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And balanced on the biggest wave you head towards an early grave As long time readers will know, I am a Whovian. Yes, you can bundle me in with nerds, geeks and whatever you like for the fact the I am a Whovian. And a Trekkie to boot. But I don't like Star Wars. Not everything that is science fiction is good. Far from it. But Doctor I go back as far as 1961 which means I can just about cloudily remember the very first Doctor Who, William Hartnell. I can even now remember the regeneration scene for his transformation to Patrick Troughton and thinking 'this isn't Doctor Who' before falling into Troughton's cleverly played clownish spell. I remember the change to Jon Pertwee and the court hearing of the Timelords exiling the Doctor I don't pretend to have understood much of this and this was many decades before the internet and such ideas as 'canon' and backstory became freely available to edge Whovians like me. I just knew that this iconic show kept me spellbound, thrilled, scared and anxiously awaiting the next episode during those formative years. I remember being at a cousin's house where tey had a cupboard for coats. It was always our TARDIS though. Many a happy time was spent there fighting Daleks and Cybermen and Ice Warriors as a young boy. Those old episodes haven't always worn well due to the production values and technology of the time, but they can still be watched and enjoyed with that modern day context in mind. I'm still saddened to this day as to how the hawaiian shirted wankers such as john Nathan-Turner and his ilk allowed the programme to become the bu*t of jokes through piss poor stories and dreadful effects. They had no inkling that good The rebooted Who from 2005 is a very different an*mal though. Budgeted beyond the belief of most Whovians it was written with vast story arc concepts building through apparent stand alone adventures. It was sharp, witty, convincing and above all introduced the very human element of emotion. It was in a word....sas*y. I along with many Whovians on the edge of geekdom were very pleasantly surprised (having