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I've been having a Classic Doctor Who binge lately. In the past week I've gone out and bought The Five Doctors Special Edition 2-disc set (I have the single disc release with no extras too) and Inferno on DVD, plus The Power of the Daleks and The Evil of the Daleks on CD. Won the Evil of the Daleks on eBay to replace my taped version.

I forgot how good Inferno was, albeit an episode too long for my liking (especially at 1 in the morning) and the commentaries on the Five Doctors are brilliant (especially the Tennant, Collinson and Raynor Easter Egg).

My shelf is slowly filling up with DW DVDs. I have over 25 now and at about 10 on CD. Have them all on Video though either bought or recorded from UK Gold.

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I forgot how good Inferno was, albeit an episode too long for my liking (especially at 1 in the morning) and the commentaries on the Five Doctors are brilliant (especially the Tennant, Collinson and Raynor Easter Egg).

My shelf is slowly filling up with DW DVDs. I have over 25 now and at about 10 on CD. Have them all on Video though either bought or recorded from UK Gold.

I do enjoy those Pertwee stories when he is stranded on Earth by the timelords (or rather BBC budget constraints at the time)! I love the conflict between the Doctor and the Brigadier, they both needed each other but had very different approaches to dealing with problems, ie The Doctor would procrastinate and lecture everybody without wanting to deal the fatal blow and then the Brig would just blow everything up. By the way Lethbridge Stewart is shortly to make a comeback in The Sarah Jane Smith Adventures! Doctor Who fans everywhere will be arguing all over the net over how this alters the years in which the UNIT stories were set (already a hot topic)!

Don't you think that the project currently going on in Switzerland with the particles and all that is just the sort of thing that Unit would be called to guard with the Doctor messing around in the background?!

Pertwee really was an ace doctor.

Funnily enough if you watch Doctor Who and the Silurians there is a similar storyline. I think th Swizz stole the idea

Pertwee is actually my least favourite Doctor Who. I don't even count McGann though, so probably Pertwee is my 9th favourite Doctor Who.

I've since bought Genesis of the Daleks, but haven't gotten around to watching the story again yet. Almost fell asleep during one of the 50 minutes + documentaries.

The Head wrote:Pertwee is actually my least favourite Doctor Who. I don't even count McGann though, so probably Pertwee is my 9th favourite Doctor Who.

I read somewhere today that Jon Pertwee was the original choice to play Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army. Funny how things work out sometimes. (or don't, as the case may be.)

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I forgot how good Inferno was, albeit an episode too long for my liking Don't you think that the project currently going on in Switzerland with the particles and all that is just the sort of thing that Unit would be called to guard with the Doctor messing around in the background?!

Pertwee really was an ace doctor.

When that switzerland thing happened there was a special radio Torchwood episode!

I think it depends if you were a teenager at that time as to if you liked Pertwee. Katy Manning was lovely, and later Sarah Jane, plus you had the Brig and the first Master. In many ways this series was closest to the current style, or I think so anyway. Showing my age here, but I was about 11 when the first colour pertwee episodes were shown, and we had just moved to a house. I was on my own, and the episode had finished - the one with the Autons I think. memory might be playing tricks but I think it was where a telephone cord had wrapped round the doctor's neck. And then the same sound that phone made sounded from inside the house - I was quite scared - the trillphone going off - still connected from the previous owner. We were too poor to have a phone, quite a luxury in the early 70's. The sound of it gave me quite a scare.

Geffers wrote:
I think it depends if you were a teenager at that time as to if you liked Pertwee. Katy Manning was lovely, and later Sarah Jane, plus you had the Brig and the first Master. In many ways this series was closest to the current style, or I think so anyway. Showing my age here, but I was about 11 when the first colour pertwee episodes were shown, and we had just moved to a house. I was on my own, and the episode had finished - the one with the Autons I think. memory might be playing tricks but I think it was where a telephone cord had wrapped round the doctor's neck. And then the same sound that phone made sounded from inside the house - I was quite scared - the trillphone going off - still connected from the previous owner. We were too poor to have a phone, quite a luxury in the early 70's. The sound of it gave me quite a scare.

I rather liked Jon Pertwee as the Doctor. My favourite scenes were when he sang the little tune to hypnotise aliens using his sonic screwdriver. I liked his car too and his old eccentric uncle persona.

I liked Jon Pertwee in Werzal Gummage too