h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

what is Doctor Who

Do you mean as in the programme or as in the character?

both

Traveller in Time on the
"It is a television series about a 'Time Lord' with the strange idea of helping the Earth and the humans against aliens and their dangers. "

I'm from the USA so I've never heard of it till I loined H2G2 but it seems useful to know about it here

Traveller in Time waiting for Christmas
"Read < C991 > and < http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/ >

For spoilers of the 'new' series: < http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/ >"

You can learn all about it here: A215993

It's the longest-running science fiction TV series in the world (it predates even Star Trek) and thanks to a recent revival it's currently the most popular TV show in the UK.

I believe the Sci-Fi Channel carries it in the USA.

I'll have to check thanks

I remember showing Doctor Who to a Texan friend of mine... his response to the episode I showed him (part 1 of Genesis of the Daleks) was "are the writers on crack?"

sounds like my kind of show

"Doctor Who" is quite simply the greatest show ever made and possibly the greatest show that will ever be made.

Too right it is. All hail Doctor Who! Hey, maybe we should start a religion. If enough people put "Jedi" as their religion on the last census we should petition for Whovian on the next one!

away from pagan dr. who worshipers

You'd never get me to agree to being called a Whoovian.

Whoover, maybe. Or, er, Whoer.

"Doctor Who" is already my religion!

Doctor Who is undoubtedly awesome. So is Torchwood [but not quite]

My cousin, who has been a diehard "Doctor Who" fan for the last 30 years, once converted his wardrobe into a TARDIS, complete with a flashing light on the top. He also got his mum to knit him an incredibly long multi-coloured scarf as worn by the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker), which he sometimes wore when he went out.

Unfortunately, the bulb that he used for the light on the top of his TARDIS wardrobe was faulty and it caused a spark which then set fire to the wooden wardrobe and destroyed the whole thing (I thought the TARDIS was meant to be indestructible ). My cousin still has the scarf but he no longer wears it and has buried it amongst all the thousands of bizarre items he has collected over the years.

That's the kind of brilliant but eccentric fanaticism that I think "Doctor Who" has lost in recent years and I think the new fans of the revived series ought to adopt if the series is going to continue for many years to come.