A festival of Doctor Who fans

By Stephanie Bunbury
Updated November 21 2015 - 1:08pm, first published 9:43am
Peter Capaldi is the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor, with Jenna Coleman as Clara in Doctor Who. Photo: Kaia Zak
Peter Capaldi is the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor, with Jenna Coleman as Clara in Doctor Who. Photo: Kaia Zak
Peter Capaldi as the Doctor in <i>Doctor Who.</i>
Peter Capaldi as the Doctor in <i>Doctor Who.</i>

For once in my life, I feel as if I have some kind of geek cred. When I say that the first Doctor Who episode I remember watching featured the first Doctor, Darren Hoey simply looks disbelieving: he just can't imagine anything that long ago. "On reruns, surely?" he ventures. Nope, I say; it had the original Doctor, his first companions Ian and Barbara, and the Daleks. It must have been 1966, the year we got a television. And we were immediate converts: the whole family started going round the house swivelling our arms from the elbows saying "Attack and Destroy! Exterminate!" and never really stopped. Such is the power of Doctor Who.

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