Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson, follows the adventures of the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being from a humanoid species known as Time Lords. The Doctor travels through space and time using a time travelling spaceship called the TARDIS, which has an exterior that resemble
"Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains to puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And Ill take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!"
"When Russell T Davies relaunched the show in 2005, I watched it from the start. I thought it was fantastic. If theres any secret to its resurgence, its due to the shows complete lack of cynicism. Both Davies and Steven Moffat are lifelong Doctor Who fans and the love shines through every episode."
"Here in two flat sentences are the best things I can say about our field [science fiction] on American television: Dr. Who is sometimes aired. Sometimes Battlestar Galactica is not."
"Ian Chesterton (1963-65)"
"Steven Taylor (1965-66)"
"I dont know what its like to be God — obviously ...until that very first moment when you get to sit down and type the words in your script: INTERIOR. TARDIS. ... Suddenly I got a very good idea of what it must feel like. I went: "Im writing it now this scene in the Tardis. Im writing it!" And that was amazing, it was wonderful."
