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From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
In article ,
Cryptoengineer wrote:
>On 4/14/2024 4:11 PM, 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
>
>Despite living in Britain 1968-78, I missed The Prisoner the first time
>around. It probably conflicted with some more popular show ion my
>boarding school's TV room.
>
>I was at university in London, when another student from America
>excitedly told me there was a rerun. I'd never heard of the show,
>and he told me a little about it, including the dreamlike set for
>The Village.
>
>'Arrival' came on, and as soon as Number 6 starts exploring his
>new environment, I turned to my friend and said 'Oh, I've been there'.
>
>He was flabbergasted.
>
>But yes, I'd been to Portmerion. Indeed later, I stayed there overnight
>with my fiance.
>
>pt
>
A nice place to visit I hear!
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