purplecat: The Tardis against a sunset (or possibly sunrise) (Doctor Who)
purplecat ([personal profile] purplecat) wrote2017-04-01 11:31 am
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The Web of Fear





This was one of the first novelisations I ever bought (though I already had The Abominable Snowman - IIRC I bought this one because I recognised the yeti on the cover) and it completely terrified me. I seem to recall setting it aside because I couldn't continue it, and eventually got through it by reading backwards from the end in chunks.

It doesn't seem that scary these days.
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purplecat: The Tardis against a sunset (or possibly sunrise) (Doctor Who)

[personal profile] purplecat 2017-04-02 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
My family were watching Doctor Who when I was very little so I almost saw it before I remember anything - my first memory is from Invasion of the Dinosaurs and my next from Planet of Evil - but I'm told that, age 4, I had strong opinions about the unsuitability of Tom Baker to play the Doctor.

[identity profile] daniel-saunders.livejournal.com 2017-04-02 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
My parents drifted away during the McCoy years, which explains my lack of exposure to it! My Mum and my Grandma took me to a Doctor Who exhibition when I was about seven (at the Museum of the Moving Image) which whetted my appetite and indicate that this programme was strange and wonderful as much as frightening. When there were some repeats on BBC 2 a year or so later, I was hooked.
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