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10 British Acting Families (Who Are Not the Redgraves)

Rachel Marie Paquin — Fri, 03 May 2013 21:09:18 +0000

This week Doctor Who fans will get to see mother-daughter duo Dame Diana Rigg and Rachael Stirling in “The Crimson Horror.” The actresses will also be playing a mother-daughter pair in the show with Rigg as Winifred ...

GALLERY: The Royal Mail Issues A Special Set Of ‘Doctor Who’ Stamps

Fraser McAlpine — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:01:41 +0000

This March, a new collection of Royal Mail stamps will be issued to mark the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. There will be eleven first class stamps, featuring each of the Doctor’s incarnations to date, and four second class ...

‘Doctor Who’: The Fury Of A Time Lord

Fraser McAlpine — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:48:58 +0000

There are two personality quirks that unite all eleven Doctors to date. One is that they all share a whimsical sense of humor (although some are less keen to display it than others), and the other is their respective tempers.

#NewToWho: How I Discovered ‘Doctor Who,’ Time Travel And Sofa Picnics

Fraser McAlpine — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:39:34 +0000

The appearance of Matt Smith on the cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly will probably introduce a lot of people to Doctor Who for the first time. And that’s quite a heady thought, imagining someone settling down to a ...

Life Outside The TARDIS: Peter Davison

Fraser McAlpine — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:16:31 +0000

There’s a thing that Peter Davison can do which very few actors manage quite as well, namely to look stressed in an appealingly brittle fashion. He can do other things, of course, as a brief glance down this list of his greatest ...

A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Tegan

Fraser McAlpine — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:02:42 +0000

For a while, in the handover from the Fourth to the Fifth Doctors, it was traditional for the companions to be known by their first name only: Leela, Romana, Nyssa, Adric, Turlough and so on. So it’s fitting that talkative Tegan ...

How To Dress Like The Fifth Doctor

Fraser McAlpine — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:44:04 +0000

There’s something very uncluttered about Peter Davison’s outfit as the Fifth Doctor. Where previous Doctors had adopted a kind of mix and match approach, pilfering a smoking jacket from here and a flamboyant kerchief from ...