I was walking along the seafront today where I live. And I spotted the Tardis......ahhh memories! I've lived away down south for many years and had forgotten about it. But when I was a kid in the 60's I always used to sit outside this police box waiting for the Doctor to appear! He never did
I've since returned to the town - and there it is.....and it's moved as well! The council were going to demolish it I believe, but just shifted it a few yards away in the end! They've even given it a lick of paint. I'm still mesmerised by it now.
Another thing - I was always terrified walking through Debenhams with my mum.....I was convinced that those wax dummies were going to spring to life after seeing 'Spearhead' !
Anyone else affected by childhood memories?
PS: I'm still wary of waxwork dummies NOW? They just creep me out!

I can't tell you any childhood memories at the moment, but I just wanted to say, this sounds really lovely.

Good grief, you're even older than me! Can I get you anything? Tartan blanket? Cup of tea? Oxygen mask?




We all know how that feels.


I don't think anything 'real' has had any long lasting effect on me but bus trips at night make me think of the chilly evenings travelling back from my gran's after Doctor Who. When I smell smoke burning from chimneys, I think of those 70s nights with the Doctor and Sarah. Jeez, even some frosty mornings take me back in time and I'm walking to school thinking about that weekend's episode with the Doctor and Romana!

Maybe everything reminds me of Doctor Who?

the 1st Dalek story in 1963 ....... Barbra's scream!

One of the Pat Troughton Dalek stories - I forget which - and it was Nov 5th, went to a bonfire party straight after .....

Glad I saw the classic stories, many now wiped. Especially Daleks Master Plan.

Standing in front of the much smaller, phone only police box in Rotherham town centre when I was 5 (long since gone sadly) and wondering if there was another one inside that, and another one inside that, and another one.......etc.

No prizes for guessing which story had been on the preceding weekend!

The mummies in 'Pyramids Of Mars' frightened me no end. There was a sort of mummy in Leeds Museum, and I was scared to look at it.

I remember being at school and teacher asking if anybody knew what ancestor's were. I replied really quick thinking i was clever and said my ancestor's were rats. All the class laughed including the teacher who asked why my and i replied because in the book Talons of Weing-chang Chang was joining his ancestors the rat's according to the Doctor toward the books end and if the Doctor said ancestors were rats well they must be!!

My Father turning off "The Brain of Morbius" owing to the fact it was unsuitable for me to watch...yes, the infamous brain flopping on the floor scene pushed him over the edge too and I have never forgiven him...just to prove the point I shall be including in my Toast when Mum and Dad celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary tomorrow...he still desrves to suffer

Yay! Must admit to that too. That squidgy brain splatting onto the floor was a bit Yeeuugh!

I also seem to remember when the daleks were 'finally' destroyed in Evil Of The Daleks - the surprise of all that bubbling gunk pouring out of them. I remember feeling rather sick (I was about 7 or 8 by then!).

The Sea Devils coming out of the sea. I was too young to remember it first time around, but it was repeated in (I think) 1975 and scared the pants off me.

Can I also say that I really did hide behind the settee - and millions of other kids from my generation did too!

Some childhood memories.

Drawing Tom Baker using tracing paper (well grease proof paper from my mums kitchen.

Cacking myself as The Sontaran took his helmet of in The Sontaran Experiment.

Going to the Doctor Who expedition at Blackpool, I remember being unimpressed.

Wanting a Tom Baker scarf, mum promised but never knitted my one.

Thinking Tom Baker was a woman when he first regenerated.

Cacking myself at the Giant spider In Pertwe's Planet of Spiders.

Cacking myself everytime the theme tune came on, especially the end credits when it was mixed with a scream from an episodess final shot.

Seeing a Dalek on a merry-go-round style ride where you sat inside it, pestered my parents for me to have a go, sat inside it waggled the plunger up and down whent round an round, I remember being unimpressed.

The War Machines !

At the time, the new Post Office Tower (with revolving restaurant) was much featured on tv - symbolising Harold Wilson's "white heat of technology" - (in fact, to keep telecoms going during World War 3!).

But I knew nothing about all that. Only that, it was all very new and exciting, and they had a War Machine on Blue Peter ........

Looking back, a War Machine was simply a man inside a packing case, with his arm sticking out of the side, holding a hammer! And "Wotan" was simply a couple of old IBM cabinet tape drives. But, I'm now older and far more cynical ..........

The Dominators! I do remember thinking this quite silly, even at the time ......

Two men in padded jackets with big collars "I am dominating you, with my frightening jacket and sharp pointed colllar", And the silliest robots ever seen, seemingly based on a Belling cooker.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__v16ajx69M...s+and+Toba.jpg

http://www.cyber-heritage.com/submar...ines/cook2.jpg

I seem to remember Tom Baker fighting what looked like a giant vagina, now that was scary.

Also those Cruoton (?) things with the tentacles, they were scary and the Zygons were also scary.

Seem to remember seeing a clip of an old PT era episode, where these little doll things come to life - that was really scary.

As you can gather from my post I'm not such a big fan but loved it as a kid.

Yeah, Dr Who and the Croutons .......... where he ended up in the soup !

In fact, the Krotons were "quite interesting"! A crystalline life-form (crystals being "ordered information", which after all is the basis for life ........)

http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease...-life-patterns

http://originoflife.net/

Shades of Fred Hoyle ....... oh, for the days when Dr Who was science based, and not Vampire crap!

sorry, I got mixed up ,though your post helped me find what I was scared off - the Krynoids, I think that might have also been the creature I mistook for a vagina in my youth., though it looks nothing like one.

The Krotons looked like robots - maybe - but were really giant silica crystals. So, Dr Who destroyed them by pouring Cillit Bang into their "minerals feeding bowl" (effectively)...........

This story also had an brain educator machine, copied directly from Forbidden Planet .........

I'm quite envious of you! The story about waiting outside the TARDIS is lovely! I didn't start watching the show until 2005 Christmas Day, a few months before I turned 14 so I don't have any 'childhood' memories from the show like that. However I still have lots of lovely memories from the past five years (nearly!) that I've been devoted to the show. x

It was the Sontaran helmet thing for me too. He just seemed incredibly scary and sinister- and it was the fear of the unknown. Am slightly miffed that they now seem to be 'the comedy relief' adversaries. Have never rewatched the original series so cant remember if there was any element of humour to them in their original incarnation. I certainly didnt think there was at the time.

Now that has to be one of the funniest Posts I have read in here for a very long time...Doctor Who...science based...no stop, you're killing me

Going past a policebox (tardis) and dad knocking on the door and a policeman poped out I realy thought he was Dr Who.

Being scared when the Sontaran took his helmet off, in the time robber, boy was I scared.

The scariest 'monsters' for me as a kid were the cybermen. Not the silly soldier-style ones now that do nothing but say "Delete" but the ones in PT's era. They had eerie electronic voices (Tomb Of The Cybermen).

The Malus on the cover of the "Awakening " novelisation.
Scared me so much I had to leave the book turned face
down at night.

Scarlioni in City Of Death at the end of Part 1 where he took his mask off to reveal he was Scaroth. Scared the s**t out me for weeks afterwards when I was a kid........

The Anti-Matter creature from Planet of Evil was the one that scared me.
The combination of that excellently creepy jungle and the eerie rattly noise of the monster was superb.
Still one of my favourite stories now, despite that fact that the creature actually isn't all that clever, effects wise, and clearly all the money was spent on the brilliant jungle set leaving the poor Morestrans with one the dullest and plainest wooden looking spaceship interiors ever seen on screen.
Oh and an honouarble mention for the Master's horrific face make-up in The Deadly Assassin - quite how the BBC got away with this on a Saturday tea-time is baffling.