Doctor Who Celebrates Its 59th Anniversary With Hype for Its sixtieth

Fifty-nine years in the past right this moment, households throughout the UK sat all the way down to tune into “An Unearthly Child,” the start of an journey throughout house and time many years within the making for Doctor Who. We’ve come a great distance since then, and gained double the Davids Tennant since we final celebrated, and the BBC actually needs you to do not forget that.

To mark the 59th anniversary of the sequence right this moment, the BBC has largely celebrated by looking forward to subsequent 12 months’s massive 6-0. You need a new brand? You bought it, Whovians, it’s mainly the identical as the brand new brand the community simply revealed, nevertheless it’s diamond.

You need footage of David Tennant because the 14th Doctor? Done and achieved.

You need footage of the Doctors, together with double the beforehand allotted quantity of David Tennant? My mates, right this moment you feast.

Oh go on then, you may also have an image of Jodie Whittaker in her mish-mash of previous Doctors costumes from “The Power of the Doctor”, however Doctor Who is aware of that’s not what you’re actually right here for.

It’s a not-unsurprising, if a little bit bizarre, technique to mark the present’s anniversary—arguably curiosity within the sequence hasn’t been as excessive as it’s proper now in years, so why not experience it with teases for subsequent 12 months’s grand celebrations? But if right this moment’s celebration of all issues Doctor Who is generally a preview of what’s to return sooner or later, that’s additionally in and of itself completely Doctor Who: a look again, and a look forward.

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