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I thought that he took Delgados Master and really moved it forward. I was watching the Sea Devils last week and his Master has the same kind of inner craziness and a strange kind of likeability.

My first DW memory was watching Patrick Troughton, Jamie and (I think) Victoria. From behind a cushion!

The first bit of Who that I can remember clearly is the bit in Davidson's first episode where he's unravelling Tom's scarf whilst walking around the Tardis.

It's an interesting moment too. Since the scarf was such an iconic part of Tom's era, to destory it at the start of Davidson's time sets a clear marker of change.


Geggs

Ok, I'll bite...

You're , JC

Blink was probably my fave this season. My son (aged 4) jumped like I don't-know-what at several points, causing us to do the same.

A freind of mine said that it made his daughter afraid of fridge magnets as well!

'The Green Death' is my earliest memory of Who. I've just acquired the DVD. I also have the book, somewhere

No early memories of Who ... too young

Fav retro story is genesis of the daleks though

Can somebody give me a list of dates of the regenerations so I can work out who I actually saw 'live' and who I have only seen on later clips?

Isn't it already around here somewhere?

OK, picky. A link to a list please?

Its all in A215993 if you dig through the article

There you go then, Tom Baker was my first Doctor. I shall have to come up with another reason for my Sean Pertwee crush!

say that you were dazzled by the manic scarf

A small point but I have to make it rather than punching my monitor:

Joan Sims was an actress in Carry On films.
John Simm played The Master.

To the best of my knowledge there has never been a John Simms in Doctor Who.

As you were.

There was a John Smith ... many times

@eloisa (U755126): "Never heard it refered to as Sol 3 before, I kinda like that."

Sol is the proper term for the Sun, and Earth is the third planet from the Sun. "Sol 3" is the proper astronomical term for Earth, much as "Sol 9" used to be for Pluto.

"Also the Master said he would take away his ability to regenerate."

Did he?

Can I ask a daft question-if the master is a time lord too, why can't he regenerate, and if, in the last episode, he can choose to regenerate, how can the master take that same power away from the doctor, if it is down to personal will?

I must have been way off the mark, but I thought the toclafane were going to be just another excuse for RTD to bring the daleks back, like in the last finale...

Thought they were both ok ish episodes. John Simm was excellent as the master (presumably now Sam Tyler knows why he got stuck in 1973 )
Thought the end was a bit of an anticlimax. When martha said all that stuff I just felt like: "oh. What?" I
thought we were going to have a John wayne style showdown between the doctor and master. I also thought the tardis was going tobe more key to it than it actually was.

Didn't the doctor say if you touch the wrong part then it would blow up the solar system, and then Jack just goes in there with a machine gun and blows it up. (This also disproves the whole "state of grace"thing).

What it proves is that the episode was the first part of a two parter...

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how exactly?

The reason why the Master was able to keep the Doctor from regenerating was because otherwise they would need a new actor. I don´t think you need to blame it on anything other than that.