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How America Finally Discovered Patrick Troughton 0 (0)

Following up on my video about the American Classic Doctor Who experience, it’s time to look at the mystery that was Patrick Troughton’s Second Doctor in the 1980s. If you were watching Doctor Who on PBS in the US back then, the Second Doctor was practically a ghost. Because so many of his episodes were lost, we only got a handful of unrepresentative stories—or worse, we met him during multi-Doctor specials like The Three Doctors and The Two Doctors, which gave us an inaccurate view of his character. We were flying blind, missing the gentle, quirky Doctor that UK fans [See More…]

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How America Experienced Classic Doctor Who 0 (0)

Watching Classic Doctor Who in America during the 1970s and 1980s was a completely unique experience. While UK fans knew the Doctor as a Saturday evening staple, American audiences were often discovering the TARDIS late at night on local PBS stations—sometimes catching feature-length omnibus edits instead of the traditional weekly cliffhangers. In this video, I cover both the objective differences (delayed seasons, late-night time slots) and the highly subjective feeling of being an American sci-fi fan discovering the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Doctors. Whether you were catching broadcasts in a college dorm room or discovering it on a chunky old-school [See More…]