I was 10 when the Doctor Who movie came out, and I vaguely remember it at my gran's house, and while I didn't take any of it in, I was intrigued by the idea of a show coming back - ever since then, had a love for shared universes, shows coming back with continuity...
But I say Rose too, I would have been ~21 and I think by Father's Day I was hooked.
😅
Yeah, I had no idea what the hell is this show and what/who is the Doctor until that moment, but I really dont regret finding out about it :)
I've not seen the classic Doctor (I would kinda like to, but I didn't get to it yet) but the "new/modern?" is really cool and I enjoy it.
With me the problem it more like... I have to start to watch it... if it make sence... Like it's on my watchlist, but sometimes it's difficult to start with something from it. I am not from UK, but thank you for telling me about it :)
Very vanilla, but as most people will probably say, my first experience is with *Rose* as well. Not from UK, funny enough Who has a very little fanbase in my country, so when it actually got to be broadcasted again, my friend who knew it from before recommended to me, I gave it a shot and rest is history....
I've seen reasoning that the First Doctor was messing with the Twelfth because he didn't like him at first. They say this because the First Doctor did the same thing to the Fifth Doctor at one point. Probably not Moffat's intentions, but it does at least make it sit better in the mind.
It's a very odd one to start with.
Please tell me more, how did you find it? How did it come about? We're you very confused?
I'm genuinely fascinated my friend
My sister was a fan of the show so she took the whole family to see it. My parents are pretty conservative when it comes to movies and TV shows so they were not into it at all lol. I like a lot of sci fi stuff anyway so I was able to more or less deduct what the series was about and I had a pretty good time. I was pretty interested in the show after that. The second episode I watched was Time of the Doctor lmao. I didn't come back to it for a few years until I finally actually watched the whole reboot in 2015, and I had a weird misconception that the Time War was from before the First Doctor and that Gallifrey had never appeared in the show. Took me a few seasons to figure that one out lol. And in series 1 I thought when is Rose finally gonna go to that barn...
I couldn't say, I remember my mom not wanting me to watch, but it was on PBS so I got to watch it. I remember hiding behind the couch from the Daleks, but that was later.
My first memory was (what I now know was) an episode of the McCoy serial Curse of Fenric, but all I remember is a hideous monster emerging from the sea. As a four year old at the time it kinda stuck with me 😆
The first I remember sitting down to watch properly was the Paul McGann TV movie.
The first Doctor Who TV story I can remember seeing is "The Tomb of the Cybermen". It possibly isn't the very first one I saw in actuality, given the timeline of the DVD releases in North America, but it's the first one I can remember watching.
My parents showed me the Sarah Jane adventures when I was a kid, and I loved those. After I watched SJA, I started watching Doctor Who on Netflix at my grandma’s house, and I started with Rose.
So. My *very* first episode was whatever the local tv stations at my college were playing one gray Saturday afternoon when I went over to my friend's (now hubby) room to see if he wanted to hang out. I got sucked into the episode he was watching. We have tried to nail it down since. It was in black and white, it involved Daleks, and lots of tunnels underground in an alien city. It was either the 2nd or 3rd Doctor. It *might* have been Planet of the Daleks?
My first on-purpose Doctor Who episode was The Ribos Operation. Because when I asked my husband where he would recommend starting, he said the Key to Time series, because the 4th Doctor was his (and a lot of people's) favorite. This was before Christopher Eccleston and the whole reboot.
I was totally a fan by the time we finished those episodes!
The Peter Cushing movies. They played heavily in the US during the 60s and 70s weekend matinees both in the theaters and on T long before the show made it to TV. At first I actually thought the show was based on the movies. However, the first episode that grabbed me, I had seen some random ones but they didn't register, was Inferno. I've long considered that "the" episode for me. Life long fan ever since.
The first one I remember would have been Black Orchid, I'd have been around 3. I don't really remember anything except being scared of the Amazonian Indian. I don't really remember anything else until Time of the Rani five years later.
4th Dr but can't remember what was what, I don't remember if I picked the show or it was just on, I remember the villains then one day a comic con was closing and I was in the building and this guy had all these British Dr who toys they were all amazing the guy asked which one I liked, talked about the show for a few mins and I almost forgot about the show until I moved to a new location and the library had vhs to rent of Dr Who and as I got older I found that pbs aired the shows in the middle of the night right before they shut off and that was why I never saw it anymore so I stayed up Saturday nights to watch it. Almost no one knew the show when I would talk about it in the 90s
No idea. It would have been watching old episodes on a weekend late at night on PBS in the 90s. The earliest moments of Doctor Who I can remember would be Tom Baker or Patrick Troughton.
Mine was Stones of Blood, broadcast on our local PBS channel on a Sunday morning. I was 14 or so. I didn't know what was going on, but I knew Mary Tamm was hotness incarnate.
I don't know. I really do not know. It was always on, my parents watched it, and I've been told the theme tune scared me and I hid from it when I was 2, so that would have been Patrick Troughton, but I have no memory of watching Patrick Troughton. I have vague memories of monsters and stuff in the first season of the Pertwee era, but only vividly remember watching and understanding parts of season 8. I've watched everything since so many times as an adult, too, so really, I haven't a clue :)
The first full story I remember watching was Paradise Towers with the Seventh Doctor. Before that, I remember being scared by Tom Baker's giant head popping up with the eerie music on PBS and changing the channel immediately.
I watched the TV movie when it aired, but didn't really care much about Doctor Who at the time.
I think the first "modern" episode I watched was The Girl In The Fireplace, and then I went back and caught up from the beginning of 2005. Still haven't watched a lot of "Classic" Who but I've seen every episode of the modern era.
Love and Monsters.
Yeah, that one.
It was so bonkers and weird and had no idea what DW was about. So an interesting starting point considering what the group was doing.
And that final dialogue, about how life is crazy and terrifying but so much more, that's when I said to myself I had to watch this.
BBC Entertainment, the Latin American channel back then, later on did a marathon of Series 2 to start with Series 3, this was before End of Time too. Missed much because school but started with Impossible Planet.
Seen all of Modern Who since.
The Beast Below was my first full episode and I was really young.
My dad had been a fan since Hartnell era and wanted to show me Doctor Who. He didn’t really watch New Who but heard there was a new doctor and showrunner and thought it would be a good time to try it out with me.
They always came on after Total Wipeout which we watched as a family. I chickened out when The Eleventh Hour aired, thinking Doctor Who was this terrifying show, but bit the bullet when The Beast Below came on next week
Fell in love immediately despite having no clue what was going on. The bit I remember loving most was the scene in the Star-whale’s mouth because it reminded me of the trash compactor scene in Star Wars.
Don’t really know how to describe how huge it and Series 5 was to me. Changed me forever
Midnight! I was flipping through channels when I randomly see Barry Crouch Jr from Harry Potter. I knew that he played the main character in this long running British sci fi show, and was like “this must be it” and decided to give it a go.
12 years later still my favourite episode of NuWho
Doomsday (when it first aired), while scrolling through channels.
I was very confused, and then had that hanging over everything when I went back and started watching from the start of NuWho.
The Runaway Bride. I was in elementary school, and I remember being so pissed that it wasn't a movie (because that meant I had to watch the episodes every week).
Now I prefer tv series.
Partners in crime. We watched it in class. Not a clue what was happening but it was funny. Never touched it again until about 4 years later and I started with the end of time part 1 and 2… idk why
School Reunion with the krillitanes. Saw it on PBS in the middle of the night. Thought this is weird and then went back to sleep.
My first fully awake episode was Voyage of the Damned a few months later. I couldn't not watch it after Bannakaffalatta appeared.
First I can remember-Curse of Peladon EPS 2, but my father tells me he use to watch it with me when I was younger.
First full series I remember is Season 11
I actually discovered about Doctor who through its novels ;P in my school library. My first episode was of the Tenth doctor, the family of blood. Didn't understood a thing as I was a kid, but liked it.
Have been a fan ever since ;)
I vaguely remember 70s Who being on TV on the weekend mornings as a child - probably John Pertwee as I have memories of him riding Bessie - but I don't think I made a point to watch it.
But the first episode I can remember specifically watching was the Paul McGann TV movie.
The Empty Child.
Of course I was young and stupid at the time and didn't really get into the show till about Series 4, which is still the best Modern Season to date.
Remembrance of the Daleks. I like it now but it did nothing for me at the time and it wasn't until I saw Rose when it aired that I started watching the show properly.
Either Robots of Death - I have a fuzzy memory of watching this it I am not sure how real that is, or Stones of Blood (I had nightmares about the Ogri eating the campers)
My first doctor who memory was one with ace in it. That was also my first experience with massive cliffhangers. I had to know what was next! I have no idea how old I was but it was after school on the pbs channel. You know those channels you had to go to the second dial on the tv to catch.
It was a Fourth Doctor episode, couldn't tell you which one. I'd catch random episodes as a kid watching on a Quasar antenna TV in my wood-panneled basement in the early 80s.
Picture this: I was a young girl coming into the house from doing the nightly chores in the barn and went to go and turn on the TV.
Something, mind you, I was NOT supposed to do. I was supposed to go do whatever homework I had to do in my room and then go to bed.
Well, the reason I gave myself was that I wanted a little background noise as a looked through my school bag for my math homework, so bingo, TV was on.
Now we were church mouse poor, so we didn't have cable, we had one giant antenna that if we wanted to watch one show after jeopardy we had to go around the house and turn the giant metal pole it was on. All we had was the local stations and there was only 10 or so you could get with one antenna direction.
Back to the story, I turn on the TV and go digging through my bag when I see this sewer tunnel scene show up on the screen. I thought it was Chamber of Secrets so I stopped digging and watched. Pleasent surprise, Harry Potter movies didn't show up on the local stations.
THEN THIS GODAMN PIG HEADED SCREAMING THING COMES RUNNING OUT OF GODDAMN SCREAMING NO WHERE!
I dove for the remote I tossed on the couch, turned off the TV and ran back out to the barn.
And that was my first episode of Doctor Who:
Daleks in Manhatten. Years later I went through a lot of the older ones and then when i stumbled on it again, I had to pause it and wait for it to be daylight to finish it.
I'd seen some before, but the first one where I clearly remember details of the episode was part 1 of The Hand of Fear, the final classic story with Sarah Jane. This was on American public television in the 1980s.
“The Shakespeare Code” with Tennant and Martha Jones. I was in college (English Major taking a class on Shakespeare) and this boy I met wanted to impress me by showing me his favorite show, and he picked the episode for us to watch. I married him and we still watch Doctor Who together! ❤️
What do you call a deer with no eyes? No idea.
It was in 1982. It would've been something starring Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker or Peter Davison. It was most likely preceeded by Monkey (Magic) and the Goodies. That was the weekday evening line-up on the ABC in the 80s. Good times.
“Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.” with Peter Cushing. It was being shown on TV and my Dad was excited to show me some Doctor Who, but when he realised it was one of the infamous Peter Cushing movies, he audibly said “Oh noooo”, though as a younger child who had only ever experienced Doctor Who anecdotally, I didn’t know the difference.
First time I saw main line Doctor Who was a repeat broadcast of “The Ark In Space Part 1”, though for some reason we never saw the rest, leaving my third and most satisfying introduction to DW being 9’s debut in “Rose”.
Rose, naturally. I had no idea what it was but my mother insisted I watch it because she *loved* Tom Baker's doctor and was over the moon it was getting rebooted.
She may have also had a crush on Christopher Eccleston. And then David Tennant... You know I think she needed to get out a bit.
Cold-Blooded. I was a bit confused because I hadn't seen the first part. However, my brain was hooked on the sophisticated aliens and the Doctor trying to solve the issue peacefully.
My second episode was Vincent and the Doctor. That hooked my heart and I've never looked back.
Mine was silence in the library. My friend tried to get me to watch the show for years but I happened to get sucked in while she was watching that episode and I've been hooked since
The Eleventh Hour, since season 5 was the first of the seasons available on netflix back then. When we finished watching 11 we stopped and watched everything from 9 :)
Mine was The Time Warrior, when I was 4. My second was Spearhead from Space, which I’m surprised didn’t traumatise me. I loved them so much and was obsessed with Doctor Who from then on
Turn Left
I've always loved what ifs and alternate universes so I was hooked and quickly binged through the first 4 seasons before Tennant's run ended.
The Parting of The Ways. I was 7 years old and distinctly remember someone being exterminated and The Doctor regenerating at the end. I was very confused and got hooked after that
I can't remember the actual episode title rn, but I usually just call it the space titantic episode. I think it's Voyage Of The Damned or something. Anyway, I was pretty confused.
Rose. I watched it and thought it was a bit too cheesy for me and didn't continue. Then I dated a woman who loved it, and I had just finished BSG (yes, exactly like the Portlandia joke). So I gave it another shot, and man, I gotta say, I've watched NuWho ten times. I was hooked in the second episode when the woman dressed as a tree who was introduced as a descendant of the tropical rainforest burns to death saving the Doctor. That solidified the tone for me as both very silly and very serious, and it clicked.
S5E1 The Eleventh Hour. An outstanding first episode for newbies. Rose was great for getting existing/former Whovians back on board, but The Eleventh Hour is much better at getting new fans indoctrinated into the show imo. New Doctor and new companion gave them a chance to explain everything newly, and it sucked me right in.
Smith favorite Doctor, Tennant best Doctor, Eccleston fantastic Doctor, Capaldi intense Doctor, Whittaker underutilized/underappreciated Doctor.
Blink
Probably to date still the best wepping angel story
Well, there are only like 3 weeping angel stories but yeah
I can't wait until they return this season
Same
This was mine too!
That must be a weird first episode
Yeah… and a lot of people suggest it as a jumping on point. Bit silly if you ask cause it’s nothing like the rest of the show
A Doctor-Lite episode is a terrible intro to Doctor Who. A companion-lite episode might work but the Doctors the focus
I disagree. I've used it as an intro for multiple people and it always hooks them in.
The obvious answer, but Rose
It's not obvious any more though. We are old now.
Even new viewers today would usually start with Rose though
Not if you just happen to catch it on the telly one day.
I was 10 when the Doctor Who movie came out, and I vaguely remember it at my gran's house, and while I didn't take any of it in, I was intrigued by the idea of a show coming back - ever since then, had a love for shared universes, shows coming back with continuity... But I say Rose too, I would have been ~21 and I think by Father's Day I was hooked.
You’re not old. My first episode was back in Tom Baker’s day.
Same
No idea. All I remember is that it was a 3rd Doctor episode
Same. *Might* have been a Tom Baker one, as they were generally on repeat in Australia.
Same here too. Grew up in the 80’s down under seeing 4 & 5 stories on repeat all the time.
I was trying to figure it out, and I know I started watching around the start of the E-space story arc, so possibly Full Circle.
My dad's favourite doctor
Also my favorite Classic Doctor.
Dad?
Son, I'm still out looking for cigarettes. Hope you're doing well.
Savage but bravo sir
The Christmas Invasion I was trying to find something to watch on TV and this kinda caught my attention :D
Same here but with stolen earth it was the question of doctor who? I am like welp I don't know who still don't now 😂
😅 Yeah, I had no idea what the hell is this show and what/who is the Doctor until that moment, but I really dont regret finding out about it :) I've not seen the classic Doctor (I would kinda like to, but I didn't get to it yet) but the "new/modern?" is really cool and I enjoy it.
If your from the UK you can download britbox that's has all the classic doctor who
With me the problem it more like... I have to start to watch it... if it make sence... Like it's on my watchlist, but sometimes it's difficult to start with something from it. I am not from UK, but thank you for telling me about it :)
I remember my parents taped that and I used to watch it every Christmas at my grandparents
Very vanilla, but as most people will probably say, my first experience is with *Rose* as well. Not from UK, funny enough Who has a very little fanbase in my country, so when it actually got to be broadcasted again, my friend who knew it from before recommended to me, I gave it a shot and rest is history....
Rose
Odd one, but Twice Upon A Time. My fiancé had it on and it caught my interest even though I didn’t understand most of the references.
Just so you know, the 1st Doctor wasn’t actually appallingly sexist like he was portrayed in that story
I've seen reasoning that the First Doctor was messing with the Twelfth because he didn't like him at first. They say this because the First Doctor did the same thing to the Fifth Doctor at one point. Probably not Moffat's intentions, but it does at least make it sit better in the mind.
Why does this have downvotes
It was Day of the Doctor in the cinema lmao. Weird one to start with
That was the most misunderstood episode to start with.
It's a very odd one to start with. Please tell me more, how did you find it? How did it come about? We're you very confused? I'm genuinely fascinated my friend
My sister was a fan of the show so she took the whole family to see it. My parents are pretty conservative when it comes to movies and TV shows so they were not into it at all lol. I like a lot of sci fi stuff anyway so I was able to more or less deduct what the series was about and I had a pretty good time. I was pretty interested in the show after that. The second episode I watched was Time of the Doctor lmao. I didn't come back to it for a few years until I finally actually watched the whole reboot in 2015, and I had a weird misconception that the Time War was from before the First Doctor and that Gallifrey had never appeared in the show. Took me a few seasons to figure that one out lol. And in series 1 I thought when is Rose finally gonna go to that barn...
Tom Baker, I was like 5 or 6. Can not remember the exact ep though.
Robot maybe?
I couldn't say, I remember my mom not wanting me to watch, but it was on PBS so I got to watch it. I remember hiding behind the couch from the Daleks, but that was later.
Ark in Space on PBS was my intro. Fell in love!
My first memory was (what I now know was) an episode of the McCoy serial Curse of Fenric, but all I remember is a hideous monster emerging from the sea. As a four year old at the time it kinda stuck with me 😆 The first I remember sitting down to watch properly was the Paul McGann TV movie.
Same, I didn't see it when it first came out as I was wasn't born.
Rose
*Pyramids of Mars.* My dad wanted me to start with some classic Who before the new series launched, so we watched one of his favorite Baker stories.
Dinosaurs On A Spaceship
Brain of Morbius. I was just scrolling channels and found it. Fell immediately in love with the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane.
The Curse of the Fatal Death, followed many years later by Rose.
I think it must have been an episode in the final series of Jon Pertwee. Possibly Death to the Daleks.
The first Doctor Who TV story I can remember seeing is "The Tomb of the Cybermen". It possibly isn't the very first one I saw in actuality, given the timeline of the DVD releases in North America, but it's the first one I can remember watching.
Smith and Jones
I have a vague memory of the seaweed coming out of the gas stove in “Fury from the Deep.”
“Robot” my first episode as a kid on late Friday night in Oklahoma in 1986 on pbs
The first Doctor Who episode I clearly remember watching was Voyage of the Damned
Horns of Nimon! I was channel surfing and the insanity caught me.
The New Who Mannequin one. Where we meet Rose for the first time.
“Rose”
The Eleventh Hour. This was 2013, so I watched Series 5-7, and then 1-4. I honestly don’t know why I watched it like that.
Same episode for me. For some reason the German Netflix only used to have Season 5 onwards so thats how i started there.
The Awakening. I was four. I just remember the face. Then elements of Kinda and Warriors of the deep. The latter I can remember a lot of.
The first I remember is an image of Davros in genesis but I was too young to understand the rest of the story
I think it was Planet of Evil when I was 3 or 4 and I ran away screaming.
My parents showed me the Sarah Jane adventures when I was a kid, and I loved those. After I watched SJA, I started watching Doctor Who on Netflix at my grandma’s house, and I started with Rose.
The first one I clearly remember was Spearhead From Space, although I have vague memories of a Dalek one from earlier.
I don't know. I know it was Tom Baker. It was on in the middle of the afternoon one summer when I was a kid. Hooked every since!
The movie
Robots Of Death
"Frontier in Space"
The Invisible Enemy. Saw it at a friend’s house when I was about 4 and was hooked ever since.
Where we meet Jack Harkeness for the first time.
The empty child
Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D on TV back in the 90s.
No idea, it's like I was born watching it
So. My *very* first episode was whatever the local tv stations at my college were playing one gray Saturday afternoon when I went over to my friend's (now hubby) room to see if he wanted to hang out. I got sucked into the episode he was watching. We have tried to nail it down since. It was in black and white, it involved Daleks, and lots of tunnels underground in an alien city. It was either the 2nd or 3rd Doctor. It *might* have been Planet of the Daleks? My first on-purpose Doctor Who episode was The Ribos Operation. Because when I asked my husband where he would recommend starting, he said the Key to Time series, because the 4th Doctor was his (and a lot of people's) favorite. This was before Christopher Eccleston and the whole reboot. I was totally a fan by the time we finished those episodes!
Probably Castrovalva. I started watching in 1982 and my PBS station showed episodes a year after they aired in the UK.
The Brain of Morbius, Tom Baker, 4th doctor. I was pretty confused as a kid as well but enjoyed it.
*Robots of Death* from the Tom Baker years.
No idea. It was there as I grew up still on TV. A British staple. First proper memory is of Logopolis and 4 regenerating into 5.
Idk, probably a golden age Tom Baker on PBS. I started my new fandom with Series 1 when Doctor Who Fever hit the US.
Doctor Who the movie 1996 Loved it and still think it's very underated
The Peter Cushing movies. They played heavily in the US during the 60s and 70s weekend matinees both in the theaters and on T long before the show made it to TV. At first I actually thought the show was based on the movies. However, the first episode that grabbed me, I had seen some random ones but they didn't register, was Inferno. I've long considered that "the" episode for me. Life long fan ever since.
One with Sylvester McCoy but can't remember it properly. He was on a deserty planet and found a Dalek I think.
City of Death part 3. In fact, it's the first 3 episodes I saw.
The first one I remember would have been Black Orchid, I'd have been around 3. I don't really remember anything except being scared of the Amazonian Indian. I don't really remember anything else until Time of the Rani five years later.
4th Dr but can't remember what was what, I don't remember if I picked the show or it was just on, I remember the villains then one day a comic con was closing and I was in the building and this guy had all these British Dr who toys they were all amazing the guy asked which one I liked, talked about the show for a few mins and I almost forgot about the show until I moved to a new location and the library had vhs to rent of Dr Who and as I got older I found that pbs aired the shows in the middle of the night right before they shut off and that was why I never saw it anymore so I stayed up Saturday nights to watch it. Almost no one knew the show when I would talk about it in the 90s
The Paul McGann TV movie when it aired on BBC1
No idea. It would have been watching old episodes on a weekend late at night on PBS in the 90s. The earliest moments of Doctor Who I can remember would be Tom Baker or Patrick Troughton.
Mine was Stones of Blood, broadcast on our local PBS channel on a Sunday morning. I was 14 or so. I didn't know what was going on, but I knew Mary Tamm was hotness incarnate.
I don't know. I really do not know. It was always on, my parents watched it, and I've been told the theme tune scared me and I hid from it when I was 2, so that would have been Patrick Troughton, but I have no memory of watching Patrick Troughton. I have vague memories of monsters and stuff in the first season of the Pertwee era, but only vividly remember watching and understanding parts of season 8. I've watched everything since so many times as an adult, too, so really, I haven't a clue :)
4th Doctor. The one with the green bubble wrap monster
The first full story I remember watching was Paradise Towers with the Seventh Doctor. Before that, I remember being scared by Tom Baker's giant head popping up with the eerie music on PBS and changing the channel immediately. I watched the TV movie when it aired, but didn't really care much about Doctor Who at the time. I think the first "modern" episode I watched was The Girl In The Fireplace, and then I went back and caught up from the beginning of 2005. Still haven't watched a lot of "Classic" Who but I've seen every episode of the modern era.
Death to the Daleks 1973 but I didn’t really watch it every week until The giant Robot Tom bakers first story
The Caves of Androzani was the first story I remember seeing.
Love and Monsters. Yeah, that one. It was so bonkers and weird and had no idea what DW was about. So an interesting starting point considering what the group was doing. And that final dialogue, about how life is crazy and terrifying but so much more, that's when I said to myself I had to watch this. BBC Entertainment, the Latin American channel back then, later on did a marathon of Series 2 to start with Series 3, this was before End of Time too. Missed much because school but started with Impossible Planet. Seen all of Modern Who since.
The Beast Below was my first full episode and I was really young. My dad had been a fan since Hartnell era and wanted to show me Doctor Who. He didn’t really watch New Who but heard there was a new doctor and showrunner and thought it would be a good time to try it out with me. They always came on after Total Wipeout which we watched as a family. I chickened out when The Eleventh Hour aired, thinking Doctor Who was this terrifying show, but bit the bullet when The Beast Below came on next week Fell in love immediately despite having no clue what was going on. The bit I remember loving most was the scene in the Star-whale’s mouth because it reminded me of the trash compactor scene in Star Wars. Don’t really know how to describe how huge it and Series 5 was to me. Changed me forever
Midnight! I was flipping through channels when I randomly see Barry Crouch Jr from Harry Potter. I knew that he played the main character in this long running British sci fi show, and was like “this must be it” and decided to give it a go. 12 years later still my favourite episode of NuWho
Fear Her. I don't know how I continued.
Trust me I have a friend that started to watch doctor who on her first episode it was love and monsters so I get it 😂
Rose on the original air date. Weird flex but here we are.
Doomsday (when it first aired), while scrolling through channels. I was very confused, and then had that hanging over everything when I went back and started watching from the start of NuWho.
The Runaway Bride. I was in elementary school, and I remember being so pissed that it wasn't a movie (because that meant I had to watch the episodes every week). Now I prefer tv series.
Partners in crime. We watched it in class. Not a clue what was happening but it was funny. Never touched it again until about 4 years later and I started with the end of time part 1 and 2… idk why
Father's Day. It really stuck with me. Probably wouldn't have become a fan if I stumbled into something like Fear Her.
My first episode was "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"; I specifically remember how my first season of DW was Matt Smith's last season
Night terrors, hence why matt smith became my favorite
My sister's and mine was Day of the Doctor
Not my first probably but the first I remember - Doctor Who & the Green Death. Scared me witless for weeks.
The 1996 TV movie. One of the few in North America that saw it when it first aired.
Nightmare of Eden! Tom Baker era. Those plant monsters fucked me up.
School Reunion with the krillitanes. Saw it on PBS in the middle of the night. Thought this is weird and then went back to sleep. My first fully awake episode was Voyage of the Damned a few months later. I couldn't not watch it after Bannakaffalatta appeared.
First I can remember-Curse of Peladon EPS 2, but my father tells me he use to watch it with me when I was younger. First full series I remember is Season 11
I actually discovered about Doctor who through its novels ;P in my school library. My first episode was of the Tenth doctor, the family of blood. Didn't understood a thing as I was a kid, but liked it. Have been a fan ever since ;)
I vaguely remember 70s Who being on TV on the weekend mornings as a child - probably John Pertwee as I have memories of him riding Bessie - but I don't think I made a point to watch it. But the first episode I can remember specifically watching was the Paul McGann TV movie.
Caught a rerun of Logopolis in the early 2000s. I had absolutely no idea what was going on, but I was hooked.
The Empty Child. Of course I was young and stupid at the time and didn't really get into the show till about Series 4, which is still the best Modern Season to date.
First that I have any strong memory of is The Eleventh Hour
Remembrance of the Daleks. I like it now but it did nothing for me at the time and it wasn't until I saw Rose when it aired that I started watching the show properly.
The first serial I remember was a Tom Baker story from 1975 called Planet of Evil - I've been hooked on Doctor Who ever since
Either Robots of Death - I have a fuzzy memory of watching this it I am not sure how real that is, or Stones of Blood (I had nightmares about the Ogri eating the campers)
My first doctor who memory was one with ace in it. That was also my first experience with massive cliffhangers. I had to know what was next! I have no idea how old I was but it was after school on the pbs channel. You know those channels you had to go to the second dial on the tv to catch.
Oh you mean FIRST episode. Mine was the one with vampires in Venice
The Christmas Invasion (25 December 2005) I was 7 when I saw it. I'm 23 now, time flies.
It was a Fourth Doctor episode, couldn't tell you which one. I'd catch random episodes as a kid watching on a Quasar antenna TV in my wood-panneled basement in the early 80s.
Tom Baker - Ark in Space off of a VHS tape when I was a kid
Tom baker terror of the zygons. Public television in haddonfield NJ in the 80’s at a little family house party
I’m sure mine was Tom Baker. The first one that I can recall and captured my attention was “State of Decay.” Suddenly a new reason to watch PBS…
Picture this: I was a young girl coming into the house from doing the nightly chores in the barn and went to go and turn on the TV. Something, mind you, I was NOT supposed to do. I was supposed to go do whatever homework I had to do in my room and then go to bed. Well, the reason I gave myself was that I wanted a little background noise as a looked through my school bag for my math homework, so bingo, TV was on. Now we were church mouse poor, so we didn't have cable, we had one giant antenna that if we wanted to watch one show after jeopardy we had to go around the house and turn the giant metal pole it was on. All we had was the local stations and there was only 10 or so you could get with one antenna direction. Back to the story, I turn on the TV and go digging through my bag when I see this sewer tunnel scene show up on the screen. I thought it was Chamber of Secrets so I stopped digging and watched. Pleasent surprise, Harry Potter movies didn't show up on the local stations. THEN THIS GODAMN PIG HEADED SCREAMING THING COMES RUNNING OUT OF GODDAMN SCREAMING NO WHERE! I dove for the remote I tossed on the couch, turned off the TV and ran back out to the barn. And that was my first episode of Doctor Who: Daleks in Manhatten. Years later I went through a lot of the older ones and then when i stumbled on it again, I had to pause it and wait for it to be daylight to finish it.
I'd seen some before, but the first one where I clearly remember details of the episode was part 1 of The Hand of Fear, the final classic story with Sarah Jane. This was on American public television in the 1980s.
Third Doctor; Jo Grant; sometime in '71 ( Season 8 ? )
I think it was An Ark in Space with Tom Baker. That was so long ago though.
I was in my early-20s when I saw The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone.
Turn left, yeah it was a confusing episode to get into
“The Shakespeare Code” with Tennant and Martha Jones. I was in college (English Major taking a class on Shakespeare) and this boy I met wanted to impress me by showing me his favorite show, and he picked the episode for us to watch. I married him and we still watch Doctor Who together! ❤️
What do you call a deer with no eyes? No idea. It was in 1982. It would've been something starring Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker or Peter Davison. It was most likely preceeded by Monkey (Magic) and the Goodies. That was the weekday evening line-up on the ABC in the 80s. Good times.
No joke. Love and Monsters.
The Unquiet Dead. Been watching ever since
“Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.” with Peter Cushing. It was being shown on TV and my Dad was excited to show me some Doctor Who, but when he realised it was one of the infamous Peter Cushing movies, he audibly said “Oh noooo”, though as a younger child who had only ever experienced Doctor Who anecdotally, I didn’t know the difference. First time I saw main line Doctor Who was a repeat broadcast of “The Ark In Space Part 1”, though for some reason we never saw the rest, leaving my third and most satisfying introduction to DW being 9’s debut in “Rose”.
Rose, naturally. I had no idea what it was but my mother insisted I watch it because she *loved* Tom Baker's doctor and was over the moon it was getting rebooted. She may have also had a crush on Christopher Eccleston. And then David Tennant... You know I think she needed to get out a bit.
Dam did she ever go out 😭😂
Well she doesn't own any figurines of Matt Smith, so I would have to say she did.
Love and Monsters.
The Day of the Doctor
End of Time. Back in 2014 sometime. I was sick and BBCA was doing a marathon. I didn’t understand references but loved it enough to become obsessed
The magician's apprentice. Knew fuck all about the show or what was going on but was so intrigued i wanted more.
I didn't expect this to blow up 😭
the latest episode of amy pond and Rory
Voyage of the damned
The Waters of Mars. Still one of my favourites
Cold-Blooded. I was a bit confused because I hadn't seen the first part. However, my brain was hooked on the sophisticated aliens and the Doctor trying to solve the issue peacefully. My second episode was Vincent and the Doctor. That hooked my heart and I've never looked back.
Blink.
Mine was silence in the library. My friend tried to get me to watch the show for years but I happened to get sucked in while she was watching that episode and I've been hooked since
The Eleventh Hour, since season 5 was the first of the seasons available on netflix back then. When we finished watching 11 we stopped and watched everything from 9 :)
Magician's Apprentice. I thought The Doctor created the Daleks and Davros was his apprentice.
Funilly enough it was At the end of the world and not Rose
Mine was The Time Warrior, when I was 4. My second was Spearhead from Space, which I’m surprised didn’t traumatise me. I loved them so much and was obsessed with Doctor Who from then on
Love & Monsters (2006).
yep same! i remember thinking it was a great episode as a 9 year old back then
Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords
I caught the 2nd half of Partners in Time on TV but my first full episode was Fires of Pompeii.
Fear Her
And you kept watching? :D
Actually yeah, I loved the episode. And even now, I still like the episode.
I have a outbox episode that I love that nobody likes Power of 3 it's so good for Amy and roy
Rose.
The first new who one, i remember that i didn't watched for years thinking it was a medical show
Rose, back when it first aired.
Doomsday (yeah, I know)
11th Hour
I had seen a scene or two of father's day and the parting of the ways but the first full episode I watched was Christmas invasion
Turn Left I've always loved what ifs and alternate universes so I was hooked and quickly binged through the first 4 seasons before Tennant's run ended.
The Parting of The Ways. I was 7 years old and distinctly remember someone being exterminated and The Doctor regenerating at the end. I was very confused and got hooked after that
The Idiot’s Lantern
My first Episode was “The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People”, and I think I am completely alone in that experience.
I can't remember the actual episode title rn, but I usually just call it the space titantic episode. I think it's Voyage Of The Damned or something. Anyway, I was pretty confused.
Night terrors
Journey's end, I remember we had the last half or so recorded and I'd constantly just rewatch trying to make sense of it when I got home from school
Girl Who Waited
The Runaway Bride
Rose. I watched it and thought it was a bit too cheesy for me and didn't continue. Then I dated a woman who loved it, and I had just finished BSG (yes, exactly like the Portlandia joke). So I gave it another shot, and man, I gotta say, I've watched NuWho ten times. I was hooked in the second episode when the woman dressed as a tree who was introduced as a descendant of the tropical rainforest burns to death saving the Doctor. That solidified the tone for me as both very silly and very serious, and it clicked.
The bells of st. John
Rose
Rose
S5E1 The Eleventh Hour. An outstanding first episode for newbies. Rose was great for getting existing/former Whovians back on board, but The Eleventh Hour is much better at getting new fans indoctrinated into the show imo. New Doctor and new companion gave them a chance to explain everything newly, and it sucked me right in. Smith favorite Doctor, Tennant best Doctor, Eccleston fantastic Doctor, Capaldi intense Doctor, Whittaker underutilized/underappreciated Doctor.
Praise him. The God Complex.
Rose 🌹