I'd try and start with season 1 or 2 (of the more modern episodes) realistically if you want to get a lot of the story as many things are revisited, but there are things revisited from the very original episodes. I started season 2 and understood what was going on.

And I watched the one last night too. Thought it was a very emotional episode but can't help but feel the Dr was a complete ass for letting everyone die before stepping in.

Christmas episode looks /confusing though!

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sim656:

Thought it was a very emotional episode but can't help but feel the Dr was a complete ass for letting everyone die before stepping in.

Yeah but he -had- too. Cause if he changed the past properly..and saved everyone, it would be like the butterfly effect  and things would be different! Cause that Adalaide woman (or whatever her name was) >_> was still gonna die on that day whether he saved her or not. I dunno...it's kinda confusing >_<

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She may of inevitably died, but what about the others, did they have to die?

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I think David Tennant is the BEST Doctor yet
I mean with the emotion he showed last nigt on the special was amazing
And Am Scottish and so Is David Tennant but the Only Older ones i have seen is the tom baker ones

And as for the spin off Torchwood kinda scared me lol
And as for sarah jane....It's cool

sim656:

She may of inevitably died, but what about the others, did they have to die?

I guess not, but he thought they all died at once, right? But he got it wrong..

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Chicken2701:

And Am Scottish and so Is David Tennant

I <3 his accent

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You know, Lionhead's the only studio I'd trust to get a video game of Doctor Who right.. they should get chatting to the BBC.

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Zombies8MDingo:

You know, Lionhead's the only studio I'd trust to get a video game of Doctor Who right.. they should get chatting to the BBC.

How on earth would that work. Press A to negotiate with aliens followed by press B for dramatic scene when alien refuses negotiation terms. Press X to enter tardis and leave

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It would work best as a puzzler/adventure game. Lionhead don't have any kind of track record of doing such games, but it would cool to see them take a stab at it.

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The only thing worse than beating a dead horse is betting on one.

I leave the forums for 3 months and look what happens, my topic starts without me. Well as I said I don't have BBC, but I've managed to see End of Time regardless. Thought the first part was pretty ridiculous, but the second part was pretty . Timothy Dalton as the President of the Time Lords was awesome.

Not liking The 11th Doctor's catch phrase " Geronimo!" Got a look at the new companion as well. Karen Gillan, who was in the episode Fires of Pompeii. And with Moffat at the helm we should get some pretty amazing story lines. Blink is my favorite episode.

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The U.S.A. Great Seal; The GORLON! He's like a big ol' building wiff fur and anger, and he fliiiies tall....And he's got a big mouft, and he's got a face full of buildings which he will beat you up wiff cause he's got a building in his bucket.

Zombies8MDingo:

You know, Lionhead's the only studio I'd trust to get a video game of Doctor Who right.. they should get chatting to the BBC.

Nah, not even, it would be a much better Bioware rpg. I don't think it's a fit for Lionhead at all. Sci-fi isn't really their thing.

As for The End of Time, I was quite sad to see Tennent leave, but I knew to expect it, since we've known since '08. I really quite like him as the Doctor, but my fave will always be Tom Baker. David is a very close second though. As far as companions, Ace will always have my heart. Rose and Martha were fun too. I've also decided not to get all upset like I always do when we get a new Doctor. I usually end up finding redeeming qualities in them and so wasted all that energy being mad for no reason.

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Peter Molyneux made Syndicate. Which was frickin' awesome. I'd say he's at sci fi. Dr Who would have to be done by a British company imo.

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The only thing worse than beating a dead horse is betting on one.

Absolutely, the atmosphere of Fable is pretty much perfect for a Doctor Who game. A straight out sci fi action game wouldn't suit it, but an rpg along the lines of Fable 2 would. Can even keep the dog if you use K9.

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Laterali:

I leave the forums for 3 months and look what happens, my topic starts without me. Well as I said I don't have BBC, but I've managed to see End of Time regardless. Thought the first part was pretty ridiculous, but the second part was pretty . Timothy Dalton as the President of the Time Lords was awesome.

Not liking The 11th Doctor's catch phrase " Geronimo!" Got a look at the new companion as well. Karen Gillan, who was in the episode Fires of Pompeii. And with Moffat at the helm we should get some pretty amazing story lines. Blink is my favorite episode.

Not to mention that the star of Blink, "Sally Sparrow", is likely to be nominated for an Oscar this year for her starring role in "An Education"

(Carey Mulligan - superb)

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jjnelson222:

Say if a person wanted to start watching this show where would one start? It doesn't sound like you would need to go to the very first episode ever the way people are talking about it, so where would be a place to start?

OK - a small history lesson of what is, after all, the world's longest running science fiction TV show.

It began in the 60s as a kind of "edutainment" - The Doctor, an old boy, would take some kids to a place of historical relevance, give them a history lesson about the place - and then, something would go wrong that needed correcting. Monsters and crap!

And that's basically it - except later incarnations included pure sci-fi in addition to the "historicals" as they're fondly known by fans.

It was cancelled in the late 1980s but later brought back in 2005 with the superb Christopher Eccleston as The Doctor, and some proper special effects. I suggest you start there and follow through with David Tennant's episodes. They're all unmissable.

In order to get acquainted with some of the recurring monsters - I suggest perhaps watching some of Tom Baker's (the 4th Doctor - most Brits who watched him still consider him to be the best) episodes. In particular "Genesis of the Daleks". As one of Eccleston's best episodes is when he comes face to face with a captured Dalek - the acting is interstellar, but you have to know a bit of the background for it to make sense. (Although, if you choose not to, I still think you'll like it).

I was largely brought up on Tom Baker onwards - today, I would rank my favourite Doctor Whos as follows:

1. Christopher Eccleston
2. David Tennant
3. Tom Baker
4. Peter Davidson
5. John Pertwee



So - in summary - watch the 2005 series first and go on from there.


Hehe - here's a typical Tom Baker era cliffhanger involving Davros, creator of the Daleks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rPrSL_N4Xs

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For anyone still interested, youtube has some of the old episodes on the "shows" channel, and a couple of the old movies.  A caveat on the movies: they feature a rather different storyline where the Doctor is a human inventor who fights the Daleks in both (well, not so much fighting himself as making plans with his allies), and is not at all part of the series proper.

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Has the world ended already? Oh dear, I must have missed it. . .