Where I would write down the winning numbers on both the Powerball and Megamillions...

And then come back to today and buy the winning tickets and cash in around $600M

I would then take the resulting $250M (after tax and cash value) and use that money to help flip congress back to Democratic control this year.

traitors in the House.

I talk to Comey and show him the future, he immediately tosses the email in the scrap heap of history.

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Blackadder builds a replica of Davinci's time machine and we can guess where that goes.

Cameos by Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Amanda Richardson, and a host of others.

It's what they expect of you when you "borrow" a tardis.

Though it does seem as though a part of our citizenry has developed a Cyberman mentality...just without the fancy metal skins

They have an emotion inhibitor (like Cybermen), and they are mutated, nasty, tentacled things. tRump is the emperor Dalek and Putin must be Davros.

Roger Delgado was the best master.

That was from the time when the BBC relied heavily on acting skills instead of special effects. Remember how the original Master went around turning people into little dolls?

Delgado was certainly excellent and sadly died in a car accident.

The beards make them look similar, but yes I was thinking of the Baker era Master. I am most familiar with Baker. I do remember quite a lot of Pertwee, though. Maybe I just never realized that was different actor. That's embarrassing!

Anthony Ainley was excellent as the master. And I believe he went beyond the Baker era.

It said that a major reason he quit being the Dr. was Delgado's death.

Also Pertwee was a bit of a curmudgeon about Doctor Who. It was just a job to him so he was not so fond of all the brough ha ha and fandom. Yet he was really a very good precursor to Baker. It was Baker who made the show in the US and I believe made it an international success in the end.

I have on video virtually all the episodes shown in Denver over he years. Even though the quality is uneven it still is watchable. Though I have not had time to watch it. It would take months to go back through those episodes.

Originally Dr. Who came in 25 minute cliff hanging episodes. The story "Battlefield" during the Troughton era. It was 10 episodes long. And it has survived the sell of many of the original films.

Did Pertwee set the stage for Baker? Hartnell was certainly not the Doctor we all know and love. He was snippy, did not dress the part, and he had disdain for humans. Troughton was amiable, but he was also a little too goofy (a recorder, really?) to take seriously. Pertwee, on the other hand, was eccentric in a lovable way, had some gadgets (like his car), yet he was also obviously super intelligent.

Like I said, I'm more familiar with Baker. That's who I grew up watching. In later years, I went back and watched the other Doctors, so I have a feel for their characters. It seems like Pertwee was the first fully fleshed out Doctor, like the BBC got the mixture of eccentricity, gadgets, intelligence, and even companions correct. Then they applied that formula to Baker.

That's not to slight Baker! His acting is superb. When they brought him back for an episode a couple seasons ago, I got all giddy. I almost jumped out of my seat.

Up until the Peter Davison era the Doctor's companions survived to move on in another life after their time even though they faced mortal danger time after time. . It was during the Davison era that a companion was killed off. After that companions perished. Perry was another who was killed of during the Colin Baker era.

What made the series was the idea of reincarnation as another doctor. Thankfully they solved the problem with Harnell being sick by coming up with this solution. That fact has kept the series fresh in a way and allow the writers to freshen things up or go in new directions. Many series dies because a key characters leaves for some reason.

Baker is still my favorite because he remained fresh through all his 7 years. There was always and element of humor and brightness during that time.

In the new series after revival the Doctor is much more imperfect and darker. It is more realism. And it is different from the earlier period where the series kind of made fun of itself that after it was just a science fiction show.

In the end each actor brought his own unique personality to the part. Now we will see how the new female doctor works out.

I seem to remember something about the Cybermen. He used his gold star to stop one, and we thought he was going to make it, but then he had to stay with the ship as it crashed.

However, remember that Tegan's aunt was turned into a doll (killed) by the Master the first time we met her. I believe that was still Baker. So not really a companion but close.

The end of Baker signaled a turn in the Doctor. Baker was sort of impish and played at humor with he bad guys. Starting with Davison the doctors became more vulnerable and even human in some ways. More flaws appeared in the doctor. There was no self doubting.

The new era of the Doctor we see a more self questioning Doctor and one more closely involved with his companions in an intimate way. The David Tenant era advanced personal involvement more. In Capaldi we have amore flawed Doctor who is more guilt ridden than any of the rest.

The new era of the Doctor after its restart is more realistic in keeping with a younger generation of Whovians. In some ways the new rendition of Dr Who is more adult oriented than in the past.

We can only imagine what the new female Doctor will reveal. As always Dr. Who continues to evolve like it always have.

the reasons for Pertwee quitting if you read Elizabeth Sladen's autobiography. From that account, it sounds like he didn't really want to quit so much as he just wanted a raise.

It's an interesting read, that I would highly recommend.

I was watching Doctor Who from the same PBS station as you (in Boulder) during the 80's.

The Troughton serial was called "Wargames" BTW. "Battlefield" was from the McCoy era.

I apologize for the geekiness.

I might have "Battlefield" in my video library. McCoy was enjoyable and I have a lot of his time but most likely not all of it. Int was unevenly played in Denver. I am not sure all of it was played here near the end of the series at that time.

The director of the BBC at that time did not like Dr. Who and the direction it was going. So he cancelled it at the end of the McCoy era. Also McCoy was a counter balance to the acerbic Colin Baker era.

In the end I still believe Baker was the best Doctor for the time. PBS playing his episodes in the US is what got things really started in the US. Davison was also key. And I had a chance to meet Davison in Denver at a Dr. Who convention years ago.

The series can go on for a lot longer. It is now one of the most profitable shows at BBC.

I remember him mostly in the Davison era.

Every time I've messed with time, things have turned out worse.

I hate to say it, but this may be the best of all possible worlds.

I shudder to think of the other possibilities.

So I'd leave the planet and go back and forth through time to see if life has or will start on any other planets.

the Marx Brothers testing their material on stage. And Harpo playing the character Banjo (which was based on Harpo) in the Los Angeles stage version of The Man Who Came to Dinner.

1. I would get to see the next solar eclipse.
2. I would know what happens to the United States.

Anyone who sees the later Matt Smith episodes are scary because the angels sneak up on you when you are not looking like the GOP does. They sneak around and screw people.

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And remember, any representation of a weeping angel is, itself, a weeping angel.




Just don't blink!!!!

I would like to see some living dinosaurs in their habitat doing what they did.

I have no illusions about the deprivations, bigotry and cruelty of general conditions in the past. I'd like to visit early America, Angkor Wat in its heyday, the Pyramids in Egypt when they had their limestone cladding, the Parthenon when it was new, Rome in the Augustan age, etc. But I wouldn't imagine staying long in any of those places or times to be a good option.

Realistically, if I had one trip, I'd probably be greedy. I'd go back ten or twenty years, knowing what I know about the markets, and make enough good choices to have enough money to be better set now, to have to capacity to come into current times and make some kind of difference. Unrealistic, I suppose, as there is plenty of well-meaning money that hasn't made a great deal of difference, and money tends to corrupt anyway. I'm ok with trying to be my best with what I have and who I ma.

And the basic understanding of our basic humanity made everything worse; the best of cultures was still capable of horrible atrocities upon others they could not see any part of themselves in.

Just saying for Vonnegut fans.

Our Dear Leader's birthday and keep his parents from being together (if you get my drift) by (nearly) any means necessary.

Other possibilities include having a serious talk with Comey prior to Nov. 2016.

Going into the future to win a Powerball lottery and then go into the past to influence the 2016 election in WI, PA and MI. Or just go into the past and do the same but I didn't want to change something that has already happened so to speak.

Go back about 70 years to see my father play basketball as a young man (he was good), to see how he did as a soldier in WW2, and to see him and my mother when they were first dating.

... except when it comes to lining his pockets.

For some of the more interesting chapters in the history of life on Earth. I want to see the earliest tetrapods, the early mammal like reptiles. And I want to see the microraptors.

Also other planets in other star systems that don't have humans on them.

I'm pretty sure that it's against the rules to try to alter history, so none of that.

I am sure modern interpretation would have them scratching their collective heads...

Sunday, 1 August 1971, Madison Square Garden.
To see that live?
Absolutely my first stop.