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Dr. Who. Who knew?
#1
Years and years ago (where DID I put that time window?) I had watched some variant of Dr. Who with some white-haired man and some cheezy special effects. Still, I enjoyed it.

In playing around with bit torrents, I stumbled across another variant (from a parallel world, no doubt)--The Girl in the Fireplace with David Tennant. Season 2, Episode 4, 2005.

Wow! What a difference a portal makes. Very good. Decent acting, pretty girls, good dialog. A bit short on logic, but still quite viewable.

Based on this episode, I hope the Doctor will eventually defy Thomas Wolfe, and take the slow path with her.

Reason says no, but I won't listen to reason.
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#2
I think you are talking about actual Dr. Who episodes in both cases.

I really enjoyed watching Dr. Who (Tom Baker) when I was a teen and I love the new series too.

Also, if you remember Battlestar Galactica, I also highly recommend the new series.

John

P.S. Wikipedia says: Series 2, Episode 4 May 6, 2006.
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#3
Tom Baker was my favorite doctor. I don't have Sci-Fi channel so can't see the new DR. Whos or Battlestar Gallactica.
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#4
Tom Baker made a memorable appearance in Blackadder II, playing a legless ship's captain.
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#5
The show was "rebooted" in 2005 with Chris Eccleston playing the Ninth Doctor. The episode you saw, "The Girl in the Fireplace," is from the 2006 season with David Tennant playing the lead.

The Sci-Fi Channel, in honour of mine and my wife's tenth anniversary together, is doing an all-day run of 2005 and 2006 episodes. See local schedules for timing.

All of the "new" show's episodes are worth watching. Even the worst one is miles ahead of the best US fantasy shows IMHO. In fact, three of the 2005 episodes got nominated for Hugos ... and one of them (the two-parter The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances) won!

The entire 2005 season is available on DVD with bonuses et al:
http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Complet...19?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

Highly recommended. BTW, many of the "old" shows are also out on DVD, many with "remastered" effects (branched for the purists) -- years before anyone thought to do the same with "Star Trek," as usual.
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#6
I think you are talking about actual Dr. Who episodes in both cases.

I'm sure of it,, based on the titling and music.

NetFlix has Season One 2005, with David Tennant. The credits also list a Christopher Eccleston as The Doctor, in the same Season One set. I'm guessing it started with Eccleston, and ended with Tennant.

I'll check out a disc with Tom Baker, too.

They have a lot of Dr. Who listed, most of them read like movies rather than TV seasons/episodes.
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#7
Jon Pertwee? He was the Doctor prior to Tom Baker.

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#8
Sounds like your old Doctor Who was the late Jon Pertwee. Actually quite a few of his episodes (early '70s) were well written and significantly ahead of other TV/movie sci-fi up to the time in terms of topic. Though not so much in the SFX dep't.

Interestingly, the reboot of the current series last year was done with the same 'aliens' as the (smaller) reboot in 1970 when Pertwee joined the cast as the 3rd Doctor.
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#9
Technically, it's not a reboot. There are refereneces to things which happened to the earlier Doctors, and visits from characters from those days (Sarah Jane Smith, K9 -- who's going to have his own series).

And who needs Sci-Fi to watch these? Bittorrent is your friend.
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#10
Ah, Pertwee *is* the Dr. I remember, prior to the episode I first mentioned.
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