Watched it from the very first episode up until Tom Baker, lost track after that, partly due to having a Saturday job, and getting home too late, and partly because it just became a bit of a joke, Peter Davidson, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy just lacked that ‘something’ the character needed. Having a Director General at the Beeb who hated it didn’t help, either.
Chuffed when it came back, with people who actually cared about it, and wrote decent storylines, got good actors to appear in it, and finally it had a budget that enabled it to have the SFX needed to get it away from the shonky wobbly studio sets and a quarry in Surrey, or wherever.
Really looking forward to tonight. 😀