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Old 12-04-2014, 13:43
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Interesting to note that the Horror channel has some Dr Who programmes coming up with early William Hartnell,Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker edisodes being shown next weekend.
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Old 12-04-2014, 14:43
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Interesting to note that the Horror channel has some Dr Who programmes coming up with early William Hartnell,Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker edisodes being shown next weekend.
Its been reported here: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1951812 over in the Doctor Who forum on DS.
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Old 12-04-2014, 16:19
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Never seen the old who episodes so this will be nice for me.
You will find the transition from contemporary to classic episodes more difficult if you are viewing them for the first time.
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Old 12-04-2014, 16:28
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Interesting to note that the Horror channel has some Dr Who programmes coming up with early William Hartnell,Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker edisodes being shown next weekend.
Thank you so much for this - Horror Channel isn't one I visit often, but for William Hartnell I'm happy to make an exception
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Old 12-04-2014, 17:04
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Thanks for highlighting this.

I've never got into the new incarnation of Doctor Who so never visit that part of the forum, but I still enjoy watching the old ones.
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Old 12-04-2014, 18:13
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You will find the transition from contemporary to classic episodes more difficult if you are viewing them for the first time.
Yes I found it a bit odd the first time, but I now own some classic who on DVD and BluRay, yes I got into it just as well in the end!
If you can see past the poor sets, effects and other technical aspects and just see the story its well worth it!
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Old 12-04-2014, 22:30
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Made my nephew a very happy little fella as he is addicted to Dr Who
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Old 13-04-2014, 14:34
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Horror Channel are having a press event on Monday including a roundtable with Tom Baker to promote this :

http://www.combom.co.uk/
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Old 13-04-2014, 19:37
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Its been reported here: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1951812 over in the Doctor Who forum on DS.
due to these threads being merged my post now no longer makes sense!
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Old 13-04-2014, 23:05
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Just set my series link, but I have a fear its only going to record all episodes of an Unearthly Child rather than all the episodes from all stories Anyway, I may be proved wrong ....
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Old 15-04-2014, 19:17
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I wish that a channel would repeat every single classic episode in order, right from the beginning to the 1989 season, including all the newly found missing episodes. Surely this could be possible for a channel like UK Gold or Watch.
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Old 15-04-2014, 22:04
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Tom Baker interview:

http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/tom-bake...-harrison-ford
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Old 15-04-2014, 22:39
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Just set my series link, but I have a fear its only going to record all episodes of an Unearthly Child rather than all the episodes from all stories Anyway, I may be proved wrong ....
I think it will record all stories but can you keep checking what it is doing? Will you be at home when the first episode of the next story is on? But often I don't trust my sky box either!
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Old 15-04-2014, 23:05
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I think it will record all stories but can you keep checking what it is doing? Will you be at home when the first episode of the next story is on? But often I don't trust my sky box either!
I'll try to monitor, apologies if it's been posted already but has anyone got a schedule of when all the episodes will be on, date & times?
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Old 16-04-2014, 23:05
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Ok, here's the schedule :

http://twidw.doctorwhonews.net/?channel=192
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Old 16-04-2014, 23:16
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Has anyone noticed that part 4 of 'The Brain of Morbius' is labled as part 1 or 4 again! I dont think it is part 1 again I think they have made a typo and they are really showing part 4!
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Old 17-04-2014, 10:00
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More complete data on the channel's own site:
http://www.horrorchannel.co.uk/shows...=Entertainment

First three days - stories broadcast in blocks back to back

18th April
19:00 An Unearthly Child

19th April
11:00 An Unearthly Child (repeated)
13:20 Mind Robber
15:50 Terror of the Autons
18:00 Brain of Morbius (parts 1&2)

20th April
11:00 Brain of Morbius (parts 3&4)
12:10 Caves of Androzani
14:20 Attack of the Cybermen
16:50 Remembrance of the Daleks

Thereafter two episodes per day, Mondays to Fridays.
Each pair shown 3 times: 10:00-11:10, 15:10-16:20 & 19:50-21:00
(Sometimes a pair will be from different stories)

21st April
The Daleks

24th April
Seeds of Death

29th April
The Daemons

2nd May
Sea Devils

7th May
3 Doctors

9th May
Planet of the Daleks

14th May
Green Death

All on Horror+1 an hour later, of course.
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Old 17-04-2014, 13:25
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More complete data on the channel's own site:
http://www.horrorchannel.co.uk/shows...=Entertainment

First three days - stories broadcast in blocks back to back

18th April
19:00 An Unearthly Child

19th April
11:00 An Unearthly Child (repeated)
13:20 Mind Robber
15:50 Terror of the Autons
18:00 Brain of Morbius (parts 1&2)

20th April
11:00 Brain of Morbius (parts 3&4)
12:10 Caves of Androzani
14:20 Attack of the Cybermen
16:50 Remembrance of the Daleks

Thereafter two episodes per day, Mondays to Fridays.
Each pair shown 3 times: 10:00-11:10, 15:10-16:20 & 19:50-21:00
(Sometimes a pair will be from different stories)

21st April
The Daleks

24th April
Seeds of Death

29th April
The Daemons

2nd May
Sea Devils

7th May
3 Doctors

9th May
Planet of the Daleks

14th May
Green Death

All on Horror+1 an hour later, of course.
Awesome, thanks
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Old 18-04-2014, 18:30
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Just in case anyone wants to watch Doctor Who from the beginning and hasn't yet set their recorders - it starts at 7 pm! You only have half an hour to get ready.
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Old 18-04-2014, 18:39
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Just set my series link, but I have a fear its only going to record all episodes of an Unearthly Child rather than all the episodes from all stories Anyway, I may be proved wrong ....
I've just set my Humax PVR and it will be recording today and tomorrow etc.
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Old 18-04-2014, 18:47
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Just in case anyone wants to watch Doctor Who from the beginning and hasn't yet set their recorders - it starts at 7 pm! You only have half an hour to get ready.
It is on again tomorrow morning as well, so if people miss tonight's showing they have another chance! 11.00 till 13.20 tomorrow for the first one in four parts.
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Old 18-04-2014, 19:28
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was t hat sophie aldred doing the voice over?
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Old 18-04-2014, 22:19
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Just set my series link, but I have a fear its only going to record all episodes of an Unearthly Child rather than all the episodes from all stories Anyway, I may be proved wrong ....
Just got home, looks like all episodes of Unearthly Child recorded and planner is all set to record The Mind Robber tomorrow at 1.20pm. sweet, good stuff Horror Channel and Sky+ Ofcourse, I've seen all of these already, but no harm in revisiting. I'm waiting for Brain of Morbius really ..
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Old 18-04-2014, 22:51
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Just set my series link, but I have a fear its only going to record all episodes of an Unearthly Child rather than all the episodes from all stories Anyway, I may be proved wrong ....
Last Friday, when I set up the series link for my Virgin Media V+, the series link looked all to cock. I had to trawl through tomorrows EPG listings and add some episodes manually!

I wish that a channel would repeat every single classic episode in order, right from the beginning to the 1989 season, including all the newly found missing episodes. Surely this could be possible for a channel like UK Gold or Watch.
Earlier tonight, i'm sure that I heard the female in-vision continuity announcer say that they were showing the programme from the very beginning up until 1985. Obviously, they won't be able to show any missing episodes, but isn't there a case where one of a two part story survives? I wonder if they'll show that?

I must say that The Horror Channel were very brave in showing monchrome programmes at peak time earlier this evening. Even the channel that was set up to show older material (Bravo) eventually changed to colour programming as it proved to be unpopular.

It's a shame that the episodes haven't been colourised to be more appealing to the younger generations.

I've only ever seen clips of the black and white series before and they looked old and grainy, but the episodes that I watched earlier this evening looked to be of a decent quality. I wonder why that was, perhaps they've been remastered
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Old 18-04-2014, 23:06
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Last Friday, when I set up the series link for my Virgin Media V+, the series link looked all to cock. I had to trawl through tomorrows EPG listings and add some episodes manually!



Earlier tonight, i'm sure that I heard the female in-vision continuity announcer say that they were showing the programme from the very beginning up until 1985. Obviously, they won't be able to show any missing episodes, but isn't there a case where one of a two part story survives? I wonder if they'll show that?

I must say that The Horror Channel were very brave in showing monchrome programmes at peak time earlier this evening. Even the channel that was set up to show older material (Bravo) eventually changed to colour programming as it proved to be unpopular.

It's a shame that the episodes haven't been colourised to be more appealing to the younger generations.

I've only ever seen clips of the black and white series before and they looked old and grainy, but the episodes that I watched earlier this evening looked to be of a decent quality. I wonder why that was, perhaps they've been remastered
I think they have been remastered, the BBC pay a lot of attention to detail when it comes to Doctor Who, as it is so well loved by the fans!
Of course as its so well loved, they know they can sell the DVDs/BluRays if they clean things up, the 'Terror of the Autons' even got a BluRay transfer as it was filmed entirely on 16mm film, which I have on BluRay!
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