Topic: doktor who???

[Josh]

The character of the Doctor was initially shrouded in mystery. All that was known about him in the programme's early days was that he was an eccentric alien traveller of great intelligence who battled injustice while exploring time and space in an unreliable old time machine called the TARDIS. The TARDIS is much larger on the inside than on the outside and, due to a chronic malfunction, stuck in the shape of a 1950s-style British police box.

However, not only did the initially irascible and slightly sinister Doctor quickly mellow into a more compassionate figure, it was eventually revealed that he had been "on the run" from his own people, the Time Lords of the planet Gallifrey.

Like all Time Lords, the Doctor has the ability to "regenerate" his body when near death, allowing for the convenient recasting of the lead actor. A Time Lord can regenerate twelve times, with a total of thirteen Doctors. The Doctor has gone through this process and its resulting after-effects on nine occasions, with each of his incarnations having his own quirks and abilities:

   1. First Doctor, played by William Hartnell (1963–1966)
   2. Second Doctor, played by Patrick Troughton (1966–1969)
   3. Third Doctor, played by Jon Pertwee (1970–1974)
   4. Fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker (1974–1981)
   5. Fifth Doctor, played by Peter Davison (1981–1984)
   6. Sixth Doctor, played by Colin Baker (1984–1986)
   7. Seventh Doctor, played by Sylvester McCoy (1987–1989, 1996)
   8. Eighth Doctor, played by Paul McGann (1996)
   9. Ninth Doctor, played by Christopher Eccleston (2005)
  10. Tenth Doctor, played by David Tennant (2005–present)


Other actors have also played the Doctor, though rarely more than once (see the list of actors who have played the Doctor for details).

Despite these shifts in personality, the Doctor has always remained an intensely curious and highly moral adventurer, who would rather solve problems with his wits than through violence.

Throughout the programme's long history certain controversial revelations about the Doctor have been made. For example, in The Brain of Morbius (1976), it was hinted that the First Doctor may not have been the Doctor's first incarnation (although the other faces depicted may have been incarnations of the Time Lord Morbius); throughout the Seventh Doctor's era it was hinted that the Doctor was more than just an ordinary Time Lord, and in the 1996 television movie it was revealed that the Doctor is actually half-human on his mother's side. The very first episode, An Unearthly Child revealed that the Doctor has a granddaughter, Susan Foreman, and in Fear Her (2006), it was mentioned that he was once a father. The 2005 series revealed that the Ninth Doctor had become the last known surviving Time Lord, and that his home planet had been destroyed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who

[Nick]

Wow,I didn't know the full history. My dad used to watch the show so when they came out with the newest version I checked it out and love it. I didn't know that it has spin of shows though, Torchwood and the The Sarah Jane Adventures, pretty cool. But, i don't get the channels they come on. 

you a fan too, no? 

[Josh]

yeh its a pretty good show