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It all started as a mild curiosity in a junkyard. Exactly fifty years later, that curiosity reached such frenzied levels of anticipation for the anniversary, it was like the Second Coming with a sonic screwdriver.
So, did you have a good ‘Day’?
Millions of people across the globe just did. In fact, The Doctor probably just made their day. And yours too, in a TV event so big you’d have had to have viewed in from a couch on the Moon to take in the full scope of it.
Following the success of our bingo cards for ‘The Name of the Doctor’, we’ve put together some 50th anniversary special bingo cards! Print your cards out now, pick a Doctor and get ready with a pen! > Follow Rob Smedley on Twitter. Are you looking forward to ‘The Day of the Doctor’? Let us know … >
Change. Regeneration. It’s the very thing that’s kept Doctor Who running for half a century and we take it for granted now. It’s exciting, partly because it’s expected. Doctor, companion, showrunner, whoever. The song ends, but the story goes on (to paraphrase an Ood). And we continue to huddle round the screen like kids in the ‘60s.
The final series of Misfits continues and, as part of their community service, the gang have to look after a group of terminally ill patients.
The Internet. The Ol’ Googlebox. The Pornographer’s Lantern. Whatever you call it, we can agree that it is generally pretty neat. It even allowed you to watch this week’s Misfits earlier than usual on 4OD, and that’s no bad thing.
Ahh the youth of today, with their McBusted and their Snapchat and their big shoes. If they’re not busy FML’ing at everything then they’re being immolated by a pan-national terrorist as part of his fourth ‘truth’. And there’s no one around Instagram it. FML indeed.
There hasn’t been a Wallace & Gromit animation since 2008’s A Matter of Loaf and Death movie, and yet even after 5 years off our screens (not counting the repeats that TV law commands must be shown every Bank Holiday), the man and dog duo are as popular as ever with kids and adults – as was demonstrated earlier this month when an auction of 81 Gromit statues in Bristol raised £2.3million for charity.
The final series of Misfits continues on E4 this week and Rudy takes Finn to the superpower support group to help him get over Jess.
Written by Mark Gatiss, BBC Two’s An Adventure in Space and Time tells the story of the genesis of Doctor Who and the many personalities involved.