One of the best sets of BBC Scifi ever was Quatermass, possibly the best ever.
And that had the tiniest fx budget ever, but they were proper scary.
Similarly Doomwatch if you ignored the rubber rats and papier mache chickens, is easily scarier and darker than the X files.
If only we could recapture that dark sensibility with some modern CGI.
We'd ruddy rule the world of TV scifi.
Ever seems to be my word for today.
And Day of the Triffids. Rubbish rubber triffids yet a cracking show.
Triffids I think were actually quite scary. But that was the noise, the angles they were shot from. I saw it when I was 10 and it was proper rubber sheets stuff.
Of course all this 'oh they did it better back then' stuff might be slightly coloured by the fact you were little kids and scared easier.
I saw Quatermass when I was 24 it was one of the first shows on the BBC.
Cheaky young whippersnapper.
Quote: zooo @ August 26 2008, 12:12 PM BSTOf course all this 'oh they did it better back then' stuff might be slightly coloured by the fact you were little kids and scared easier.
zooo, I agree with you that the current Doctor Who is better than the old ones. We do tend to look back at the old Doctors with rose tinted spectacles, turning a blind eye to the lumpen pacing and often atrocious acting. The new DW wins hands down.
Quote: zooo @ August 26 2008, 12:12 PM BSTOf course all this 'oh they did it better back then' stuff might be slightly coloured by the fact you were little kids and scared easier.
Yup, and you only remember the good stuff like Quartermass and not the crap stuff.
Indeed. Just like me and the 80s.
Quote: sootyj @ August 26 2008, 12:17 PM BSTI saw Quatermass when I was 24 it was one of the first shows on the BBC.
Cheaky young whippersnapper.
What are you, 100?
Quote: chipolata @ August 26 2008, 12:17 PM BSTzooo, I agree with you that the current Doctor Who is better than the old ones. We do tend to look back at the old Doctors with rose tinted spectacles, turning a blind eye to the lumpen pacing and often atrocious acting. The new DW wins hands down.
I heart you chip. At least for the next five minutes.
Quote: zooo @ August 26 2008, 12:20 PM BSTI heart you chip. At least for the next five minutes.
Make it three minutes. I thrive on animosity. 
Awesome. Time's almost up then!
Quote: chipolata @ August 26 2008, 12:17 PM BSTzooo, I agree with you that the current Doctor Who is better than the old ones. We do tend to look back at the old Doctors with rose tinted spectacles, turning a blind eye to the lumpen pacing and often atrocious acting. The new DW wins hands down.
No way. Watch Caves of Androzani, Talons of Weng-Chiang, City of Death, early Tom Baker. All marvellous stuff.
It's more that there's tonnes of stuff so it's easy to pick and mix across the eras to find the best stuff.
It's easy to get frustrated with new Who as for the first time in years it seems to have a decent budget. So one is less forgiving when it's not good.
Part the reason I liked Ecclestone's run was it was modern FX, with a tight budget. Meaning that for the most part it had to be clever and cerebral.
I even liked those crappy robots in the penultimate episode.
There is some great old stuff. But it's not as good (to me) as the great new stuff. Nowhere near.
Some of the great old stuff is leagues better than some of the naff new stuff though. Errol Flynn is yet to be bettered as Robin Hood after all.
Pff.
The cartoon fox is the best Robin Hood and you know it.