From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   BTR1701  wrote:   
   >On Feb 19, 2026 3:48:10 PM PST, Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
      
   >>. . .   
      
   >>I've said this before. Leela (Louise Jameson) corrupted my yout'. We got   
   >>these episodes as syndicated foreign programming on my local public   
   >>television station a few years after their iniitial broadcast on BBC1.   
   >>She was hot as anything, a premiere action babe. That savage warrior   
   >>costume she typically wore, not in this serial, was more revealing than   
   >>a one-piece bathing suit.   
      
   >I always kind of resented Leela. I started watching DOCTOR WHO one summer   
   >while visiting my grandparents in Boston. It was playing WGBH-PBS there at the   
   >time. I didn't know anything about the history of the show. I didn't know   
   >Baker was the fifth guy to play the role or that the companions come and go.   
   >All I knew was that Sladen seemed to be the main cast along with Baker. And I   
   >also had a major junior-high crush on Sarah Jane. Then suddenly she just   
   >leaves and here's this jungle girl trying to replace her in my heart. I wasn't   
   >having it.   
      
   Tom Baker is the Fourth Doctor.   
      
   I believe I'd seen the two movie adaptations starring Peter Cushing   
   first. I've got a vague memory that when I began watching the tv series,   
   it would have been with the second serial, The Hand of Fear. That quite   
   confused me as the second lead, Elisabeth Sladen, left as her character   
   Sarah Jane Smith had been written out. Then, The Deadly Assassin with no   
   companion, and then The Face of Evil, intoducing Jameson as Leela.   
      
   Later, I got to see the Third Doctor era starring Jon Pertwee in which   
   he's largely exiled on Earth, starting with season 7. Roger Delgado as The   
   Master was introduced in season 8, and he gave a far better performance   
   than all subsequent incarnations. The companions were the wonderful   
   Caroline John as Liz Shaw in season 7, then Katy Manning as the horrid   
   Jo Grant for the next three seasons. In season 11, we get Sarah Jane   
   Smith, a breath of fresh air compared to Jo Grant who not only always   
   had to be rescued and was there just so the Third Doctor could explain   
   plot absurdities.   
      
   Tom Baker was introduced in Season 12.   
      
   We got the First and Second Doctors much later with lots of missing   
   episodes as BBC had erased so many.   
      
   >>>. . .   
      
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