THE DOCTOR WHO 50TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL [BBC America]

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At 2:50 P.M. EST The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special will be broadcast simultaneously world-wide. If you are a Doctor Who fan, I expect you’ll be watching. There have been plenty of rumors and hints about the story-line and which incarnations of the Doctor will be shown. We know the 10th Doctor (David Tennant) will be featured as well as the 11th Doctor (Matt Smith). Beyond that is anyone’s guess. I discovered Doctor Who when our local PBS station broadcasted it. The episodes starred Tom Baker. I loved his sly wit. I didn’t follow the other Doctors until I stumbled on BBC America a couple years ago and instantly clicked with Matt Smith and his lovely Companion played by the vivacious Karen Gillian (my favorite Companion ever!). I’ve gone back and watched many of the earlier Doctor Who episodes. They have a charm most American SF series lack. After today’s The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special Doctor Who fans can look forward to the Doctor Who Christmas Special which will be bittersweet as Matt Smith gives his last performance as The Doctor.

12 thoughts on “THE DOCTOR WHO 50TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL [BBC America]

  1. Randy Johnson

    One wonders how they will resolve the conundrum set up with John Hurt sliding in as one of the Doctors. Peter Capaldi now becomes the 13th Doctor and supposedly his last regeneration. Back during Colin Baker’s reign as the Sixth, he did battle for a whole season with the Valeyard who was revealed by the Master to be the last regeneration of the Doctor out to steal his remaining regenerations. Never understood that. If he could steal Timelord lives, why his own.

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  2. Art Scott

    From today’s posting on Michael Quinion’s invaluable worldwidewords.org:
    Doctor Who’s words
    In British television, only one character is always referred to just as “The Doctor”. BBC Television is pulling out every stop to hymn the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of Dr Who in 1963. Lexicographically speaking, the series is not especially productive, with only four words in the Oxford English Dictionary: Tardis, Dalek and Cyberman, plus the first use of The Matrix in the sense of cyberspace, from a Dr Who novelisation of 1976. We also have Whovian for a fan and Whoniverse, a blend of Who and universe, for the fictional setting of the series, including its offshoots. Tardis (an acronym, as any aficionado will at once be able to tell you, of Time And Relative Dimension In Space) is the only one which has taken on meanings beyond Dr Who itself, such as a structure which seems bigger on the inside than the outside.

    Coincidentally, or maybe not, he also explains “Feghoot”.

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  3. George Kelley

    Art, the longevity of DOCTOR WHO may generate more new words. The changes to the TARDIS over the years are dramatic. One of my favorite DOCTOR WHO episodes was written by Neil Gaiman: THE DOCTOR’S WIFE.

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  4. Art Scott

    Everybody’s getting into the act. Go to Yahoo.com today and watch the animated TARDIS go across the Yahoo logo and turn into the exclamation point.

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