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- From: mrmuon@next01pg2.wam.umd.edu (Eli John Hawkins)
- Subject: Re: Your firsts
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- References: <1992Nov23.045520.11190@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 05:10:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.045520.11190@wam.umd.edu>
- mrmuon@next06csc.wam.umd.edu (Me, that is) writes:
- > 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.
- Eventually the other local PBS station started running it. Again in
- episode format and starting from "Robot" but they ran all the way up to
- Logopolis before starting over again and then movingit to 11 at night
- (past my bedtime). Eventually they to stopped, but at last aboout 7 years
- ago the first station started up again in movie format and showed
- everything (everything whole).
- Anyway I've been a fan of the show since I was about 9. The Doctor, in
- many ways, really is a scientis, and this appealed to my interest in
- science which had been extreme since age 6. I have always been excited to
- find other fans, although I am more used to it now and am no longer amazed
- to find anyone who has heard of it. I also got pissed off at anyone who
- claimed that "Star Trek" was better.
- To this day watching a really good Who story gets me very exited, there's
- really nothing quite like it!
-
- --
- Eli Hawkins : mrmuon@wam.umd.edu
- "Who am I!"
- - Xoannon
-