What was the first Doctor Who episode you ever watched?

[Glaysher]

Why do I feel like this thread is a secret "how old are you" thread?

 

[jd73]

The Horns of Nimon

And Leela was my first "companion crush"...

 

[J-WO]

All I recall was Tom Baker's giant floating head and it scared the heck out of me. No idea what story it is!

 

[MemoryTale]

I was around for them all; however we never had the greatest reception for the Public station that was originally broadcasting them in the US and I might have seen portions of a Dalek episode that was so abominably difficult to watch for all the interference that I was put off trying to struggle to watch them.
I have only recently started watching and I started with the 2005 first season with Christopher Eccleston. I have somehow hooked my wife into watching along with me.
Had HBO Max been able to offer more episodes of the older Doctor episodes I might have been tempted to start with them. However it might be that some of those episodes are forever lost.

The BBC have been restoring some of those lost episodes by animating the lost portions and playing the recorded lines over them. The animation quality is a bit iffy, but it's the only way us young'uns will ever see these stories. They're available on DVD over here, not sure on availability across the pond though.

All I recall was Tom Baker's giant floating head and it scared the heck out of me. No idea what story it is!

That sounds like the Face of Evil.

 

[J-WO]

That sounds like the Face of Evil.

That's sounds pretty accurate!

 

[彐ildHunter]

I can't remember the name of the first episode I watched, but I clearly recalls Doctor was trapped in his own watch for million year. And he literally punched his way out. I was amazed by the Doctor by then.

 

[Don]

Who fans made me curious enough to purchase DVDs of the show. And what better place to start, than at the very beginning?

 

[farntfar]

I saw it from the beginning, but I was pretty small and don't remember much before Troughton.
I'm pretty sure I remember the arrival of the first Daleks though; but memory is a funny thing and I may have reconstructed in my memory later.

 

[Narkalui]

I can't remember the name of the first episode I watched, but I clearly recalls Doctor was trapped in his own watch for million year. And he literally punched his way out. I was amazed by the Doctor by then.

That's Peter Capaldi in 'Heaven Sent' series 9

 

[KGeo777]

I assume I saw a Tom Baker once or twice on tv in the 70s but I never watched the show. I was more like "what the hell is this scarf guy?" I did see the 1990s tv-movie.
Then someone sent me some episodes on tape-so I saw the Baker one with the "the Talons of ..whatever."
As well as the first Pertwee one. Those were the first. More recently I watched a couple of Troughton Cyberman ones.
And the first Cushing movie.

 

[Biskit]

I have a vague memory of a couple of Troughton episodes, but actually watching, making sense, and following it from one week to the next, was the start of Jon Pertwee.

 

[Dave]

I also watched it weekly from the beginning, between Final Score and Juke Box Jury. I was propped up on the sofa at my grandfather's while the table was being set for Saturday tea. However, like farntfar, my first memory is only of Daleks. Understanding it, that is another question entirely, some of those Troughton stories being pretty weird and surreal. I certainly have memories of the Supreme Dalek, Yeti in the Underground, and of the Cybermen invading London, but it was the Jon Pertwee era where I became a fan. I lapsed during the Colin Baker era.

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

The first Doctor I remember was Pertwee, but I am old enough (just) to have seen them all, depending on if my parents watched them or not.

I've just checked here

List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

and I definitely remember the shop dummies coming to life and shooting out of their hands in Spearhead from Space

Spearhead from Space - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

So that was my first

We all remember our first time, don't we?

 

[KGeo777]

The Daleks could have benefited from a vocoder.

It is interesting that Boney M used one at the same time Battlestar Galactica was premiering.

Serendipity?

 

[HareBrain]

and I definitely remember the shop dummies coming to life and shooting out of their hands in Spearhead from Space

Spearhead from Space - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

So that was my first

This reminded me that this is one of the two Who novels I possess, Target paperbacks, though strangely the novel is called Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion.

The first adventure I watched properly was Logopolis (1981), the last Tom Baker one.

I think I know now what spurred me to watch this one in particular. As I said, prior to this I hadn't been interested in Who, but just before Logopolis aired, I was the winner of a children's drawing competition, to draw a panda for the launch of the Fiat Panda (the original one, which was basically a tin box with a radiator grille stamped out of it). For some reason, the prizes were given out (at an event at the local Fiat dealership) by Tom Baker. (For some other reason, the prize I got was two novels of Jon Pertwee adventures.) Anyway, I looked in the Autons one last night and found this on the title page, which I'd forgotten:

I guess it must have been meeting him that got me interested in Who. So annoying, looking back on it, that the time I actually got to meet the guy, I didn't really have any inkling of how great he was.

 

[Fiberglass Cyborg]

The Happiness Patrol, from Sylvester McCoy's second season. I'd been reading Target novelisations for a couple of years, and was pleasantly surprised to find out Doctor Who was a TV show too.....

I grew up between Old Who and New Who, and my first experience was when they started repeating some of the old stories on BBC2, one story from each Doctor. My first episode was episode one of the Time Meddler, and I was hooked from that moment. I still remember the other serials they repeated - The Mind Robber, The Sea Devils, Genesis of the Daleks, Caves of Androzani, Revelation of the Daleks and Battlefield.

I remember that too! It was my only glimpse of past Doctors on screen for quite a long time.

 

[paranoid marvin]

This reminded me that this is one of the two Who novels I possess, Target paperbacks, though strangely the novel is called Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion.



I think I know now what spurred me to watch this one in particular. As I said, prior to this I hadn't been interested in Who, but just before Logopolis aired, I was the winner of a children's drawing competition, to draw a panda for the launch of the Fiat Panda (the original one, which was basically a tin box with a radiator grille stamped out of it). For some reason, the prizes were given out (at an event at the local Fiat dealership) by Tom Baker. (For some other reason, the prize I got was two novels of Jon Pertwee adventures.) Anyway, I looked in the Autons one last night and found this on the title page, which I'd forgotten:

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I guess it must have been meeting him that got me interested in Who. So annoying, looking back on it, that the time I actually got to meet the guy, I didn't really have any inkling of how great he was.

That is very cool.

 

[paranoid marvin]

As for my first episode. I think it was Destiny of the Daleks. And the cliffhanger with Davros is probably one of the scariest and most memorable.

 

[Ray Zdybrow]

Yeti In The Underground (apparently really called "Web Of Fear"). I was hooked!

 

[BAYLOR]

This reminded me that this is one of the two Who novels I possess, Target paperbacks, though strangely the novel is called Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion.



I think I know now what spurred me to watch this one in particular. As I said, prior to this I hadn't been interested in Who, but just before Logopolis aired, I was the winner of a children's drawing competition, to draw a panda for the launch of the Fiat Panda (the original one, which was basically a tin box with a radiator grille stamped out of it). For some reason, the prizes were given out (at an event at the local Fiat dealership) by Tom Baker. (For some other reason, the prize I got was two novels of Jon Pertwee adventures.) Anyway, I looked in the Autons one last night and found this on the title page, which I'd forgotten:

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I guess it must have been meeting him that got me interested in Who. So annoying, looking back on it, that the time I actually got to meet the guy, I didn't really have any inkling of how great he was.

I envy you.

Tom Baker is my favorite Doctor. He brought comic fun to the character of the doctor . He could be off the hilarious and then switch over be s seriousness in the same breath without missing a beat. He's a terrific actor and, because of him , I got hooked on the show .