Popular series
- Publication: West Lancashire Evening Gazette
- Date: 1974-06-01
- Author: Fred Boothroyd
- Page: 7
- Language: English
MY excursions into Dr Who country during the present series have been only spasmodic, rather like paying a visit to old friends who have moved a distance away. but I am indebted for news of the doctor's adventures to the junior members of the family, who would rather miss a meal than an episode. gather that the time is now near when the present learned professor will pass on to higher-or is it lower?- A roles. To achieve this he must fall a victim to the evil machinations of his enemies to make reincarnation possible for whoever takes over in the next series.
Dr Who is probably the most popular TV series to be created for children... and many adults.
The series is now ten years young and as much a ritual of early Saturday evening viewing as switching on for the sports results.
The doctor has been fortunate in having been endowed with three different personalities. The first, William Hartnell, was convincing enough make him an addiction and is perhaps regarded as the ideal. Patrick Troughton's interpretation always suggested that he really was endowed with the powers necessary to cope with spacemen without being fearsome in himself, while the present Dr Who, Jon Pertwee, seems to rely as much on his physical as his mental powers.
Who or what?
But possibly younger viewers are less concerned with who is Dr Who as with who and what his enemies are.
For them there is nothing to compare with the Tardis, and, more particularly, the Daleks. It would be disastrous if they were to be banished from the screen for ever. These intruders have taken juvenile imaginations from where the popular comic papers for youngsters left off. They are now built into the structure of the series as firmly as Long John Silver in "Treasure Island" and Man Friday in "Robinson Crusoe." No matter who is chosen to become Dr Who IV he is never likely to seize on the imagination as have the Daleks with their bloodthirsty efforts to ex-ter-min-ate every earthbound mortal in sight.
A new generation of young viewers has arisen since the series first burst on the viewing scene and the BBC is hardly likely to loosen its grip on them no matter aow many Dr Who's opt out for less exciting roles in more confined spaces.
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- APA 6th ed.: Boothroyd, Fred (1974-06-01). Popular series. West Lancashire Evening Gazette p. 7.
- MLA 7th ed.: Boothroyd, Fred. "Popular series." West Lancashire Evening Gazette [add city] 1974-06-01, 7. Print.
- Chicago 15th ed.: Boothroyd, Fred. "Popular series." West Lancashire Evening Gazette, edition, sec., 1974-06-01
- Turabian: Boothroyd, Fred. "Popular series." West Lancashire Evening Gazette, 1974-06-01, section, 7 edition.
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