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First 26 Seasons of Doctor Who Being Streamed on Twitch for Free

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doweyy on 26/05/2018 - 23:42 twitch.tv (2134 clicks)
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Another little special from twitch on their Twitch Presents channel :)

This deal starts at 11AM 29/5 Pacific Daylight Time or 30/5 3:00am AEST.

Before Daleks became a modern sci-fi staple, and before Weeping Angels made Whovians too scared to sleep, Doctor Who was a bold and quirky sci-fi show with hundreds of classic episodes. Starting May 29, we’re bringing you over 500 of them. You may need a Tardis to watch it all…

Join us and tons of other fans in Twitch chat for over seven weeks of classic Doctor Who, starting with the 1963 episode “An Unearthly Child.” Together we’ll make our way through the first seven Doctors spanning 26 seasons. Come relive (or experience for the first time ever) the origins of the iconic Daleks, the Cybermen, and the trusty Sonic Screwdriver. New episodes will air every day for eight hours starting at 11AM PDT followed immediately by two eight-hour repeat blocks, so no matter where you live you won’t have to miss a beat.

This will be the link to the stream.

As always, enjoy :)

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  • Sage on 26/05/2018 - 23:47

    Good to see Twitch continuing to do these kind of streams.
    I'll definitely check it out.

  • ireadtermsofuse on 27/05/2018 - 00:32
    +14

    Doctor World Health Organisation?

    • Munki on 27/05/2018 - 07:39
      -1

      Nah mate. Dr Hu from Chinatown.

      • muncan on 27/05/2018 - 10:45

        Hu? (I kinda miss George W.)

  • [Deactivated] on 27/05/2018 - 00:52
    +1

    Sadly there are many early episodes missing, probably gone forever:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes

    That said, I will be tuning in to relive some thrills and chills from my youth (fan since the late 70s). Awesome!

      • Axelstrife on 27/05/2018 - 02:00
        +13

        You must have absolutely terrible taste if you think it's bad.

        • EightImmortals on 27/05/2018 - 07:25
          +6

          Why? I've been a fan since the late 60's (early 70's) and I even enjoyed the first couple of seasons of the 'new' doctor who but pretty much gave up on the last three seasons or so. THE WRITING IS TERRIBLE and when Capaldi came along I thought great, now they have an opportunity to bring a bit of maturity and structure to the show and character but they just wrote him EXACTLY the same as they wrote Matt Smith who is half his age. So they can get stuffed. The other thing that bugs me is that traditionally after the Dr regenerates, he's a bit scatty for a few days and then his new character forms, in the last few seasons, he starts off scatty and STAYS that way for the whole season. And don't get me started on the whole PFC gender fluidity BS……

        • entropysbane on 27/05/2018 - 08:19
          +1

          @EightImmortals:
          At the risk of being accused of heresy, I agree. It just isn’t Doctor Who anymore.

          I really didn’t mind the episodes with Ms Pond as the companion though.

        • fenric on 27/05/2018 - 13:20
          +1

          @EightImmortals: Yea, I tend to agree with pretty much all of that. I was so excited when Capaldi was announced becuase I thought it might be a return to the "grumpy old man" doctor. I just think they have run out of ideas.
          I actually think the new female doctor is a good thing. New director, writers and gender actually may open the way for some new and interesting stories.

      • bchliu on 27/05/2018 - 10:16
        +2

        How is the Doctor restricted to being a bloke?

      • gilbarc on 27/05/2018 - 10:29
        +2

        Hates the show but is still angry that the Doctor is a woman. Weird.

        • syousef on 27/05/2018 - 10:59
          -2

          Not really. The concept of taking an existing show and remaking, continuing or spinning it off with a character replaced by a female is neither original nor creative. It is a cheap grab for female fans and a pretense at equality that expense of the very essence of what makes a show great. It's quite possible to not be a fan of this show and have seen it destroy something else you do love.

          I've seen it argued "But Dr Who is different. The Doctor regenerates and is different every time.". Well sure that's part of the lore but it's also been part of the lore that it has always been a stereotypical eccentric mad scientist/engineer type that the Doctor regenerates into. They just took a dump on that for a cheap and disingenuous appeal for equality. The Doctor has never been black nor Asian either nor had a disability. Why did they pick a white woman if they're so interested in equality?

          It is no surprise this alienates existing fans.

        • Diji1 on 27/05/2018 - 12:47
          +2

          @syousef: Perhaps you'd like to point out where in the lore of Dr Who it says they cannot come back as a women when they come back as a completely different person.

          For some reason you have your knickers in a knot about this part of Dr Who lore that you imagined and are saying nothing about there being more than 12 doctors which specifically isn't meant to be possible according to Dr Who law.

        • gilbarc on 27/05/2018 - 15:01
          +3

          @syousef: "mad scientist/engineer type" describes a handful at best of his past incarnations, certainly not all of them; and even if it did, what does gender have to do with that stereotype?

        • thatguyfromthatplace on 27/05/2018 - 15:19
          -1

          @Diji1: It isn't explicitly stated because it's axiomatic. It's the same reason they've never bother to explicitly deny that the Doctor could regenerate into a blancmange. It's an absurdist proposition.

        • syousef on 27/05/2018 - 15:29
          -1

          @gilbarc:

          What are you talking about? Gender has everything to do with the stereotype. It's been part of every single incarnation except this one.

        • syousef on 27/05/2018 - 15:31
          -2

          @Diji1:

          There's nothing in the lore that says the Doctor can't come back as an ALF puppet either. That doesn't mean people have to like it if the choice is made. My knickers aren't in a knot as you put it, because I rarely watch Dr Who anyway and haven't since the older series. My does annoy me is that this is happening to a lot of TV shows and movies. Remake them poorly, even nonsensically then justify it because feminism. No.

        • gilbarc on 27/05/2018 - 16:26
          +2

          @syousef:

          I rarely watch Dr Who anyway and haven't since the older series

          Ok cool, it doesn't affect you then. Move along.

        • syousef on 27/05/2018 - 17:13
          -1

          @gilbarc:

          Did you fail comprehension? I explained exactly why this might upset someone who isn't a Who fan in my very first response. If you don't like having people comment on your posts, don't post on public boards.

        • gilbarc on 27/05/2018 - 18:55
          +1

          I explained

          Nope.

          If you don't like having people comment on your posts

          Never said anything of the sort. What was that you were saying about comprehension?

    • marko62 on 27/05/2018 - 07:08
      +1

      Yes there are quite a few episodes that the fan base have pasted together and sadly i couldn't sit through their slideshows so i just skipped those episodes

  • theHMASfriendship on 27/05/2018 - 00:56
    +7

    Doctor Whom?

  • thatguyfromthatplace on 27/05/2018 - 01:08
    +4

    Real Doctor Who! Yay. Hopefully the fans of NuWho will get to see what the Doctor's really about.

  • mortyestmorty on 27/05/2018 - 01:40

    Would be cool if they'll be remastered HD versions!

    • fenric on 27/05/2018 - 13:13
      +2

      Not sure if remastering would make a couple of cardboard boxes stuck together with some piping look better or worse as monsters.

    • g12345567 on 27/05/2018 - 14:02
      +1

      Whilst all the classic episodes have been remastered and released on DVD. Of the classic Doctor Who series. Other than the Doctor who Jon Pertwee episode Spearhead From Space and the Tom Baker story Shaada which has already been released on Blu-ray. There is coming season 12 to blu-ray with a local release date of 27-June-2018. Featuring the 5 stories on 6 disc from Tom Baker's acclaimed first season as the Fourth Doctor, originally aired in 1975/76. Although only 1080/50i upscaled. So not sure how it would look, until we start seeing reviews.

      • thatguyfromthatplace on 27/05/2018 - 15:23

        It will be a little better than the DVD's due to Blu Ray's better compression standards, but it won't be proper HD. With the exception of Spearhead From Space (which was shot on film), Classic Who was shot on low-res analogue video tape which had a hard limit of around 300 lines of resolution. Unfortunately it isn't possible to get any more resolution out of it.

        • mortyestmorty on 27/05/2018 - 17:45

          Would an upscale look any good from that type of source?

        • Nickels n Dimes on 27/05/2018 - 21:59

          @mortyestmorty: That may depend on the type of upscaling used by the device you play it on, but I can't imagine it making it look any worse than it did on the black & white valve tube sets of that era.

        • gilbarc on 27/05/2018 - 22:26

          The upscaling done for the blurays of NuWho seasons 1-4 (which were shot in SD) was done very poorly, so I wouldn't count on it looking very good.

        • mortyestmorty on 28/05/2018 - 04:56

          @gilbarc: They're the ones I was thinking about. They looked pretty average with the glowing halo effect from SD. I was hoping the older analogue sources would look better but it doesn't look like it.

  • jimbobaus on 27/05/2018 - 02:01
    +1

    7 hour blocks of episodes repeated two more times a day.
    So you will have plenty of time to catch most episodes.

  • wanderlei on 27/05/2018 - 02:39
    +1

    I read as 'first 26 seconds'.

    • coxymla on 27/05/2018 - 09:27
      +2

      First 26 Seasons Of Doctor Who But Every Time a Companion Yells "Doctor!" It Gets Faster

  • Cleremy on 27/05/2018 - 08:29
    -4

    Discussion on history of Doctor who

    Condensed YouTube video with slides

    Cleremy on 27/05/2018 - 08:29 (Collapsed - Offtopic. Show)
    • TheSmegger on 27/05/2018 - 10:28

      He first link you posted… Just… Wow.

      • unelectric on 27/05/2018 - 10:40

        The first sentence from one of the other "articles" on that site:
        "HOMOSEXUALITY is being intensively promoted by the Jews as one phase of their campaign to liquidate our race, which they evidently regard as unreliable livestock"

        • Diji1 on 27/05/2018 - 12:50

          Of course, doesn't everyone know that?

  • yeahnah-nahyeah on 27/05/2018 - 10:01
    +1

    I've never watched a single Dr Who. Which season would be a good place to start?

    • EightImmortals on 27/05/2018 - 10:51
      +5

      At the beginning.

    • meniac on 27/05/2018 - 10:56

      All original episodes are great and I would start at the beginning.
      Restored versions very hard to watch and each story is usually several episodes.
      Third and Fourth Doctor's my favourite's :)

      Start with new Series 1 from 2005 for the NEW experience……

    • Vauxhall on 27/05/2018 - 14:42
      +3

      Start with Season 12 (Tom Baker). The basic premise of the show is the mysterious alien called 'The Doctor', who has 13 lives….Each time he dies he changes into another person. He travels in a time machine called the TARDIS, which is supposed to blend into it's surroundings but the function broke and has been fixed as a police box. His major enemies are the Daleks (the pepperpot robot like monsters) ,the Cybermen and the Master.

      The early B&W ones can be a bit slow, however I recommend you watch the first episode of season 1 (An Unearthly Child), which will introduce you to the TARDIS and the Doctor.

      Some recommended stories if you are short on time.

      1. Robot (Season 12, story 1)
      2. Genesis of the Daleks (Season 12, story 4)
      3. Terror of the Zygons (Season 13, story 1)
      4. The Five Doctors (Season 20, story 7)
      5. Remembrance of the Daleks (Season 25, story 1)
      6. Doctor Who, the movie (1996 TV movie).

      The revival of the series in 2005 occurs after Doctor Who: the Movie.

      • blueskittles on 27/05/2018 - 17:12
        +1

        Don't blink, blink and you're dead.

    • nonbeliever93 on 27/05/2018 - 17:26

      Depends on your tolerance for how dated the show looks. I wouldn't recommend the original series first off as the slower pace and lower production value can make it harder to love. I've mainly seen the modern series, so I'll give three options from that:

      1. Series 1's Rose (2005) - the modern revival, Series 1 is brilliantly camp and has started looking a bit dated. It's bloody brilliant, but the ropey effects and standard definition might put you off.
      2. Series 5's The Eleventh Hour (2010) - new showrunner, new leading actors. Now in HD and with a solid first series to start with.
      3. Series 10's The Pilot (2017) - a pretty nice jumping on point and very recent, leading into the new series for this year. If you like it, you can then go back and watch from Options 1 and 2 without heaps of spoilers.
    • stumo on 30/05/2018 - 20:33

      Two words.. Clara Oswald.

  • imket on 27/05/2018 - 10:05

    Who?

  • syousef on 27/05/2018 - 10:51

    I thought a bunch of the footage from the first episodes was lost? Has it been found or is it just excluded? I'm a little out of the loop as I haven't been a huge fan since I was a kid.

    • meniac on 27/05/2018 - 11:05

      A lot MISSING as BBC generally re-used the tape's (EXPENSIVE at the time) and storage for other stuff… :(

    • xev on 27/05/2018 - 11:06
      +2

      Missing episodes are normally presented as recreations.

      Though the footage is lost, the audio and many onset photos still exist.

      They combine still photo's with the audio playing to recreate the episodes.

      The full story here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes

      • syousef on 27/05/2018 - 11:17
        +3

        Thanks. And also for your patience. I saw the same above only after I had posted. Nice to have such a friendly response.

  • So Was Red on 27/05/2018 - 11:08
    +1

    Weeeeird and cool, I just started watching from s1 this week, after seeing the flashbacks at the end of S7 of the new series. So I went back to the beginning and shit is it hard to watch compared to modern TV designed around our diminished attention spans lol.

    • Vauxhall on 27/05/2018 - 23:21
      +1

      The new series can be just as slow and boring too (esp the Moffat era), and some episodes, eg 'The Return of Dr Mysterio', you wonder whether you're watching the same show.

  • Fobsessive on 27/05/2018 - 16:49
    +3

    I have watched most of Classic Who.
    If you are new, I recommend you skip the 1st and 2nd Doctors (except for the first episode) as they are slow paced and black and white.
    The golden era was the 3rd and 4th Doctors.

  • R.R.P on 27/05/2018 - 19:06

    "The first 26 seasons"…lol

  • Dazzler42 on 27/05/2018 - 20:57
    +4

    Early "Doctor Who" is all about context. Context when it was made, the audience it was made for, and how it was shown.

    Hard to believe now, but "Doctor Who" was generally cutting edge at its time of production.

    It's described as "slow" but the show was never made to be "binge watched". At the time, it was one episode a week and there was an extremely limited chance you'd ever have a chance to see it again, and in 99% of the time, if you missed it, you missed it forever.

    If you can watch the stories at your own pace of say, one a day - and not in 7 hour blocks - it's a much more rewarding experience. Yes, there are better stories than others and yes, some of them can be a slog even watched slowly. Don't let the black & white put you off. It adds layers of atmosphere to the stories.

    It's a classic show, for good reason. The show evolves as it progresses, so if the black and white stuff doesn't work for you, wait until they get to the Jon Pertwee / Third Doctor stories, or failing that, Tom Baker, and give it another go.

    Good luck!

  • jes on 28/05/2018 - 22:40

    Do we have to register

    • Vauxhall on 29/05/2018 - 18:24

      yes, looks like an app.

    • doweyy on 29/05/2018 - 19:49

      No you don't need to register, it's just a webpage which is accessible by anyone.

  • Vauxhall on 30/05/2018 - 21:01
    +1

    It streams live so don't expect it to be like youtube where you can rewind or watch the exact episode you want when you want it.

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