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Who Is The Longest Running?
Back when it was announced that the TV sci-fi series Stargate SG-1 was officially the longest running TV sci-fi show, I immediately had questions. Actually. I only had one:
What about Doctor Who?
It was on for many years. SG-1 is talking about it's ten years while I'm thinking Doctor Who was on for more than twenty before it was (finally and properly) ended in 1989. How did SG-1 win the title?
It seems it's all down to how you work it out, and the operative word is "consecutive". Because SG-1's run is unbroken but shorter, while Who's run is longer but broken (by the 16 year gap between the old series and the new, with the Eighth Doctor TV movie in the middle somewhere), SG-1 wins the "longest (consecutive)" prize while Doctor Who gets 'merely' the longest in terms of years and number of episodes (723 eps compared to SG-1's 203).
Thing is, did the calculation for Doctor Who's longest run (1963 - 1989) include the multi-year breaks in the middle and at the end of the Colin Baker Era? If so, why not include the (admittedly much) longer breaks following the end of the McCoy Era?
Okay, so that won't happen, but I still think it's crap that Doctor Who hasn't got both records. Maybe that's just me. I doubt it, though - I'm sure there are many others who think the same way.
...Another things that's crap about Doctor Who is the insistence on having so many Earth-based episodes. We're not seeing enough "proper" space episodes, it's all about bloody Earth and Earth people all the damn time. And it's going to be even worse in the nuSeason3 - budget reasons are restricting them to even more episodes based on Earth, as it's "too expensive" to create an alien world-type setting plus sets. And the episodes that are set on alien worlds apparently get the worst reviews, as "the audience" finds it stupid that a forest on Earth should stand in for the planet Zagfon.
Too many cretins are watching, it seems. I'm getting bored of the TARD, I want the full TARDIS back! Give me more adventures In Space, dammit!!
Who Is The Longest Running?
Back when it was announced that the TV sci-fi series Stargate SG-1 was officially the longest running TV sci-fi show, I immediately had questions. Actually. I only had one:
What about Doctor Who?
It was on for many years. SG-1 is talking about it's ten years while I'm thinking Doctor Who was on for more than twenty before it was (finally and properly) ended in 1989. How did SG-1 win the title?
It seems it's all down to how you work it out, and the operative word is "consecutive". Because SG-1's run is unbroken but shorter, while Who's run is longer but broken (by the 16 year gap between the old series and the new, with the Eighth Doctor TV movie in the middle somewhere), SG-1 wins the "longest (consecutive)" prize while Doctor Who gets 'merely' the longest in terms of years and number of episodes (723 eps compared to SG-1's 203).
Thing is, did the calculation for Doctor Who's longest run (1963 - 1989) include the multi-year breaks in the middle and at the end of the Colin Baker Era? If so, why not include the (admittedly much) longer breaks following the end of the McCoy Era?
Okay, so that won't happen, but I still think it's crap that Doctor Who hasn't got both records. Maybe that's just me. I doubt it, though - I'm sure there are many others who think the same way.
...Another things that's crap about Doctor Who is the insistence on having so many Earth-based episodes. We're not seeing enough "proper" space episodes, it's all about bloody Earth and Earth people all the damn time. And it's going to be even worse in the nuSeason3 - budget reasons are restricting them to even more episodes based on Earth, as it's "too expensive" to create an alien world-type setting plus sets. And the episodes that are set on alien worlds apparently get the worst reviews, as "the audience" finds it stupid that a forest on Earth should stand in for the planet Zagfon.
Too many cretins are watching, it seems. I'm getting bored of the TARD, I want the full TARDIS back! Give me more adventures In Space, dammit!!
"Five million Cybermen, easy. One Doctor? NOW you're scared!" - Rose Tyler, Doomsday
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