# Reminder:  Dr. Who Tonight

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-dr-who-tonight/348764>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 17, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-dr-who-tonight/348764 "2006-03-17T16:11:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**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:** [March 17, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-dr-who-tonight/348764/21 "2006-03-17T21:43:17Z")

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[QUOTE=RealityChuck]  
Agree wholeheartedly. The show was always well-written. Obviously, there were bad episodes in its run, but the percentage of first-class SF adventures was higher than all incarnations of Star Trek.

It was also a lot more fun. The ST episode that comes closest to the mood of the best of Dr. Who was “The Trouble with Tribbles”: clever story with plenty of fun along the way.  
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Well, there was also that episode with Picard as Robin Hood and Q as the Sheriff of Nottingham, which gave us the immortal line “I am _not_ a merry man!”

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**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-dr-who-tonight/348764/22 "2006-03-18T04:35:07Z")

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Since this was an anticipatory thread, I started [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=363368) on to discuss the actual show as it aired. Not a ton of participation, but hopefully more will come in for the post mortem. (That’s typically what happens in the Battlestsr Galactica threads.)

I’m posting the link here for anyone who subscribed here but doesn’t check the forum homepage.

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**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-dr-who-tonight/348764/23 "2006-03-18T12:47:58Z")

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[QUOTE=kelly5078]  
IIRC, the old Doctor Whos were among the costliest, and perhaps the costliest, BBC shows ever produced. But do IRC? I know they certainly charged PBS and arm and a leg for them.  
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I don’t know anything about what PBS were charged for the shows, but no: Doctor Who was never the costiest thing the BBC produced, or even close to it. The show’s budget varied a good deal over the years, both in absolute terms and in relation to other BBC output, but it never had a budget that was more than middling.

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