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- From: maujs@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J D Morris)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
- Subject: Re: from where to who?
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 14:56:25 -0000
- Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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- In article <92324.112455IO21145@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> <IO21145@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
- >Dear anyone.....
- >Has it ever occured to any of you the sort of mystery around
- >our favourite Time Lord's name? #1- where did the "Doctor"
- >come into the picture ? - With William Hartnell's charecter
- >promoting himself as a Professor of strange sorts?, #2- and
- >what about the "who" ?, I can only recall two instances from
- >the Tom Baker era where it was ever questioned, but it was
- >more of a joke than anything else....
- The Doctor was first sort-of referred to as Doctor
- Who in 'An Unearthly Child' when Ian is told he is not Doctor
- Foreman. 'Doctor Who?' he asks. Since then there have been
- numerous similar plays on the Doctor's name, but the only
- definite mention of him as 'Doctor Who' in the series was
- in 'The War Machines' where Wotan and his followers referred
- to him as such.
- Two other points: First, he has of course been
- called 'Doctor Who' in books, comics and, most noticeably,
- in the end titles of all stories up to 'Logopolis'. Secondly,
- from 'The Mysterious Planet' we definetly know that the
- Doctor DOES have a second name, and is not 'The Doctor'.
- Oh, and thirdly (?), he has also been referred to
- by the following names:
- Doctor Foreman
- Doctor Caligari
- Doctor John Smith
- Theta Sigma
- The Valeyard
- and has a '?' emblem as his calling (in
- 'Rembrance Of The Daleks' at least)...
- Jonathan Morris
-