Talk:Doctor Who

Should it be fourteen years? The last series ended in 1989... 1989-2003 is fourteen years

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Shouldn't the various artifacts, characters, and creatures unique to the Doctor Who world be in subpages? As Doctor Who/Daleks[?]?

I think Larry is trying to get away from sub-pages and although initially I couldn't see what he was going on about, I had a moment of clarity when I realised that it would make referencing in future quite difficult. I think we are all really waiting for the bracketed solution to Wiki where we can reference by topic.... sjc

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The show is described as "the longest-running television science fiction series ever". While this is undoubtably true, I usually hear it referenced without the "science fiction" clarification. Are there in fact *ANY* TV shows that are longer running?

Yes. The longest running show is "Meet the Press", which has been on the air since 1948. Mr. Rogers ran for 34 years before he hung up his sweater. I think at least one soap opera has been on since the 1950s. --Belltower

And Coronation Street, the perennial northern soap opera, is definitely the longest running fictional television series in the UK. sjc

And didn't The Sooty Show run for some inordinately long period of time?

Yes but it was in non-continuous periods

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Just for reference, since I've seen pages appear for specific serials: Doctor Who terminology (as roughly remembered from my wasted "memorizing useless information" teenage phase:

• seasons were the yearly runs, like in other tv shows
• these were made up of serials -- self-contained stories, in a specific location. The TARDIS was hardly ever moved during a serial, in fact often the Doctor found himself separated form it in some way (captured, the thing stolen, key lost, power supply down, something else implausible)
• each serial was usually several episodes, 4 or 6 being the most common. (there were only ever about 3 single-episode serialss)

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Perhaps the 1999 Red Nose Day episodes should perhaps be mentioned somewhere. It was four episodes called "Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death" where he meets both The Master and Daleks. The Doctor was played by Rowan Atkinson. During the episodes The Doctor is forced to regenerate several times so he's played also played by Richard E. Grant[?], Jim Broadbent[?], Hugh Grant and Joanna Lumley. Also see http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/DrWho/CurseFD // Liftarn 12:33 Jan 13, 2003 (UTC)

Dr Who played by Rowan Atkinson??? That is an odd bit of casting! Incidentally, is it safe to assume that this story is an imaginary one? Arno

You assume correctly, it was a for-charity thing I believe. I've seen it, it's hilarious and quite well done. Surpasses the production value of many of the real episodes. :) Bryan

That's 'cos they got all the actors and props free on account of it being for charity. :o)

For what it's worth, it was Rowan Atkinson in superior git mode (as in the later series of Blackadder), not accident-prone goof mode (as in Mr. Bean). The latter would indeed have been somewhat worrying -- though for some of us, it would merely have confirmed long-held suspicions about how much the BBC truly cares for the series. :) Paul A

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If I remember correctly, Roger Delgado didn't "die suddenly" - wasn't he killed in a car crash in Turkey? Arwel

sounds fairly sudden to me ... -- Tarquin 18:25 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC)

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(-"alien" he's not an alien to begin with, so best explained in more detail elsewhere)

The Doctor's no bug-eyed monster, true, but are you suggesting the Time Lords are humans? I've never heard of anything in the canon that suggests that. Salsa Shark 11:03 Mar 13, 2003 (UTC)

what I meant is that it's not till the nd of Troughton that there's any mention of him being an alien. So it's best explained in detail later, I think. "mysterious" is fine for the intro, I think, with more later -- Tarquin 11:06 Mar 13, 2003 (UTC)

I'll buy that. Salsa Shark 11:07 Mar 13, 2003 (UTC)