TV Marathons
Back in 2021, I got this idea to do a Doctor Who marathon, where I watch every episode of that show – one per day from the start in 1963 up until current. I did that, and it took a little over two years to get through everything. When I was done, I took a break, and then decided I wanted to keep going and do something else. So I moved on to something shorter – Red Dwarf.
When I was about 2/3 of the way through Red Dwarf, I decided on what I was going to do for a third, and then realized if I kept going and adding more series, my site’s main menu was going to get sloppy. So I decided to create this index page where I will link out to my various marathons.
Click on any of the images below to get to the marathon for that series. They’ll all pretty much follow the same format I came up with for the Doctor Who variant.
Doctor Who Marathon
This is my original marathon. I started it on 21 Aug 2021, and then started watching a single episode per day. Originally, my completion date was somewhere in early February 2024, but I decided when I was in the Tom Baker run I wanted it to end on the actual 60th anniversary of the show (23 Nov 2023), so I doubled up a bunch during Tom’s era to bring the then newest episode in line with the actual anniversary. So that’s where the Doctor Who marathon ended – 23 Nov 2023. Watched all 881 episodes in all that. I will of course add on to this one for new episodes still being produced.
Start date: 21 Aug 2021
End date: 23 Nov 2023 (although new stuff tacked on as it happens)
Red Dwarf Marathon
Second on the marathon list is Red Dwarf. I initially considered doing Star Trek, but I wanted something shorter – Red Dwarf has just 74 episodes total, as opposed to the 880+ that Doctor Who had. Dwarf is one of the funnier things I’ve ever watched in my life. I’ve said in the past Red Dwarf is what you’d get if the guys from Monty Python would try and make Star Trek. :)
The series here are smaller (just 6 episodes mostly), so it was a good choice for a smaller marathon target, and I could use something funny after two plus years of drama. :)
Start date: 16 Feb 2024
End date: 5 May 2024 (projected)