Doctor Who 2008: Sontarans cometh, RTD Ood 'ave 'im etc.

I'd quite like an old-fashioned two or three-companion entourage, possibly with a robot or an alien in there.

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I'd quite like an old-fashioned two or three-companion entourage

yes altho this is probably harder to make work when most episodes are standalone and not split into more parts like with the old series

Actually, school prefect dr with a Cribbins companion would be awesome.

^ Yeah it would be great :(

why would you want Cribbins? great at bulldog-spirit moralising and but useless in 'run away very quickly' situations.

Agyness is like the Katy Perry of fashion.

why would you want Cribbins? great at bulldog-spirit moralising and but useless in 'run away very quickly' situations.

Slightly fewer "run away very quickly" situations would be great, no?

(Well, not when there would be even more "new unmentioned use of sonic screwdriver saves the day" / "oh, look at this thing I had in my pocket all along which will inexplicably make all the enemies fall over" situations instead, no. But hoping for less of all three with Moffatt.)

I hope we get a non-contemporary-Earth companion for once. Or they should go back to Tom Baker's ideas for companions, which were:

1. a mad old nearly blind woman who has no idea that everyone she meets is a dangerous alien, and who beats people up with an umbrella, and
2. an intelligent talking cabbage which sits on the Doctor's shoulder and gives him advice.

Davison had the celery...

Slightly fewer "run away very quickly" situations would be great, no?

true, but slightly fewer would still be too many for the old giffer

he could do some excellent cowering though

Or he could just buy a supercharged segway.

One can't make decent puns of a name like Matt Smith.

Or he could just buy a supercharged segway.

Don't you mean a Sonic Segway?

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^ Trying to hurt me.

does the OG series get repeated in the Britains or does the new generation of viewers only know the Dr as a young, active spunk with mad URST?

Original series never gets repeated although DVDs are easy to come by in mainstream shops.

I always thought Tilda Swinton would make a fantastic Doctor.

She's already done the time travel / regeneration thing in Orlando, and she's clearly not quite human.

Hadn't thought of that - nice one! She has a chilling thousand-yard stare, which would work well in the role.

the DVDs are mad expensive here but I think pay TV has rights - at least they had the tapes when we did a one-off beginning-to-end repeat* five years back, and took them back afterwards

*bar Daleks once it hit Pertwee, cos of the Nation estate trubs - even meant War Games couldn't be included

Aye, that was ridiculous. Every single serial except all the Dalek ones. The Dalek ones are shit so fair enough, but The War Games is top five ever and I don't remember ever seeing the Colin Baker Dalek one.

There was a brief gold age about a year and half ago when the beeb hadn't yet cottoned on to the fact that every single Doctor Who ever had been uploaded to YouTube. I watched pretty much everything (surviving) from Docs 1 through 3 that way.

Yeah almost all of the old episodes I've watched have been via youtube.

Fucking impossible to find streams of old Who now.

www . t h e b o x . bz

I don't remember ever seeing the Colin Baker Dalek one.

I am one of the biggest Colin apologists in the world but you aren't really missing all that much here.

Now I want to like Matt Smith out of spite, because all of really annoying DW people online hate him so much. So shine on, you crazyhaired sparklepire.

Didn't they all hate Catherine Tate, too?

i look at the digital spy doctor who board now and then but it's dreadful

xpost - you can usually find DVDs of vintage who on eBay for a reasonable price, if you can view UK format discs.

Yeah, if you are at all interested in maintaining a shred of goodwill towards the human race, never ever ever look at a Doctor Who messageboard.

the smug 'ahh at least i am not them' high only lasts a few seconds.

Whenever I've dipped into them it seems to be all interminable rows about cannonicity.

lol people on messageboards amirite?

We need a 2009 thread

nah, keep this one going until the first special actually airs

xpost - you can usually find DVDs of vintage who on eBay for a reasonable price, if you can view UK format discs.

probably not too many 7-year-olds are going to go to this trouble though, assuming they've got credit cards.

They show them on UK Gold from time to time, but I'm not sure if this will still continue now it's been rebranded.

(UK Gold, not Who)

uktv drama took over the classic dr who but none have been on in a while. They had pertwee and tom baker full seasons so I was happy with that.

Until you've seen the gaydar threads on gallifreyone you've not lived.

lololol

links/examples plz

Basically it's just 486532836673848531648665975 pages of 50yo blokes posting a link to their gaydar pages feat. photos with their nobs out followed by a dozen other 50yos making comments like 'oooh I'd suck/lick/sit on that anytime' etc etc

i'd never even heard of gaydar...sounds great though!

There's also a thread for the ladies to get their jugs out (I can't remember if they were clothed)

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Hi,

My name is Will Payne and I am a reporter with the Daily Mirror newspaper. Sorry to contact you out of the blue, but I was wondering if you went to NSB? If you did, did you know Matt Smith? He has just been named as the new Doctor Who and I am trying to write a biographical piece on him for this Saturday's paper, I have been up in Northampton for the last couple of days and am struggling to find anyone who knew him.
If you think you can help me in any way then please get in contact. Either message me back, or give me a call on 07825 044007.
Thanks so much for your help, I look forward to speaking to you.

^ ha, my husband's family had all this pish when Tennant got the gig.

I have been up in Northampton for the last couple of days and am struggling to find anyone who knew him.

Don't admit you work for the Mirror then, prat face.