
Doctor Who thing: the announcement of a new Doctor didn’t used to be a big deal
A “controversy” over K-9 was considered more important than the new Doctor. Weird.

A “controversy” over K-9 was considered more important than the new Doctor. Weird.

Evidence: a Radio Times letter, a fanzine article, and being a pain in the ass to the poor kid who ran the Official Doctor Who Fan Club.

Brilliant choice. He’s a fantastic actor, and he might actually be allowed to bring something dark and sardonic to the Doctor, as well as the man-about-the-universe panache I wanted.
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…

It’ll be simulcast on BBC America…

Damn, they’re good.

Stuart Ian Burns at feeling listless has created a handy-dandy list of modern Doctor Who episodes in chronological order — that is, by internal story time, not air date, and including Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Chronicles.

Note Moffat’s trademarked “girls are weird and strange and mysterious” attitude. Nine hundred years of time and space travel, and the Doctor doesn’t know what perfume is?

Many sites are reporting that the 50th-anniversary episode will be simulcast across the planet on November 23rd, but I can’t find a source for this…

From 1989, and available as a PDF thanks to the fannish obsessiveness of others. Enjoy. Or you can laugh at it. That’s fine too.