Doctor Who - A bit rubbish, really.

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(Un)fortunately, I'm of that precise generation that never got to experience Doctor Who. And while I'd picked up some details along the way (like Daleks can't go up stairs and stuff), I'd never actually watched an episode all the way through. And funny enough, I don't think I will again .

Did anyone else see this really, really stupid slice of Saturday night programming?

Yes, it was excellent!

I used to watch it as a young person and I liked it, but they've been repeating it here for about 6 months now, (it hasn't been on tv for a very long time) and I have to laugh, it's so bad. It's handy to have seen it though, for all those send-ups they do on umm some britcom sketch show (can't remember what it's called, they come and go).

I think it's really a childrens' show, but you had to be a child of its time. The theme music is strangely catchy - KLF had a hit with it a few years back, and I like that whooooop whooooop noise the tardis makes when it takes off.

As Anglophilic as I am I never got into 'Dr Who' either. Tom Baker's version of the title character was one of my ideas of coolness (kind of old-fashioned and nonconformist at the same time - the classic young-fogey pose) and Elisabeth Sladen and Nicola Bryant as the Doctor's 'companions' Sarah and Peri were respectively adorable and somewhat hot but other than that all I remember really are the accents and the famous very, very bad special effects. (Quotation from the Net: if the FX can't be paid for with a credit card, it's isn't 'Dr Who'.) Not the other characters nor the story lines. Oh, and I like the theme music a lot too.

No, I fixated on the old 'Star Trek' growing up 10 years after it was made, seeing it in reruns, because a sister was one of the original Trekkies. At least some of the writing made me think and Majel Barrett might have sped up puberty in me by a couple of years, LOL.

yeah

doctorin the tardis by the timelords

I wish there was compilation with all the klf and related hits

As for Dr.Who I didn't watch the new one. I did watch the one with Sylvester McCoy when I was youth, but it wasn't that great.

I like KLF too.

I loved it! And yes, it is a kid's programme really. I did see it as a child - I had a real thing for Ace. I also loved the old Dr Who's (they were repeated on BBC 2 in the mornings when I was a teenager).

It is now part of my required Saturday night telly.

Dr Who has a huge following in disability activism circles (at least in the UK), partly due to using a lot of disabled actors to play various alien characters, partly because the Daleks conquered Earth despite being unable to get up stairs

In fact, some people have even "reclaimed" Davros and the Daleks as cult "heroes"... personally, i think we ought to reclaim the name Autons

Tom Baker is a bit of an Aspie cult figure also - i've always thought his quirkily logical, supremely confident deliberate outsider's attitude as Dr Who was very much like what mine would be if the NT world hadn't done so much damage to my self-confidence...

Still haven't seen the new Dr Who (Christopher Eccleston), but not too enthusiastic about the fact they've cast that awful teen-pop singer as his assistant, presumably to catch a "mainstream" audience...