Perhaps this will be a thread only Hallane and I participate in... but I would be really happy to hear any thoughts on the classic Dr Who show.
The PBS where I spent the bulk of my childhood started playing the show in 1978 with the Tom Baker package at 10pm Saturday Nights. I joined in at the age of 5 with the second 4th Doctor serial THE ARK IN SPACE and am still hooked to this day.
Other than the Daleks (and their Peter Cushing starring movie spin offs) there is plenty to captivate even a adult Monster Kid in the original show, especially in the Gothic Horror era of the show... I'm still especially impressed with the Victorian era set THE TALONS OF WANG CHIANG.... not only is it a riff on PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, but has a killer ventriqualist dummy (in actuality a robotic plaything from the 51st Century, evil because it has the cerebal cortex of a pig!!), and a sympathetic Yellow Peril character played by an occidental actor in the best Lon Chaney fashion!
The same writer, Robert Holmes, years later contributed a PHANTOM OF THE OPERA in space sort of tale, CAVES OF ANDOZANI, with one of my favorite Phantom characters ever.
DR WHO has also paid copious amounts of homage to KING KONG, FRANKENSTIEN, Hammer vampire films, THE THING, and even ROBOT MONSTER and THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH!!!
The PBS where I spent the bulk of my childhood started playing the show in 1978 with the Tom Baker package at 10pm Saturday Nights. I joined in at the age of 5 with the second 4th Doctor serial THE ARK IN SPACE and am still hooked to this day.
Other than the Daleks (and their Peter Cushing starring movie spin offs) there is plenty to captivate even a adult Monster Kid in the original show, especially in the Gothic Horror era of the show... I'm still especially impressed with the Victorian era set THE TALONS OF WANG CHIANG.... not only is it a riff on PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, but has a killer ventriqualist dummy (in actuality a robotic plaything from the 51st Century, evil because it has the cerebal cortex of a pig!!), and a sympathetic Yellow Peril character played by an occidental actor in the best Lon Chaney fashion!
The same writer, Robert Holmes, years later contributed a PHANTOM OF THE OPERA in space sort of tale, CAVES OF ANDOZANI, with one of my favorite Phantom characters ever.
DR WHO has also paid copious amounts of homage to KING KONG, FRANKENSTIEN, Hammer vampire films, THE THING, and even ROBOT MONSTER and THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH!!!
"NO BEDS!"
