{"id":1830,"date":"2010-04-03T17:33:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T16:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2010-04-03T17:33:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T16:33:06","slug":"the-saturday-list-my-doctor-who-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2010\/04\/03\/the-saturday-list-my-doctor-who-firsts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Saturday List: My Doctor Who firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What with the new series starting IN LESS THAN AN HOUR I thought I should write something <em>Doctor Who<\/em> themed today. Bit stream of consciousness this list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First new TV story I saw: possibly <em>Time and the Rani<\/em> (I think can remember the giant brain) but if not then certainly something from season 25<\/li>\n<li>First novelisation I read: <em>The Daemons<\/em><\/li>\n<li>First VHS I saw: probably <em>Death to the Daleks<\/em> (with <em>Pyramids of Mars<\/em> and <em>Spearhead from Space<\/em> around the same time)<\/li>\n<li>First new TV story I saw as a self-defined fan: <em>Dimensions in Time<\/em>. Ho hum.<\/li>\n<li>First novelisation I read: <em>The Daemons<\/em> by Barry Letts<\/li>\n<li>First New Adventure I read: <em>Nightshade<\/em> by Mark Gatiss<\/li>\n<li>First issue of <em>Doctor Who Magazine<\/em> I bought: don&#8217;t know the number but was probably around 1993 and had Sylvester McCoy in <em>The Greatest Show in the Galaxy<\/em> on the cover. I bought it from a small newsagent at the edge of the pedestrianised shopping precinct in Tunbridge Wells.<\/li>\n<li><em>First VHS I bought: <\/em><em>The Keeper of Traken<\/em>, at the end of 1992. Also bought in Tunbridge Wells, in the WH Smith in the Victoria centre. What useless things we remember.<\/li>\n<li>First convention I went to: Blue Box III in Southampton in 1994.<\/li>\n<li>First Doctor who&#8217;s younger than me: Matt Smith.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What with the new series starting IN LESS THAN AN HOUR I thought I should write something Doctor Who themed today. 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