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RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:a traffic jam on the tarmac.

is the normal state of affairs at O'Hare.

I will... so take your word for that, Mikey. And yeah. Much fun was had out there. I brought some of my Transformers out for Kathy and her friends to see and play with, too.

I got a Dr. Who DVD, Patrick Troughton, Lost in Time.

I've never seen this Doctor.

Thoughts?

Lost In Time? That's a collection of single episodes from serials with missing episodes IIRC. Troughton is... good. Yeah, he's a bit of a clown but there's a manipulative streak to him, as well.

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Lost In Time? That's a collection of single episodes from serials with missing episodes IIRC. Troughton is... good. Yeah, he's a bit of a clown but there's a manipulative streak to him, as well.

So, they are not complete story lines? Is that what you're saying? I'm confused.

Royal_Foxx wrote:I got a Dr. Who DVD, Patrick Troughton, Lost in Time.

I've never seen this Doctor.

Thoughts?

Troughton's the best of the lot. He was the mischievous uncle to Hartnell's kindly grandfather, but still played all around him like chess pieces as much as McCoy's incarnation ever did. Prone to nervousness but with a cold focussed courage when necessary. Outrageously smug at some times but manipulatively sycophantic at others. A tendency towards spluttering outrage towards injustice that felt more real than the calmer, colder anger of his successors.

Royal_Foxx wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Lost In Time? That's a collection of single episodes from serials with missing episodes IIRC. Troughton is... good. Yeah, he's a bit of a clown but there's a manipulative streak to him, as well.

So, they are not complete story lines? Is that what you're saying? I'm confused.

A lot of old Who episodes are 'missing', due to archive purges and taping over the old tapes as cost-cutting measures. There's about 105 half-hour episodes from the First and Second Doctor's tenures that are gone. They might be in some private film vault, a PBS station or... a church basement, but they're not in the BBC archives at the moment.

Captain Seafort wrote:

Royal_Foxx wrote:I got a Dr. Who DVD, Patrick Troughton, Lost in Time.

I've never seen this Doctor.

Thoughts?

Troughton's the best of the lot. He was the mischievous uncle to Hartnell's kindly grandfather, but still played all around him like chess pieces as much as McCoy's incarnation ever did. Prone to nervousness but with a cold focussed courage when necessary. Outrageously smug at some times but manipulatively sycophantic at others. A tendency towards spluttering outrage towards injustice that felt more real than the calmer, colder anger of his successors.

Thanks.

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:

Royal_Foxx wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Lost In Time? That's a collection of single episodes from serials with missing episodes IIRC. Troughton is... good. Yeah, he's a bit of a clown but there's a manipulative streak to him, as well.

So, they are not complete story lines? Is that what you're saying? I'm confused.

A lot of old Who episodes are 'missing', due to archive purges and taping over the old tapes as cost-cutting measures. There's about 105 half-hour episodes from the First and Second Doctor's tenures that are gone. They might be in some private film vault, a PBS station or... a church basement, but they're not in the BBC archives at the moment.

Thanks

Troughton's good, if you can appreciate his more subtle, passive-aggressive style compared to, say, McCoy. He also is perhaps the least familiar to many, after leaving the show fairly quickly due to what he considered a gruelling film schedule. Bear in mind that he is far more popular among Brits than he is among us Yanks who tend to appreciate the likes of Baker and Tennant more.

Troughton grows on me the more I watch.

I think there's a cream you can get for that.

Griffin, I don't know whether to award you an internet or do a colony drop on you for that one.

FINALLY got someone to go to the Natural History Museum with me... Only day off work for the next 7-8 days, but at least I'll enjoy it

Tinadrin Chelnor wrote:FINALLY got someone to go to the Natural History Museum with me... Only day off work for the next 7-8 days, but at least I'll enjoy it

I don't know where you are... which Natural History museum?

Mikey wrote:

Tinadrin Chelnor wrote:FINALLY got someone to go to the Natural History Museum with me... Only day off work for the next 7-8 days, but at least I'll enjoy it

I don't know where you are... which Natural History museum?

Oh, that would have helped... was too excited London (I live 20 miles north)... It turns out that we ended up going to several other places, but didn't manage to get to that one... So I was pretty miffed... But we're going again in April as soon as my godson has another half term