# Any Doctor Who-like series out there?

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**Created:** [April 9, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-doctor-who-like-series-out-there/618269 "2012-04-09T16:34:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-doctor-who-like-series-out-there/618269/21 "2012-04-10T23:27:53Z")

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There is, actually, a lot of Who-based print stuff. I knew Doctor Who from the novelisations (of the old show) before I got to really know the TV show. (Which surely makes my Who affections less camp-based than those who watched it back in the day.) And there have been comic-strip adventures pretty much from the beginning.

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-doctor-who-like-series-out-there/618269/22 "2012-04-11T01:00:32Z")

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Fritz Leiber wrote a series of “Change War” stories, though it was about people fighting to change the past, not visit it, and I don’t think there were any recurring characters.

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**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-doctor-who-like-series-out-there/618269/23 "2012-04-11T04:19:38Z")

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Quatermass sorta evokes the “TARDIS Broken / Stuck on Earth” Doctor Who era.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-doctor-who-like-series-out-there/618269/24 "2012-04-11T05:09:10Z")

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Or rather the other way around. The Daemons is a pretty direct steal from Quatermass And The Pit.

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**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-doctor-who-like-series-out-there/618269/25 "2012-04-11T06:09:56Z")

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[The Stranger](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(video_series)) was something of an oddity, almost an unofficial continuation of Doctor Who: essentially fanfic with a full-blown budget _and_ a lot of the original Who cast, including 6th Doctor Colin Baker as “The Stranger”. It ought to have been dreadful, it was actually rather good. Still available on DVD, I think.

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