I need to see a doctor, and soon

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Publication: Erie Times-News
Date: 2013-11-11
Author: Jennie Geisler
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Language: English

I have a new love in my life.

This new guy is much too old for me, and he's entirely unreliable. He shows up weekly, but going out with him is almost always dangerous.

My son, 8, doesn't like him at all, so I have to wait for him to go to bed before my new love and I can have any quality time. My husband, being of the open-minded sort, finds this amusing.

It all started about a year ago. J.R. was watching something on BBC America. The show ended, and we hadn't bothered to change the channel. At some point, I absently looked up at the screen.

There he was.

Dressed in a tweed jacket and bow tie, he was giving mile-a-minute semi-scientific speeches that were nothing but gibberish, but delivered with a geeky sense of humor I fell in love with at once. I got sucked in to the suspense as he tried to save his friends and mankind from what I now know of as the Weeping Angels.

If you don't know who I'm talking about, sorry. I sometimes forget that other people live their whole lives without "Dr. Who," a British show that originally aired in 1963. The main character, an alien himself, looks and acts human. He's a Time Lord, hundreds of years old. When his body fails, he regenerates into a new one (another actor). There have been 11 doctors, and a new one, the 12th, will star in the next season.

Dr. Who goes by "The Doctor" and never shares his real name. He lives in a time machine called the Tardis (Time and Relative Dimension in Space), which looks like a blue phone booth, but it's much bigger on the inside.

I thought I was alone, loving this arcane British relic of a show, but since BBC America started airing it, "Dr. Who's" popularity in the U.S. has gone supernova. I've discovered five other people, just in the newsroom, who love it, too.

Tomorrow my newly beloved will be celebrating his 50th year on the air. "The Day of the Doctor" will star the 10th and 11th doctors and others. You can catch a 3-D version at Tinseltown on Monday. The first showing is sold out (!), but another has been added at 10 p.m.

A British sci-fi show might sound like a silly little ditty in these days of "Breaking Bad," "Downton Abbey" and "Game of Thrones," but to me it's an escapist delight that's much bigger on the inside.

I need to see a doctor, and soon

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