Glad I watched the Dr Who 50 episode. Ive drifted away from it in recent years but remember it starting with William Hartnell in 1963 a few weeks before my 10th Birthday. In those days there was a Schoolboys and Schoolgirls Exhibition each year in Olympia and one featured Daleks. A spoiler was seeing men (supposedly out of sight) climbing inside and taking turns to pedal them round the aisles. Knackering and hot work I imagine, but to kids who knew that a sort of starfish lurked inside, not work that was appreciated! Unmissable then, Dr Who, in the days of 2 TV channels with dodgy reception and B&W. Each episode formed the basis of Playground conversations on the following Monday, I remember, as, at secondary school a few years later, Monty Python was re-enacted on an episode by episode basis the following day. Cult programs in the way that todays just dont seem to match, for me, though many series are still unmissable. A few years ago I bumped into Tom Baker whod wandered into to a rather unique supermarket I visit in the countryside, Jempsons at Peasmarsh. I heard him first, there is only one voice in the world like that, and there he was, large as life, hes a tall guy. Many years before I literally bumped into Jon Pertwee dressed as Worzel Gummage at the Kent County Show, so Ive met two Time Lords. Only 11 to go then. Despite some being no longer with us, a Time Lord is forever! ^-)
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:41:54 +0000