Is there a doctor in the house? Are there Doctors in the house? For all my claims that I left the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who in my youth, the above photo may prove otherwise. After recently consolidating my DVD and Blu-ray collection I was taken aback somewhat by how many DW season-sets I had amassed... yes, "amassed".
As I've stated a few times on this website over the years, I more or less left the good Doctor behind in my early '20s after catching just a few Peter Davison Doctor stories on Buffalo, New York, PBS affiliate WNED. That part is true for I didn't catch the series on regular basis after OECA/TVO broadcast Who in the mid-late 1970s. Doctors Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy got no visits from me as I was going to film school during a chunk of their tenures. While attending that college, I had an interesting Who experience, what would be a Who story of my own: While sitting in the film studio one morning, waiting for the class to begin, my classmates and I ran our usual early morning chat, and reading of newspapers. "Hey, Simon." I turned to my right and a classmate handed me a Toronto Star paper revealing an article. "Doctor Who to Be Cancelled." (The hiatus was short-lived, with Who to return featuring a new Doctor for the 1987-88 television season.)
After my course of study finished, and had entered the working world, I managed to pop-on the telly now and again, and saw a few minutes of a McCoy episode. "Oh, that's Ace."
Some trivia to wrap up this piece, and to drive yet another nail into my earlier claim, I admit I've actually watched some episodes on my Doctor Who collection. After a few of these watches of everything Who I missed after my early '20s, I proclaimed the "McCoy-era" to be my favourite.
While embedding the above photo I count 11 (eleven!) Doctor Who Blu-ray series sets. Any rough estimate of how much money those sets cost collectively is something I dare not do. Given that each one probably averaged 40 to 50 dollars each... My word! Is there a doctor in the house?
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