DOCTOR WHAT?
Alistair Corless talks
about some facts you
might not have known
about the Doctor.
Alien director Ridley Scott
almost designed the
Daleks, before leaving the
BBC to work for Granada
and train as a director.
The show employed
the BBC’s ?rst ever
female producer,
Verity Lambert.
Stephen Fry once
wrote a script for
the series. It was
never used as it
was deemed too
complicated.
Torchwood is an
anagram of Doctor Who
and was originally used
as a code name to keep
the series tapes for the
revived Doctor Who in
2005 a secret.
Doctor Who has
changed the English
language with both
‘Dalek’ and ‘Tardis’
entering the Oxford
English Dictionary.
The Twelfth Doctor, Peter
Capaldi, was a teenage
super-fan and wrote
many angry letters to
the Of?cial Doctor Who
Fan Club about why he
lost out on becoming
president of the club.
Michael Jackson
almost played the
Doctor in a planned
Hollywood ?lm
version in the 1980s.
Tardis illustration: www. traxoun-shark.deviantart.com
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