Comments on: Radio Free Skaro #131 – The Sweet Serenade of Sarcastor http://www.radiofreeskaro.com/2009/03/30/radio-free-skaro-131-the-sweet-serenade-of-sarcastor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=radio-free-skaro-131-the-sweet-serenade-of-sarcastor Quite possibly the most popular, most prolific and charmingly irreverent (but never irrelevant) Doctor Who podcast around. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:49:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hypocaust http://www.radiofreeskaro.com/2009/03/30/radio-free-skaro-131-the-sweet-serenade-of-sarcastor/comment-page-1/#comment-131 hypocaust Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:22:50 +0000 http://radiofreeskaro.wordpress.com/?p=423#comment-131 The main ITV responses to Doctor Who were Timeslip (1970-'71), The Tomorrow People ('73-'79) and Sapphire and Steel ('79-'82). Timeslip and Sapphire and Steel are both well made and interesting shows and well worth watching. The Tomorrow People has a great memorable tile sequence (with a theme by Dudley Simpson no less) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xez4o1ujOPI but despite being the longest running of the three suffers badly from being aimed too much at children and having a very thrown together, extremely cheap production (yes, much more so than Doctor Who, which being a product of the BBC drama department not the childrens TV department meant it was rather more professionally made.) Even The Tomorrow People still has some interesting ideas in it though but you need to be a really avid fan of the era and style of show to watch the whole thing. It's mainly remembered now for it's 'camp' value. The main ITV responses to Doctor Who were Timeslip (1970-’71), The Tomorrow People (’73-’79) and Sapphire and Steel (’79-’82).

Timeslip and Sapphire and Steel are both well made and interesting shows and well worth watching.

The Tomorrow People has a great memorable tile sequence (with a theme by Dudley Simpson no less) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xez4o1ujOPI but despite being the longest running of the three suffers badly from being aimed too much at children and having a very thrown together, extremely cheap production (yes, much more so than Doctor Who, which being a product of the BBC drama department not the childrens TV department meant it was rather more professionally made.)

Even The Tomorrow People still has some interesting ideas in it though but you need to be a really avid fan of the era and style of show to watch the whole thing. It’s mainly remembered now for it’s ‘camp’ value.

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