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David Tennant | ... |
The Doctor
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(59 episodes, 2005-2015)
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Matt Smith | ... |
The Doctor
(57 episodes, 2010-2015)
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Jenna Coleman | ... |
Clara
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(39 episodes, 2012-2015)
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Billie Piper | ... |
Rose Tyler
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(39 episodes, 2005-2013)
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Karen Gillan | ... |
Amy Pond
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(37 episodes, 2008-2013)
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Paul Kasey | ... |
Ood Sigma
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(35 episodes, 2005-2014)
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Nicholas Briggs | ... |
Dalek
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(34 episodes, 2005-2015)
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Peter Capaldi | ... |
The Doctor
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(32 episodes, 2008-2016)
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Arthur Darvill | ... |
Rory
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(27 episodes, 2010-2012)
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Freema Agyeman | ... |
Martha Jones
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(24 episodes, 2006-2013)
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The Doctor, from a race called the Time Lords whose home planet is Gallifrey, travels through time and space in his ship the TARDIS (an acronym for Time and Relative Dimensions In Space) with numerous companions. From time to time he regenerates into a new form (which is how the show has been running since 1963).
I eagerly awaited the new Dr Who, and I wasn't disappointed. My first memories of the Doctor are Jn Pertwee battling robots, giant maggots and giant spiders in the early seventies. Then Tom Baker took over and it was a must watch programme. Tonight I was transported back to those days, in so much as I felt just as I did back then. With one big difference, this is very much a programme for the twenty first century.
Christopher Eccleston was wonderful as the Doctor, combining the off the wall behaviour of Tom Baker's Doctor, with the mystery of Silvester McCoy's; the action of Jon Pertwee's and the hard edge of Colin Baker's; together with the wisdom of William Hartnell's Doctor and the tom-foolery of Patrick Troughton's. All wrapped together in an incarnation with the same physical appeal as Paul McGann's Doctor. I would quite happily travel through space and time with this Doctor.
The effects were the best we'd seen on the programme but I felt they didn't overwhelm it. But where they needed to be, the effects were 'crap'. The Autons always were faintly ridiculous back when Jon Pertwee fought them and they are still ridiculous, but just as deadly. The script was witty in the right places and serious where it needed to be.
I can't wait for next week!
PS. Billie Piper didn't suck!