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| This BBC television series made between 1963 and 1989 was the longest running Fantasy/Science Fiction TV show in history, on both sides of the Atlantic!. The format consisted of a number of 25 minute episodes telling a self-contained story over usually four or six episodes. Each episode would contain a short recap of the previous episode and would be concluded on a cliffhanger. |
| Until 2005, no new episodes had been produced for several years, with exception of a short piece for the BBC's "Children in Need Telethon." However, a new TV movie was shown in the US and the UK with limited success, and that doctor is not included in the official list of regenerations. |
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| The series revolves around the travels of a renegade "Time Lord," an eccentric, highly intelligent scientist from the distant planet of "Gallifreya"and known simply as "The Doctor." |
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| The Doctor has a particular soft spot for the planet Earth, and its inhabitants, and has visited there many times at various stages in it's history either to save it from various alien threats or to whisk a choice few individuals away to distant parts of the galaxy to help him fight evil there. |
| His adventures take him through time and space to other planets and galaxies and any period of time within the history of these Planets and galaxies, for his main aim is always to fight evil and oppression wherever, and whenever he finds it. |
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| The Doctor has an unusual physiology which includes two hearts (an obvious advantage), and the ability to "regenerate" into a new physical appearance when the existing body becomes old or damaged. For most of his adventures, he is accompanied by at least one companion, often more. Although many of the companions have been humans from Earth, there have been others who were either robots or aliens. |
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| He travels through time and space in the TARDIS, a curious device, larger on the inside than on the outside, which was designed to change its appearance to suit its surroundings. Unfortunately, the Doctor's TARDIS seems to be broken, and always appears as a blue British police box. |
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