Toys and Games

[Stephen]

Just watched a couple of videos of toys I used to own!

Denys Fisher TARDIS and Doctor Who
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I can still remember that lovely, new, plasticky smell of the TARDIS. As for being able to make the Doctor dematerialise, it was almost like magic (although I eventually realised how it worked!)

Palitoy Dalek
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I'm pretty sure I must have got this before I ever saw a Dalek on television, because when I finally did I was rather disappointed! Why aren't they red??

[Rob Houghton]

I had the Pallitoy Dalek just the same as that one. I think some Daleks were red in the early days...?

[Anita Bensoussane]

The TARDIS and Doctor Who look great, Stephen. Tom Baker was the Doctor Who of my childhood.

As children, my sister and I received a Hornby railway set one year - perhaps about 1978, I think. In the run-up to Christmas I walked in on my dad, who was sticking green patches of felt on a large board, and asked what he was doing. He said he was making a map for a display at work - but unbeknown to me he was actually making a board for the Hornby set! It was a complete surprise and my sister and I were thrilled to open it. We got years of play out of it. Our parents may have been swayed by the following advert (starring Bernard Cribbins), which my sister and I used to love watching:

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[pete9012S]

I had the Pallitoy Dalek just the same as that one. I think some Daleks were red in the early days...?

I had completely forgotten these toys!

My brother Mike and I had The Tardis and The Doctor Who figure - I seem to remember his scarf was extremely long and my Mum or Nan knitted him an even longer one.

He was bigger than our Action Man figures ( i think) as was our Steve Austin doll!
For some reason we never had the Dalek!!

[Boatbuilder]

My brother Mike and I had The Tardis and The Doctor Who figure - I seem to remember his scarf was extremely long and my Mum or Nan knitted him an even longer one.

That must have been the 4th Dr Who based on the role played by Tom Baker who wore the long scarf (1974-81).

[pete9012S]

The Doctor's each had their own idiosyncratic style of natty attire!
For more info on the best Doctor Who ever, see the thread below:

It seems to be universally excepted amongst the die hards that it was Tom's namesake Colin Baker who was the Best Dr Who of all time - even though he only played the Dr between 1984-86.

https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/for ... er#p249273" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Rob Houghton]

For me the best Doctor Who was unarguably TOM BAKER TOM BAKER TOM BAKER!! Every time.

He played The Doctor longer than anyone else...practically through most of my childhood!

I also had the Steve Austin doll as a kid. Still have it somewhere, minus clothes and arms! I loved it, with its bionic arm and bionic eye and the roll-back skin showing all the electronics!

[pete9012S]

I grew up in that strange generation that had both Jon Pertwee & Tom Baker, Sean Connery & Roger Moore, Eileen Soper & Betty Maxey...

I guess that's why I am so open minded/strange - (choose appropriate adjective/noun/ subversive conjunctive!)

* Continues on to himself'...

Morecambe & Wise and The Two Ronnies, Blue Peter & Magpie, The Protectors & The Persuaders, Thunderbirds & Stingray, Camberwick Green, Trumpton & Chigley...*

[Stephen]

I had the Pallitoy Dalek just the same as that one. I think some Daleks were red in the early days...?

My understanding was that in the television series, they were greyish silver with light blue livery (which contrasted better on black and white TV) in the 60s, and grey with black livery in the 70s (apart from one story where they're more of a silvery white).

But there is a red one in one of the Peter Cushing films, and I think it looks absolutely stunning!

[Rob Houghton]

There was a red Dalek 'ride' at an amusement park on the caravan site we always went to in the 1970's at Taly-Bont near Barmouth. I remember it well as a child. You sat in it and it went round and spoke phrases like 'exterminate!!' - it was red and black so maybe I've been swayed by that memory!

[pete9012S]

This thread reminded me that I was bought the 1976 Doctor Who annual.
Anyone else get that? I was only about seven or eight when I received it and I admit I found some parts of it a little scary!!

Here is the Jon Pertwee 1975 annual:



Sadly, my original Doctor Who 1976 annual has not survived the passage of time, but I do have the Doctor Who annuals in electronic cbr reader format from 1966 - 1986.


Strangely, my Star Trek annual bought for me Xmas 1974 has survived and is in my bookcase. It was bought for me when I was about six years old and I still really enjoy reading it from time to time.

I have heaps of this era Star Trek annuals and comics in electronic format too.

[Rob Houghton]

Sadly, I never had a Dr Who annual - I'd have loved them as an adult, I think, but as a child in the 1970's (being only 5 in 1976) I was more into Jack and Jill annual and Rupert annuals. Later I progressed to Beano, Whoopee, Buster, Whizzer and Chips and also Scooby Doo and The Muppet Show annuals but for some reason rarely had any annuals based on British TV shows, apart from the Blue Peter Annual which I had for about 10 years from around 1980. .