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How long have you been a fan?

posted 8 years ago by Dr Wily
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How long have you been a fan of Doctor Who?

For me, I was 9 years old in 1983 and saw my first picture of a Dalek in a Starlog publication. Since I live in America, I didn't have access to the show itself. The next year, a local TV station reran the first Peter Cushing Dalek movie and that my first exposure to any moving medium related to Doctor Who.

I didn't get to see the series proper until like 1987 when the Tom Baker VHS tapes were released in North America. Revenge Of The Cybermen, The Brain Of Morbius, The Ark In Space, and Pyramids Of Mars. The next year, on the night before I started my freshman year of high school, a local PBS station aired The Five Doctors and Robot in a pledge drive. It got enough pledges that a few months later, the station carried the entire Fourth Doctor stories. In fact, they showed them twice over the course of 3 years.

[–] thinkerdotkiwi 8 years ago

How long have you been a fan?

Since the very beginning, in 1964, when I was just a nipper. It was broadcast for the first time in my country in that year.
Strongest memory is the death of Sara Kingdom of extreme old age. I wouldn't wish that memory on any boy.
I remember the disembodied hand playing with the toy pyramid (24), the Dalek coming out of the water (10), a quark saying shall we destroy (44), and the Doctor saying I can still give you a good thrashing with this stick (17), which is in the same spirit as the interrogation by Mr. Huffle and woman (264).
I remember very little actually -- I got a toy rocket for my birthday once -- and so use the internet to refresh, and write notes to assist, memory.

[–] sweiland75 8 years ago

I had known about Doctor Who before I began watching regularly but the first episode when I became a fan was Asylum of the Daleks. It was confusing at first because the Doctor's enemies, the Daleks, apparently forgot who the Doctor was but I otherwise loved the episode story and the characters. Amy and Oswin were fun and sexy.

[–] Dr Wily 8 years ago

Yeah, they forgot and by their next appearance, they had suddenly remembered again.