Now with the 60th anniversary year of Doctor Who the BBC is running a number of programmes celebrating its long term success. And nearly all the episodes have been put up on the I Player. But of course it has evolved in many ways since the series was first launched in 1963 as an early evening show aimed to appeal across the whole family and with characters with whom everyone could identify. The key relationship has always been between the Doctor and his "companion". This was generally a midteens girl in the early series. Always getting into scrapes and trouble. Gradually this has changed. The Doctor is no longer an elderly or parental figure while the companion is herself now adult.The interest now is not whether he spanks her but rather are they having sex. Unsurprisingly the program has lost much of its previous broad based family audience. For those not old enough to remember the original, classic, period, I have tried to capture some of the flavour in my story, written some time ago, but perhaps still of interest. |