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Diana Wichtel reviews Doctor Who

By Diana Wichtel In Television

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Fifty years of Doctor Who. Goodness. I’m still recovering from Coronation Street’s celebratory half-century tram crash, a soap-tastrophe that left core cast littered about or written out and Rita trapped in the Kabin under a hail of Maltesers. Doctor Who can’t match Corrie’s achievement, because it was canned in 1989. The Doctor didn’t really regenerate again in the time-honoured, if scientifically vague, Time Lord manner until 2005. Never mind. Both shows continue to transport us to terrifying, strangely enthralling parallel universes where people abruptly evolve ...

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