Happy birthday, Mr Doctor Who.

[robshearman]

Forty-five years. Who would have believed it?

It seems like only yesterday that I gathered all the family around the portable television device, to see this spanking new educational series about a medical practitioner who didn't know his own surname. I was magically transported to another world - of school classrooms, and junkyards, and corridors.

Comments

[renn]

YOU feel old? I'm six weeks OLDER than the show! Now THAT'S old!

But lol re 25 minutes later.

[alawston]

There were four extras in the first episode? I was privately convinced that the policeman put on an unconvincing beehive wig to double up in the school scenes.

[halspacejock]

Very possible, given the awful image quality ...

[biichan]

You are so not old, Rob. I've dated people your age. So there.

(That being said, it might be a good thing there was no internet in 1963.)

[renn]

Ha! It was a good thing there was no Internet in the late 70's/early 80's! Or even late 80's, when the Internet would be all about bashing the McCoy era and complaining about JNT.....

[biichan]

Actually, I think there might have been internet in the late eighties. Only they didn't have webpages yet or URLs or pictures, so it was just a bunch of emails and electronic bulletin boards. And you could only get it in university computer labs. And they called it ARPAnet or something. Al Gore invented it. Obviously so he could get into flamewars over who was the best Baker.

[renn]

Well, there WAS compuserve, too, which I remember mostly for how I found out about Robert Heinlein's death. Still, the flame wars then can't compare to now! Hee!

[spikewriter]

If I lived in England, I probably would have been sitting front of the television 45 years ago today with my dad. That's what we did three years later when Trek premiered.

But ::snerk:: on the dismay at the straight agenda. I can definitely see the howling.

(And, yeah, I feel old too.)

[tallaudrey]

*You* feel old?? I am only 4 years younger than Dr Who ... how do you think *I* feel???????!

[keristor]

Looking good for only 896 years old? *g*

[tallaudrey]

Lotta boxtox :-)