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Would this make a good poll?
Let's face it, many of the Dr Who monsters were fairly silly (the very silliest ones appeared only once, for obvious reasons, but people watch the repeats, so maybe have seen them!).
Candidates might be:
The Daleks (couldn't go up stairs, although they managed it later on).
Some monsters were actors wearing heavy costumes (cybermen, soltarans, silurians etc), so they could only move slowly. You could "escape" from these by just walking away!
The Green Death (bubble bath foam with rubber bits in it!).
The Robot (Tom Baker Era) which had identity crisis, then started growing bigger.
The Zarbi, giant ants, played by actors, so only 2 legs!
The War Machines (my personal favourite). These were large packing crates, a hole in the side, an arm sticking through the hole holding a hammer (talk about low budgets, I suppose they were very cheap, when BBC ran out of sink plungers for making daleks it could still manage these). They were on furniture castors, with an actor inside moving the thing. To be "threatened" by one, you had to stay still for ages while it slowly came up to you, so it could hit you with its hammer.
The Dominators. 2 men in dinner jackets, with a clunky robot. This inspired a famous Pete and Dud satire ("we say, can we dominate you, if they say no, then we say alright then and just go away").
The Time Lords were fairly silly. Strange headgear. Didn't some wear ladies' bathing caps? Didn't some actually wear toilet seats on their shoulders, with the toilet lid up behind their heads (see stories set on Gallifrey).
Hmmm, maybe this will make me unpopular, oh well ......
Let's face it, many of the Dr Who monsters were fairly silly (the very silliest ones appeared only once, for obvious reasons, but people watch the repeats, so maybe have seen them!).
Candidates might be:
The Daleks (couldn't go up stairs, although they managed it later on).
Some monsters were actors wearing heavy costumes (cybermen, soltarans, silurians etc), so they could only move slowly. You could "escape" from these by just walking away!
The Green Death (bubble bath foam with rubber bits in it!).
The Robot (Tom Baker Era) which had identity crisis, then started growing bigger.
The Zarbi, giant ants, played by actors, so only 2 legs!
The War Machines (my personal favourite). These were large packing crates, a hole in the side, an arm sticking through the hole holding a hammer (talk about low budgets, I suppose they were very cheap, when BBC ran out of sink plungers for making daleks it could still manage these). They were on furniture castors, with an actor inside moving the thing. To be "threatened" by one, you had to stay still for ages while it slowly came up to you, so it could hit you with its hammer.
The Dominators. 2 men in dinner jackets, with a clunky robot. This inspired a famous Pete and Dud satire ("we say, can we dominate you, if they say no, then we say alright then and just go away").
The Time Lords were fairly silly. Strange headgear. Didn't some wear ladies' bathing caps? Didn't some actually wear toilet seats on their shoulders, with the toilet lid up behind their heads (see stories set on Gallifrey).
Hmmm, maybe this will make me unpopular, oh well ......
