I made this page because I think Doctor Who is brill. I plan to use it to create an open forum to discuss Doctor Who and a place to gather links to other fan Doctor Who content. Questions go here, and requests and meta stuff go here.
Doctor Who has been on our telly for longer than I’ve been alive. It was first broadcast in 1963. That’s over 60 years ago. By the time I could watch (and understand Doctor Who), it was already at least 19 years old.
18ish people have played The Doctor. 15 (give or take) as the incumbent Doctor and then more as “other”.
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, depicts the adventures of an extraterrestrial being called the Doctor, part of a humanoid species called Time Lords. The Doctor travels in the universe and in time using a time-travelling spaceship called the TARDIS, which externally appears as a British police box.
Doctor Who, Wikipedia
All of these fine people have been The Doctor for us at some point.
Main Continuity Doctors
Other Doctors (cannon)
- John Hurt (the War Doctor)
- Richard Hurndall (as first Doctor)
- David Bradley (as first Doctor)
- Jo Martin (the Fugitive Doctor)
(the more niche, the longer the list)
Watch this space…
The Series
With such a long-running series, there are many jumping-on points. Leave me a message about where you think new viewers should join us.
The very first episode of Doctor Who was called “An Unearthly Child” and was written by Australian writer Anthony Coburn.
It was first broadcast in the UK on BBC TV in four weekly parts from 23 November to 14 December 1963.
The home of Doctor Who has always been the BBC. Give their Doctor Who portal a visit.
The Doctor comes from the planet Gallifrey
Gallifrey is the home of the Time Lords, of which The Doctor is perhaps the last surviving member. (It depends on what era you are watching.)
The Doctor’s spaceship is called a TARDIS – Time And Relative Dimensions In Space. The TARDIS is shaped like a police call box, is bigger on the inside, and can travel in time as well as space.
The TARDIS is stuck looking like a Police Box because the Chameleon Circuit is broken, or perhaps because the Doctor just likes it that way.
The Sonic Screwdriver
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The Doctor’s favourate tool is his trusty sonic. The Sonic is an advanced device with point-and-think technology. While it can hack computers, undo screws, and scan things, the sonic really struggles with wood.
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