What was the first Doctor Who episode you ever watched?

I read the novelization of The Web Planet By Bill Strutton . It wasn't bad.
 
After researching I think it was the Awakening with Peter Davidson.

For me the most memorable was The Happiness Patrol with Sylvester McCoy.
 
"The Web Planet" looks really interesting. I'm torn on whether I should get it now or wait for the Blu-ray release whenever it may come. I suspect if I buy it, a Blu-ray release will be announced shortly thereafter.
 
Tom Baker when I was big, but it might have been the man before that with the daleks + the opening sequence impressed upon the mind about 1973/4. Also, the film shown at 11am on a Saturday morning? Flashing Blade era, Banana Splits.
 
Matchu said:
Tom Baker when I was big, but it might have been the man before that with the daleks + the opening sequence impressed upon the mind about 1973/4. Also, the film shown at 11am on a Saturday morning? Flashing Blade era, Banana Splits.
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That would have been one of the Peter Cushing films.
 
Was the first Doctor Who on Kennedy assassination day.

I was eleven at the time and the school were having an open evening at which I was attending in a token "this is what a schoolboy looks like" role.

The news struck sometime near the screening of WHO it may even have stopped the broadcast because it was repeated the next week.

I went off to the school with the knowledge that someone important, but who held no interest to an eleven year old boy had been assassinated.

Shrug of soldiers - "what's for tea mum", kind of reaction.

When I got to school and mentioned it no one believed me, until others confirmed it too.

Then the open evening was then taken over by talk of nuclear war, Russians and very worried looking parents.
 
The first part of "The Aztecs", back in 2014. I was all set to start the new series on Netflix, but I wanted to get a taste of the old program before I did. Little did I know that "The Aztecs" was not, in fact, the first episode of the old series (it was just the first episode on Netflix), and it left me thoroughly confused, lol. After that I started the new series, which WAS complete, and caught various classic series episodes along the way from there.
 
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.
 
vaguely remember yeti episodes, from what I previously thought to be the hartnell era but it seems was troughton, set in some icy wasteland... mostly recall the globe's the yeti carried in marsupial pouches... and the chessboard used to direct the yeti... I distinctly recall a yeti hunter who mistook these robots for the real thing and that a real yeti appeared at the close of the story... I had assumed somehow this was a younger leftbidge stuart...
 
Daysman said:
vaguely remember yeti episodes, from what I previously thought to be the hartnell era but it seems was troughton, set in some icy wasteland... mostly recall the globe's the yeti carried in marsupial pouches... and the chessboard used to direct the yeti... I distinctly recall a yeti hunter who mistook these robots for the real thing and that a real yeti appeared at the close of the story... I had assumed somehow this was a younger leftbidge stuart...
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that was the second Yeti story [Web of Fear] where the second Doctor first met Colonel Leftbridge-Stewert in the London Underground.
 
Vince W said:
It was a Pertwee episode certainly, but I'm not sure which one.
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My favorite classic Dr Who series is Inferno. 7 parer t and it s got everything . A parallel universe . evil and not so evil main character counterparts , monsters and a world ending disaster. Epic stuff !:cool:
 
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 first I can remember watching is The Green Death [aka "The one with the maggots"].
But I'm fairly sure that I was watching before that but all I can remember is DALEKs but nothing specific.
 
The first adventure I watched properly was Logopolis (1981), the last Tom Baker one. I'd tried bits before but found them too frightening (I was a complete scaredy-cat as a kid). I realised immediately how good it was and was furious with myself for having missed all the Tom Baker adventures, which I then read in novel form (along with many of the earlier ones) as the local library had a good range.

Piman25 said:
Tom Baker - The Seeds of Doom
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That's one of the two I have on DVD. (The other is Image of the Fendahl.)
 
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