Tom Baker was mine. It's a decent story with lots of action, many reoccurring themes, and good for family viewing. There are several spin offs. Torchwood was pointed to a more mature audience with an X-Files feeling. I found some of the modern romance parings a little uncomfortable, but I'm old school that way. Sarah Jane Adventures is after school fare for younger audiences. I haven't watch these yet. Might binge them one rainy weekend.
Mine was Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, but mainly Tom. As to Torchwood , I too, am old fashion and politically incorrect in thoughts. part of the reason I don't watch tv now.
Cutting the Cable is a thing. With broadband internet and a few minutes of googling I can watch most any TV series or movie that's been digitized. No commercials, pause & rewind, captioned. Some time ago I purchaded a one terabyte external hard drive. It gets used less often since everything is on demand and easy.
I know this is off topic of the thread, but your comment about the 1TB external hard drive made me think just how much that kind of thing has gone down in price. A drive like that used to be few and far between. But now there not that pricey and are way more common
Well I say I don't watch tv, but actually I only watch reruns and old movies. I cut the cable alright ..... I mainly use antenna (mounted on my apt deck). On a rare (holidays) times, I splurged and get Netflix or Pureflix.
good old netflix and u tube though my old xbox..not interested in paying for commercials..biggest con on the planet..
Matt Smith was my first Doctor and I really enjoyed his run, Britbox has all the classic who episodes and reconstructions/missing audio and so far I have enjoyed them all. (Newest Doctor has poor writing IMO)
I watched All in The Family as a kid, and I thought it was funny. I watch the shows as an adult, and they take on a whole different meaning. I still love them. Thinking about Carroll O'Connor, I also enjoy Heat of the Night. I'm also a fan of anything with Andy Griffith playing in it...The Andy Griffith Show and Matlock are favorites. As far as talk shows, The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson was classic. I love to catch the re-runs on YouTube.
After hearing about the weird and unusual off stage life of Bob Crane I just can't separate the two and just watch the show.
It bothered me at first, but the shenanigans that other actors and musicians pull it makes him look tame.
When the TV show was airing weekly, I liked watching it. I thought it was just clean and funny. "Friends"
From my youth, The Bugs bunny Show and The Flintstones. Hogan's Heroes took on new meaning for me when I learned that most of the actors who played the Germans (and one who played a prisoner) were Jewish war refugees or concentration camp survivors.
I also enjoy Perry Mason and Equalizer Stingray was also an interesting show ..... unfortunately it didn't last long.
Regarding Hogan’s Heroes, I was young and thought it was funny. However, here is another take on the show. One of my uncles who was in very heavy fighting in Europe during WWII, including the Battle of the Bulge, didn’t like it at all. He saw the German military in a very different light. He said that show made the German army out to be fools, when they were a fighting machine and anything but fools. He knew what it was like to fight the German army, saw many of his fellow soldiers fall in battle to them, and he could never see it for the comedy.
That viewpoint is quite understandable. The other side of it is that of the actors who were Jewish refugees and camp survivors. Obviously they too, knew how dangerous the Germans were, but this was their way of saying "Ha! We're still here and you're not." The actor who played Colonel Klink (Werner Klemerer) had a stipulation in his contract that they were never allowed to write an episode in which the Germans came out on top.
I just finishes watching the entire series of Magnum P.I., after several months of spare time watching. Great series.