# Woo Hoo! BBC announces the return of "Dr Who" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 26, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-hoo-bbc-announces-the-return-of-dr-who/203945 "2003-09-26T12:03:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Galanthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Galanthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galanthus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-hoo-bbc-announces-the-return-of-dr-who/203945/1 "2003-09-26T12:03:35Z")
All my christamases have come at once! > **[BBC One - Doctor Who](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006q2x0)** > > Adventures in Space and Time. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-hoo-bbc-announces-the-return-of-dr-who/203945/2 "2003-09-26T12:27:22Z")
What about Lucy Lawless as Leela. 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 26, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-hoo-bbc-announces-the-return-of-dr-who/203945/3 "2003-09-26T12:34:29Z")
Is Paul McGann the Doctor? Or are they at least going to give him a cameo to preserve continuity? ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-hoo-bbc-announces-the-return-of-dr-who/203945/4 "2003-09-26T12:34:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Doctor Who will be produced by BBC Wales Tom Jones as the Doctor? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-hoo-bbc-announces-the-return-of-dr-who/203945/5 "2003-09-26T15:04:14Z")
I’d love to see [Cameron Daddo](http://www.daddo.com/cambio.htm) as the Doctor. He has experience with starring in a TV series as a Doctor-like character. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-hoo-bbc-announces-the-return-of-dr-who/203945/6 "2003-09-26T15:04:44Z")
yay! I hope they don’t fuck it up. Their success depends on who they get to play the Doctor. Is Tom Baker doing anything these days? ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-hoo-bbc-announces-the-return-of-dr-who/203945/7 "2003-09-26T15:47:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RealityChuck \* > \*\*Is Paul McGann the Doctor? Or are they at least going to give him a cameo to preserve continuity? \*\* God I hope not. Far better to pretend that that particular debacle never happened, just in some parallel universe somewhere far, far away. Tom Baker again would be cool. “I liked this version so much I thought I’d base my next incarnation on it again…”. Let’s face it, Peter Davison was ok, but it’s been downhill all the way since Tom left. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-hoo-bbc-announces-the-return-of-dr-who/203945/8 "2003-09-26T15:53:23Z")
Well, here’s hoping they don’t screw it up. (Can you say TV Movie? I thought you could.) Seriously though, I’m excited. New _Doctor Who_ I’ll never get to see because I’m in the States. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-hoo-bbc-announces-the-return-of-dr-who/203945/9 "2003-09-26T17:40:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\*Seriously though, I’m excited. New _Doctor Who_ I’ll never get to see because I’m in the States. \*\* Here’s hoping they offer it to PBS, or at least put it on BBC America. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-hoo-bbc-announces-the-return-of-dr-who/203945/10 "2003-09-26T18:02:31Z")
I met Tom Baker at a signing at the Virgin in Oxford St a few years ago, and he autographed my dvd cover, ‘To the Doctor, from the Doctor.’🆒 I have to admit, one thing rattling around in the back of my head whilst sweating over my dissertation was eventually, someday, to have awe struck people hanging on my every word, saying, ‘What is it, Doctor?’ _Some_ day…sigh. He told me he was chuffed to meet an historian – ‘You’re the first medievalist I’ve ever met!’ I blurted out, 'Well, you’re the first Time Lord I’ve ever met! 😃 Fab news!! ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-hoo-bbc-announces-the-return-of-dr-who/203945/11 "2003-09-26T18:08:58Z")
Maybe we could start a “Draft Tom” campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-hoo-bbc-announces-the-return-of-dr-who/203945/12 "2003-09-26T19:45:07Z")
As much as I loved Tom Baker as the Doctor, I think it’d be better if they went with a whole new Doctor & companions. As an amateur screenwriter, I’ve had my own ideas for a Doctor Who feature film (I can’t believe it’s never been done) It’d definitely have a scene involving the Doctor going to Gallifrey and having a confrontation with the High Council of Time-Lords. In this fantasy script of mine, the high council would consist of all the still-living actors who portrayed the Doctor in the t.v. series: Tom Baker, Peter Davidson, Coliin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, and Paul McGann (who was decent as the Doctor, even if the t.v. movie about his incarnation sucked.)