# Dr. Who finally coming to USA? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 15, 2005, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173 "2005-02-15T12:05:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/1 "2005-02-15T12:05:19Z")
See this [link](http://www.gallifreyone.com/newstv.php#newsitemEEpluuukFZEcsgDiWK) Is anyone else out there looking forward to this? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/2 "2005-02-15T13:10:36Z")
A phrase comes to mind… What was it? Oh, yes. Woo-Hoo! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/3 "2005-02-15T14:06:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/4 "2005-02-15T14:08:14Z")
I am now! ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/5 "2005-02-15T14:46:49Z")
Cool! I didn’t even realize they had started producing that show again. > [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > It would be nice if the old ones (including Tom Baker’s) were in syndication so that I could look at them 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… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/6 "2005-02-15T17:12:41Z")
> [@Santos L Halper](#): > > 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. [Maryland Public Television](http://www.mpt.org/) airs it in the wee hours of Sunday mornings. [Carnival of Monsters is slated for this week](http://www.mpt.org/schedule/series.cfm?series_id=2531#58730), I’m pretty sure that was the first one I’d ever seen all the way through. ---
**Author:** ![Lips\_Obsession](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbce88/32.png) [@Lips\_Obsession](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lips_Obsession)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/7 "2005-02-15T17:24:14Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/8 "2005-02-15T17:30:22Z")
Yes, yes! I really hope it comes to the US. “Dr. Who” and “Blake’s 7” are my guilty fandom pleasures ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/9 "2005-02-15T18:04:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/10 "2005-02-15T18:48:28Z")
> [@BwanaBob](#): > > 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.) ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/11 "2005-02-15T19:45:29Z")
Wasn’t there already a Hollywood made-for-TV Dr. Who movie a few years back? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/12 "2005-02-15T20:46:29Z")
**Revtim** : [there sure was](http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/episodeguide/index_eighth.shtml). ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/13 "2005-02-15T21:00:37Z")
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!” ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/14 "2005-02-15T21:49:27Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > **Revtim** : [there sure was](http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/episodeguide/index_eighth.shtml). Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/15 "2005-02-15T21:51:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/16 "2005-02-15T23:09:10Z")
Great news. I’m a fan. Read my sig. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/17 "2005-02-16T00:10:24Z")
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 … ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/18 "2005-02-16T03:43:58Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/19 "2005-02-16T04:05:47Z")
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! 😛😛😛😛 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173/20 "2005-02-16T04:15:58Z")
**Brainglutton** The special effects were awful. The costumes and make up could be pathetic. But most of the time, the acting was great. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-finally-coming-to-usa/290173.md?page=2)