Just a heads up that the first ever episode is on Horror Channel tomorrow at 1pm, for anyone interested.

Thursday sees Carnival Of Monsters, with The Three Doctors on Friday.

Next week starts with The TIme Warrior on Monday, with The Ark In Space on Tuesday.

Yup, we know, Its the same stories they've been doing for the last 2 years at least.

Fine, you know, but maybe not EVERYONE knows, as i only found out about them about 2 months ago, so thought it might be of interest to others wanting to watch them, not like i am using up all the internet mentioning it

If you already know, move on, the thread will slowly fall down the list into obscurity, until someone decided to post they already know of course

It would be interesting to mark up a tally of DW fans who watch the episodes on the Horror Channel in the UK (and don't own the stories on DVD) as an alternative filler whilst the new series is off-air?
So, who are you?

I also knew the Horror channel had been showing them, but I'm not full of self importance like others on here to try and belittle the OP with smart arse replies.

I sat with the wife the other day and watched The Greatest Show in the Galaxy with her. I haven't seen it fully and surprisingly enjoyed it. The Curse of Fenric was shown next - I've always liked that.

However, I didn't know the other stories mentioned were being shown; 'll defo being watching those as I don't own these stories on DVD - so thanks for the heads up

I'd forgotten they show it! Isn't it great that An Unearthly Child gets an occasional UK tv showing these days?

I recorded both batches of shows when they first aired on the Horror Channel, and have been watching them during off-air moments.

I've also been topping up with DVDs for the shows they haven't shown and which fill important gaps in my Classic Who knowledge and viewing! And for those stories which I really like and want the proper DVD (with extras) of

Going back to the original thread, they showed An Unearthly Child on BBC4 around the 50th anniversary time, and I still haven't watched it in full!

Actually, my daughter is getting into it (she is 4), she find's new Who a bit scary, but once i found the old ones on Horror, i have been recording them for her, she loves Dalek's, has taken a few weeks to come round to watching Davros, but will not entertain Cyber Men.

She also loves the episodes with Sontaran's (the Potato Men as she calls them).

She also loves it when the Doctor changes into another one, so looking forward to The Three Doctors on Friday, her first look at a multi doctor episode!!

She'll love The Robots of Death.

I was rather hoping they'd get hold of a 'new' batch of classic Who episodes but sadly they seem to keep regurgitating these ones ad nauseam.

My little brother (just turned 9) has wartched his share of Classic Who and I convinced him not long ago to try my favourite Troughton story: The Mind Robber. He whizzed through the whole story in one evening and found it funny and creepy. He's a big fan of the Second Doctor/Jamie duo.

It's nice to see that the classics still hold up for many people, the young ones included.

I've been through most of the Horror ones - except TV signal strength issues meant I would miss about half the stories, or worse still, half of each story. I plan on picking off the rest now that they appear to be repeating each story all at once, rather than split up over days.

Actually, it is less than 2 years since Doctor Who arrived on Freeview's Horror Channel.

They started on the Horror Channel in March 2014, though the channel wasn't available on Freeview until 2015

I've heard that once they finish the current run through their episodes they won't be showing any more. I hope they can buy the rights for some different episodes, or maybe another Freeview channel could buy the rights.

Strange how Horror Channel missed out The Stones of Blood and The Two Doctors on the last run of repeats.

Pity Netflix or Amazon Prime can't get the rights to all the Classic Who.

It would be great if they were all available through either Netflix/Amazon or maybe even as each story on BBC Iplayer but I think that's very unlikely!

So if this is the last time that Horror Channel will show them does anyone have an idea about who will be getting the rights in the UK to classic Dr Who?

Pretty much all of the "classic" series is available to buy and stream/download on BBC store so maybe there will be no more free-to-air repeats

I remember Genesis of the Daleks always seemed to be the story the BBC would opt for during any of its 'Doctor Who classics' seasons (usually on BBC2). Although I am sure I also saw The Three Doctors twice at least as well, and Carnival of Monsters.

Hopefully Horror Channel get the rights to show Blake's 7. The show hasn't been repeated in years.

Doubt it. Blakes 7 isn't really horror. Horrific sets yes, but not really horror enough.

Star Trek wasn't really horror too but it didn't stop Horror Channel from showing it.

Maybe but Blakes 7 isn't popular enough. BBC 2 tried repeating it years ago but it didn't get enough viewers to warrant repeats.

They show stuff like Wonder Woman, Incredible Hulk, Xena and Hercules all the time so it's more a Cult channel these days..... Not that there's anything thing wrong with that of course.... only last year they showed The Wild Wild West, a western/spy drama with a lot of steampunk elements in it

Did they?

I know there was talk of repeating but I don't remember seeing them.

My exposure to B7 came from buying all the videos in the 90's!