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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)
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>>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"?
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>How could anyone forget those immortal lines? In fact, they were said on a TV quiz show just last week :-)
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>>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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>No, musta cost more than $1 to supply the electricity for the styrofoam hot-blade cutter
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>>>Have you seen any of the modern series of Dr Who?
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>>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.
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>Yeah he was, come to think of it! :-) (even more now that he's become a parody of himself - have you seen any of the award-winning "Little Britain" comedy shows? - it's he who does the voice-over).

No. I've heard of it, but never seen it. It's probably shown on the PBS station out of Buffalo, but I don't get that, so...

>Everyone has their favourite Dr Who, (depending on when they started taking an interest in the opposite sex, I guess), i.e. it's a "generation" thing. I saw them from the very beginning, with William Hartnell (When he was a nutty professor, and the grandfather to the young girl side-kick, before they thought up this timelord pony, to keep the series going). I guess mine was the dandy John Pertwee (father of actor Sean Pertwee). Certainly Baker is the most popular.

It was during John Pertwee's reign that I first started watching and laughing at the aliens.

>>I guess it's gotten too modernistic to feel like Doctor Who to me any more.
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>Well my kids love it. Personally I've got no time for it except when Daleks or Cybermen are in it. The SFX are great now - esp. the Daleks.

Sure, but they're too young to know any better. They probably think Lindsay Lohan is a great actress and have never heard of Lauren Bacall or Myrna Loy. Ok, so I'm old.