This was an *event* in our house. My Dad and his friends were all massive Doctor Who fans and I was raised on it so I was already, too. Everyone erupted for that opening sting.

Remembering watching this on the exact day in 2005, all I remember is being thoroughly mystified by the whole living plastic bit

@tealwashablemarker8886

3 жыл бұрын

i hadn’t even been conceived then...

@anyatindall5678

3 жыл бұрын

@@tealwashablemarker8886 fun fact 😃

@AurumEtAes

3 жыл бұрын

It was a callback to Jon Pertwee’s debut story Spearhead from Space, aired over four weeks in 1970. But with roughly double the run time of Rose it had far more time to develop the creepy concept of the alien Nestene consciousness with an affinity for plastic. In Rose it was treated as a returning monster and the exposition was much more rushed, played for laughs a lot of the time and then replaying iconic scenes of Autons (shop window dummies) killing shoppers that many viewers were too young to have seen The character building with Eccleston was great, but the rather brilliant classic monsters felt shortchanged in a squandered opportunity. If they’d been saved for a later episode when the lead characters were established I think the Autons would have been better served and made a much better impression. Plastic death traps has so much potential, but infamous sequences like Mickey getting swallowed by a badly CGIed burping wheelie bin turned them into a joke. I hope they get another chance to redeem themselves as a major villain one day

@myrddinemrys1332

3 жыл бұрын

@@AurumEtAes As someone who also watched the episode when it came out just before I turned 6, it stuck with me. I still don't quite trust shop dummies even all these years later.

@MrRickster83

3 жыл бұрын

What on earth is so mystifying about the fact shop dummies came to life?! The episode clearly explained HOW!

Where it all started......again.

@blackham7

6 жыл бұрын

Z T W L R The Ninth Doctor the man who started it all again

@Scoot694

3 жыл бұрын

Nice pfp

I would LOVE it if bbc one shown every episode of who from 2005 till now again. Would be a dream come true!

@Johanne-Bryce

4 жыл бұрын

Check out BBC iPlayer. All 11 seasons of the new series are on there.

@Mr_Storm_22

4 жыл бұрын

With era-appropriate idents

@gouki006ishere

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mr_Storm_22 Nah, they wouldn't care enough to actually do that, trust me.

@Mr_Storm_22

2 жыл бұрын

@@gouki006ishere I know that, we can only dream

@hen8jcb224

Жыл бұрын

@@Mr_Storm_22 YES

The bigger cockup was arguably the Graham Norton audio appearing over the scene where Rose first encounters the Autons.

@a.m.gnovember151

3 жыл бұрын

It's now a running gag with him xD

This was broadcast at the time when The BBC saw Doctor Who as a load of old crap and they thought that NOBODY will watch this apart from Old Fat Dorks stuck in the 70s. They were wrong, DEAD WRONG!

@blackham7

6 жыл бұрын

Jamesie Hodge LMAO

@mekonta

3 жыл бұрын

Well practically nobody is watching the pale imitation it has become in the last two years. All those 'stuck in the 70s' lot have gone as it tries to appeal to the Twitter/SJW crowd

I've heard exactly this on the VHS dad recorded it on, about as many times as the average person wonders if we're alone in the universe per calendar month listening to the announcer unlocks the memory of the smell of warm plastic, the off-brand cardboard sleeve and the 'ka-clunk-click' of the player recieving a tape. Of all the homerecorded sit-coms and movies, Dr Who 05 Ser. 1 was the most pristine, and most loved. I was 10 and it was imagination meth. I even submitted an alien to the blue-peter challenge the following year. A year was such a long time back then. It was a kind of couch-sized maggot with 3 rows of teeth and non-newtonian skin that strengthened the harder you hit it, called a Grul, for all of you wondering x

@the_tv_museum

Жыл бұрын

A year was a long time back then if you were 10, it wasn't a long time for us oldies!

Younger Who fans won’t remember how we sat before our TVs back in 2005 and watched this for the very first time not knowing what it was, perhaps your parents had watched and grown up with Classic Who, and decided to get you into it through the revived series. Little did I know how much it would engross and captivate my 6 year old mind at the time. A trip of a lifetime I’d kill to experience again.

@mekonta

3 жыл бұрын

Little did we know that eleven series later, it would all fall apart and become a shadow of its former self. The show, my all-time favourite, is utterly abysmal now and I am/was an avid viewer since Jon Pertwee's last series. I'd kill to have *DOCTOR WHO* back again, not this 'doctor who' in name only.

@edwardspencer-small7021

3 жыл бұрын

They used to show repeats of the old Who on BBC 1 during Saturday afternoons around 2002-2004. That's how I first got into the show as a 12 year old, so I kind of knew what to expect, but it was still incredibly exciting.

@vvmax4375

3 жыл бұрын

Younger Who fans won’t remember how the people of the 1960s sat and watched Hartnell 45 years esrlker

@Anandaapologetics

3 жыл бұрын

I would give anything to be 3 again back in 2005 watching for the first time not knowing all the years of amazement to come

@1978rharris

3 жыл бұрын

That’s so cool to know you had that experience. I was 27 when this was on and I was well excited.

I wasn’t alive for this so this feels like a piece of history. I can’t imagine what it must’ve felt like with only knowledge of the classic series seeing this for the first time

@AurumEtAes

3 жыл бұрын

the first thing all fans did, in unison, was exclaim NO FACE! Every Doctor from the second to the seventh got at least one distinct title sequence and it always included his face. Instead we got the actor’s name credit instead. This was all in keeping with the Mcgann TV movie made by Fox, but somehow it felt more surprising when a BBC series headed by a self proclaimed fan made such a big break with tradition

@mattsom3915

3 жыл бұрын

@@AurumEtAes surprisingly it was the audio company that rectified this visual tradition with the Big Finish trailer.

@nathanjarrett728

3 жыл бұрын

Now I feel old. I was 7 when this aired and I was instantly mystified by it.

@Anandaapologetics

3 жыл бұрын

I watched doctor who live from series 1 of new who I was 3 but the whole classic 2005-2009 era of doctor who makes me so nostalgic for my early childhood I was thoroughly obsessed with doctor who so for me this is history an amazing at that

@stephennoonan8578

3 жыл бұрын

Reaction to Rose in 2005 : Delighted by titles. Surprisingly impressed by Piper. Envious for the Classic series of the budget. Pleased by return of the Autons - but preferring the Pertwee stories. 45 minutes running time means first of many rushed endings. Verdict - cautiously hopeful for series (and increasingly impressed as series 1 progressed)

I remember me and my brother watching this, feel so old now.

I remember this day. I remember, at 17, being fascinated by this popular TV figure from the past. Especially having watched the Paul McGann version nearly 10 years before, and having played "The Doctor" in an amateur dramatics musical where he happens to drop in. I remember being dressed in a colourful scarf, hat and long coat... I think I was 13? And offering a jelly baby, and saying these lines in a posh voice and everyone laughing at in-jokes I didn't yet get because I hadn't grown up with it. Y'know, people say representation in the media doesn't matter. But I'm pretty sure I kept watching it each week BECAUSE Eccleston was northern. It delighted me to see "other planets have a north". And delighted me even more, after reading Eccleston's autobiography, that he also enjoyed that subversion of stereotypical hero.

Graham Norton was making some voices in the background and his Audience as well.

I was born 9 days before this, wish i was old enough to see this back then

@reemooooooo

2 жыл бұрын

I was born on this day, March 26, 2005

Remember watching this on the day. It was around Easter and we were in the guest room at my nan and grandads watching it on a box tv 📺 😄 good times

This was 2 months before I was born, man I wish I was alive to experience this

2005, feels like a lifetime ago

@Pleasant_exe

3 жыл бұрын

That hit me hard and I’m not even that old

@glitchwalker5422

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't time travelled... I know time travel, I can feel it. If I didn't know better, I'd say I'm 16 years in the future.

i was only a month and two days old and by god am i a whovian now

I was 9 then and was literally jumping around in excitement 😂

Talk about kicking off with a bang!

Huh, tapdogs. Never would've guessed.

I even remember that advert with the guys dancing lol

@cuedotfilms4427

3 жыл бұрын

It's called an Ident, short for identification. I thought they were horrible at the time but I would rather have these back compared to the dreadful idents BBC 1 have now.

@jeremiahosoba366

2 жыл бұрын

@@cuedotfilms4427 exactly man, things were so much better back then Now everything is a shambles including doctor who what a shame..

Honestly quite funny how the BBC messed up the continuity here. The Tardis sting just freezes, cuts to black, and then the TapDogs ident plays out as normal, with the continuity announcer acting as if nothing went wrong. Still, a historic moment for Whovians across Britain.

Hasn't aged, still get excited

Still gives me goosebumps.

Nothing gets me more excited for Doctor who than contemporary tap dancing

Oh my god I remember this like it was yesterday I was only 12. Was so exciting to hear that screeching sound start up :)

I had a watch party with a load of mates at my flat when this came on. Yes! That’s right! I invented the watch party. And connect 4.

I had only been born for a month and 20 days but little did I know how big this show would affect me

FIRE

17 years ago today! I loved it pre Jodie Whittaker... I tried to like her I wanted to like her... But for me when Peter Capaldi left it wasn't quite the same.

@DarylReeceJames

2 жыл бұрын

Scary I remember clearly when New Who started again. In 2005 I was 13!

@DarylReeceJames

2 жыл бұрын

Weird to think more time has past since then and now... Then how old I was at the time watching this! 😂

Turn Over To BBC3 For Strictly Dance Fever On BBC Three

Strictly Dance Fever 2005 Is Back At 9:10pm For The Results Show After Casualty Where We Find Out Who Have You Decided To Put Through To The Live Shows Of Strictly Dance Fever 2005 And The Chance To Become Your First Ever Strictly Dance Fever 2005 Champions

Saturday 26th March 2005

Good old days

Nostalgia

Oh this is cool

Fun fact: you didn’t search for this

That sort of sums up the BBC and Who in a nutshell...

@anthonybailey1966

3 жыл бұрын

Why? Bit harsh.....it's been on for a long time,you know....!

Could anyone give the text the narrator reads during the BBC1 ident?

I wasnt even a month old yet

@DOCTORWHOcentral

3 жыл бұрын

So your in secondary school then

hello is there any way i a can trade for this as i full tape

RIP Doctor Who

Wait,so you're saying that the modern doctor who aired a month before my birth!?

0:29

I don't mind classic Doctor Who but I have to say bringing it back to tv in the new millennium is a big mistake, especially for a Saturday night schedule on BBC One. It ruined the fantastic high quality Saturday night schedule of just gameshows such as Jim Davidson's Generation Game, Whatever You Want, Big Break Friends Like These, Dog Eat Dog, The National Lottery Stars, JetSet and Winning Lines, Casualty and Parkinson, only to be replaced by this and another crap show Strictly Come Dancing. It's all thanks to Lorraine Heggessey who ruined saturday nights on BBC One and she will never be forgiven for. Doctor Who should've moved to BBC Two and if I was to become controller of BBC One in the future, my first priority would be to axe this, and Strictly Come Dancing and Michael Mcintyre's big show and replace it with gameshows similar to 2001 and bring back The National Lottery. I would also axe The Graham Norton Show and bring children's programmes back to BBC One where they belong.

Saturday 26th March 2005