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# Doctor Who

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Doctor Who is a science fiction television show from the United Kingdom. In 1963, it started with William Hartnell as the Doctor. New shows were made until 1989. In 2005, the show started again. It is the longest running science fiction series in the world.

There were also two Doctor Who movies made in the 1960s. Peter Cushing played the Doctor in these films.

## [edit] The Stories

The Doctor is a "Time Lord". He is not from planet Earth, but from another planet called "Gallifrey".

He travels through time and space in a spaceship called a TARDIS. His TARDIS is disguised as an old British police-box. (Real police-boxes were like telephone boxes, except they were only used for people to call the police, if they had problem. They were used by the police until the 1960s.)

The inside of the TARDIS is much bigger than its outside (it is "dimensionally transcendental").

The Doctor usually travels with a "companion". These are people he has met in his adventures.

### [edit] TARDIS

The TARDIS is the Doctors's time machine and spaceship that can travel through time and space. It has a special feature that makes its outside change shape. It is stuck in the shape of a police telephone box. The farthest they have ever gone is 5 billion years into the future (in the episodes "The End of the World" and "New Earth". The TARDIS stands for "Time And Relative Dimension In Space".

The TARDIS in a garden

### [edit] Daleks

The Daleks are one of the most powerful races ever in the Doctor Who and are the Doctor's worst enemies. They cry "EX-TERM-IN-ATE!" when they are about to kill someone. The come in different colours . They were last seen in the episode "Army of ghosts" (2006). They are not robots, but horrible aliens kept in a metal casing.

### [edit] Cybermen

Cybermen are another of the enemies of the Doctor. They take people and turn them into machines. They stomp around saying "DELETE!". They change their look over time.

The Doctor has faced them many times and they are one of his worst enemies.

### [edit] Regeneration

The Doctor has been played by ten actors.

In the story, when Time Lords are badly hurt, they "regenerate". When this happens, they look different, and they act differently. They do this instead of dying, so that they can live longer. A Time Lord can regenerate twelve times in total.

### [edit] Time Lords

All of the Time Lords except the Doctor were killed in the "Time War". This was a big war with the Daleks. The Doctor ended the war by blowing up his planet, killing the daleks...and his own people. It has made him sad ever since.

## [edit] Doctor Who actors

As well as Peter Cushing, the ten people who have played the Doctor are:

1. William Hartnell (1963–1966)
2. Patrick Troughton (1966–1969)
3. Jon Pertwee (1970–1974)
4. Tom Baker (1974–1981)
5. Peter Davison (1981–1984)
6. Colin Baker (1984–1986)
7. Sylvester McCoy (1987–1989,1996)
8. Paul McGann (1996)
9. Christopher Eccleston (2005)
10. David Tennant (2005–now)

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