Well if you're going to include Edmund Warwick you might as well include Chris Jeffries who frequently played the second Doctor for location work or when the Doctor was asleep or knocked out. And then Terry Walsh who stood in for Pertwee (and in Monster Of Peladon we got to take a good look at his face, ...his smile looked out of place...). TW also played the fourth Doctor on a number of occasions, not least the big fight scene in The Sontaran Experiment.

Are we perhaps getting a little too anal over this?

What am I saying? This is a thread about the initials of the actors who played Who - if you can't be anal here, where can you??

BTW my favourite vowel is 'u', because I feel it's frequently overlooked. And 'k' is a cool consonant - though isn't that the letter that's feared by the Daleks?

Has anyone mentioned RA, REG, JB, HG and JL?



I only like U when it comes after Q.

But we all like U, Granny!

The initial episode of Doctor Who was called 'An Unearthly Child' and aired on 23rd November 1963.



(That was for Granny whose pension won't stretch to Watch and so didn’t see the documentaries that would have told her this)

How do people feel about Ü ?

Care for a game?


I shall refer that question to lach doch mal.

Es ist toll!

Cheers

I don't need a documentary to tell me this - I watched the first episode when it was first shown.

Yes, I know. You have mentioned it once or twice.

Here's a question for you. What was it like? Did you instantly fall in love and watch every episode after that or did you drift in and out? Was there a buzz in the (I assume) playground or whatever?

(I am being serious here, would genuinely love to know what it was like in Nov 1963 from a genuine "I was there"er)

I would like to ask Granny if she/he (sorry, Im not being presumptious) can remember what size the tv was and if the broadcast seemed sharp in those days. I remember watching Jon Pertwee and at the time I reckon we had a 19 inch to perhaps 21 inch and that seemed large at the time. Thanks.

You're perhaps asking the wrong person because I was 14, so it wasn't exactly a playground, and of course other events caused the buzz that weekend, but one or two of us did comment about how good the new programme was.

Among my friends (then as now, sadly) sci-fi and fantasy was very much a minority taste. It was my dad who was as keen as me. We talked about the cavemen story and the subsequent Dalek one all the time. (My mum didn't get it at all, and couldn't see the appeal).

Yes, I fell in love instantly. No, I never waivered. Only when physically prevented did I miss an episode. (Going to work on Saturdays was a real pain - no method of recording stuff then).

I still count An Unearthly Child as my favourite episode. For sheer atmosphere and wonderment and mystery, it can't be beaten. I really don't know how anyone could watch it and not want to know who these people are and what happens next.

(Bit of a long reply - you shouldn't ask old bids for their reminiscences, they never shut up. )


It was a smallish TV - I can't remember the exact size. 17 inch perhaps. I didn't really think about the quality of the picture. Sorry I'm being a bit vague! It was a long time ago. It was OK to me, but perhaps I was just used to the fuzziness.

back to the initial question.

As the Director of the first episode had the same initials as the First Doctor, is it worth looking for any other similar links in the tenure of other Doctors?

And it looks like the only instance where this has happened!
No directors with initials of any of the othe Doctors that I can see.

If only Chris Barry had directed Colin Baker...

I suppose we can't count the fact that Peter Moffat frequently directed Peter Davison (his real surname is Moffet...)

Or we could consider David McDonald and Derek Martinus or David Maloney.

No, no..I like nostalgia and love to hear rambling stories about the good ol'days when Doctor Who was on virtually constantly (even in none 50th anniversary years!!).

I worked on Saturday's during CB's (use of initials there so as not to upset webby!) first season and wouldn't get home in time to watch DW. We didn't have a video recorder back then so I had to get friends to record it then watch them at other friend’s houses. Proper rigmarole and I ended up watching them in all kinds of odd orders! (I think I got to watch AotC last!!).
Life can sometimes get in the way of Doctor Who...bloody kids today don't know how lucky they are having TiVo and i-player!!