Ancient Geeks Monday
This week: classic Doctor Who
Tom and Steven were both early Doctor Who fans, back when the iconic Doctor was a British eccentric with a long scarf, a floppy hat, a pocket full of Jelly Babies, and a robot dog as a sidekick. Or was he an older gentleman wearing a puffy shirt, driving an antique roadster? Or a grumpy, grandfatherly figure who could be kind of a jerk? We discuss the first five incarnations of the Doctor, his companions, and his antagonists. This was the Doctor as he first arrived on American shores, courtesy of PBS (!).
Weird aliens! Imaginative plots! Epic science fiction TV on a low budget! It’s all here.
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Caught it late yesterday, so I listened to about the first third of it on the way to work.
Most of it sounds like two men discussing a show I’ve not seen. I wonder why….
On other things, I’m re-reading The Fountains of Paradise. What I said about Clarke losing the plot sometimes applies here. About halfway through, really not much has happened. It’s not even clear thus far whether the book’s about the engineer trying to build a space elevator, about the alien probe that went through the Solar System years ago, or about a despotic yet very artistic king who lived near the site of the space elevator two millennia ago.
Most of it centers on the engineer, and people talking or thinking about the engineer, so it must be that. But so little has happened thus far.
BTW, K-9 was also the name of Marvin the Martian’s dog in WB’s Looney Tunes.