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20th-century Doctor Who
Mar. 3rd, 2013 03:36 pmMany of my friends are just getting into Doctor Who. This poses a problem for those of them who want become Doctor Who geeks. The newer series, started in 2005, makes frequent references to events and characters in the "classic" Doctor Who series that ran from 1963 to 1989.
Depending on how you count them, there are 157 serials in "20th-century" Doctor Who (it seems so strange to say that). Each serial typically ran between 4-6 half-hour episodes, which works out to roughly 400 hours; it's actually less than that, since many early serials were destroyed. That's a lot of time to invest on geekery, especially since some of those serials are pretty awful.
To ease my friends' entry into Doctor Who geekdom, I offer my list of the key episodes in the saga of the earlier series. Since the quality of the serial often does not correlate with its significance in the development of Doctor Who, I offer a rating of one to four stars for quality, along with the reason why I feel the serial is worth watching.
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Depending on how you count them, there are 157 serials in "20th-century" Doctor Who (it seems so strange to say that). Each serial typically ran between 4-6 half-hour episodes, which works out to roughly 400 hours; it's actually less than that, since many early serials were destroyed. That's a lot of time to invest on geekery, especially since some of those serials are pretty awful.
To ease my friends' entry into Doctor Who geekdom, I offer my list of the key episodes in the saga of the earlier series. Since the quality of the serial often does not correlate with its significance in the development of Doctor Who, I offer a rating of one to four stars for quality, along with the reason why I feel the serial is worth watching.
( Read more... )
