How long have you been a fan?

I'm never quite sure what's the correct answer to that question. I have a memory of seeing aliens dressed up in NASA-style spacesuits on TV in the early 70s, so that could be "Ambassadors of Death", or simply an episode of Gerry Anderson's "UFO". On the other hand, my first confirmed encounter with DW was the episode of "The Sea Devils" where Pertwee's Doctor encounters one of the titular beasties whilst he and Jo are on the sea fort. After that I was hooked. So that dates me back to early 1972, at the latest. On a related note, I was born on the night episode 4 of "The Abominable Snowmen" was originally aired, so I've always considered that one "my story". 

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1982 with the first episode of 'Robot', as seen on my local PBS stations.

Since I was 8 years old in 2000 when Third and Fourth Doctor stories were shown on BBC2. I only remember seeing SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE, THE SILURIANS and GENESIS OF THE DALEKS.

A friend introduced me to the show in late 1984 or early 1985, I was 13 and was instantly hooked. I spent almost every Friday and Saturday night watching on my local PBS station. They would show a 4-episode story in it's entirety in an single airing, or split the longer ones in two to air across two weeks. I sure miss those days.

Summer of...'80? '81? Was in high school.

Before that I had seen Starlog magazine articles about some British thing wht three old geezers and a wild Bohemian guy. The older gents looked like an eccentric trio but not too...heroic, or dynamic, ad the few photos had kind of a rustic setting. Somehow this quartet shared the name 'Doctor Who'. Didn't inspire any interest.

Years earlier I'd seen an aired matinee showing of one of the Cushing Dalek stories. Didn't make the connection. "Doctor Who" seems an obvious generic kinda character name, there was another one in Toho's King Kong Escapes.

One day at home alone I turned on the Tv, bored, flipped the channels and ran into some typically low-budget videotaped PBS show, British drama combining that arrested my attention. Something about an assassin loose in a building trying to kill a political figure. That's good right there, but the costumes and laser pistils said sceince fiction, and the dialog was crisp. And the guy everyone's running around trying to catch looks really familiar from somewhere. Guy's got presence, and he's fun to watch. The Deadly Assassin, movie format. I was hooked.

Then I was looking at a Starlog photo of some tall, lither blonde guy who was everything the Doctor wasn't, and they're telling me he's the next Doctor. Pretty disconcerting. Logopolis aired, powerful stuff.

One really big day was learning that a bookstore downtown had the complete line of Target novelizations. All five Doctors at my fingetips! Stories that weren't supposed to even exist anymore! Aaaaaaand...a season's worth of Davison stories before they were even on American TV! You English guys have a useful phrase: Squeeeeeeeeeeee!

Happily for me, the Davison era pushed all my buttons, I loved it.

Someone I knew was having a party way out of town, and they had VHS of a bunch of the early stuff they were gonna share. We took a long bus ride to see 'em, you bet we did! Stuff not available in America? First Doctors? Woooow. We got there, not a sibngle episode was shared. With their friends gathered in a circle, they decided to spend a few hours filk-singing. 

Since I was five years old (started in 1986)

Since the late 60s when I saw "Dr. Who and the Daleks" at the USAF base theater in Germany. I would have been about 12 or 13. The Tardis being bigger on the inside and the Daleks, of course, really stuck with me. That was it until the local PBS station started running the Tom Baker episodes in the early 80s.

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It's all like some bad movie.

1993, I caught it on the SciFi Channel during summer break. I had to set up the VCR to record them on VHS while I was at school. I remember being real bummed that Paul McGann never got a series. I finally broke down and started buying the classic series DVDs when the series came back.