That's right! Doctor Who is my favorite show on TV right now. Well, Doctor Who, Survivorman, The MythBusters, How It's Made, Desperate Housewives, Modern Marvels and Battlestar Galactica are all pretty close in my rating scale. Doctor Who has really caught my fascination again. I've probably seen every single episode of the Tom Baker thru Collin Baker series twenty times. When I was a teenager and even younger I would stay up all night watching Doctor Who marathons on KERA-13. But when they replaced Collin Baker with dipstick, er uhm, I mean Sylvester McCoy I quit watching the series. They totally ruined the show. It became a mockery of what the original series was always liked for.

I've always liked Doctor Who because most of the subject material was thought provoking an believable. I loved the scientific content and the way The Doctor was able to solve puzzles by thinking outside of the box. After the series was cancelled in the late 80's I had lost all hope that it would ever return and be good again. Even in the late 90's a single episode was made with an 8th Doctor, but it was a failure with the fans as well.

When I heard that a new series would start in 2005 I got excited. I even downloaded the first episode from bittorrent two weeks before it was broadcast on TV. IT WAS TERRIBLE. I never looked for or watched another episode. Then one day a few weeks ago I noticed that my Tivo had started recording them from a wish-list I put in over a year ago for the old series. I started watching them. To my amazement, every episode I have seen has been really good. I guess the first was just a dud! I am so glad to say it too. I just watched Dalek last night. This is the first time the Dalek's have made an appearance in the new series. It was one of the best Doctor Who episodes I can remember! I've been reading some spoilers and reviews and it seems that some of the next few are even better! Great job BBC! This series is excellent and the character choices of Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper are perfect (although it seems Mr. Eccleston has left the series for 2006). This new series brings back all of the core values and designs of the orignal series that I grew up loving. As long as you keep making episodes like these, I will keep watching every week!