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After five years of hair-raising adventures - eyebrow hair to be exact - one of the most popular Doctors since Tom Baker is giving up the Tardis.

Why spend thousands of pounds to make an episode of one of the most popular TV series of the time, only to leave it gathering dust in the archive? Thirty years ago, with only three channels to choose from, Doctor Who and Secret Army on BBC One and The Professionals on ITV routinely delivered audiences bigger than even the most successful programmes ...

While the UK fans of "Doctor Who" have had to wait and experience a new episode every three months, its American fanbase will be able to leap through the final episodes and witness the regeneration in a matter of weeks.

In preparation for 2009 Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr., one can not help but remember favorite Holmes from the past.

'Britain, Britain, Britain! Here are some facts about Britain that you might not know: Number one: Britain is a country.

AUDIO CD REVIEW: Doctor Who: Hornets' Nest - Hive Of Horror, BBC Audio CD, A 6.25 via www.bbcshop.com. Another day, another barkingly-mad adventure for the time-travelling Doctor Who - but an exciting adventure, compelling and nicely delivered on this new BBC Audio CD.

The BBC is currently in talks with fantasy author Michael Moorcock to write a new Doctor Who novel, it has been confirmed.

"Remember the agreement between us. You will seek out the Doctor and destroy him." - the Black Guardian, to reluctant assassin Turlough When he took on the role of the Doctor, a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who wanders through time and space running into adventure, Peter Davison was replacing Tom Baker, a popular actor who had helmed Doctor ...

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AUDIO CD REVIEW: Doctor Who: Hornets' Nest - The Circus Of Doom, BBC Audio Books, A 6.25. The David Tennants of this world are all very well, but no one comes close to the great Tom Baker.

"Doctor Who" fans in the UK should get their wallets ready for the early moths of 2010.A A The Doctor Who News Page reports that several retail outlets have listed a preliminary schedule of releases for the first quarter of next year.

After years of venturing around the universe with screaming assistants in tow, The Doctor was finally given an equal to contend with in 1978 - a Time Lady named Romanadvoratrelundar.

Apioneer of British television, Barry Letts, who has died aged 84, served the medium for more than half a century.

Every once in a while, the British television show Doctor Who is revamped. This is usually done by replacing the lead actor and his supporting crew.

The City Council election in Elizabeth City's 1st Ward next Tuesday likely will be a referendum on the current course of city government.

He PLAYED arguably the most popular incarnation of the time-travelling Doctor in Doctor Who then later won a new generation of fans as the offbeat narrator of Little Britain.

Actually an hour and eleven minutes. My newest obsession has moved into a new medium with release of the first CD of Hornet's Nest entitled " The Stuff of Nightmares ". The BBC has found a way to get Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor, to record audio plays 28 years after his last appearance on the TV show.

And it's not Blink or Genesis of the Daleks ... Posted in Entertainment , 17th September 2009 09:10A GMT Over 6,700 Time Lord fans responded to a Doctor Who Magazine call to rate all 200 episodes of the classic sci-fi TV series, and selected 1984's The Caves of Androzani - in which fifth Doctor Peter Davison hung up his sonic screwdriver - as the ...

Alongside the feted Glenda Slagg and Lunchtime O'Booze, Private Eye occasionally run pieces under the byline Phil Space.

'It's the most charming of North American cities, thanks in no small part to the juxtaposition of English and French influences' I sailed from Liverpool to Montreal via New York when I worked as an orderly in the sick bay of a cruise ship as a young man.