the stories are a lot darker.…Plot line? Trouble happens, the Tardis malfunctions (well, good chance anyway), and either the Doctor’s ingenuity, the Doctor’s sidekick’s ingenuity/naivete, a season extra, or the sonic screwdriver saves the day. It’s really got about the same kind of plot line Scooby-Doo did except with a little less of the ‘you meddling kids’-type lines.
Tom Baker is one my all-time favorites also. Although he was the Fourth Doctor, he was the first one that I saw as a child when they first began airing the show on PBS in 70’s in the States.
And one of the best things about the new series is that we get to see both Sarah Jane and Rose team up together in the episode “School Reunion”!
Wait, do you mean on the Sci-Fi Channel? The most recent one I saw there was the season ender where Rose went to live in the alternate reality where her Dad was still alive. Have any newer episodes been shown in the U.S. since then?The new series of Doctor Who, that starred Christopher Eccleston and now David Tennant deliver great entertainment. One of the good things is the series is written by people who are Doctor Who fans, so there are a lot of tie-ins to old episodes, it links in well, rather than glossing over the old history.
In the last episode I’ve seen the Doctor has been told he is not alone… I think this means the Master is going to make an appearance! Two part Dalek episode coming up, with episode one this weekend… Saturday evenings have something worth watching again
That’s probably in the U.K. on the BBC only, so far. The third season began a few weeks ago over there. I don’t think any new episodes have been on Sci-Fi lately, probably not for a while yet.
I’ve heard it said that the Doctor you saw first is usually your favorite Doctor. I saw Tom Baker first, on PBS in North Carolina. I was in Raleigh on an house-hunting trip for my big out-of-college job, flipping through the channels on the hotel TV, and suddenly see this guy in a long coat running down a hill with a scarf trailing in the wind. I was hooked from the start.
Leela is my favorite companion. I loved the contrast between the scientist and the savage. Favorite scene: Talons of Weng-Chiang, when Leela as a proper British lady explains to a Scotland Yard detective exactly how you would stab someone with a knife, and what kind of wound would result.I always liked Sarah Jane best as the companion but Romana (both of them) was good too. As a bit of trivia, did you know that Tom Baker and Lalla Ward (Romana II) were married to each other briefly after they left the series? But now she is married to the famous (or infamous) atheist, Richard Dawkins.
