The Pertinence Of Dr. Who Today. Mr. Trump Is The Master. I Have Watched Every Story Broadcast ---

[TheMastersNemesis]

in Denver from the time it began. I have some form of video or CD of every episode shown.

Dr. Who through time has covered most of the major issues we have faced in the past as well as today. He has dealt with all matters of the human and alien condition and all manners of political and economic tyranny. Donald Trump is the Master. Sadly we do not have Dr. Who in real life.

In all the Dr. Who I have watched Mr. Trump and his ilk seem like so many of the monsters in that series. One of the most basic themes in all of Dr. Who is about the battle against all forms of inequality and many forms of tyranny.

Dr. Who has a different format today. Originally the format was based on the old episodic cliffhangers of American cinema.
The original series has 25 minute episodes with cliffhanger endings. It was shown on Saturdays in Britain and became a national past time for many years. Such format allowed a story to take several episodes. For example Patrick Troughton has a 10 episode story called Battlefield of which I have a copy.

Later on the program was formatted to a one hour episode with some stories covering two episodes. It was about that time that the Dr. Who series was suspended for period of time. The head of BBC at the time did not like the series and was not happy with where John Nathan Turner was taking it.

We do not have all the episodes and stories from Hartnell or Troughton. We do have everything after that. For some reason someone at BBC sold off or gave away most of the early archive. And the BBC has been looking for lost episodes for many years. There is still hope that some will be found. And episodes and stories have been found all over the world.

I have seen all the stories from this series shown in Denver. And I believe virtually all of it was shown in Denver. It is an amazing journey to be able to follow the development of the Dr. Who series from the very beginning.

Dr. Who has covered many controversial issues over time. Too bad we do not have a Dr. Who to help with our present crisis.

[longship]

1. Never mind.

You are lucky to have such a collection.

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. If I Only Had Time To Watch It. Still Have Not Watched Last Season Of D. Who Yet.

Have had the Blu Ray of the series. Retired and still too busy with politics and such. There were a number of episodes dealing with inequality. The stories were about the same inequality and racism or tribalism we face today. One story was about a cloud city where all the privileged lived, while miners on this planet mined minerals that kept the cloud city alive. I forget the episodes name but it was parallel to what we see happening today in US and the world at large.

[longship]

5. Regretfully there is no Dr. Who broadcast here.

That utterly sucks.

My best to you.

[MurrayDelph]

13. Rebroadcasts of the reboot

are on demand at Amazon Prime (included with membership).

New episodes (when there are any) are shown on BBC America (who learned the hard way not to delay the episodes too long or else people will find them on the Internet).

[longship]

15. No broadband INet here either.

I just have limited data Cellular here. No cable TV here either. TV is roof antenna.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. As I said a few days ago, this could be a Harold Saxon moment

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8617130

[yuiyoshida]

4. No, no, no...The Master is way smarter than Trump will ever be---

it takes some brains to be a super villian even if you are Mike Meyers's Dr. Evil.

[TheMastersNemesis]

6. Certainly. Anthony Ainley Was One Of The Most Evil Masters.

[yuiyoshida]

12. My favorite with Him was called the 5 Doctors

That was one of my favorite Doctor Who episodes. He was great in it, and believe me, far, far superior to Trump. He was a megalomaniac the like Trump could only dream of.

[SwissTony]

7. Many old shows have been lost.

Not just Dr Who and not just at the BBC. I don't think people anticipated interest in a program that would be 50 years old, not even for historical reasons. So, the tape was simply reused or discarded. Occasionally, a copy of a "lost" program will be found in some far-flung corner of the globe.

Nowadays, we think of storage in terms of terabytes or more. Back then, it was in reels of tape. Isn't it good to know that our grandkids will be able to watch Alex Jones 30 years from now.

[TheMastersNemesis]

8. I Believe The Largest Loss Was The Troughton Era Followed By Hartnell.

Thankfully I understand the BBC has everything beginning with Pertwee. One of the most popular companions was Jaimee McCrimmon. I am sure that the BBC is disappointed that they did not take care of that archive better. I have seen DVD's of episodes at Barnes and Noble for $20 a story.

And I wonder how good our storage of our media is now. It is much better than it used to be. The volume media material is staggering.

[randome]

9. At one point, I had 850 video tapes, including all the Dr. Who I could find.

Nowadays I have that and much more, pretty much every program I watched from childhood, on 2 detachable hard drives. All those videotapes are useless to me now.
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[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. If looking into the time vortex makes you both crazy and stupid. Then yes. nt

[greytdemocrat]

11. Big Dr. Who fan here.

I once withdrew my support of
PBS because they dropped The Doctor.

Bastids.

[MurrayDelph]

14. I'll be at GallifreyOne, the LA-based Doctor Who convention

this weekend.

On Friday, I'll be dressed as Santa Claus (who was a character three Christmas episodes ago).

[Tikki]

16. Amazing guests at that convention.

Gareth David-Lloyd...one of my favorites.

Have a grand time.

Tikki