tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6637802895814137825.post435788101394993376..comments2023-05-02T14:07:48.207-04:00Comments on The Resident Alien: Childhood Memories of a British Doctor Who fanMark Goodacrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6637802895814137825.post-48024363558296408632011-01-17T16:03:40.933-05:002011-01-17T16:03:40.933-05:00Thanks -- I really enjoyed your comments.Thanks -- I really enjoyed your comments.Mark Goodacrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6637802895814137825.post-2577506577211613052011-01-14T19:24:07.241-05:002011-01-14T19:24:07.241-05:00I love your article! I grew up in the U.S. but we ...I love your article! I grew up in the U.S. but we had Public Television and the PBS in Nebraska showed 'reruns' of Doctor Who from when I was about six up until I was about 14 or 15. We didn't have cable nor a dish, so all we had on our little ranch was what we could get with our antenna: NBC, PBS and sometimes ABC (when the weather was good). I watched a lot of PBS because that was where most of the kids shows were at the time. They also showed a lot of BBC shows including Dad's Army, Allo Allo and Doctor Who. I was already a big sci fi fan even at the age of six so I loved Doctor Who. I remember being a bit scared of some of the monsters when I was younger. I still enjoy watching it on DVD and reading Doctor Who books. With Doctor Who and some of the other British shows on PBS, my sister and I were exposed to a little bit of another culture in another country and we were fascinated by it. The characters on All Creatures Great and Small, Faulty Towers and Masterpiece Theater and the other BBC shows we saw were so different from the mid-western cowboys and ranchers in our community. We even used to try talking with British accents and using British slang. It was a lot of fun! A lot of the other kids at my school did not watch PBS, so they didn't know about Doctor Who. Most of them didn't like science fiction either so they thought I was a little bit strange I'm sure. I even carried around some tractor parts that I had screwed together to make what I thought looked like a sonic screwdriver :). Now, I have a "real" toy one (the one that has a UV light in the tip)and makes the sound effect. I would have traded almost any toy I had for one of these when I was a kid) that I carry in my computer repair kit. It's fun to get it out and pretend to use it to repair customers' computers. It's quite a conversation starter and ice breaker.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04198483298822860600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6637802895814137825.post-19093525342950330042009-10-17T08:29:08.510-04:002009-10-17T08:29:08.510-04:00It's strange reading how much a part of Britis...<i>It's strange reading how much a part of British childhoods Dr Who has been</i><br /><br />And the rarer American childhoods, like mine!Loren Rosson IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15002312216839280976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6637802895814137825.post-66325732469966715102009-10-17T07:28:01.110-04:002009-10-17T07:28:01.110-04:00It's strange reading how much a part of Britis...It's strange reading how much a part of British childhoos Dr Who has been - I grew up in the late 80s and early 90s, so nobody at my school watched Dr Who - most of the time, it wasn't on. I saw the 1996 movie, and likied it a lot, and Paul McGannn will always be my Doctor. But the only shows all the kids at school watched were things like Neighbours (and probably Grange Hill, but being a weird kid, I didn't watch that). My brother and I are both Trekkies - while there wasn't Dr Who, TNG was in its heyday. I spent my teens watching American imports on Nickalodean too. It is rather weird being in the middle of two generations raised on Dr Who!Juliettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00203399623895589924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6637802895814137825.post-53038206790567542362009-10-17T06:06:13.146-04:002009-10-17T06:06:13.146-04:00Nice memories, Mark. I try to imagine what my chil...Nice memories, Mark. I try to imagine what my childhood would have been like without Doctor Who (I was born a year after you, but didn't start watching it until Tom Baker, who will definitely always be my Doctor)... a lot of missed magic.Loren Rosson IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15002312216839280976noreply@blogger.com