I remember watching the first Doctor, William Hartnell, on our black-and-white tv set, *Cough, cough* years ago. LOL!
The next Doctor, Patrick Troughton, was one of my favourite doctors of all time.
When his run finished in 1969 we had to wait a whole year to welcome the new doctor, John Pertwee, in 1970, in colour, no less! (Which did not make a lot of difference to me as we still had a black and white set.)
To fill the gap left by the Doctor, we had some fancy new sci-fi US show called Star Trek or something......and that's a whole 'nother story there. *G*
In 1973-4, Tom Baker. He of the curly hair and long,long, scarf. The longest serving Doctor to date.
1980, Peter Davidson, late of All creatures great and small as Tristan Farnon the country vet.
1983 Colin Baker, no relation, followed by Sylvester McCoy 1985-7. There were no new doctor episodes after that, until 1996 when Paul McGann took over the role for a made-for-tv movie. It was not well received by Doctor Who diehards. Personally, I thought he did a good job all things considered. (The Doctor as half human, really? No, nope, sorry, no way.)
2006, we have Christopher Eccleston as Doc 9. ( I really liked him as the Doctor, pity he only did 1 season.)
2007, David Tennant as Doc 10. (He kept it in the family by marrying Georgia Moffat, daughter of Doc 5, Peter Davidson. (Yes, she really WAS the Doctor's daughter.) Dumped girlfriend, Sophia Myles, by text. She was in the US filming Moonlight with Alex O'Loughlin at the time. Fang-tastic! I'd say she got the better deal. *G*
Doc 11, Matt Smith. Wasn't too sure he would be able to carry it off. He did, though, and more. Geronimo!
Anyway, the rest, as they say, is history..........
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Re: Long strange trip.
Date: November 3rd, 2012 03:18 pm (UTC)I remember watching the first Doctor, William Hartnell, on our black-and-white tv set, *Cough, cough* years ago. LOL!
The next Doctor, Patrick Troughton, was one of my favourite doctors of all time.
When his run finished in 1969 we had to wait a whole year to welcome the new doctor, John Pertwee, in 1970, in colour, no less! (Which did not make a lot of difference to me as we still had a black and white set.)
To fill the gap left by the Doctor, we had some fancy new sci-fi US show called Star Trek or something......and that's a whole 'nother story there. *G*
In 1973-4, Tom Baker. He of the curly hair and long,long, scarf. The longest serving Doctor to date.
1980, Peter Davidson, late of All creatures great and small as Tristan Farnon the country vet.
1983 Colin Baker, no relation, followed by Sylvester McCoy 1985-7. There were no new doctor episodes after that, until 1996 when Paul McGann took over the role for a made-for-tv movie. It was not well received by Doctor Who diehards. Personally, I thought he did a good job all things considered. (The Doctor as half human, really? No, nope, sorry, no way.)
2006, we have Christopher Eccleston as Doc 9. ( I really liked him as the Doctor, pity he only did 1 season.)
2007, David Tennant as Doc 10. (He kept it in the family by marrying Georgia Moffat, daughter of Doc 5, Peter Davidson. (Yes, she really WAS the Doctor's daughter.) Dumped girlfriend, Sophia Myles, by text.
She was in the US filming Moonlight with Alex O'Loughlin at the time. Fang-tastic! I'd say she got the better deal. *G*
Doc 11, Matt Smith. Wasn't too sure he would be able to carry it off. He did, though, and more. Geronimo!
Anyway, the rest, as they say, is history..........