Doctor Who - Lost In Time (DVD)

Doctor Who - Lost In Time (DVD): Doctor Who - Lost in time (1769 words)
by IanM73 - written on 10.05.07 (Very useful, 123 readings)
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Doctor who Lost in time During the early years of Doctor Who everything was pre recorded onto video and the BBC could re use these tapes after the broadcast of the programme after a certain amount of time. The main years that these tapes were re-used were between the Patrick Troughton years 1967-69 but were then transferred to 16mm film for sale across the rest of the globe. Whichever countries bought them had two options after use, they could destroy the film or send it back to the BBC to be destroyed as there was no room in the archive as there was little need for one at the time. As colour TV was looming the BBC thought that there would be no ...

Dr Who in the swinging sixties (1770 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 24.05.05 (Very useful, 350 readings)
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So I hope we’re all enjoying the new Dr Who. I thought it would suck, but I’ve been proved wrong. Yes, most of the stories are remakes of old Dr Who stories, and Ecclestone’s grin is beginning to try my patience, but on the whole it’s a lot of fun and at its best strikes the right balance of low-key scary and quirkily funny. So this is obviously a great time to remind everyone that Dr Who ran successfully for 20-odd seasons from the 60s to the 80s, and then rather less successfully for a few more dreary years until it was finally put out of its misery. Dr Who was good when it set out to scare children; its best stories had uncomplicated plots, entertaining ...