Attached Link: Doctor Who Season 28 episode guide

Brief history: Doctor Who started in November 1963... Nov 23th, to be exact, but hardly anyone watched the first episode. (Can anyone guess why? Hint: there was a major event that occurred the previous day.) The show was broadcast on the BBC for the 25 season, which ended in 1989, with the seventh Doctor. There was a Doctor Who movie on FOX in 1996 (which is considered the "26th season"). And the new series (season 27) started in 2005 and has now started it's 28th season.   The Doctor can "regenerate" when his body is near death. Because of thise, there have been 10 actors who played the lead role (not counting the movie versions), including Christopher Eccleston (from "28 Days Later") and the most famous, Tom Baker (the 4th Doctor, with the long scarf). In most cases, there has been a "regeneration" episode where the previous actor morphs into the new actor. The exceptions to this have been the 6th-to-7th Doctor (6th Doctor Colin Baker refused to come back for the brief appearance) and the introduction of the 9th Doctor (Christopher Eccelston and the start of the 2005 series). The latest "regeneration" epsiode was last year's, "The Christmas Invasion" when we were introduced to actor David Tennant.   The Doctor travels in a TARDIS, which is trans-dimensional (meaning the inside is larger than the outside). When the first Doctor landed in London in the 1960's, the TARDIS took the shape of blue police box to blend in with the surroundings. Even though British police haven't used police boxes since the 1960's, the Doctor's TARDIS kept this shape. This was explained in a humorus scene in the first episode of the 2005 series: Rose asks what a "Police Box" is and the Doctor says that the TARDIS is in disguise.   In the original series, there are plenty of others like the Doctor, called "Time Lords". The Doctor even went to his home planet (Gallifrey) on a few occassions. Two of the Doctor's Time Lord nemesis include The Master and The Rani, though it's not clear if they were killed during the "time war" with the Daleks. (I would be willing to bet that the Master eventually returns in the new series.)   In the 1996 FOX movie, the Master was executed by the Daleks and the Doctor was supposed to take the remains back to Gallifrey. But, the TARDIS crashed on Earth and the Master took over a human body (actor Eric Roberts). It was never explained why the Daleks executed the Master or why the Daleks would let the Doctor take the Master's remains.   The original Doctor Who series never really took off on US television, except on "Public Broadcast Stations". (These stations are funded by the government and viewers and don't rely on advertisers or ratings to determine what shows they run.) My parents live in Maryland and the Annapolis PBS station still shows the old episodes- from the first Doctor to the seventh. However, the Sci-Fi channel is now showing the 2005 series.   --John

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