Doctor Who is a British sci-fi television program that revolves around the adventures through time and space of an alien called the Doctor in his machine disguised as a blue police telephone box called the TARDIS (which stands for Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Then along the way he also picks up companions (only the best though) to travel with him.

Though the Doctor looks human he is actually a Time Lord from the ancient planet Gallifrey (so he doesn't look human, you look Time Lord --they came first). The Time Lords are, obviously, lords of time. They have the technology to travel through all of time and space and can seemingly live on forever. They have superb mental powers, such as having telepathy and possibly even clairvoyant. They also have a little trick to cheat death called regeneration.

Regeneration is when a Time Lord completely reboots their body when they're dying to gain a new face and personality while maintaining their memories. However if a Time Lord is killed before their regeneration is complete, they are as good as dead. Within a certain time limit (I believe it's 10 hours but I'm not too sure I'll have to recheck) after regeneration Time Lords are able to heal themselves of injuries (even regrow severed limbs). As cool of a parlor trick regeneration may be, a Time Lord can only regenerate 12 times before they die.

So far, the Doctor is on his 11th regeneration, having regenerated 10 times. The current Doctor is played by Matt Smith, and his three companions, Amy, Rory, and River, are played by Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, and Alex Kingston respectively.

Doctor Who is the longest running sci-fi show, having over 32 seasons and overall over 700 (almost 800 last I calculated) episodes and a movie that aired in 1996. The show originally aired in 1963 which ran until 1989. The show was then rebooted in 2005 and continues to run today. It is also the most successful sci-fi series of all time.

This thread is to discuss Doctor Who; what you love about it, your favorite Doctor, favorite companion, songs you like, moments you like, and possibly even spoilers as the 7th season approaches within the next few weeks.

I will try my best to update this thread with news as it comes out. If you see something that I don't then feel free to post it as well!

So yeah go free my little Whovians!

What we know about series 7 so far.

Edited July 29, 201411 yr by Shana09

I had no idea it was going to be 76 minutes long. I hope they don't do a long episode again for a while. Long episodes are supposed to be special like The Day of the Doctor. 

 

I really hope not. I was surprised too, its actually 2 hours long if you count the commercials and I heard they were showing it in theaters somewhere too.

I used to watch DW on Amazon but this episode costs $8! I honestly hope that was just for this episode, I can't pay $8 for like 13 episodes.

It used to be $3, and I want it to stay like that.

I really hope not. I was surprised too, its actually 2 hours long if you count the commercials and I heard they were showing it in theaters somewhere too.

I used to watch DW on Amazon but this episode costs $8! I honestly hope that was just for this episode, I can't pay $8 for like 13 episodes.

It used to be $3, and I want it to stay like that.

 

You guys got commercials? We never get commercials during Doctor Who.

 

Yeah, they showed it in theatres around the world. Australia got it at the same time as the UK again. Haha.

You guys got commercials? We never get commercials during Doctor Who.

 

Yeah, they showed it in theatres around the world. Australia got it at the same time as the UK again. Haha.

 

I looked on a stream instead, so no I didn't get commercials. I heard there were 44 minute commercials though.

It was nice to see Vastra, Jenny, and Strax again. Btw is it too early to bring back the Daleks?

Nice episode.

Btw is it too early to bring back the Daleks?

Apparently not, last nights episode was called "Into the Dalek". I DVRed it, should be awesome.

Another good episode the other day.

I haven't seen the 3rd one yet, but I really enjoyed the first two.

Another good episode.

Great season so far!

Christ that reveal at that last episode was amazing

Christ that reveal at that last episode was amazing

Now we a regeneration minisode.

Great season.

I had no idea we had a doctor who thread O.O Guess my new home for the rest of the year

 

NO SPOILERS PLS, I HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST TWO EPISODES

I had no idea we had a doctor who thread O.O Guess my new home for the rest of the year NO SPOILERS PLS, I HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST TWO EPISODES

I hope you enjoy them as much as I did

I hope you enjoy them as much as I did

SHARDSHARDSHARDSHARDSHARD

 

DID YOU SEE DOCTOR WHO?????????????

SHARDSHARDSHARDSHARDSHARD DID YOU SEE DOCTOR WHO?????????????

I DID AND I DIEEEDDD

I DID AND I DIEEEDDD

ARRRRRGHHHH ME TOOOOO. I HAVE NO TEAR DUCTS LEFT THEY ARE DRY FOREVERMORE

ARRRRRGHHHH ME TOOOOO. I HAVE NO TEAR DUCTS LEFT THEY ARE DRY FOREVERMORE

FOR THE LAST TWO EPISODES I WAS LIKEON THE EDGE MAn. Can't wait for this Saturday!

FOR THE LAST TWO EPISODES I WAS LIKEON THE EDGE MAn. Can't wait for this Saturday!

OMGEEZ IKR

 

Argh I'm so hyped, as soon as I get off work I'll have just enough time to change and Watch it live, IT'S GUNNA BE AWESMOEZZZZZZZZZ