Re: Any Doctor Who fans here????
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2018 2:47 pm
My association with Doctor Who goes back to when the first William Hartnell episodes were broadcast here in Canada on CBC TV during the mid-1960s. I started watching it again a few years later when the series was shown on the PBS station that we get here, but that ended when it could no longer afford to keep DW on the air.
In my opinion, the series started going downhill when John Nathan-Turner took over as producer which was, if I remember correctly, during Tom Baker's final year. After that, the show really wasn't worth watching as the plots became progressively outlandish, silly, and, often, violent, something which would never have happened when Sidney Newman was in charge. I wasn't surprised that the series came to an end nearly 30 years ago. By then, it had largely run out of ideas and the Doctor had gone from being a wise, scholarly gentleman to a bumbling buffoon.
I was skeptical when the show was revived. I watched it for a while, quitting part-way through David Tennant's second season as the series bore little resemblance to the one I remembered.
Some things are best left untouched.
In my opinion, the series started going downhill when John Nathan-Turner took over as producer which was, if I remember correctly, during Tom Baker's final year. After that, the show really wasn't worth watching as the plots became progressively outlandish, silly, and, often, violent, something which would never have happened when Sidney Newman was in charge. I wasn't surprised that the series came to an end nearly 30 years ago. By then, it had largely run out of ideas and the Doctor had gone from being a wise, scholarly gentleman to a bumbling buffoon.
I was skeptical when the show was revived. I watched it for a while, quitting part-way through David Tennant's second season as the series bore little resemblance to the one I remembered.
Some things are best left untouched.
