Timeline for Is there an older Doctor Who series?
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| Apr 10, 2019 at 18:44 | comment | added | Patrick Hughes | Not to mention that fully catching up with the original series is impossible because various episodes and shows no longer exist in any archive. | |
| Jul 12, 2015 at 14:31 | comment | added | HappyHam | Yay for Whology! | |
| Jan 10, 2012 at 14:00 | comment | added | Blazemonger | I distinctly remember watching the very first episode of the 2005 series and thinking, "Stiff actors in plastic costumes! THIS is what 'Doctor Who' is all about!" And then I watched the second episode and thought, "Whoah... they actually got a BUDGET this time around!" | |
| May 19, 2011 at 1:08 | comment | added | Ross Smith | One of the SFX technicians on Classic Who put it like this: "It was made on a shoestring budget. That is, we were given six pieces of shoestring and told to make twelve aliens out of them." | |
| May 18, 2011 at 21:21 | comment | added | Scott Chamberlain | @gunbuster363 if you check out the guy I linked to in my answer if you watch the "lost in time" series in the first episode he talks about ways of legally getting the lost episodes, in the rest of the series he does a recap of the missing episodes. | |
| May 15, 2011 at 11:02 | comment | added | Richard | @gunbuster36 via various mechanisms many of the "lost" episodes have been recovered to at least some degree. Some of these have been released on Video or DVD (using narration to fill in gaps). Any copies on the internet would be copyright violation. | |
| May 13, 2011 at 8:57 | vote | accept | lamwaiman1988 | ||
| May 13, 2011 at 8:56 | comment | added | lamwaiman1988 | If some older episodes were destroyed by BBC, is there any episodes saved by fans? Do these episodes available in the internet? | |
| May 11, 2011 at 11:25 | comment | added | David | I remember a friend who'd moved to the US from England (via Australia) who made a point to me when I mentioned the 'low budget look' of the show. He said "You have to understand that the budget for a season of this is probably what they spend on ONE EPISODE of 'Laverne and Shirley'" | |
| May 11, 2011 at 10:39 | comment | added | Daniel Roseman | Note that originally, it wasn't at all clear if the 2005 series was a continuation or a reboot. Eccleston never referred to previous incarnations or adventures. It wasn't until the Tenth Doctor bumped into Sarah Jane that the new series was explicitly linked to the old one. | |
| May 11, 2011 at 0:47 | comment | added | Tangurena | Keep in mind that many of the old episodes were produced for under $5k each (per half hour episode) in to the mid 70s. The original Star Trek episodes cost $180k (per hour episode) each back in '66. This is why running happens in every episode. With an L-shaped corridor segment, one can film a bunch of pieces of running without them all looking identical. | |
| May 10, 2011 at 21:17 | comment | added | geoffc | I think the key thing for a Doctor is to be able to act exuberant as the crap hits the fan! | |
| May 10, 2011 at 21:04 | comment | added | Kromey | @geoffc Me too. Especially Tom Baker, still my all-time favorite Doctor, and his iconic scarf (knitted for him by Lady Nostradamus herself!). I think that's why I liked Eccleston so much -- his giant goofy grin, especially as stuff started to hit the fan, reminds me so much of Baker's! | |
| May 10, 2011 at 20:55 | comment | added | geoffc | Some of the greatest and yet worst effects! The story matters, not the effects. I do enjoy the sheer exuberance of the Doctor in all the series'. To me that is the best part. Especially in the new reboot. | |
| May 10, 2011 at 17:40 | history | answered | Kromey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |