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Doctor Who - The Tenth Doctor

Perhaps the best-loved and most recognisable Doctor since Tom Baker's famous Fourth, the Tenth Doctor David Tennant has proven that the success of Series One was not a fluke. In fact, if anything, the young and handsome Doctor has brought in fans from all across the spectrum. NOTABLY - Women!

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Doctor Who: His 11 Faces

Doctor Who has been around in one form or another since 1963.  For those that are not familiar with the show, here is the basic premise.  The Doctor travels through time and space in his TARDIS (Time...

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Doctor Who - The Sixth Doctor

At the beginning of Doctor Who's third decade on the air, at the end of 1984, Peter Davison was leaving his title role as the Fifth Doctor. The UK's seemingly endless pool of good actors produced Colin Baker to take on the part. The new, seemingly more unbalanced than usual Doctor was portrayed amid a long decline in support for the show from both the public and the BBC.

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THERE BE DRAGONS

Why do DRAGONS appear in many cultures throughout the world? Why are we drawn to them? This is the Chinese year of the DRAGON. Maybe it is high time we looked into how dragons became so popular and why they continue to appear in new tales to satisfy a continuing public appetite for their presence on earth or in our skies.

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DOCTOR WHO: EVERY GENERATION NEEDS A GOOD DOCTOR

From the 1960s onwards there has been a very special television doctor. Doctor Who? Yes, that's right.

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DOCTOR WHO: A SPACE REBEL

Doctor Who has always been somewhat a rebel. This is the fault of the writers and the actors of this most famous of British television shows. The funny thing is these people tend to wear their rebellious nature with pride.

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Doctor Who - A Complete Guide

Doctor Who is one of the longest running television shows in history. Originally aired on BBC-1 from 1963 to 1989, the show was reborn on BBC Wales in 2005 and continues, to this day. Learn more about the lives of the Doctor (as seen in the televised Doctor Who serials) and the actors who bring them to life.

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LEARNING FRENCH

LEARNING FRENCH By Martha Patterson My high school French class was a revelation – Bernie F., our teacher, had brilliant blue eyes and dark hair, was probably in his 30s, and fired vocabulary questions...

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Doctor Who - The Fourth Doctor

When Tom Baker took up the mantle of portraying the still immensely popular and influential Doctor in December 1974, no one knew this Fourth Doctor would wind up in the role for longer than any other actor, and possibly become the iconic incarnation of the Doctor Who character, worldwide. Taking over from the Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee, Between then and his subsequent departure in 1981, Tom Baker transformed the role into one of the most influential rationalists in media through much of the 1970s

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Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space

DOCTOR WHO is a triumph of the imagination. A premise that is elegantly simple with an enigmatic hero, who is staggeringly brilliant and yet endearingly flawed. The show's strength has always been its...

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