Happy 90th birthday to Tom Baker, my first Doctor!
Happy 90th birthday to Tom Baker, my first Doctor!
My first episode was Destiny of the Daleks all the way back in the 1980s, which I think was a good episode to start on.
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NuWhovian here. It took me a while to watch Classic, and between the pacing and missing episodes the early Doctors were tough going.
Then the Third Doctor regenerates into this tall, shock-haired eccentric, and it just... clicked. Tom Baker was peak Classic Who, he is magnetic to watch. I can definitely understand why his version remains iconic.
Happy birthday, good sir!
Even though I grew up with classic Who, it took me a long time to get into One and Two's episodes, as you said, the pacing is very slow. I've gone back to them since and I enjoy them a lot more now. I'm especially impressed with what they tried to achieve on such a limited budget. It sometimes was a complete failure, but every attempt was interesting.
Oh, I agree. What the production pulled off with tighter and tighter budgets is impressive. The Ark in space bubblewrap monster is phenomenal 😂
I've become quite fond of Patrick Troughton's Doctor as well, and I see some of the same quirkiness in his performance as in Tom Baker's. The Second Doctor with Jamie is as memorable as Four with Sarah Jane, just a pity so many episodes were junked.