When I was about 6 or 7 my father had this fascination with Dr Who, I think from memory it was on ABC every night straight after the Channel 9 news with Brian Henderson.
Unlike these days, very very few people had more than one TV sets. This meant that whatever Dad wanted to watch we watched so every night I'd sit there and watch Dr Who.
You might think that this was cool, well, it was always the Dr, his assistant with no weapons up against some evil force and I was only 6 or 7 so every single one of these evil forces scared the absolute shit out of me. Oh my god, the Cybermen, the Daleks, these pudgy faced monsters that live in mine shafts, they all scared me half to death but I'd still sit there and watch, especially when Tom Baker was the Doctor.
Tom was by far my favourite Doctor, not because of his trench-coat or his enormously long scarf but because he had K-9, K-9 was his dog, not any normal dog either, he was a weaponised robot dog! Hooray I'd think, now those monsters would be beaten by this little robot dog. As I was so young I didn't really understand the dialog but I figured out 3 things, the Doctor loved jelly babies, his assistant was a hot chick (most of the time) and the British Army wasn't worth 2 farts in a paper bag.
I think the Daleks were my most hated, that mechanical sounding EXTERMINATE still chills my blood to this day.
I know fans of Doctor Who will think this picture is sacrilegious robot porn but I don't care, I thought it was a funny idea.
Orbital's redux of the themesong is still one of my favourite tracks.
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