Doctor Who?

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Arts, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We don't know his real name. We don't know who he was before he stole the TARDIS -- a spaceship/time machine that looks like a police box on the outside, but is really a cavernous ship on the inside. He's thousands of years old, but wears a different face every few years. He calls himself The Doctor, but Doctor who? In the first of my three-part series, I look at how a restless intergalactic time traveller became a global pop culture icon, and why The Doctor's knack for physical regeneration resonates with fans on a more personal level. Featuring Andy Heidel, Nick Randell, Robin Bunce, Mac Rogers, Emily Asher-Perrin, Riley Silverman and Kelsey Jefferson Barrett. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, a show about how we create them and why we suspend
0:05.4	our disbelief.
0:06.6	I'm Eric Melinsky.
0:08.8	There's a bar called the Way Station, which is close to my apartment in Brooklyn.
0:13.2	And from the outside, it looks like a normal bar.
0:16.5	But when you go in, something pops out at you.
0:19.7	A blue police box, the kind that you would see all over London in the 1960s.
0:24.9	Every day, I open up the shutters and I see her sitting in the corner and it's just like,
0:30.0	I feel like home.
0:31.8	That is the owner of the bar, Andy Heidel, who is a huge Doctor Who fan.
0:36.1	And even if you've never watched Doctor Who, you probably know that blue police box has
0:40.8	something to do with it.
0:42.6	Also if you walk at the bar, you might notice Doctor Who is playing in the back wall pretty
0:46.3	much all the time, usually an episode for the mid-2000s when David Tennant played the Doctor.
0:53.0	Every fan has their favorite actor to play the Doctor and Tennant is Andy's favorite.
0:57.9	He's actually my favorite too.
1:00.1	And nobody can say I'm sorry like Tennant.
1:02.2	If I'm dying, I'm only deaf, and my make-wish foundation is for him to come and tell me
1:06.6	I'm sorry.
1:07.6	I'm sorry.
1:08.6	I am so sorry.
1:13.0	So going back to that police box.
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