For a start, Davies heightened the value of the human "companion" that traditionally moves through dimensions with the good Doctor. Davies, creator of the original version of
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"The Doctor Who of my childhood was Tom Baker, but the show has always attracted a strong class of actor, and each has put his own spin on the role."ĭoctor Who sputtered in the nineties and went off the air for nearly a decade before the BBC resurrected the series in 2005 with greatly improved special effects and Eccleston in the lead role. "It has certainly become a clever way to keep the character fresh," said Tennant, who also took the title role in the BBC serialĬasanova and played the "death eater" Barty in Exit Hartnell and enter Patrick Troughton, who was succeeded in order by Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann and Christopher Eccleston before Tennant took over in 2005. The show's writers thereafter decreed that the Time Lords - the alien race to which Doctor Who belongs - were capable of regenerating into new human form over and over. The concept began when the very first Doctor, William Hartnell, announced his intention to leave the series. Rotating the lead role has always been part of the show's unique mythology. Rarely shown in the United States, and sporadically at best in Canada, the offbeat adventures of the dimension-hopping alien were long believed too ornate - or intellectual? - for North American sci-fi fans, until several years ago. "I believe he's going to do a brilliant job," said Tennant diplomatically.ĭoctor Who has been an acquired taste since it debuted on the BBC in late 1963.
2), the responsibility of traversing time and space in a craft called the TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space) - which still faithfully resembles a London police telephone box - and occasionally saving the universe falls upon English actor Matt Smith. It has felt like a remarkably good run."įollowing Tennant's portrayal (Space airs his final twoĭoctor Who chapters on Jan. "Like many kids in the U.K., I grew up on Doctor Who and never believed I would one day be playing him. "These past few years have been a dream come true, really," said Tennant on the TV critics tour last summer.
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