Apparently, fans used to record the audio off their TVs before home video was common, so they've tracked down at least audio for every episode. A few years ago the BBC paid an animation company to reconstruct the two missing episodes of "The Invasion", which was an eight parter. Otherwise I'm note sure what's been…

Revelation of the Daleks is pretty dire. It was the first and only Colin Baker episode my wife watched. I'd not seen it before and I figured a Dalek episode would probably be a good place to introduce her to a new Doctor. But no. It was probably the only Doctor Who serial I've ever considered quitting on. Trial of a…

@Prole Hole The R1 DVDs are pretty damn nice. I wish I had more, but my wife is starting to get annoyed by the size of my DVD/BluRay collection, so I've watched quite a few from Netflix instead. (Why can't they do Doctor Who in season boxes with thinline cases or the cases like NuWho?) I've not seen any of the R2, but…

@Scruggs Yes, very much like Pop Up Video. They even do things where they say, like, "Look over the Doctor's shoulder in about 10 seconds and you'll see the reflection of the camera". Most of the stuff is serious and informative, but some of it is goofy.

You're not likely to see much of Troughton (2). If you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wik… you'll note that most of the episodes with Troughton are listed as "(missing)". Pertwee (3) is the first Doctor for whom every episode still exists. And for a while they were missing some of them or only had black and white…

@slounuda: No separate streaming queues. Only the primary account holder can manage the instant queue. My wife and I have the 2 DVD at a time plan with a DVD queue for each of us where we each get a disc, but via the website only I can add stuff to instant. Luckily most Netflix-capable devices let you search, add, and…

@invalidname: I've not gotten to S4 yet, but from what I remember from the couple I've seen, no there aren't any classics in that season. I know Rod Serling wasn't a fan of doing hour long episodes, because he felt (rightfully) that they were going to end up with a lot of padding to stretch most of the Twilight Zone…

Enterprise is much, much better than the execrable Voyager at the very least. I didn't watch it when it was on the air, largely because I couldn't make it past the DEEP HURTING of the theme song, but a couple of years ago I caught a couple episodes on a marathon on SyFy (I think?) and discovered it's not too bad. CBS…

SyFy also only shows a handful of episodes. There are 156 episodes, and I don't think they show more than about 50 on SyFy; pretty much just the most famous ones. Seasons 1-3 and 5 (all of the seasons with 30 minute episodes) are on Netflix Watch Instantly right now, and I've been watching a few now and then. Some of…

TOS reruns were on at 5 and 6 (or maybe 6 and 7?) M-F for years and years on a local station that eventually became the Fox affiliate once Fox existed. We'd watch it every night while we made and ate dinner. Some network or other also frequently showed II and III as weekend evening movies. One of the first movies I…

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For my Masters commencement we had John McCain. Pretty similar sentiments. Basically, "You dumb kids are liberals now, but you'll grow up and vote Republican someday if you have any brains." At the end he got about 1/3 standing ovation, 1/3 polite clapping, and 1/3 basically sitting with hands…

Seconded on the Rush. "Snakes and Arrows" is a great album. (I don't have "Vapor Trails", so I can't comment there.) The funny thing is that their hiatus due to Neil Peart's family tragedies still ended up not being much longer than Tool (to name another hard rock prog band that I like) tends to go between albums. But…

Hofner's own website calls the 500/1 a "violin shaped semi-acoustic bass" and a "violin bass" in different places, so Claire is fine. But Murray—Present and Garrison are right, Macca really mostly uses the Rickenbacker 4001S in the studio (and the occasional Fender or Yamaha) and only plays the Hofner on tour because…

That's an ooooooooold joke. In the 1970's a linguist named Jim McCawley wrote a joke paper called "English sentences without overt grammatical subjects" (mostly about "Fuck you" and similar) under the pseudonym "Quang Phuc ong" claiming his academic affiliation with the "South Hanoi Institute of Technology".

Have you ever seen Siddig El Fadil's full given name? It's pretty impressive, and probably even more alien to a white kid in North Dakota in the 90s:

People in Tokyo should be able to play our blu-rays. With DVDs we are a different region (USA is 1, Japan is 2; there are 7 total), but with blu-ray there are only 3 regions (A, B, and C) and the US and Japan are both region A. We also both use 60Hz AC, so both also use 29.97Hz frame rate. But even with DVDs, plenty…

I was born in 78 and definitely consider myself Gen-X. My wife was born in 83 and is definitely Gen-Y. Somewhere in that fuzzy gray area is the line. Probably. Like E. Buzz Miller said, generations are really not defined clearly. There's going to be some overlap on the ends. I'd be happy to say Gen-X is 1965-80 and…

In general they don't show the full UK episodes. Sometimes they'll go through little bursts of showing the full episodes (stretched to 90 minutes (or maybe just 75) to get all the commercials in) on the first run at 8pm Monday, but all subsequent repeats are cut down.

We only have as much of the First Doctor's run as we do because he was more popular (at the time) and they sold a lot of episodes to foreign markets, and some foreign stations kept the tapes or telecines. And some tapes got lost and luckily weren't found until after the BBC realized people would buy Doctor Who on…

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