Doctor Who is a British science
fiction series that began in November 1963 on British television BBC1 as a
modest evening teatime television show, and has continued in one form or
another to this very day. Although the
original television series were canceled in the late 1980s, books, audio
CDs, and spoofs continue to be made.
And now with the advent of the new series that has resumed the shows
usual evening airtime March 2005, we see the clear unfailing continuity of
the show. Doctor Who has indeed
grown from a humble TV serial into a mini ‘genre’ of its own, and has
changed the course of science fiction programming. This site is a mere form of recognition
and tribute towards the world’s longest-running and most influential sci-fi
series ever! He is a Time
Lord, one of that immensely wise and powerful super-race of alien beings
who, for centuries unnumbered, have watched and studies all of time and
space with intellects: vast, cool, and unsympathetic (as H.G. Wells put
it). Their philosophy was never to
interfere in the affairs of alien races, merely to watch and wait. But
one of their numbers, known only as the Doctor, found such inaction
anathema. As he studied the interplay of the great forces of the cosmos,
the endless wars and invasions, the entopic conflict between good and evil,
the rights and lives of a thousand alien life-forms debased and brutalized,
the wrongs left unrighted…. he was overcome by
the compulsion to act! He was a
renegade, a misfit in the name of justice. And
so he stole a Tardis and fled. Ah, yes. The Tardis. That most marvelous device
for spanning the time-lines and traversing all of known and unknown space. The name is an acronym for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space. Marvelous! An amazing machine that
can change shape to fit in with its surroundings in which it materializes
in. But the Tardis stolen from his fellow Time Lords by the Doctor
was in for repairs. And so it was frozen in the shape of its last appearance:
a British police call box. (Introduction written by Harlen
Ellison for the Pinnacle ‘Doctor Who’ books)
In a
stunning announcement in September 2003, BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey
announced that Doctor Who would return to the airwaves in 2005 in an all-new production
produced by BBC Wales for BBC1 Television. The story broke in the September 25
London Daily Telegraph newspaper in an article called "Doctor Who ready to
come out of the Tardis for Saturday TV series," which caused a whirlwind
of press coverage and was shortly thereafter confirmed by an official BBC press
release. This is the first 'season' of Doctor Who episodes since the show went
off the air in 1989, except for its brief return as a made-for-TV movie in 1996
starring Paul McGann. The new series features an all
new cast, including Christopher Eccleston as the
Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose, and is created & produced by BBC
Wales by executive producer/show runner Russell T. Davies, one of British
television's finest writers.
<<Keep yourself updated at Outpost Gallifrey>>
BBC - Cult Television - Doctor Who
The Official Site with the latest news and enough fun to
keep a fan busy for hours at a time.
URL : http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/
Outpost Gallifrey
Comprehensive and very up-to-date Doctor Who news site;
includes lots of info about the new series.
URL : http://www.gallifreyone.com/
Doctor Who Reference Guide
Vast site containing summaries of every Doctor Who story
made.
URL : http://www.drwhoguide.com/who.htm
G-World Tardis Explorer
Good interactive fun for any fan who
has a couple of months to spare.
URL : http://www.g-world.org/tardis/
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