{"id":461,"date":"2009-11-23T11:46:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T16:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=461"},"modified":"2023-08-18T10:16:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T14:16:49","slug":"happy-46th-doctor-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2009\/11\/23\/happy-46th-doctor-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 46th, Doctor Who"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wired<\/em> points out<\/a> that today, November 23rd, marks the 46th anniversary of the first airing of Doctor Who<\/em>, with BBC viewers tuning in at 5:15 P.M. to catch “The Unearthly Child,” the first episode of the first story, “100,000 BC,” in which two schoolteachers unwittingly stumble upon a Time Lord and are kidnapped for their curiosity.<\/p>\n

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According to Howe, Stammers, and Walker’s Doctor Who: The Handbook: The First Doctor<\/a><\/em>, only 4.4 million people can claim to have been with the Doctor from the beginning, the first episode coming in at 114th out of 200 shows that week. A repeat airing of the pilot, shown as a lead-in to the second episode the next week, did marginally better, climbing to 85th and 6 million viewers.<\/p>\n

The show’s continued existence was, indeed, in doubt after this disappointing debut, the combination of poor ratings and high effects budgets potentially dooming the Doctor to be a footnote in the BBC’s broadcast history, until the Dalek’s appeared and decided to, ahem, Exterminate<\/em>! all doubts…<\/p>\n

So, happy anniversary, Doctor Who<\/em>! Here’s to many more.<\/p>\n

(Image from the BBC Doctor Who<\/em> site<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wired points out that today, November 23rd, marks the 46th anniversary of the first airing of Doctor Who, with BBC viewers tuning in at 5:15 P.M. to catch “The Unearthly Child,” the first episode of the first story, “100,000 BC,” in which two schoolteachers unwittingly stumble upon a Time Lord and are kidnapped for their … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-doctor-who"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-7r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6247,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/6247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}