>>>>>Did you ever get Dr Who?
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>>>>I don't remember "Dr Who".#
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>>>Well I'm pretty sure that our US friends know of him - a BBC character that has been going since the 60s )in severl incarnations) and, since last year, there has been a new couple of series.
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>>>Anyway, it was this series that traditionally sent young watchers "hiding behind the sofa" when the aliens/baddies came on :-)
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>>Talk about low budget aliens!!! Wow!! I used to watch it, but looking back now, I feel like the only Doctor Who worth anything was Tom Baker, and even though the aliens were still a bit... well... second rate, they were a far cut above the prior ones. I can't say I was ever scared by them, I think I was laughing too hard. On a scare level with "Plan Nine From Outer Space".
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>Low Budget? You never saw Blake's Seven then!? It was so bad it was good (besides the fact that the chief baddie was a stacked female (Servalan?) whom every boy lusted after)
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>Yes, many Dr Who Aliens were poor, but not the Daleks. Never made me cringe though. And have you seen any of the original Star Treks lately? Nearest you got to an alien planet was a stage setting with Greco-Roman pillars, or polystyrene (styrofoam) blocks. And aliens were (still are to a cerytain extent) merely humans painted different or with weelybobbles on their heads (that's when they weren't just balls of fluff - tribbles)

Oh, now that's just not fair. I guess you don't remember the 'Horta'. Remember Bones' "I'm a doctor, Jim, not a bricklayer"? Now there was an alien to reckon with. I expect the budget for makeup on that one must have been well over a buck. Ok, so it didn't move or say anything, but what can you expect for a buck?

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>Have you seen any of the modern series of Dr Who?

I've seen a couple, but I guess it just doesn't seem quite tongue-in-cheeky enough for me without Tom Baker trying to be a grinning Harpo lookalike. I guess it's gotten too modernistic to feel like Doctor Who to me any more.