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   From: arthur@alum.calberkeley.org   
      
   On 4/14/2024 1:43 AM, The Last Doctor wrote:   
   > Arthur Lipscomb  wrote:   
   >> On 4/13/2024 10:58 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:   
   >>> On 4/13/2024 1:43 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:   
   >>>> On 4/13/2024 7:38 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:   
   >>>>> John Hall  wrote:   
   >>>>>> In message , Ubiquitous   
   >>>>>>  writes   
   >>>>>>> In article , doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
   >>>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> Ubiquitous   wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>> doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> 1970s?   
   >>>>>>>>>> 1980s?   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> I'm not sure which one, but leaning towards the 1980's.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> The JN-T years.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> I had Tom Baker and Peter Davidson in mind when I chose.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Wasn't Tom Baker the 1970s?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The Best Decade was whatever decade you started watching.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> Actually I would put it as "the best decade is whatever decade the   
   >>>> episodes you first see were produced in".   
   >>>   
   >>> In case its not clear, I'm riffing on the old SF Fan trope   
   >>> that 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction was whenever you were 13'.   
   >>>   
   >>> pt   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Close.  7 to 10.  1984 to 1987 which produced iconic movies like Aliens,   
   >> The Fly, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop I and II, Temple of Doom, Back   
   >> to the Future, Gremlins, Karate Kid I and II, Star Trek IV, The   
   >> Neverending Story, Return to Oz, The Princess Bride, Transformers: The   
   >> Movie and so much more!  40 years later these movies are still talked   
   >> about and loved.  Being a kid in the 80s will never be touched when it   
   >> comes to the movie going experience!   
   >>   
   >   
   > My first decade for TV was the 60s - aged 4 to 8 I saw TV change from back   
   > and white to colour and half of the TV I loved was imported - The Time   
   > Tunnel, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space,   
   > Batman, Spider-Man, The Man from UNCLE (not forgetting The Girl from   
   > UNCLE), The Addams Family, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, and of course the   
   > wonder that was Star Trek and, not to mention, the Apollo space program   
   > (the greatest TV of all for me in 1969).   
   >   
      
   I watched all of these on reruns when I was a kid.  I know it wasn't   
   first hand experience but discovering all of these new shows when I was   
   younger was still loads of fun.  And sometimes I had no idea I was   
   watching reruns of long canceled shows.   
      
   > But domestically we had The Avengers, The Champions, The Prisoner (which I   
   > didn’t understand one little bit but still loved),   
      
      
   I think the first episode I ever saw of the Prisoner was "The Girl Who   
   Was Death."  I knew nothing about the show, but that being my first   
   episode I was hooked and assumed the entire series was like that.  LOL   
      
      
   Adam Adamant Lives!, The   
   > Saint, Department S, The Owl Service. All the Gerry Anderson glory years of   
   > puppetry - Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Joe 90, Captain Scarlet   
   > and the Mysterons, The Secret Service. And Doctor Who.   
   >   
   > I didn’t get to go to the cinema in the 1960s so that all passed me by.   
   >   
   > But the 70s - the 70s (9-19) were my golden age. The UK truly shone.   
   > Catweazle. Monty Python. Timeslip. Jason King. The Protectors. The   
   > Persuaders. Children of the Stones. Sky. UFO. Space 1999. Doomwatch.   
   > Survivors. The Changes. Blake’s 7. The Tomorrow People. Sapphire and Steel.   
   > The New Avengers. And Doctor Who.   
   >   
      
   A lot of the British sci-fi shows aired on PBS when I was a kid.  I was   
   generally aware of them, but other than Doctor Who, didn't really seek   
   them out to watch.  Some of these names I recognize (and watched) and   
   some I've never heard of before.  To this day I've never watched a   
   single frame of Blake's 7, yet I surprisingly know a lot about it,   
   including how it ends!  LOL   
      
      
   > And from abroad: Alias Smith & Jones (the only Western I loved as a kid).   
   > Search. The Invisible Man. The Gemini Man. The Six Million Dollar Man (and   
   > the Bionic Woman). The Incredible Hulk. Battlestar Galactica. The Fantastic   
   > Journey. Logan’s Run. Star Trek TAS.   
   >   
   > And the movies: Dark Star. Silent Running.   
      
   I've never watched Dark Star of Silent Running, although I am somewhat   
   aware of Silent Running.  That's the one with the talking bomb?  Or is   
   that Dark Star?   
      
      
   Assorted Planet of the Apes   
   > films. Star Wars. Close Encounters. Alien. Star Trek the Slow Motion   
   > Picture. Willy Wonka. Young Frankenstein. The Black Hole. Damnation Alley.   
   > Westworld (and Futureworld). The Omega Man. The Terminal Man. Death Race   
   > 2000. I Am Legend. Sleeper. Time After Time. Superman. Soylent Green. The   
   > Forbin Project. Mad Max. The Andromeda Strain. Rollerball. Invasion of the   
   > Body Snatchers. Phase IV. A Clockwork Orange. The Man Who Fell to Earth.   
   > Solaris.   
   >   
   > And that’s just the ones I can remember without looking anything up online!   
   >   
      
      
   Growing up I watched and enjoyed all of that on TV.  :-)   
      
   > The 60s were wonderful: the 80s were OK: but the 70s were my decade and my   
   > golden age of sci fi and of Doctor Who. Even though I had loved Pat   
   > Troughton as the Doctor, he was eclipsed by Pertwee and the earlier half of   
   > Tom Baker (for me the rot set in with Romana II. The last great Tom story   
   > was City of Death, the rest is just a coda).   
   >   
      
   I love "City of Death" it is one of my all time favorites.   
      
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