Sixteen 6x6 blocks, say 5 to 10 terabytes per pull-out shelf. We could store the whole of human knowledge on that wall today for less than the price of a fancy sports car.
"Homo sapiens! What an inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million years since they crawled out of the mud and learned to walk; puny, defenceless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague, they've survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to outsit eternity. They are indomitable. Indomitable."
Ah, 'The Ark in Space'. What a brilliant speech. One of my favourites in Tom Baker's era, along with his impassioned plea/rant to the Deciders in 'Full Circle' and the famous "Do I have the right" speech in the masterpiece 'Genesis of the Daleks' :~D
This is one of my favourite stories. While the props and models are... let's be honest they're quite bad, the story is simply brilliant, and, considering its budget, did rather well to get across the 'creepy' aspect.
@JamieCarterFilms I know what yo mean but this era of Doctor who was originally filmed in 1975.An era in TV when HD TV wasn`t even thought of even in sci fi.
@MrMontyBurnsDog I know Ive seen every episode ever filmed. I'm talking about youtube though. When you watch these episodes on dvd or tv or vhs there not all pixelly and terrible looking like alot of videos on youtube lately
The comments on literally every DW video on youtube are invariably filled with debates about "who is the best Doctor", blah, blah, blah... Might as well argue over favorite colors or the best breed of dog. The OBVIOUS answer is simply: "to each his/her own". Why this hasn't occurred to everyone by now is a mystery to me.
But what I'd really like to see is a discussion of THIS video, THIS episode, and THIS story arch (rather than yet another ad nauseum debate about the 'best' Doctor)
I agree that Tom Baker was the best Doctor, but hte new shows are great too. I just Love having access to BBC America, other wise I would be lost to the goings on in England.''
Not for there, but have always wanted to go. I use to want all sort of shows from BBC when i was a kid in PBS... Faulty towers, keepingup appearences, the Young ones..Monty Python, and ofcourse Benny Hill
This looks so cool, I mean that set with the frozen ppl and everything. The BGM usually wasn't that good in the classic series, but the piece used here is genius.
And of course, the Doctor always has and allways will make great speeches. Great performance by TB here, he really conveys how deeply impressed his character is. This is one of the things I've always loved about this show: It's one of the few that DOESNT portray humanity in a completely pessimistic light.
"Indomitable"........one of the best film monologues of all time.........up there with Marlon Brandos speech in Superman "You will travel far my little Karl-el", and the closing speech on Withnail and I.
The way the door opens at 1:00 , with the doctor and Harry taking a few seconds to realise the door is open, with that atmos music, is thoroughly eerie........thats the sort of cerebral film making they just dont do these days........brilliant direction. This was, undoubtedly the golden age of Dr. Who.......Baker as who.....Bob Holmes....Terry Nation.....Phillip Hinchcliffe....Rodney bennet....Roger Murray Leach......they were spoiled for talent.....in short they had a superteam.
Tom Baker and David Tennant are the most popular and the longest lasting Doctors we've had. They're too great for words. Also, check out my Lego Doctor who video @ "R.A.C. Lego Dr. Who"
@corvus1970 Um, exactly. If Rose has nothing whatsoever to do with the classic series, why should her name be a tag for a classic series clip? The comment I'm replying to should be right above mine.
"In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."
"You're improving, Harry! Yes! Your mind is beggining to work! --- It's entirely due to my influence of course, you mustn't take any credit."
LOL. Love how Harry happilly agrees. What a man the Doctor is. If you can put your life in *anyone*'s hands, it's The Doctor's. Even when he's trailing a scarf.
@kamakshi179 Damn it1...no offense to any one who likes tom baker but he is so popular but he really made the show go downhill for me later on in the series. I loved how Peter Davison was so vulnerable and he only stayed for 3 years and that he lost at one point and barely anybody remembered him but he is so great as the doctor.
that Tom baker was excellent as the doctor and this is one of them.the defining speech of his entire time as the doctor.Tom Baker was great as the doctor and he always will be!
True! Stargate is ripped wholesale from the Dr Who story Pyramids of Mars. Both have a dimensional space gate, evil powerful aliens with glowing eyes and creepy voices who hide their alien features under jackyl masks, and aliens who messed with ancient egyptians and convinced them they were gods. I guess they both ripped off Chariots of the Gods but Who turned the idea into true sci-fi first. (I would say that Chariots of the Gods is sci-fi to begin with, but some kooks disagree, lol)
really?! i never knew about that serial of Doctor Who! ( i never watched classic doctor who) sounds fascinating tho. but what i was referring to in my original comment was the ark concept with the dead people. they did that story in Stargate Atlantis, S3, The Ark....
Not really. Stargate is simply based off the old idea that Aliens influenced human culture, especially in Egypt. Its been the starting point for quite a bit of fiction, even before "Pyramids of Mars".
Every time the local PBS station would being re-airing episodes, they would almost always start with this episode when they would loop through them all.
Man hope for long term survival is in space..He must colonize other worlds and grow like a weed..ever expanding so when one world no longer is hospitable..he has hundreds of others..just like the creation of the world wide web..was to survive a nuclear war, one server/computer goes down..hundreds of other in the web,can survive and go on..same idea man needs for it's long terms survival in the galaxy and beyond..
Because digital information, once it's gone, or mostly gone, it can't be restored the way film and other media can. If everything is digitized, you run the risk of losing all your information if there is some catastrophe.
If there is a catasrophe you run the risk of losing everything regardless of how it's stored unless it's in some kinda bunker if theres a nuclear explosion or flood or tornado it's gone regardless of how it was stored.
If a film get burnt to nothing theres no way it can be restored. same as a hard drive. the old black and white Doctor Who were all stored on film and there gone now. Whenever they find an old copy they don't buy it back they borrow it and make copies (some of witch are digetal I presume.) Film can only be restored under certian conditions and only if you have lots of money, skill, equipment, and time and thats even if the film is stored properly if it isn't it may not be possible.
They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to out-sit eternity. They're indomitable.
Oh, might have spent a million years evolving into clouds of gas ... and another million as downloads, but you always revert to the same basic shape: the fundamental human. End of the universe and here you are. Indomitable, that's the word! Indomitable! Ha!
I was 5 when I saw Ark the first time...I spent most of the time hiding behind the sofa....that scene where Kenton Moore pulls his hand out of his pocket revealing his green wirren skin....gave me nightmares for months! Arguably the best episode ever....with certainly the best doctor ever!
Ark in Space is definitely the first in a series of DrWho "masterpieces" in Seasons 12,13 &14. Followed by Genesis of the Daleks, Pyramids of Mars, Brain of Morbius, Seeds of Doom and Talons of Weng-Chiang.
Homosapiens-What an inventive,invincible species..They've survived floods,famine,wars holocausts..Now they are frozen and ready to begin a new birth among the stars..
As soon as they introduced that stupid Tin Dog (K9) it all went down hill from there .The Dr's go progressively worse and the scrpts and aliens were laughable.
The revived Dr with Eccleston and Tennant are just as it should be ........Most Excellent !!!!
Putting on a girl who wears a loin cloth makes it hard for a serious audience to take it seriously. At that point, as we all know now, the show was starting to get tired of itself and had there been creative control, it would have very sensibly ended back then. But, and historians of tv will be boggling at this for hundreds of years, a once very original idea has since been turned into a raving parody of itself that refuses to die no matter how fatuous it gets. Evil is real and it's at the bbc
Robert Holmes' - and the Doctor's - humanist soliloquy. Notice the absence of sentimentality. It's human strength he admires, not their morality. Bracing, thoughtful, poetic stuff... brilliantly performed.
Absolutely true. Look at us now, taking our first faltering baby steps. Who can doubt that we will create ourselves anew, bend our dna into a superiour species, freed from the wicked bloody wastes of evolution.
Who can doubt that space and time will bend to our understanding, our infinite capacity for thought.
We will sit astride the stars in all our bloody magnificence. Moving ever onwards, like the apes that bore us moved from the trees to the hot arid plains.
Home? I have no home. Hunted. Despised! Living like an animal! The jungle is my home, but I will show the world that I can be it's master! I will perfect my own race of people. A race of atomic supermen that will conquer the world!
Actually each PBS station was different. Plus, sometimes they switched off. Here in Phoenix, they showed it on late Saturdays for a few years then switched to Sunday noon for a few more.
Tom Baker is a classic, but I also liked Peter Davison's interpretation of the Doctor. What good memories of being a kid and staying up till late on saturday night watching Doctor Who on PBS.
Cruddy sets bad acting cheap special effects and absolutely a classic TOM BAKER makes it all work!! Also K9 was such cool sidekick (not seen here)PS BBC must have had the market in white paint every space ship ever made was painted white ..lol
K9 did make the series here in America. I remember him but only back in the 80's by then i am sure it was probably 3 years old or older. I will say this much I watched every episode I could catch on Sunday mornings :) Besides Tom Baker I loved the Woman that played Ramana :D.
Amazing, I loved both of them to be honest. I was young and so impressionable then :). In retrospect it would take a woman with a good sense of the obsurd to marry Tom. The 2nd one was that woman for sure lol. Man I miss that series.
Actually, there have been several movies. A couple early on in the 60's and then they tried to revive the series with a TV movie based in America with Paul McGann as the 8th Doctor.
hi guys am wanting feed back from doctor who fans for an idia ive had. ive started to make an in vision fan comentary for the old episodes of doctor who am gonna do one for ever episode (posable to watch) from william hartnells doctor to david tenant and post it on you tube for every one to watch and lisen. there are 2 others joining me for it. just want to know what you think so email me on you tube and let me know and am happy to hear from you
He must trip over that scarf sometimes....
OwlCityFan26 1 week ago
Says the Thespian with the Fro with never a more alive audience.
SurvivalistCrutch 3 months ago
Sixteen 6x6 blocks, say 5 to 10 terabytes per pull-out shelf. We could store the whole of human knowledge on that wall today for less than the price of a fancy sports car.
GallTheAbsurd 3 months ago
@GallTheAbsurd the americans will sell it to you for $999,999,999. on a disc box set!
raverdeath100 3 months ago
Classic Who:
"Homo sapiens! What an inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million years since they crawled out of the mud and learned to walk; puny, defenceless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague, they've survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to outsit eternity. They are indomitable. Indomitable."
Nu Who:
"I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool."
MacJaxonManOfAction 4 months ago
Tom, the best Doctor of them all :)
lazyjonty 4 months ago
I think if it weren't for him then no one would be seen dead in a scarf out of winter
20meerkat 6 months ago
XD Dr. Who is everywhere. I wasn't even looking for him and yet here he is. Can't complain though. Mmmm dat scarf XD
Shokora342 6 months ago
lol?
rryder64x 7 months ago
Ah, 'The Ark in Space'. What a brilliant speech. One of my favourites in Tom Baker's era, along with his impassioned plea/rant to the Deciders in 'Full Circle' and the famous "Do I have the right" speech in the masterpiece 'Genesis of the Daleks' :~D
BinroWasRight 7 months ago
This is one of my favourite stories. While the props and models are... let's be honest they're quite bad, the story is simply brilliant, and, considering its budget, did rather well to get across the 'creepy' aspect.
tehredmage 7 months ago
240p? Have so many videos always been bad quality and i just never realized or is this new someone explain
JamieCarterFilms 7 months ago
@JamieCarterFilms I know what yo mean but this era of Doctor who was originally filmed in 1975.An era in TV when HD TV wasn`t even thought of even in sci fi.
MrMontyBurnsDog 7 months ago
@MrMontyBurnsDog I know Ive seen every episode ever filmed. I'm talking about youtube though. When you watch these episodes on dvd or tv or vhs there not all pixelly and terrible looking like alot of videos on youtube lately
JamieCarterFilms 7 months ago
RIP Ian Martern a fantastic companion and actor
TheSonicDevice 8 months ago 2
classic series should be repeated on bbc4 weekly for younger generation to see what the old series was like,
doctor156 8 months ago
The comments on literally every DW video on youtube are invariably filled with debates about "who is the best Doctor", blah, blah, blah... Might as well argue over favorite colors or the best breed of dog. The OBVIOUS answer is simply: "to each his/her own". Why this hasn't occurred to everyone by now is a mystery to me.
But what I'd really like to see is a discussion of THIS video, THIS episode, and THIS story arch (rather than yet another ad nauseum debate about the 'best' Doctor)
pudgimelon 8 months ago 4
I agree that Tom Baker was the best Doctor, but hte new shows are great too. I just Love having access to BBC America, other wise I would be lost to the goings on in England.''
Not for there, but have always wanted to go. I use to want all sort of shows from BBC when i was a kid in PBS... Faulty towers, keepingup appearences, the Young ones..Monty Python, and ofcourse Benny Hill
stratofortress68 10 months ago
This looks so cool, I mean that set with the frozen ppl and everything. The BGM usually wasn't that good in the classic series, but the piece used here is genius.
And of course, the Doctor always has and allways will make great speeches. Great performance by TB here, he really conveys how deeply impressed his character is. This is one of the things I've always loved about this show: It's one of the few that DOESNT portray humanity in a completely pessimistic light.
KendrixTermina 1 year ago
A quietly epic moment in a great story.
Someone could've given this speech in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and that would have only made that film more awesome.
YaleBreaker 1 year ago
awesome!!
byte19 1 year ago
RIP Ian Marter. Brilliant companion and author.
DoktorvonWer 1 year ago 2
"Indomitable"........one of the best film monologues of all time.........up there with Marlon Brandos speech in Superman "You will travel far my little Karl-el", and the closing speech on Withnail and I.
stegatops 1 year ago
The three lowest voices on television..........Tom Baker........Richard Burton.........Carl Sagan. (Will Lyman unlucky to miss out!)
stegatops 1 year ago
@stegatops Don't forget the prince of darkness, No, not Ozzie Osbourne. I refer of course to Mr. Christopher Lee.
ricchardo 9 months ago
The way the door opens at 1:00 , with the doctor and Harry taking a few seconds to realise the door is open, with that atmos music, is thoroughly eerie........thats the sort of cerebral film making they just dont do these days........brilliant direction. This was, undoubtedly the golden age of Dr. Who.......Baker as who.....Bob Holmes....Terry Nation.....Phillip Hinchcliffe....Rodney bennet....Roger Murray Leach......they were spoiled for talent.....in short they had a superteam.
stegatops 1 year ago
Tom Baker and David Tennant are the most popular and the longest lasting Doctors we've had. They're too great for words. Also, check out my Lego Doctor who video @ "R.A.C. Lego Dr. Who"
Mark1Manual 1 year ago
i really, really love this episode. the white style of of the nerva beacon makes it look even better =)
DALEK86 1 year ago
Agreed - I like Tom Baker, but Peter Davison was my favorite. Not everyone can pull off wearing a vegetable ;)
psychmt 1 year ago
this kind of contradicts The Beast Below doesn't it.
greatsayain 1 year ago
@greatsayain Wibbly Wobbly,timey wimey...
OpenMawProductions 1 year ago
@greatsayain hmm in terms of canon contradiction i look to the doctor who wiki. those guys are great at sorting out the canon
OmegaShenron6574 1 year ago
nice scarf!
Ninanu 1 year ago
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I wished they showed Doctor Who in the States, I have to make do watching it online at lastnightstvshows (.) com
luckyjournal211 1 year ago
Ahh, old weird drwho, when it was Sherlock Holmes in space, something for bright kids. That was original. Too bad tv just doesn't do stuff like that.
interstitialofficial 1 year ago 4
One of the greatest moments/speeches in the show's history:)
SparkyGerbil 1 year ago
One thing that seems to never change is how the Doctor always admires the Human Race
Baterine 1 year ago
I hate that. it makes him look racist.
greengrendel 1 year ago
Before they invented CGI, the audience had to use a little something called imagination. Ever hear of it?
eveningtsar 1 year ago 8
Does Dr. Who have to wear his scarf that long!!!!!
pmarshall2006 2 years ago
Yes. Does it upset you?
corvus1970 1 year ago
@corvus1970 Its totally ridiculous...but that was probably the style back then!
pmarshall2006 1 year ago
@pmarshall2006 yes
CMOT101 11 months ago
watch out for the green bubble wrap!!!!
FEAR IT!!!!!
Wiggum1223 2 years ago
we dont actually get to see the green bubble wrap :(
saskiasm12 1 year ago
If some great cataclysm wasn't about to strike somewhere the Doctor would be doing rhinoplasty on Gallifrey.
arturo656b 2 years ago
It really makes me angry that this is tagged 'rose'
csrjjsmp 2 years ago
It doesn't actually make me angry, but I do wonder what Rose has to do with the old series.
ApocalypseNext 1 year ago
Nothing. Why would she? Few of the companions on the classic series had anything to do with what came before.
corvus1970 1 year ago
@corvus1970 Um, exactly. If Rose has nothing whatsoever to do with the classic series, why should her name be a tag for a classic series clip? The comment I'm replying to should be right above mine.
ApocalypseNext 1 year ago
This ep was one of my first Dr Who's. It still is one of my favs, save for the full grown Wirrn costumes, they looked like crap.
dw070 2 years ago
oh dr who and his soliloquies about why he likes humans
:)
twilightnotthebook 2 years ago 3
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bindiyay 2 years ago
Dr Who makes Biblical references at the same time he says we crawled out of slime.
1st Cor 15:52
"In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."
rabola55 2 years ago
Tom Baker is by far the best doctor.
kamakshi179 2 years ago 62
"You're improving, Harry! Yes! Your mind is beggining to work! --- It's entirely due to my influence of course, you mustn't take any credit."
LOL. Love how Harry happilly agrees. What a man the Doctor is. If you can put your life in *anyone*'s hands, it's The Doctor's. Even when he's trailing a scarf.
bindiyay 2 years ago 3
@kamakshi179 indeed
harryO2785 1 year ago
@kamakshi179 Damn it1...no offense to any one who likes tom baker but he is so popular but he really made the show go downhill for me later on in the series. I loved how Peter Davison was so vulnerable and he only stayed for 3 years and that he lost at one point and barely anybody remembered him but he is so great as the doctor.
Smallvillenerd 1 year ago
@kamakshi179 no mat smyith is
123stjames 1 year ago
@kamakshi179 He was my favorite and David Tennant would be #2
GhostOfACPast 1 year ago
@kamakshi179 :-)
theman2017inc 9 months ago
In "Utopia", David Tennant's Doctor made a similar speech.
I still prefer this one.
Lunargleam2 2 years ago 36
Tennant is a bit too hammy for me, even compared to Baker.
dw070 2 years ago 4
There are certain things that convince me
that Tom baker was excellent as the doctor and this is one of them.the defining speech of his entire time as the doctor.Tom Baker was great as the doctor and he always will be!
thekroton 2 years ago 8
thekroton has a point!
All the Doctors have been outstanding!
That 10 out of 10 streak gives me hope for #11 in spite of the naysayers.
trumbachd1 2 years ago 2
Isn't this episode the one with the cybermen?
Venn64 2 years ago
no it's the one with the Wirrn... Remember the one with the guy with the green bubble wrap on his arm?
mitchamus 2 years ago
The episode you're thinking of is called Revenge of the Cybermen which is 2 or 3 episodes after this one!!
derek622 2 years ago
nah, it has giant mantises and slugs in it
Destro7000 2 years ago
you're improving harry!!! XD
pikopikochuu 2 years ago 3
whats this episode called?
meohmy320 2 years ago
This is the Ark In Space. After Robot and before The Sontaran Experiment. Here, have a jelly baby. :)
midianallmighty 2 years ago 10
I'd like to see Tennant do this scene...maybe then he'd realise that he doesn't belong in the programme.
sabbathdei 2 years ago
He belongs just as surely as anyone else has. Deal with it.
corvus1970 1 year ago
seems as if stargate took some plot ideas from doctor who....
StephenJSheridan 2 years ago 2
True! Stargate is ripped wholesale from the Dr Who story Pyramids of Mars. Both have a dimensional space gate, evil powerful aliens with glowing eyes and creepy voices who hide their alien features under jackyl masks, and aliens who messed with ancient egyptians and convinced them they were gods. I guess they both ripped off Chariots of the Gods but Who turned the idea into true sci-fi first. (I would say that Chariots of the Gods is sci-fi to begin with, but some kooks disagree, lol)
MediaGold 2 years ago 6
really?! i never knew about that serial of Doctor Who! ( i never watched classic doctor who) sounds fascinating tho. but what i was referring to in my original comment was the ark concept with the dead people. they did that story in Stargate Atlantis, S3, The Ark....
StephenJSheridan 2 years ago
Not really. Stargate is simply based off the old idea that Aliens influenced human culture, especially in Egypt. Its been the starting point for quite a bit of fiction, even before "Pyramids of Mars".
corvus1970 1 year ago
Wow. That was... wow.
Ulicus 2 years ago
Old weird drwho, when it wasn't just a tv show.
prayfertrey 2 years ago 2
0.37 LMAO. CLASSIC WHO!
crazymurdav 2 years ago
Every time the local PBS station would being re-airing episodes, they would almost always start with this episode when they would loop through them all.
PSPhenom 2 years ago
"Dead as a door-knocker." I like that.
Lunargleam2 2 years ago
oh, and I have to point out, "Harry" ryhmes with "perry"
"perry perry quickly open your mouth!"
mlmcin05 2 years ago
I say what a place for a floor length scarf!
mlmcin05 2 years ago
The single most impressive speech from the entire series. And the speech that made the role Tom Baker's. indominible.
diddymuck 2 years ago 4
Man hope for long term survival is in space..He must colonize other worlds and grow like a weed..ever expanding so when one world no longer is hospitable..he has hundreds of others..just like the creation of the world wide web..was to survive a nuclear war, one server/computer goes down..hundreds of other in the web,can survive and go on..same idea man needs for it's long terms survival in the galaxy and beyond..
scotters201 2 years ago
Tenth Doctor says a similar thing in Utopia
Stuartdouglas19 2 years ago
And we've evoled tecnologicly so far in the future that were still using microfilm! smirks
DoctorWhoisit 3 years ago
Because digital information, once it's gone, or mostly gone, it can't be restored the way film and other media can. If everything is digitized, you run the risk of losing all your information if there is some catastrophe.
interstitialofficial 2 years ago
If there is a catasrophe you run the risk of losing everything regardless of how it's stored unless it's in some kinda bunker if theres a nuclear explosion or flood or tornado it's gone regardless of how it was stored.
DoctorWhoisit 2 years ago
Look it up. Over the years, things like film can be restored, but digital info. that gets lost is lost forever.
interstitialofficial 2 years ago
If a film get burnt to nothing theres no way it can be restored. same as a hard drive. the old black and white Doctor Who were all stored on film and there gone now. Whenever they find an old copy they don't buy it back they borrow it and make copies (some of witch are digetal I presume.) Film can only be restored under certian conditions and only if you have lots of money, skill, equipment, and time and thats even if the film is stored properly if it isn't it may not be possible.
DoctorWhoisit 2 years ago
Indeed. It always helps to have backup information storage. Just stay away from magnetic tape :D
corvus1970 1 year ago
They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to out-sit eternity. They're indomitable.
Oh, might have spent a million years evolving into clouds of gas ... and another million as downloads, but you always revert to the same basic shape: the fundamental human. End of the universe and here you are. Indomitable, that's the word! Indomitable! Ha!
Comparisons anyone? ;)
2Scribble 3 years ago 3
Utopia ;)
Thought the same :)
02kdixon 3 years ago
LOL maybe the doctor's getting senile and starting to repeat himself =P
pretty soon he'll start wandering off from the TARDIS...
mlmcin05 2 years ago
I was 5 when I saw Ark the first time...I spent most of the time hiding behind the sofa....that scene where Kenton Moore pulls his hand out of his pocket revealing his green wirren skin....gave me nightmares for months! Arguably the best episode ever....with certainly the best doctor ever!
stegaflaps 3 years ago 2
Ark in Space is definitely the first in a series of DrWho "masterpieces" in Seasons 12,13 &14. Followed by Genesis of the Daleks, Pyramids of Mars, Brain of Morbius, Seeds of Doom and Talons of Weng-Chiang.
DrWho at its finest, no question.
glnelson1956 3 years ago
Homosapiens-What an inventive,invincible species..They've survived floods,famine,wars holocausts..Now they are frozen and ready to begin a new birth among the stars..
scotters201 3 years ago
love that line, really suits Tom's voice
DarMar106 3 years ago
I really think Christopher Eccleston looks the most like this version of the Doctor.
Agentbromsnor 3 years ago
Yeah now if somehow this just might happen one day then who know's indeed what we still might achive if we can just do this somehpw.
Tom is so right if we can just survive long enough to do this!
eleventhdr 3 years ago
The excellent Tom Baker !!!
As soon as they introduced that stupid Tin Dog (K9) it all went down hill from there .The Dr's go progressively worse and the scrpts and aliens were laughable.
The revived Dr with Eccleston and Tennant are just as it should be ........Most Excellent !!!!
enfield007 3 years ago 4
The ratings seem to show that the downtrend started soon after Elisabeth Sladen left.
In 13 serials together, the duo of Baker/Sladen pulled an incredible 31 episodes of 10 Million+ ratings.
In Baker's 28 serials following Sladen's departure, there were 34 episodes of 10 million + ratings.
If Sladen's 5 Pertwee serials are included, She has 37 episodes of 10 million +!
The figures point to Lis Sladen pulling ratings as high as Tom Baker!
glnelson1956 3 years ago
Putting on a girl who wears a loin cloth makes it hard for a serious audience to take it seriously. At that point, as we all know now, the show was starting to get tired of itself and had there been creative control, it would have very sensibly ended back then. But, and historians of tv will be boggling at this for hundreds of years, a once very original idea has since been turned into a raving parody of itself that refuses to die no matter how fatuous it gets. Evil is real and it's at the bbc
interstitialofficial 2 years ago
Someone has high opinon of there own opinion.
DoctorWhoisit 2 years ago 2
Someone is very internet.
interstitialofficial 2 years ago
what do you mean?
DoctorWhoisit 2 years ago
Aha, i see i see
OutsideSpacing 2 years ago
sorry dude, the ark in space is considered a classic episode.
leggytv 2 years ago 4
Out of all of Tom's epsidoes, this is one I remember vivdly.
dbwokc 2 years ago
If there's anything better than a Tom Baker Doctor Who monolouge, scripted by Robert Holmes, I don't want to know what it is!
Marvelous, magnificent, wonderful. Hurrah!
eveningtsar 3 years ago
Oh, come on people, Christopher Eccleston is a FANTASTIC Dr. Who! LOVE HIM! I wish he hadn't left after only one season.... :(
hideyourloveaway128 3 years ago 3
P.S. Yay for Tom Baker! Also Puddleglum on the BBC versions of the Chronicles of Narnia which I watched on PBS when I was little too :)
hideyourloveaway128 3 years ago
Here's the Dr. Who I remember! I used to watch these on PBS when I was a little kid, aww! :)
hideyourloveaway128 3 years ago
Well yeah I suppose he is.But MY favourite is Tennant,can't change that.
4thAnd10thDoctorFan 3 years ago
Well that's your opinion isn't it?
4thAnd10thDoctorFan 3 years ago
Tom Baker is still the best Doctor. He just plays that scene so beautifuly.
Tardisgirlfrance 3 years ago 7
Yes,he is great but I think Tennant is a bit better.
4thAnd10thDoctorFan 3 years ago
TB greatest moment as The Doc, brilliant stuff!!
slavemale2 3 years ago
Robert Holmes' - and the Doctor's - humanist soliloquy. Notice the absence of sentimentality. It's human strength he admires, not their morality. Bracing, thoughtful, poetic stuff... brilliantly performed.
JackGraham999 3 years ago 2
its on tv now in the uk on the sci-fi channel 129 XD
killakiaba 3 years ago
Um, one would thing that the BBC could put out a better quality copy! Or is it that they want you to buy the DVD?
keltoi2000 3 years ago
Its bad quality beauseits one of the ones from the 20th century series
Disneychanne1 3 years ago
One of the best monologues ever written!!!
grnlfe01 3 years ago 2
And delivered perfectly.
PinstripeShirt 3 years ago
One of the best stories in Who history, the programme was at its best here
sparkythegerbil 3 years ago
Absolutely true. Look at us now, taking our first faltering baby steps. Who can doubt that we will create ourselves anew, bend our dna into a superiour species, freed from the wicked bloody wastes of evolution.
Who can doubt that space and time will bend to our understanding, our infinite capacity for thought.
We will sit astride the stars in all our bloody magnificence. Moving ever onwards, like the apes that bore us moved from the trees to the hot arid plains.
Beware, monsters from the id
ianclivewright 3 years ago
Home? I have no home. Hunted. Despised! Living like an animal! The jungle is my home, but I will show the world that I can be it's master! I will perfect my own race of people. A race of atomic supermen that will conquer the world!
mthai66 3 years ago
That's okay, you just take a tablet, have a lie-down and a little sleep and you'll feel right as rain when you wake up.
newmark401 3 years ago
i NEED MORPHINE, eDDIE...
mthai66 3 years ago
one thing to say about this doctor. best...scarf....ever.
darkshield4 3 years ago 7
bit 2 early 4 my time but the classics rock
tobi1is1obito1got1it 3 years ago
what year are they in
microchoc 3 years ago
"What good memories of being a kid and staying up till late on saturday night watching Doctor Who on PBS."
Dr Who was aired on Sundays on PBS.
fjccommish 3 years ago 2
Actually each PBS station was different. Plus, sometimes they switched off. Here in Phoenix, they showed it on late Saturdays for a few years then switched to Sunday noon for a few more.
MediaGold 2 years ago
"Its entirely due to my influence of course, you mustn't take any credit."
BRILLIANT. I love this.
rachpheonix 4 years ago 3
Tom Baker = Best Doctor EVER
heyholetsgo69 4 years ago 10
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bubbles29118194 4 years ago
Haha! They use that last line in 'Utopia'! Brilliant!
xNaomiHx 4 years ago
I could watch this show for days.. i love it
kantharalak 4 years ago 2
Microfilm! A vision of the future from the 1970's. I wonder how much microfilm it really would take to store all the data on the Internet.
smoothvirus 4 years ago
Tom Baker is a classic, but I also liked Peter Davison's interpretation of the Doctor. What good memories of being a kid and staying up till late on saturday night watching Doctor Who on PBS.
bluestripetiger 4 years ago 7
HE IS the DOCTOR
Psoodoekko 4 years ago 2
TRUFAX.
adrienebrooke 4 years ago
Tom was the best of the best :) I miss his character very much indeed! 5 stars from America :D.
EchoBunny0101 4 years ago
Tom Baker was the best Doctor!!1
Praise from America!!
TonyWR71 4 years ago
Cruddy sets bad acting cheap special effects and absolutely a classic TOM BAKER makes it all work!! Also K9 was such cool sidekick (not seen here)PS BBC must have had the market in white paint every space ship ever made was painted white ..lol
seveprim 4 years ago
K9 did make the series here in America. I remember him but only back in the 80's by then i am sure it was probably 3 years old or older. I will say this much I watched every episode I could catch on Sunday mornings :) Besides Tom Baker I loved the Woman that played Ramana :D.
EchoBunny0101 4 years ago
the first Ramana(brunette) was so sexy but Tom married the second (Ramana) in real life !!
seveprim 4 years ago 2
it's Romana by the way =P and yes, both of them are hot!!
jimmybob15 4 years ago 2
Normally I prefer brunettes over blondes, but I'll take Lalla Ward (the blonde) over the other one any day!
CR3271 4 years ago 3
Amazing, I loved both of them to be honest. I was young and so impressionable then :). In retrospect it would take a woman with a good sense of the obsurd to marry Tom. The 2nd one was that woman for sure lol. Man I miss that series.
EchoBunny0101 4 years ago
Never seen this before, but i like it very much :o
DeathWarlord 4 years ago
My favorite doctor...Tom Baker
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Great ending
ClausVonSteinberg 4 years ago
The speech that cemented Tom Baker as The Doctor. Wonderful.
meomwt 4 years ago
Awesome story.
quinndexter 4 years ago
Tom Baker in Doctor Who epitomises the 70s for me and Peter Davison had a tough job taking that on and was brilliant as well. What a great series.
EdZep123 4 years ago 2
Such a fun show...TOm Baker was the most enjoyable Doctor Who, of the ones I saw
thenauga 4 years ago 3
Tom Baker embodies what Doctor Who should have been both before and after. Just great!
templar44 4 years ago
absolutely
CarlLefrancois 4 years ago
Ha! The BBC employs illiterate kids to put this stuff up! It's INDOMITABLE not INDOMINATABLE!
XD
andyjimbo2006 4 years ago
Tom Baker in his prime! I
mystykit 4 years ago
this was a good episode... despite the horrid attempt at special effects, i enjoyed it immensely!
julescavalier 4 years ago 2
You know, whenever the Doctor has one of his "I love humans!" moments, I get embarrassed and laugh nervously!
Suteki31392 4 years ago 6
uhhhh i saw a movie thats was based on this.... cant remember the title
thelordvega 4 years ago
There were no movies!
thatenglishkid 4 years ago
Not officially, but there were rumors that there was a movie about the Seventh Doctor;)
webwiz1986 4 years ago
There's a movie where the 8th Doc makes his one and only appearance, thats all
thatenglishkid 4 years ago
get butthurt if you want but i know i seen a movie thats very close to this, i just cant remember
thelordvega 4 years ago
Tisn't "Who" then :)
thatenglishkid 4 years ago
nono not a who movie but probably someone that took the idea
thelordvega 4 years ago
oh ok :)
thatenglishkid 4 years ago
Actually, there have been several movies. A couple early on in the 60's and then they tried to revive the series with a TV movie based in America with Paul McGann as the 8th Doctor.
Dunk1970 4 years ago
Yeah but the Cushings aren't canon :)
thatenglishkid 4 years ago
That really is too bad. Cushing is a good actor.
"But consider, our technologies are compatible. Hammer Films plus BBC. Together we could up grade the universe."
radioblueheart 4 years ago
hi guys am wanting feed back from doctor who fans for an idia ive had. ive started to make an in vision fan comentary for the old episodes of doctor who am gonna do one for ever episode (posable to watch) from william hartnells doctor to david tenant and post it on you tube for every one to watch and lisen. there are 2 others joining me for it. just want to know what you think so email me on you tube and let me know and am happy to hear from you
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