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When my friend first told us about Doctor Who it was well into Tom Baker’s run, but I couldn’t watch it because on the Connecticut PBS station it was on at dinner. Eventually the one we got out of Massachusetts aired the movie-edited versions on Sundays, then the CT station and our eating schedule stopped clashing, so I came in during the E-Space stories (maybe a little before so I got a good sample of K9, my favorite Companion). I saw more of Peter Davidson, which might be why he’s my favorite Doctor. Didn’t have to watch it on the black & white small TV by that point (though I did have one in my bedroom, which is how I watched TV for the early years), but for the most part this was my experience.
Later they showed the early episodes for a while after the first season of Sylvester McCoy, the last new Classic Who we got until stations like the old Sci-Fi Channel aired reruns, so I got to be introduced to the earlier Doctors eventually. We also got color reprints of some of the comics through Marvel US. The Meep was always blue to me until his TV debut.
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