Thursday the 23rd marks 60 years since Doctor Who first appeared on the BBC., a Time Lord who escapes from the planet Gallifrey in a TARDIS, a mixture of a time machine and a spaceship that can disguise itself as local objects from where it lands; Due to a technical malfunction, our hero’s house had the appearance of a classic British police box for a while.
legendary swinging melody Composed by Ron Grainer and arranged by electronic pioneer Delia Derbyshire and Dick Mills, the new version of the series has promised audiences. fantasy adventures not exempt from a certain terror. This is what they found as they followed the Doctor through the fourth dimension as he searched for desperate people to help and moments in history to change, always with one or more companions, usually humans, mainly because he was fascinated by our race.
But fans also learned nurturing lessons: the series bounced back and forth between adventures set in the past; Learn about historical moments and figuresand other more futuristic ones geared towards science (fiction). Anticipating our current dilemmas regarding artificial intelligence, 1966’s ‘War Machines’, the tenth and final series of the third season, followed the Doctor’s fight against evil supercomputers.
Developed together with BBC editor Sydney Newman and screenwriters Donald Wilson and CE Webber, ‘Doctor Who’ quickly became a popular film. institution in the United KingdomEven today, almost anyone can tell you about their favorite Doctor and favorite friend without thinking too much. There are many to choose from, as we will see below.
All Doctors
Time Lords can assume a new body when they die, become ill, or are seriously injured. It is the ideal solution if you want to do this. The longest science fiction series in history, according to the Guinness Book of Records. ‘Doctor Who’ was on the air from 1963 to 1989 (twenty-six seasons), and after a frustrated attempt to revive it in the mid-90s, it has been on the air again since 2005 (thirteen seasons to date). That’s unless you count ‘spin-offs’ like ‘Torchwood’ or ‘The Sarah Jane Adventures’ that make life difficult for completionists.
Following the dour William Hartnell (1963-66), the actors who played the Doctor were Patrick Troughton (1966-69), Jon Pertwee (1970-74) and Tom Baker (1974-81), whose eccentric style of dressing made him a popular favorite; He was followed by the youngest ever (aged 29) Peter Davison (1981-84).
You have to go back a few decades in time to find the favourite, at least according to a recent ‘Radio Times’ poll: David Tennant (2005-2010), the second Doctor of a ‘revival’ that launched actors and screenwriters. Charming retro Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith (2010-2013), who was six years away from being seen onCrown‘ and twelve to seduce in the ‘House of the Dragon’.
The beloved scene was the responsibility of the screenwriter Tennant (and Christopher Eccleston in the previous season) Russell T Davies Between ‘Strange as the People’ and definitive works like ‘Years and Years’ and ‘It’s a Sin’. Davies passed the baton to one of his best collaborators. Steven Moffat, then co-creator of the not-unique ‘Sherlock’. From next season, and in principle from season three, Davies once again takes creative control.
After that tired Doctor brought back to life by Peter Capaldi (2013-2017), the first woman finally arrives: Jodie Whittaker (2018-2022), who is having a much better time here than the mother of the murdered child. In ‘Broadchurch’. Next season’s star will be Ncuti Gatwa (Eric in ‘Sex Education’), who was born in Rwanda and raised in Scotland. First black actor to captain the TARDIS.
Anniversary Special Events
Trying to watch ‘Doctor Who’ in Spain has always been a bit of a challengeespecially if you want to see everything in order and in its original form. If you want to dive into a long epic whenever you want, Rakuten TV has a free channel dedicated to the series. And you can watch the first nine seasons of the ‘revival’ (that is, until 2015) on Pluto TV, but of course always in standard definition, dubbed and with commercials.
Things will get even better next season, available to stream on Disney+ in 2024, just like the three 60th anniversary specials (and hopefully the Christmas special) that came before it: ‘The Starbeast’ (this Saturday, day 25), ‘Wild’ blue distance’ (2 December) and ‘Laughter’ (9 December). What appears to be pure ‘fan service’ (Tennant and Catherine Tate, the Tenth Doctor’s great companion return) may not be so: these are actually the adventures of the Fourteenth Doctor. Same face, new incarnation.
Davies also promised interesting developments for the fourteenth season of this latest installment, as well as the starring role of a black actor. In an interview with ‘Radio Times’ he said, “there will be ways of telling stories that have not been used before, so it looks like a new series… It is a self-renewing series“‘Doctor Who’ never ends.