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For all of you NOT familiar with Doctor Who, the original classic series ran on the BBC from 1963 to 1989. Yes, you read that right that's 26 years, which is a world record for a SF program. In the original run seven actors played the Doctor through the years, and there were dozens of companions (both male and female, mostly from Earth, but some that were alien). The format of the original series during most of the series was half-hour episodes, with several episodes making a complete story. Stories ranged from two to twelve episodes long (the now lost "Dalek's Master-plan"), however the most common length was four episodes (which creates an hour and a half-length story, about the same length as most movies). Doctor Who was famous for it's cliff-hanger endings for the individual episodes that made up a complete story.
In the US, Doctor Who ran in two formats - daily "stripped" format with one half-hour episode airing each day. This format is preferred by fans because it's the original format of the show, tho' in the UK the show only aired one episode weekly (or bi-weekly during the Davison years). However, there was another format, movie format, where the individual episodes of a story were edited together and shown all at once. Long stories (anything over 6 parts) were split in half. Anyway, my local PBS station ran the show in movie format on Saturdays at 4pm, and that's how I saw it for the most part. However, the very first time I saw DW, as a young child was in "stripped" format on a different PBS station that I was able to watch at my folks cottage. Overall, I preferred "stripped format" but actually saw the show in movie format.
Anyways, on DVD, the DW Restoration Team has been working on restoring the episodes, and releasing them on DVD with lots of extra features (sometimes even including 2 discs for a release). So, the releases are like movies, and they do skip around, tho' on the disc itself it's episode format - and you have the option of watching straight through with title sequences and cliffhangers (play all function) or choosing the episode you want to watch (e.g. ep 1 of "Logopolis", ep. 2, etc) and they skip around in the releases the Restoration Team makes, trying to please everyone (who like different "eras"/Doctors)
Here's the list of episodes/stories that I have on DVD:
Doctor Who (Story # 1) An Unearthly Child
Doctor Who (Story # 2) The Daleks
Doctor Who (Story # 3) Edge of Destruction
Doctor Who (Story # 6) The Aztecs
Doctor Who (Story # 10) Dalek Invasion of Earth, The
Doctor Who (Story # 13) The Web Planet
Doctor Who (Story # 37) The Tomb of the Cybermen
Doctor Who (Story # 45) The Mind Robber
Doctor Who (Story # 46) The Invasion
Doctor Who (Story # 48) The Seeds of Death
Doctor Who (Story # 51) Spearhead from Space
Doctor Who (Story # 54) Inferno
Doctor Who (Story # 57) The Claws of Axos
Doctor Who (Story # 65) The Three Doctors
Doctor Who (Story # 66) Carnival of Monsters
Doctor Who (Story # 69) The Green Death
Doctor Who (Story # 75) Robot
Doctor Who (Story # 76) The Ark in Space
Doctor Who (Story # 77) The Sontaran Experiment
Doctor Who (Story # 78) Genesis of the Daleks
Doctor Who (Story # 81) Planet of Evil
Doctor Who (Story # 82) Pyramids of Mars
Doctor Who (Story # 87) The Hand of Fear
Doctor Who (Story # 90) The Robots of Death
Doctor Who (Story # 91) The Talons of Weng Chiang
Doctor Who (Story # 92) Horror of Fang Rock
Doctor Who (Story # 98) The Ribos Operation
Doctor Who (Story # 99) The Pirate Planet
Doctor Who (Story # 100) The Stones of Blood
Doctor Who (Story # 101) The Andriods of Tara
Doctor Who (Story # 102) The Power of Kroll
Doctor Who (Story # 103) The Armageddon Factor
Doctor Who (Story # 104) Destiny of the Daleks
Doctor Who (Story # 105) City of Death
Doctor Who (Story # 110) The Leisure Hive
Doctor Who (Story # 115) The Keeper of Traken
Doctor Who (Story # 116) Logopolis
Doctor Who (Story # 117) Castrovalva
Doctor Who (story # 120) The Visitation
Doctor Who (Story # 122) Earthshock
Doctor Who (Story # 123) Time-Flight
Doctor Who (Story # 124) Arc of Infinity
Doctor Who (Story # 130) The Five Doctors: Sp. Ed.
Doctor Who (Story # 134) Resurrection of the Daleks
Doctor Who (Story # 136) The Caves of Androzani
Doctor Who(Story # 139) Vengeance on Varos
Doctor Who (Story # 140) The Mark of the Rani
Doctor Who (Story # 141) The Two Doctors
Doctor Who (Story # 143) Revelation of the Daleks
Doctor Who (Story # 152) Remembrance of the Daleks
Doctor Who (Story # 157) Ghost-Light
Doctor Who (Story # 158) The Curse of Fenric
Doctor Who (Story # 159) Survival
