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From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
In article ,
Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
>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.
>
John Cleese , Julian Glover and a few!
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