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Originally Posted by Torplexed (Post 1763112)

For twenty years on Saturday nights, the local PBS station in the Tacoma area has been running the original 1963-1989 run of Doctor Who in sequence, over and over again. Local aficionados keep sending them the money to keep it on the air somehow.

I'm a useless slug. I taped all those when PBS was airing them in the 80s. I own digital copies of them all now, including reconstructed versions of the "missing" episodes. :sunny:

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That being said I wish they'd spring for some of the newer episodes.

I'm watching them all on Amazon right now. :D

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1763122)

I'm a useless slug. I taped all those when PBS was airing them in the 80s. I own digital copies of them all now, including reconstructed versions of the "missing" episodes. :sunny:

Awww. No Tardis key chain, Dalek clock radio or Doctor Who tote bag for you. :O: Consider yerself lucky.

This PBS affiliate used to follow up the Doctor Who episode with some other classic British sci fi like Blake's Seven or Red Dwarf, but lately it's been back to endless repeats of Are You Being Served?, and As Time Goes By.

Oh the memories... I used to love watching Are You Being Served. Yes it was silly and it's probably terribly dated now and some of the situations that they cooked up for the characters were totally ridiculous, but still.

One of my all-time favorite lines in a sitcom, ever, is from that series. Mrs. Slocombe (spelling?) had tried to get Captain Peacock's attention on the sales floor in a way that he found inappropriate to his station. So in his typically pretentious manner he went into a long explanation of the "proper" way for her to get his attention, which involved her waiting for him to finish whatever he was doing and look in her direction, at which point she would indicate that she needed his assistance, and he would raise his hand and do the little index finger beckoning "wiggle" that everyone instantly recognizes as the signal for "come here."

And that's when Mrs. Slocombe drew herself up in all her offended British matron glory and announced, "Captain Peacock.... I do not respond to any man's finger."

:har:

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun (Post 1763130)

"Captain Peacock.... I do not respond to any man's finger."

:har:

"...and I am unanimous in that!" :03:

I used to think her character's name was spelled Slocum, but I think your spelling is closer.

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Originally Posted by Torplexed (Post 1763140)

"...and I am unanimous in that!" :03:

:rotfl2:

:yeah:

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Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1762977)

But not the poster :O:

Don't be so sure of that, :03:

Why bother with day time TV, the BBC should just go off air until 5pm just like the 1970's. Of course the fat cats are safe while the poor sod who cleans the bogs out is in the firing line.

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Originally Posted by STEED (Post 1763916)

Why bother with day time TV, the BBC should just go off air until 5pm just like the 1970's. Of course the fat cats are safe while the poor sod who cleans the bogs out is in the firing line.

Hasn't that always been the case? :hmmm:

Well, then there'll be more time for British porn.
:http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=weijnvNCxqY