From: mrmuon@next01pg2.wam.umd.edu (Eli John Hawkins)
Subject: Re: Your firsts
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 05:10:10 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.045520.11190@wam.umd.edu>  
mrmuon@next06csc.wam.umd.edu (Me, that is) writes:
> In article <1992Nov22.164804.370@rivers>  
ph9991_manfr@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu  
> writes:
> > In article <XR7muB2w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>,  
> yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee) writes:
> > > 
> > > - <IO21145@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
> > > -
> > > - > I would like to hear how some of my fellow "Whovians" were
> > > - > first introduced into the series - It was quite a powerfull
> > > - > experience for me (or as powerfull as a child might imagine!)
> > > - > when I watched "Genesis of The Daleks" on channel 2. It was
> > > - > the best show I'd ever seen ! - The mystery of the whole series
> > > - > was a joy to unravel, to get to know the doctor and his  
> interesting
> > > - > happenings. In short - it's the last Televison show I'll watch!
> > > - > But anyway, I'd like to hear from anyone on this...
> > > - >
> > > - >
> > > - >    Scorby...
> 
> Okay!
> I come from a family with Anglophile tendencies; my dad went to school  
in  
> England for two years. One of the things I read as a kid was the  
> Paddington books and I was pretty pleased when, briefly, there was a  
> series of Paddington stories on TV on one of DC's PBS stations, weekday  
> afternoons; It was some kind of puppet animated thing and someone on  
this  
> group probably knows its origins. It wasn't on very long though and one  
> day (a monday I assume) I tuned in at that time and there was no  
> Paddington, there was something I thought looked like the inside of a  
> silver ear. At this moment my father called me down to dinner so I had  
to  
> turn off the TV.
> I semi forgot about this, but later that week (thursday) I was bored in  
> the afternoon and turned on the TV. I came in partway through part 4 of  
> "Robot". Although this is undoubtedly not the best introduction to the  
> series it got my curiosity. I found the title in the TV listings and,  
> assuming this to be typical science fiction, I assumed Professor Marius  
to  
> be "Doctor Who". I was, of course, wrong on both counts. That night I  
told  
> my mother about it and she said "Sounds awful, dear!". But I didn't  
think  
> so.
> Somehow I missed the next episode, but I got my friend to watch "Ark in  
> Space" part two with me. He liked it to. I missed "the Sontaran  
> Experiment" but I think "Genesis of the Daleks" was my first complete  
> story.
> Each weekday afternoon as part of "Children's Fare" it was on after  
> "Mister Roger's Neighborhood". Although I got some others into the show  
> they didn't remain as into it as I did. Then i had the lucky break of a  
> family vacation to England. There I saw an exibit about the show at  
Madame  
> Tousade's waxworks. I discovered the novelizations at a bookstore and  
> bought "K9 and other Mechanical creatures" there; this filled me in  
quite  
> a bit and compensated for missing "the invisible enemy" and other  
stories  
> during the trip.
> I got back in time for "Image of the Fendehal". My station only ran up  
to  
> "The invasion of Time" then stopped. I almost went nuts but eventually  
> they brought it back, for the same run. then stopped again.
> I better finish this later, the lab's closing.
Eventually the other local PBS station started running it. Again in  
episode format and starting from "Robot" but they ran all the way up to  
Logopolis before starting over again and then movingit to 11 at night  
(past my bedtime). Eventually they to stopped, but at last aboout 7 years  
ago the first station started up again in movie format and showed  
everything (everything whole).
Anyway I've been a fan of the show since I was about 9. The Doctor, in  
many ways, really is a scientis, and this appealed to my interest in  
science which had been extreme since age 6. I have always been excited to  
find other fans, although I am more used to it now and am no longer amazed  
to find anyone who has heard of it. I also got pissed off at anyone who  
claimed that "Star Trek" was better.
To this day watching a really good Who story gets me very exited, there's  
really nothing quite like it!

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    - Xoannon
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