Over three seasons, we had two new Doctors the Ninth and Tenth respectively, and two great new companions in the form of Rose and Martha. This was confirmed to be true within the first few episodes with the Doctor talking to Rose about Galifrey (his home planet) and the inclusion of past enemies, including the Autons, Cybermen and his most nefarious foes the Daleks, who it was said were responsible for the Time War a recurring theme within the New Series. At first, it wasn’t quite clear if the Revival series (now cited as NuWho) was going to contain plot elements and retain the vast history it had accumulated since the show first aired in 1963 with William Hartnell at the helm.
Fans were unsurprisingly ecstatic when the show was renewed for revival in 2005 on British television, helmed by the great writer Russell T Davies and starring Christopher Ecclestone as the titular Doctor, alongside Billie Piper as companion Rose Tyler (who was known most for her brief pop music career in the 90s).Īfter a fantastic First Season, the regeneration concept was used again to place long-time Whovian David Tennant as the leading star of the show much to the delight of many with his heartthrob good looks, and thereby bringing in a whole new generation of fans to the series. However, the character and the show in general had survived throughout the ensuing years in a range of formats including tie-in novels, comic books, audiobooks and documentaries, amongst other such things. Paul Mcgann’s Eight Incarnation of the famous time-lord who could change his cellular structure upon ‘death’ (thereby creating a fantastic plot convention for new seasons) wasn’t successful in its plan to carry an American produced television series. Doctor Who’s Television Revival in 2005 saw the dawning of a new age for us ‘Whovians’ as we hadn’t seen anything related to the series on the small screen since the 1996 TV Movie starring Paul Mcgann.
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