Miss the Old Doctor Who
Doctor Who starts it’s new season this Friday and I am excited. SciFi fans can have their Star Trek, Star Gate, and Battlestar Galactica, but for me the greatest SciFi show was and still is Doctor Who. I have been a fan since Junior High, and am glad that he is back on TV, David Tennant is the best Doctor since Tom Baker. That being said I miss the old show. Maybe it’s the serial fan in me, but despite the cheesy effects and cheap video tape quality of the show I loved the cliffhanger endings. It was a staple of my Junior High and High School years to turn on PBS every week night at 7 PM and catch the latest episode to find out what happened (no I didn’t date a lot…or at all back then). It was a sad day in the late eighties while at college when PBS stopped showing Doctor Who. Luckily there is DVD to enjoy the old shows, though I wished they were priced a little more economically, plus some have been edited to make them one long episode instead of four to six episodes of one adventure (which kind of defeats the purpose of the original show). Anyway, despite being a regular hour long drama with the occasional two parter, I am still thrilled to have him back on the small screen and now my all time favorite companion Elizabeth Sladen’s Sarah Jane Smith has her own show too. Which is a good thing because Torchwood is ending this week. Yeah I know, I have a thing for English SciFi.
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