Hi everyone,
I’ve been hanging around here for a couple of months, now, but was too busy with all the other fun conversations to stop and write an intro. So here we go.
I have been a fan of Doctor Who since before I can properly remember. My earliest memories of the show are fragments from The Underwater Menace, and some of those fragments only exist in peoples memories now. I don’t remember ‘properly’ watching until Jon Pertwee who therefore became ‘my Doctor’. We didn’t have a colour TV at the time, so re-watching those early UNIT stories in colour later was a real treat.
I carried on with the show until the cancellation but largely ignored other aspects of the fandom such as the novelisations and conventions until I discovered Big Finish and realised that alternate sources could provide Doctor Who content as good as, if not better than, the BBC. Over the years I have bought a large proportion of what Big Finish have produced. I don’t dare try and work out how much I have spent
With the revival in 2005 I took the opportunity to get my kids into the show. They still watch now but are maybe a bit more critical than those of us who lived through the famine and are just happy for any Doctor Who content we can get.
Nice to meet you @efficacy, welcome to the fray and keep being awesome! It’s always lovely to share a space with “old-timers”, that is, fans who were around during the original run and still remember watching the show as it was shown on TV!
(I have huge respect for everyone who has been a fan years before me and has lived through the original run of the show and/or the Wilderness Years. We can all learn so much from you).
