TV

Those two words contain a large part of my life.  Star Trek has always been there.  I’m old enough to remember watching the original 1973/74 Animated Series when it was NEW on Saturday mornings.  I’m told by family legend that I’ve seen the original series when it was new – from a playpen when my […]

Well, my second series is finished in one of my “marathons”.   That’s Red Dwarf.  The first one I did was Doctor Who (which took 2+ years and over 880 episodes).  Red Dwarf was much lighter. Both in tone and in volume.  There were only 74 episodes there.  After finishing Doctor Who, I took a […]

I have to admit up front something that’s considered a bad thing in fandom – but stick with me.  I was totally against the Doctor being female.  I never cared for the idea.  Not because the character was a woman per se, but more to the point that they changed the gender.  The character had […]

When they announced that Peter Capaldi was to be the next Doctor I had a very legit concern that they were going to change the gender.  That had been talked about a lot.  Capaldi got an entire TV special to announcing his casting.  He came out on stage, pulled a William Hartnell by grabbing his […]

Matt Smith had many things similar to Peter Davison when he took over the role of the Doctor.  He was taking over from a Doctor that was perceived as the best ever (Tom Baker in classic era, and David Tennant in modern).  Matt Smith was also the youngest actor to be cast as the Doctor […]

In its second season, the revived Doctor Who has its second Doctor in David John McDonald, more popularly known as David Tennant.  He took over for Christopher Eccleston who stayed just one (brilliant) series. David was the first Doctor Who lead actor who was fan of the programme when he was a child.  He apparently […]

… The Wilderness Years are over!   We finally had Doctor Who again as a proper television show in 2005.  Amusing to think that event is now 18 years old, and the announcement that it was coming back turns 20 years old this year (26 Sep 2003). As many fans of the old show felt […]

I initially skipped writing about Paul McGann, but then decided I really should say something.  The reason I skipped it is McGann’s entire output is one TV movie and a single 7 minute internet short.  That’s it.  I was going to skip that given there isn’t a ton to write about, but then as I […]

I said the eras would start dropping quickly, and I was right.  I started McCoy’s era on 20 Apr, and on 31 of May, McCoy’s era ended.  That we got three series at all out of the show in the late 80’s is something of a miracle itself.  Only this time it took all of […]

Well, that was fast.  It’s 19 Apr, and on 20 Mar I had just started the sixth Doctor’s run, and here we are at the end.  Colin Baker, the shortest run (ignoring Paul McGann) of the classic series Doctors is over.  It started with such promise for me, and ended.. well.  poorly is a kind […]