Retrofuture Doctor Who

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Here's the Tom Baker (4th Doctor) and Lala Ward (Romana II) commercials for Prime Computer.

Ooooh, Steve Jobs eat your heart out.

And two bonus WHO ads.


I want one!


And Colin Baker as Doctor #6. If ever there was a beef-flavored Doctor it would be 6. (I tease because I love.)

Comments

[kyoko-godaikun.livejournal.com]

Lala Ward and Tom Baker soon got divorced. she's now married to Richard Dawkins.

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Which is what happens when two character actors fall in love with the other's character and not the actual person. As admitted by Baker on one of the WHO commentaries. Still, they were happy for a while.

[shadowturquoise.livejournal.com]

I love how incredibly dates these are for someone who lives outside of time!

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

I think it's canon that Time Lord technology is dated! Certainly the TARDIS is falling apart.

[encapsulate.livejournal.com]

How much is 24/11?!

Two quarks to a spittle, carry the two... Pre-decimalization money makes me feel dumb.

(Is that... 24 and a little over a half pounds? 11 shillings, 20 shillings to the pound?)

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Er...24 sickles and 11 knuts?

[artichautka.livejournal.com]

24 shillings 11 pence, I think? (Or, 1 pound and just short of 5 shillings.)

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

ADORABLE!

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

I wish I wasn't limited to vintage ads. The guy in your icon had some adorable promos, too!

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

I bet! Also now I'm mock-arguing over IM with someone that these commercials mean that The Doctor and Romana were married in canon.

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Romana left him pretty casually if they were! I say they were definitely a couple but not quite married.

[john-holton.livejournal.com]

Wow... COBOL, FORTRAN, RPGII, BASIC, Assembler, FORTRAN 77 and PL/I over 2780, HASP, UT200, UNIVAC 1004 and ICL 7020. That's like a job description from the Seventies. I miss the old days (especially seeing Lalla Ward every week. I forgot how pretty she was, and probably still is.)

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

It all sounds like something a modern-day computer geek would name his/her cats.

And I miss the old days, too. I just don't like New Who as much as Classic Who.

[john-holton.livejournal.com]

There's really nothing similar between the series that ended in 1989 and the new one. The characters are the same, the same kinds of things happen, but the charm of the old series was the way that the characters interacted, I think because they didn't have the technical capability they have now.

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

I agree. Too much CGI is a definite distraction. But then it's distracting us from the interaction now which is a confusing soap opera so it's not all bad.

[john-holton.livejournal.com]

Exactly. The earlier shows had to rely on better interaction between the Doctor, his companions, and the other characters (both protagonist and antagonist), because the effects were simpler and thus not as impressive.

[barengeist.livejournal.com]

The company I worked for during that time frame used Prime computers exclusively. It was a little venture started by Tom Golisano called Paychex.

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Ah, those little techie start-ups, doomed to obscurity.

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

Those are amazing. Why didn't David and Billie do adverts? I do love Four and Romana II.

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Why didn't David and Billie do adverts?

Maybe it would sully the purity of The Lonely God? I dunno!

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

Apparently, everyone wants the Doctor... and a Prime computer. ;)

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

But of course!

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Woo!

I'm going as Four for Halloween. I tried to talk my boyfriend into dressing up as Four, but he said he would only if I was Leela. No, dude. No. First of all, I'd freeze my ass off, and secondly, I don't want to make that costume, and thirdly, she was my least favorite of his companions. (My favorite is a tie between Sarah and Romana one.) I think he was kidding anyway--he never does costumes for Halloween. HMPH.

So I'm going as Four. I knit the scarf over the summer (thirteen feet including the fringe), and I bought a replica of his sonic screwdriver (oh, the irony: to put in the batteries for the sound effect, I had to have....a regular screwdriver) and I'm going to attempt to curl my hair and I'm borrowing a hat....and, best of all, I'm going to a geeky party, so everyone will recognize the costume.

I'm going to spend all night going "Hello-oh. Would you like a jelly baby?"

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Aw, I loved Leela! But I wouldn't want her costume either. I could go as 4 this Halloween, too, but I won't. I have a 30 foot (not kidding) scarf but I lack everything else.