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- From: mrmuon@next06csc.wam.umd.edu (Eli John Hawkins)
- Subject: Re: Your firsts
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- References: <1992Nov22.164804.370@rivers>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:55:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.164804.370@rivers> ph9991_manfr@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu
- writes:
- > In article <XR7muB2w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>,
- yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee) writes:
- > >
- > > - <IO21145@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
- > > -
- > > - > I would like to hear how some of my fellow "Whovians" were
- > > - > first introduced into the series - It was quite a powerfull
- > > - > experience for me (or as powerfull as a child might imagine!)
- > > - > when I watched "Genesis of The Daleks" on channel 2. It was
- > > - > the best show I'd ever seen ! - The mystery of the whole series
- > > - > was a joy to unravel, to get to know the doctor and his
- interesting
- > > - > happenings. In short - it's the last Televison show I'll watch!
- > > - > But anyway, I'd like to hear from anyone on this...
- > > - >
- > > - >
- > > - > Scorby...
-
- Okay!
- I come from a family with Anglophile tendencies; my dad went to school in
- England for two years. One of the things I read as a kid was the
- Paddington books and I was pretty pleased when, briefly, there was a
- series of Paddington stories on TV on one of DC's PBS stations, weekday
- afternoons; It was some kind of puppet animated thing and someone on this
- group probably knows its origins. It wasn't on very long though and one
- day (a monday I assume) I tuned in at that time and there was no
- Paddington, there was something I thought looked like the inside of a
- silver ear. At this moment my father called me down to dinner so I had to
- turn off the TV.
- I semi forgot about this, but later that week (thursday) I was bored in
- the afternoon and turned on the TV. I came in partway through part 4 of
- "Robot". Although this is undoubtedly not the best introduction to the
- series it got my curiosity. I found the title in the TV listings and,
- assuming this to be typical science fiction, I assumed Professor Marius to
- be "Doctor Who". I was, of course, wrong on both counts. That night I told
- my mother about it and she said "Sounds awful, dear!". But I didn't think
- so.
- Somehow I missed the next episode, but I got my friend to watch "Ark in
- Space" part two with me. He liked it to. I missed "the Sontaran
- Experiment" but I think "Genesis of the Daleks" was my first complete
- story.
- Each weekday afternoon as part of "Children's Fare" it was on after
- "Mister Roger's Neighborhood". Although I got some others into the show
- they didn't remain as into it as I did. Then i had the lucky break of a
- family vacation to England. There I saw an exibit about the show at Madame
- Tousade's waxworks. I discovered the novelizations at a bookstore and
- bought "K9 and other Mechanical creatures" there; this filled me in quite
- a bit and compensated for missing "the invisible enemy" and other stories
- during the trip.
- I got back in time for "Image of the Fendehal". My station only ran up to
- "The invasion of Time" then stopped. I almost went nuts but eventually
- they brought it back, for the same run. then stopped again.
- I better finish this later, the lab's closing.
-
- --
- Eli Hawkins : mrmuon@wam.umd.edu
- <picture jazzy quote here>
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