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| | Doctor Who |
 | | Doctor Who, the world's longest continuously running television science fiction series, was made by the BBC between 1963 and 1989 (with repeats being shown in many countries thereafter, and negotiations with Steven Spielberg and others to make new programs continuing into the mid-1990s). |
 | | The Doctor was deliberately constructed as a character against stereotype: a "cranky old man", yet also as vulnerable as a child; an anti-hero playing against the more obvious "physical" hero of the schoolteacher Ian (himself played by the well-known lead actor in commercial television's Ivanhoe series). |
 | | Following Hartnell, the Doctor was played by the Chaplinesque "space hobo" Patrick Troughton, the dignified "establishment" figure of Jon Pertwee, the parodic visual mix of Bob Dylan and Oscar Wilde, Tom Baker, the vulnerable but "attractive to young women" Peter Davison, the aggressive and sometimes violent Colin Baker, and the gentle, whimsical Sylvester McCoy. |
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