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They were actually available to buy in shops and broadcast on the BBC in the period when the rest of the bubble era wasn’t, so I got to see those episodes in some form.

Same, it was my first experience of some early episodes.

My brain still has to make a slight adjustment sometimes when I watch the originals on the DVD, that this is how it’s meant to be.

For example, the freeze-frame at the end of ‘Kryten’ still looks a bit wrong to me, the shot of the space bike jetting off into the stars is one of the much less egregious changes and works well in my eyes (from memory anyway, it’s been over 25 years since I would’ve watched the Remastered version).

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17/06/2026 

Holoship

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16/06/2026 

Terrorform, Timeslides 

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15/06/2026 

Rimmerworld, Me², Backwards 

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 I like Rimmer mourning his dad in Better Than Life 

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14/06/2026 

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13/06/2026 

Epideme, Beyond a Joke

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12/06/2026 

Terrorform, Meltdown 

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11/06/2026 

Backwards, Justice, Ouroboros, Blue

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Yeah I’m more interested in watching The Clone Wars, Rebels Mandalorian, stuff like that. Andor too, apparently. 

Mandalorian is good fun (and the new film too, if you just treat it like a super sized episode), but I cannot emphasise enough what a masterpiece Andor is, best Star Wars thing outside of IV and V. 

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Watched all of Blake’s 7 years ago, the rest I’ve always planned to give a go at some point and I might like but I think the point I’m trying to make is that there’s not really anything current. With those shows, while they’ll be totally new things for me, they’ve all ended years ago.
Oh and Lost I’ve never planned to watch past Season 1 anyway. 

As Rushy’s pointed out, you seem to be bizarrely straitjacketing yourself from investigating acclaimed shows for very arbitrary-seeming reasons (e.g. not being ‘current’) and judging them as crap, sight unseen.

I get that your reactions are borne out of extreme disappointment, and you’ve admitted as such, but there’s a wealth of material out there, waiting to be given a chance.

The Lost thing is really leaning into stubbornness and specific received wisdom. What if you reached the end of season 1 and absolutely loved it? Would you refuse to carry on, out of some twisted principle?

Enterprise is a good example. I ignored it at the time because I ‘heard’ it was rubbish. Decided to watch it a couple of years ago, and really enjoyed it (that finale aside). 

Everything is subjective at the end of the day, I’ve only stuck with Doctor Who out of a sense of loyalty to my childhood self for years now, just hoping it will do something other than leave me feeling flat, apart from the odd episode.

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 10/06/2026 

Timewave, TPL

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12 is the best modern Doctor. I’m currently rewatching The Thick Of It (weekly, alongside the Gallifrey Pals who are watching for the first time like they did was Dwarf), and seeing Malcolm Tucker is really making me want to watch all of Capaldi’s Who again too.

This makes me nostalgic for the ‘sweary Doctor’ mash-up trailers people made after Capaldi was announced.

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I wonder whether “in the 1970s” was always part of the joke or put in there to clarify that they weren’t saying anything controversial about the present day.

Or about the time that they were making Red Dwarf.

We do know that Robert liked to stare…

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09/06/2026 

Should’ve got it in 3, didn’t twig that was the beginning of ‘Disintegration’. 

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Wilderness kid

Pertwee was weirdly quite high-profile in that era too

Spearhead From Space was the first Who I saw, when I checked it out of the library as a 7 year old in the mid-90’s, possibly on a whim because I was intrigued by the video cover. 

As I recall, of available vids I was able to get hold of in the various nearby libraries, Pertwee stories seemed to be most prevalent, which led to him feeling like ‘my doctor’ in my formative fandom, until I got more exposure to others.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, I don’t remember there being any 60’s stuff knocking about apart from The Seeds of Doom. I saw no Hartnell until I spent some hard-earned pocket money on The Aztecs in the BBC shop on a trip to London. Hurndall would’ve been my original (you might say) First Doctor experience!

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08/06/2026 

Quarantine, Backwards, Pete II

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 07/06/2026 

Officer Rimmer, Mechocracy 

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06/06/2026 

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05/06/2026 

Bodyswap, Kryten, Pete 1, Cassandra 

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04/06/2026 

The Beginning 

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 03/06/2026 

Epideme, Kryten 

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This will be hard to top!

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 Until I saw that in the looping GIF thread and was able to put some context on it, I was sure you just edited that together.

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02/06/2026 

Ouroboros, Thanks for the Memory 

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01/06/2026 

White Hole, Polymorph 

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31/05/2026 

Stasis Leak, Waiting for God 

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30/05/2026 

White Hole, Polymorph 

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Seemed like it would be a slam-dunk, but on looping it, you notice that they nudge the boxes closer together as they walk past.

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 Doug would either have had to bring Rimmer back having failed as Ace (I can’t really imagine how that could have worked, but maybe Doug might have managed it) or simply ignored Stoke Me a Clipper. Neither is ideal in terms of storytelling.

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every Doctor who has a different title sequence for their last season, they have a different photo of their face to go with it. 

The infamous grimace. 

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