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{{article | publication = Colloquy | file = | px = | height = | width = | date = 2009-08-01 | display date = issue 17 (August 2009) | author = Alec Charles | pages = 16 | language = English | type = | description = http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/colloquy/download/colloquy_issue_17_august_2009/charles.pdf | categories = academic articles | moreTitles = | morePublications = | moreDates = | abstract = This paper examines how, in the wake of 9/11, BBC Television's Doctor Who has symbolically explored that catastrophe and the efforts to con-struct a new world order in its aftermath. In doing so, it witnesses parallels with the apocalyptic and utopian visions of the programme's own greatest literary influence, the seminal science fiction of H G Wells. | text = }}

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