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That episode is really the only one where spiders are prominant figures. AND it is a regeneration episode. The end of the third doctor. So it is rather memorable. I don't think the doctor himself ever liked spiders much after that, let alone anyone else who watched the episode. I can more than understand how that episode would give someone arachnophobia. Spiders are creepy and icky.

Jack in charge of Christmas.... hmmm, the Boneman didn't see to have much luck the last go-round. That could be interesting... wonder if Oogie-Boogie would show up. twisted

My most memorable Dr thread was the one with the "hand"... I only saw parts of that one, but boy did it creep me out. Another one of those shows my dad adored, possibly because it irked my mum. rofl

Did any of you guys who've seen the last episode of the Eccleston series see this yet?

Warning: MAJOR spoilers.

I did warn you about the spoilers. smile

For what it's worth, I don't think that most of the UK knows about that, either. As you can see, it was screened as a segment in the middle of a telethon - and I only found out about it two nights beforehand after watching a trailer for the thing in general, spotting some David Tennant images I didn't recognise and doing some research.

Considering that the series is one of the BBC's biggest marketing pushes right now, I don't know what their publicity department must've been thinking to keep it so low-key.

My reading group didn't know. My LRP group didn't know. My anime club didn't know. And if the geeks don't know, then the rest of the country almost certainly didn't.

For some reason I hear Dr. Who and think of Dr. Strange. Whoopsey! sweatdrop So it really is a medical show? Never watched it.

You guys are lucky. My hubby is a fun great guy, but he won't play on gaia. Dunno why. He says its dumb. *shrugs* I guess he only really likes D&D

OMG, I used to be a TOTALLY hardcore Whovian. Way beyond sense and sensibility, worse than any Trekkie. lol.... I've seen every Dr Who episode that still exists to be seen, except for the new ones (Eccleston, you say?). But my brother downloaded those from the net, and he said he'd burn me some copies of them; I just keep forgetting to give him the blank disks when he's here in town. Heck, I've even seen the ~original~ Dr. Who movies, the non-canon Brit ones with Peter Cushing as The Doctor. I was a veteran con-goer, and eventually helped run two local British sci-fi fan conventions (even got to have dinner with Colin Baker, before the first one... lol.... Had breakfast with Danny John Jules, the guy who played "Cat" on Red Dwarf, after the second one) back in the 90's.

For me, Tom Baker was the "only" Dr. Who, although I liked them all (even the one from the USA movie. Yes, I know, that makes me a heretic, but what-the-heck.) Colin Baker was my second favorite Doctor, although I am not exactly sure why.

But I'm afraid I have to prove my Official Whovian Geekdom here -- you've got the wrong spider episode. The one you are talking about, with Sarah Jane and the Jon Pertwee regeneration, was not the one with the spiders that bit people and turned them into Swamp Things. (lol) THAT one was a later Tom Baker episode, titled "Full Circle," and the woman who got bit was Romana, his only Time Lord Companion. She didn't turn into a swamp thing, but she did get this wierd glowy green mark on her face, and she did run off and cavort with the swamp things and help them invade the "human's" space ship. And The Doctor ~did~ save her in the end, so that turned out all right. This episode was, in fact, the first Adric episode.

So yes, I was a total Dr Who geek. xd I've since recovered, but all that information was burned into my permanent hard drive back then and seems to be uneraseable. wink