Whoa ! Came Across Original "Dr. Who" !

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Very first episode ... aired on the day JFK was
assassinated and thus got almost no ratings.
BBC decided to give it another go a week or
two later - and it continues to this day (albeit
a bit too 'woke').

The "old" series had the benefit of LOW budgets.
A little, cheap, FX ... but it was the writing/
acting that carried it. The newer series is
afflicted by much better FX ... and the writing/
acting has suffered a bit.

My guess ... this series won't go away. It will
crash for awhile from excess "Woke-ness" and then
re-appear in a decade or so. It's such a GOOD
sci-fi idea, with such a LONG legacy, that it
can't really die.

Of note, during it's previous "death", American
Tony Dow (remember "Beaver's" brother) did his
own somewhat Americanized 2-hour version - which
briefly featured the last Doc from the old series.
This helped spawn the new series. The new series
did, at one point, actually acknowledge the
under-documented Dow doc as part of the family.

Oh, the intro from the very old series is something
you'll probably never see again - the "spacey"
flowing video is what you get when you point an
ANALOG video camera at an ANALOG TV for awhile.
The slight timing/scanning diffs cause exotic
effects - "chaotic attractors".