
>>>> In rec.arts.drwho on Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:46:43 -0000, Charles E.
>>>> Hardwidge <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Recent revelations suggest the BBC blatantly steals intellectual
>>>>> property
>>>>> off people making pitches.
>>>>
>>>> Were these "revelations" revealed to you when you were sitting on the
>>>> loo reading yet another rejection letter?
>>>
>>> I read the allegations in one of the online newspapers this week.
>>>
>>> If you're going to turn nasty it's perma-killfile time...
>>
>> Go on then. Plonk me, juvenile wannabe.
>
>With pleasure, sweetie.
>
>--
>Charles E. Hardwidge
>

LOL!

[brilton]

On 1/11/12 8:25 AM, Peter J Ross wrote:
> In rec.arts.drwho on Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:25:28 -0000, Charles E.

> Hardwidge<nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
>> "Peter J Ross"<p...@example.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:slrnk932i...@pjr.no-ip.org...
>>> In rec.arts.drwho on Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:46:43 -0000, Charles E.
>>> Hardwidge<nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Recent revelations suggest the BBC blatantly steals intellectual property
>>>> off people making pitches.
>>>
>>> Were these "revelations" revealed to you when you were sitting on the
>>> loo reading yet another rejection letter?
>>
>> I read the allegations in one of the online newspapers this week.
>>
>> If you're going to turn nasty it's perma-killfile time...
>

> Go on then. Plonk me, juvenile wannabe.

Probably a good thing. You should always give sociopaths a wide berth.

[The Doctor]

In article <yanks.547$Ow3...@viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com>,

He is named in alt.usenet.kooks

[FishFood]

The Coca Cola Kid wrote:
> Wow, guys ... a little off-topic banter, every once in a while, is cool.
> But, do you not think that the number off off-topic posts, currently
> inundating the group, is a wee bit over the top?
> Here are a few questions ...
> 1. What originally got you interested in Doctor Who?

> 2. What keeps you coming back to Doctor Who?

> 3. What would you do, differently, with it, if you could write or
> produce Doctor Who?

1. John Pertwee and Betty, whatever happened to betty ?-)

2. Time travel, i find this idea of drama fascinating.

3. I would explore the metaphysical, the bonds to ideas, systems,
thought, idea about reason and logic and its opposite. I'm sure
drama could be found with a basis in history, exploring how we
came to be what we are, looking back to where we came from...

isn't that also time travel?

[solar penguin]

FishFood wrote:

>
> 1. John Pertwee and Betty, whatever happened to betty ?-)
>

Elizabeth preferred her name shortened to Liz, not Betty. :-)

[solar penguin]

The Coca Cola Kid wrote:

> Wow, guys ... a little off-topic banter, every once in a while, is cool.
> But, do you not think that the number off off-topic posts, currently
> inundating the group, is a wee bit over the top?
> Here are a few questions ...
> 1. What originally got you interested in Doctor Who?
> 2. What keeps you coming back to Doctor Who?
> 3. What would you do, differently, with it, if you could write or
> produce Doctor Who?

I sort of took Doctor Who for granted when I was growing up. I
watched it fairly often, but not every episode. I read a few Target
novelisations in the school library. The usual stuff. But I never
went out of my way for it. It was just another TV series, that's all.

I only really became interested in it in the 1990s after it had
vanished from the screens. And only _because_ it was no longer on our
screens. It was a nostalgic symbol of a lost age of television, and
the most available nostalgic symbol of it.

If there had been a rec.arts.pauldanielsmagicshow newsgroup or a
"Terry And June Magazine" or regular Celebrity Squares VHS releases, I
might have ended up getting my nostalgia kicks from them instead. As
it was, Doctor Who was just the easiest dead series to gravitate
towards.

[¡Gölök Z.L.F Buday AKA The Black Jester AKA The Voltairian]

X-Body

In kindergarden I talked a bit about temporal theory, parents discouvered it on PBS, even passed on my Fan Club card
to my God Daughter as a momento. Still have that color changing button some where.
Oddly enough I support defunding PBS, but it may be a result of watching one of my first libertarian icons on it.

Un Block Us, watching Dr Who Classic on UK Nerflix. Maybe they will do what Cocacola did, go back to Classic.
First Episode I saw years later. Wartching this, was like Time Travel back and forth.
Now it's aggrivating having a mind like mine for details, seeing milestones being conflicted.
Ark in Space and the Space Whale at the same time,,,,,,,,,and more.

On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:30:15 -0400, in rec.arts.drwho jack....@gmail.com wrote:

ĄThe Coca Cola Kid wrote:
Ą
Ą>Wow, guys ... a little off-topic banter, every once in a while, is cool.
Ą>But, do you not think that the number off off-topic posts, currently
Ą>inundating the group, is a wee bit over the top?
Ą> Here are a few questions ...
Ą> 1. What originally got you interested in Doctor Who?
Ą
ĄBack between Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica (it gives me a twinge
Ądown my right arm to put "the original" in front of either) my brother
Ąfound a magazine at the drugstore with a photo of a large,
Ąhypercomplex starship on the cover -- a preview of BSG. That issue,
Ąor the next month's, had a small news item about a "Dr. Who" being
Ąsyndicated. Just a few paragraphs; it came from England, these
Ąstations had bought it, it was about a 700-year old time traveler; and
Ąabout a two-inch b&w photo of a fellow leaning out of a wooden shack,
Ąhis scarf running parallel to the door from his neck all the way to
Ąthe ground. Somehow, I knew I had to find out more about this show.
Ą
ĄOne of the stations, WOR in New York, was becoming a "superstation" by
Ąbouncing its signal off a satellite to the whole country, and our
Ącable company (up until now, these were just shared antenna(e) picking
Ąup TV from nearby cities) picked it up, luckily, in time for me to
Ąhave missed "Robot".
Ą
Ą> 2. What keeps you coming back to Doctor Who?
Ą
ĄOddness, quirkiness? Something surprising in every episode, or at
Ąleast enough episodes.
Ą
Ą> 3. What would you do, differently, with it, if you could write or
Ą>produce Doctor Who?
Ą
ĄTo any extent that the solution to a problem is the application of
Ąsuperscience, tone that down.
Ą
Ą--
Ą-Jack
Ą