It’s pretty hard to explain Doctor Who to someone who has never seen the show. For those that haven’t, it’s a British science fiction show which first aired in 1963 and has been on and off the air ever since. The show’s main character is The Doctor and super-genius alien who travels through time and space in a ship called the TARDIS which in theory is supposed to blend in with the surroundings but in practice always looks (from the outside anyway) like a British police box.
Of course you can’t keep the same cast on a show that runs for 60 years so one of the science fiction elements of the show is that the Doctor has a very long life and occasionally regenerates his body into a new form. This conveniently allows a new actor to take over the role every few years. In all there have been 14 actors to play the Doctor to date.
I first saw the Doctor on TV in the…
