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With nothing left to watch (I've seen pretty much everything) I decided to give the Who man a go. I hestiated in the past cause lord knows there's like 30 years of the show, that's a tad intimidating.

 

From what I know thanks to the Who fans in irc, I don't need to start from the very beginning. The seasonal story arcs (i.e. the meat and potatoes of the show) don't start until around the 1980's (real world time period), so which season(s) were in that time?

 

I'd like to skip the early stuff that is mostly "filler" and just get into the core of the series where every thing from Daleks to Time Lords to the time traveling phone booth (or dimensional traveling, whichever I forget). I'm not biast so I won't really have an opinion on "which" Dr. I start with, just I want to get the full show version explaination of the characters and technology before hitting up the current stuff.

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If you want to start with the best of classic Who, as mostly every fan will tell you, you leap into the series of the fourth Doctor: Tom Baker. He had the most successful and the longest run, with arguably some of the best stories in the whole of Doctor Who.

 

If you want to pick up with no real background and a new look at the old series, then you start with 2005 and Christopher Eccleston's (the 9th Doctor) run.

 

As for the TARDIS, Blue London Telephone Police Box capable of travel in time and space, dimensions and so forth. There's a number of threads that are stickied that help with understanding the Doc's Blue Box and the various bits of tech.

 

 

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I'm biased, but for someone new to Who, you have to admit Tom Baker's era gives you the best insight into the Doctor's world as well as providing a few classic villains etc. Pertwees era is mostly on Earth though...so that's why I discounted that particular one.

 

If you want to blow your mind, go from an Unearthly Child (1963 and the first Doctor) and move on from there, various torrents are about and various reconstructions of missing episodes - but that's only if you want to throw yourself into the whole series from the first ever Dr. Who.

 

Otherwise I think Baker's era is more accessible.

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I've been told that any three Tom Baker stories in a row will get anyone hooked.

 

What? Like-

1. Creature From the Pit

2. Nightmare of Eden

3. Horns of Nimon :-)

 

Seriously, starting at War Games is not a bad idea, but I'd also add in certain B&W stories for background, like all the Dalek & Cybermen ones yuo can find & Unearthly Child is a must.

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Ugh... what a mix ;p... fuzzy green balls, holographically stored forests, and minotaurs with neon green horns. Mind you, the Nimon were done in an interesting way in one BF audio, if I remember correctly...

 

I'd go for 'Deadly Assassin', 'Genesis of the Daleks', and The Power of Kro... um, The Keeper of Traken/Logopolis/Castrovalva set.

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One question, actually a confirmation to see if I get it right;

 

Each season is broken down in 5 or 6 "episodes". Each "episode" is then broken down into multiple smaller parts, i.e. Robot the season opener for Season 12 is in 4 parts, each part getting it's own 350 meg file (which I assume will be between 45 minutes to 60 minutes minus commericals).

 

Correct or am I off base in left field on my assumption?

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22' date=' actually. :cyclops:[/quote']

 

Is that official?

Most of the Tom Baker one's I've cheaked run 24:30-25:10 including the opening and closing and overlaps.

And then there were several stories that were two 45min specials.

 

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I would Ignore Tom Baker's era, his stories are either horror story rip offs (season 13), or just plain bad (season's 15-17).

 

I'd watch the 5th doctor's era first, much better and has some gritty, violent stories in it, the 6th doctor's first season is excellent too, and I'd also highly recomend the 7th doctors last season.

 

After that, I would watch classic troughtons and hartnell stories.

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I would Ignore Tom Baker's era, his stories are either horror story rip offs (season 13), or just plain bad (season's 15-17).

 

I'd watch the 5th doctor's era first, much better and has some gritty, violent stories in it, the 6th doctor's first season is excellent too, and I'd also highly recomend the 7th doctors last season.

 

After that, I would watch classic troughtons and hartnell stories.

 

Well I've almost got the first four episodes of season 12 finished downloading (Bakers first season). But I will give the others a look as well.

 

Is there a site that lists which Dr. was which? I had to google Baker to find out which seasons he did (or more so imdb.com helped really). I figure if there are several really well done trek sites that have information up the wahzoo then there are bound to be some for Dr. Who as well

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Well I've almost got the first four episodes of season 12 finished downloading (Bakers first season). But I will give the others a look as well.

 

Is there a site that lists which Dr. was which? I had to google Baker to find out which seasons he did (or more so imdb.com helped really). I figure if there are several really well done trek sites that have information up the wahzoo then there are bound to be some for Dr. Who as well

 

Yuppers.

 

Try this : http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/index.shtml

 

should be helpfull :)

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