See this link
Is anyone else out there looking forward to this?
A phrase comes to mind… What was it?
Oh, yes.
Woo-Hoo!
Every time I hear of Dr. Who I think of two things: Gary Glitter’s Rock and Roll Part II (‘Doctor Whoooooo! Doctor Who, Doctor Who…’), and my first roommate’s car, whose licence plate was CARDIS.
I’ve only watched the Tom Baker ones, and those years ago when they were on PBS. I saw one of the old ones with the old guy playing the Doctor, but I didn’t get into it. It would be nice if the old ones (including Tom Baker’s) were in syndication so that I could look at them again.
I am now!
Cool! I didn’t even realize they had started producing that show again.
Of the four PBS station on my cable only one, WYBE, runs old episodes (once a week). It’s probably on some PBS stations elsewhere in the country.
Oddly enough, WYBE also run the sixties Bill Cosby, Robert Culp show I Spy. I wouldn’t have thought of that as a PBS type show…
Maryland Public Television airs it in the wee hours of Sunday mornings. Carnival of Monsters is slated for this week, I’m pretty sure that was the first one I’d ever seen all the way through.
Ever since I discovered the wonders of the binaries groups on Usenet, it’s refreshed my love for Doctor Who. I’d been reading up on the new series, which is rumored to start in the UK sometime in March, hoping that a deal would be struck for broadcasting here in the US.
Here’s hoping both the old and new series come to the US soon…
Yes, yes! I really hope it comes to the US. “Dr. Who” and “Blake’s 7” are my guilty fandom pleasures
I did a little more digging and the claim is that the New Dr. Who series will be on Sci-Fi Channel and the classic Dr. Who will be on USA Network.
The licenses to show the classic Who’s are not being renewed (mostly PBS stations), so as they fall away only USA will be left.
Not that I disbelieve you, but can you offer a cite? This is pretty big news if true; I’m very surprised they think classic Doctor Who will work on American basic cable. (Unless, maybe, they start some new late-night “cult” block and incorporate other things like The Prisoner or Blake’s Seven or Red Dwarf.)
Wasn’t there already a Hollywood made-for-TV Dr. Who movie a few years back?
Revtim: there sure was.
The first episode of Dr. Who I ever saw, many years ago on PBS, was “Mask of Mandragora”, with Tom Baker. I was flipping through channels and came on something that at first looked like some Renaissance era costume drama. But then strange things started happening, and I said to myself “What the heck is this?” I kept on watching and became a fan. I’ve seen all the John Pertwee episodes, all the Tom Baker and Peter Davison, some of the Colin Baker, and a few of the first and second Doctors.
I think my favorite line, from any of the shows I’ve seen, was spoken by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The men of UNIT are firing on a living stone gargoyle, which is not harmed. In disgust he says “Just once I’d like to meet an alien menace that wasn’t immune to bullets!”
Thanks!
Never been a big Dr. Who fan. There are some great episodes, but there are just as many sucky ones.
Would watch it if I was bored and had nothing else to do, but otherwise, the news doesn’t excite me.
Great news. I’m a fan. Read my sig.
Sir Rhosis
Depressing thought: The earliest Doctor Who stories I can remember seeing are ones that don’t exist any more. (“The Abominable Snowman” and “The Wheel in Space,” if you care. Yes, I know that isolated episodes of each still exist. But I saw the whole stories. And now they’re gone.)
For the new Who, I see they seem to be going for the grunge look, instead of the lovable-eccentric look. Well, it could work. Here’s hoping so …
I can’t remember which episode of the timecube season this is from.
Bad guy “You’re not dealing with an idiot.”
The Doctor “Yes, I am.”
This “new series” – will the acting, sets and special effects measure up to the fine standards we have come to expect of BBC television for these many . . . omigod, I can’t go on! ROTFLMAO! 
Brainglutton
The special effects were awful. The costumes and make up could be pathetic. But most of the time, the acting was great.