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There were some stand out shows of the older doctors. I can't say I liked the first Doctor, William Hartnell, very much, but Patrick Troughton, the second doctor was quite good. If you can find it, see War Games, his last show. I really liked it. There is a character in there that I believe is the fore-runner of The Master, he calls himself The War Master and he is another renegade Timelord.
Someone mentioned that the Doctor Who movie came before the TV show. This movie, which starred Peter Cushing as The Doctor came out in 1965. The TV series came first in 1963.
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04-01-2006, 10:05 PM
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04-01-2006, 10:11 PM
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04-01-2006, 10:13 PM
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Good to see The Doctor back on the little screen! Just watched two hours on Sci-Fi last night, and I think having ANY Doctor at this point is a good thing! I do miss watching the old ones, out here there was still a PBS affiliate showing 1-3 hours every Saturday, complete with Klingon-costumed volunteers manning the pledge-drive phones.
Now to the soapbox:  Tom Baker will always be The Doctor to me. Colin Baker was, IMHO, the reason for the first cancellation back in the '80's. Much of the Hartnell/Troughton years, along with a Dalek story are LOST  . This is yet another venue to tell the story of how just weeks before the Beeb decided on preserving the old series, they erased, burned, and dumpstered much of the first two Doctors' collected episodes, and did in some early Pertwee as well. ANY footage is still being sought to restore these great old episodes, so support this effort by buying all the re-issue DVDs you can, even the DREADFUL Peter Cushing movies, there are two on a disk called DALEKMANIA (I think, my ex got all the Doctor media collection).There are many great websites where you can learn more, unless I've put you-all to 
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04-01-2006, 10:36 PM
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I've read others who blamed the failing of the franchise on Collin Baker, but I'm not sure that I buy it. Remember the series had either two or three seasons with the 7th Doctor following CB's reign. Tom Baker was a very hard act to follow, so all the following doctors were lacking comapred to him. I guess that I liked the exceedingly excentric nature of Collin's character. I think that the series had just become too stale, and that for whatever reason, that the BBC decided that thier money was better spent elsewhere. Remember, Dr Who was a relatively expensive production with all of the elaboate sets, and such... And while suporting the series is admerable, there is NO WAY that i will ever buy that atrocious movie with Peter Cushing. I caught that by accident on late-night TV once. I couldn't even sit through it back when I was really into the Doctor! It was HORRIBLE!!! 
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04-01-2006, 11:05 PM
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I just checked; I have War Games on VHS and the tape is still in good shape. I'll transfer it to DVD as soon as I can get around to it and make a copy available for circulation.
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BTW: I'm pretty sure that I've got one of my favorites on VHS too: "The 5 Doctors". 
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Turns out one episode from the lost Hartnell/Daleks story has been found!http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3400429.stm
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I liked the third, or maybe it was the fourth....the guy that had the model T and looked like Mozart
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