This happens. Now, I saw far more of Dr Who than you did, even just counting from when you apparently started watching (I was 14 when An Unearthly Child was first broadcast and, indeed, saw, and was annoyed by, the repeat the following Saturday) but was not and still am not an active fan, and I loathed Tom Baker himself. However, my brother was, and is, a Who fan.
When you are a child you are dependent on your parents and, until the advent of VCRs, family agreement in what you watch. So, while I saw most of The Man From UNCLE (which everyone liked) most of the first season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - the first series I was obsessed by - I only saw the last forty minutes because we were watching The Dakotas or Temple Houston both of which were favourites of my younger brother and which, as cowboy series, my father also liked, and which overlapped.
And, of course, unlike the States, there were few reruns, and if a programme was not repeated in two years, it was not likely to be, for financial reasons.
This does not mean that Who wasn't your first fandom, just that you were constrained by circumstance, as are we all.
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Date: 2013-03-04 06:05 am (UTC)This happens. Now, I saw far more of Dr Who than you did, even just counting from when you apparently started watching (I was 14 when An Unearthly Child was first broadcast and, indeed, saw, and was annoyed by, the repeat the following Saturday) but was not and still am not an active fan, and I loathed Tom Baker himself. However, my brother was, and is, a Who fan.
When you are a child you are dependent on your parents and, until the advent of VCRs, family agreement in what you watch. So, while I saw most of The Man From UNCLE (which everyone liked) most of the first season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - the first series I was obsessed by - I only saw the last forty minutes because we were watching The Dakotas or Temple Houston both of which were favourites of my younger brother and which, as cowboy series, my father also liked, and which overlapped.
And, of course, unlike the States, there were few reruns, and if a programme was not repeated in two years, it was not likely to be, for financial reasons.
This does not mean that Who wasn't your first fandom, just that you were constrained by circumstance, as are we all.