Series Description

The Dr. Who TV show was a British 25 minute long sci-fi series about an alien scientist who has the ability to travel to travel anywhere in space and time. He comes to Earth often to save us from intergalactic bad guys. Sometimes he takes an Earthling or two with him to some other planet to help him fight evil there.

Doctor Who Cast

William Hartnell .... First Doctor Who
Patrick Troughton .... Second Doctor Who
Jon Pertwee .... Third Doctor Who
Tom Baker .... Fourth Doctor Who
Peter Davison .... Fifth Doctor Who
Colin Baker .... Sixth Doctor Who
Sylvester McCoy .... Seventh Doctor Who
Louise Jameson .... Leela
Michael Jayston .... The Valeyard
Elizabeth Sladen .... Sarah Jane Smith

Doctor Who Trivia:

Doctor Who's name was never actually revealed on the series. His name is not Doctor Who. The series was named that because he is a mysterious figure and no one really knows who he is.

The Doctor is a "Time Lord" from the planet "Gallifrey". Actually, "Time Lord" is a bad term because the official policy of the Gallifrey High Council is to not interfere with we younger civilizations throughout the galaxy. The Doctor often overlooks the policy though.

This TV show holds the distinction of being the longest running science fiction program ever on tv.

While there were seven Doctor Whos, they all portrayed the same character. He has the ability to regenerate into another person when near death. This was not an original concept. It was added when William Hartnell (First Doctor) had to leave due to Multiple Sclerosis.

The Doctor travels throughout time and space in a machine called a "TARDIS". That is an acronym for "Time And Relative Dimensions In Space". It is supposed to change appearance to blend in with its surroundings and remain undetected but that function is broken. It is stuck looking like a British Police callbox from 1963. The BBC producers decided to do this to cut down on the cost of having many different props for the TARDIS.

Thirty years before you saw them on "Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)", Dr. Who was fighting the "Cybermen" who are nearly indistinguishable from "The Borg". The concept of "non-interference with developing cultures was also used on Doctor Who.

Unfortunately, 109 episodes of the Doctor Who TV show were disposed of by the BBC in the early 1970s to cut back on storage costs. No one at that time saw the potential of today's home video market or hundreds of specialized TV channels, so they seemed to have little value.