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General => TV Shows that are NOT Reality => Topic started by: coolio on May 03, 2012, 07:15:16 PM
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Does anyone else watch this? I recently started watching the new series, and its AMAZING.
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Who's the Doctor?
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A Time Lord, who came to our world to protect it!
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No, I mean Who is the Doctor?
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Like, the actor? It varies from season to season.
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Does anyone else watch this? I recently started watching the new series, and its AMAZING.
Coolio, it gets a bit complicated, but the show's been on the air for almost 50 years with a break from 1989 to 2005, with only a TV movie during that break in 1996. As a result, 11 actors have played the Doctor over that time.
The Whoverse therefore dates each era by the actor who plays the Doctor, using a concept of "regeneration" during which the character of the Doctor changes his appearance. Thus, we have 11 Doctors (called in conversation "One" through "Eleven." who is the current incarnation.)
Then, the Doctor has one or more Companions who usually travel with him. The current Doctor, Eleven (played by Matt Smith), usually has had Amy and Rory (now husband and wife) traveling with him in series five and six; and series seven is being filmed as we speak.
There have been two previous incarnations of the Doctor since the series returned in 2005. Nine (played by Christopher Eccleston) was only seen in the first series after the return, David Tennant, who played the Tenth Doctor, was in series two, three, and four, and the specials that aired from Christmas 2005 to 2007 plus five specials beginning at Christmas 2008, and he left the series in a special that aired on New Years' Day 2010 in most of the English speaking countries that currently air Doctor Who. Ten had different companions -- Rose (who had traveled with the Ninth Doctor), then Martha, then Donna, and then others in most of the specials. Ten also had two Companions who had spin-off series, John Barrowman's Captain Jack, on Torchwood and the late Elisabeth Sladen, as Sarah Jane Smith, who had originally traveled with the Third and Fourth Doctor in the original era of the series. (The Eleventh Doctor also appeared in an episode of the Sarah Jane Adventures, making Sarah Jane the only companion to have traveled with four different incarnations of the Doctor (outside of anniversary and one-off specials). SJA ended as a result of Elisabeth's death in 2011 due to cancer.
So if we can figure out which incarnation of the Doctor you are watching, or which Companion(s) are with the Doctor, then we'll know where you are starting in with the series.
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Ok! I'm currently watching 10's 1st season, where Rose is still his companion.
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:lol: Ah yes, The Doctor! Of the "new" doctors, I thought Christopher Eccleston's one-and-only season set the bar for the current offerings. Rose, ah yes, Billie Piper.
David Tennant certainly left his mark on The Doctor, which was unfortunate for his successor, Matt Smith. People either like or hate Matt, no middle ground with his interpretation. He has yet to win me over. ;)
Matt's companion Karen Gillan (Amy Pond), however, is getting on my nerves. I just can't understand half of the things she says!!!! :groan: Her thick Scottish brogue is driving me up the wall. Hey! speak the Queens English already.... :lol3: :res:
Of all the doctors, I think Tom Baker continues to be the perennial fan favorite.
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Just thought I would mention that the next series will be premiering in the English-speaking world at the end of August or the beginning of September. Six episodes will air this autumn (northern hemisphere) then the Christmas Special, then the remaining seven episodes will air in the spring.
No word on exactly how they're doing it yet but all of this will be leading up to something for the show's 50th anniversary, which happens on November 23, 2013.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned it at RFF, but in the fall mid-season finale, "The Angels Take Manhattan," which saw the departure of the Ponds as the Doctor's companions, a well known (to all TARfanatics) in Central Park, New York City was used in a key scene (which was filmed on location there) -- Bethesda Fountain, the start line of TAR Classic.
That was neat. Am I the only one who noticed?
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I noticed the fountain. The problem is that the episode itself was such a downer, so it's not something that jumps to my mind when thinking about the episode.
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I noticed the fountain. The problem is that the episode itself was such a downer, so it's not something that jumps to my mind when thinking about the episode.
Yeah, I agree. The people I was watching the episode with all cried at the end.
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Hi, I'm also a casual fan of Doctor Who, but I started watching it from series 1 (2005).
My favourite Doctor is Christopher Eccleston, because he was my first Doctor. I hope he will be back for the 50th Anniversary. :)
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:lol: Doctor Who's latest companion for second half of Series 7 is Jenna-Louise Coleman (http://www.list.co.uk/article/47199-jenna-louise-colemans-genius-doctor-who-role/), replacing Karen Gillan (Amy Pond).
:tup:
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This week is the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, which is being marked by special programming in many of the countries that currently air the show, including its home country (the UK), the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and many others. A first-of-its-kind global simulcast of a special 50th anniversary episode, "The Day of the Doctor" will be transmitted worldwide in 75 countries at 1950 GMT Saturday November 23rd; for those in the US and Canada that's 2:50 pm EST/11:50 am PST, starring Matt Smith, David Tennant, John Hurt, Jenna Coleman (she has dropped the "Louise" from her name), and Billie Piper.