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The long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who has developed a large fan base over the years. A broadcast of the long-running and popular British science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, (and a 1996 television movie). ...

Doctor Who fans are sometimes referred to as Whovians, most often by the press; the term is not commonly used by fans themselves. The usage was more common among fans in the United States during the 1980s, when the Doctor Who Fan Club of America (now defunct) published the Whovian Times as its newsletter.

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Fan organisations

Doctor Who fans have had a formally recognised organisation — the Doctor Who Appreciation Society (or DWAS) — since the late 70s. It has thousands of members. The Doctor Who Appreciation Society (DWAS) is the principal organization for fans of the television series Doctor Who. ...

Many Doctor Who conventions are held worldwide. For many years, the largest was Panopticon, run by Dominitemporal Services. The first Panopticon was held in 1977, and the last in 2003. More recently, the Regenerations convention in Wales has had great success. In North America, the largest Doctor Who convention is Gallifrey One in Los Angeles, run by Shaun Lyon of Outpost Gallifrey. Another popular American convention is ChicagoTARDIS. Image File history File links Absorb1. ... Image File history File links Absorb1. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with List of Doctor Who monsters and aliens. ... Outpost Gallifrey is a fan website for the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

The Doctor Who Club of Australia was founded in the mid-1970s to galvanise resistance to the decision of the Australian Broadcasting Commission to cease broadcasting the programme (and was ultimately successful in having the decision overturned). In the 1980s, some US fans staged "Save Doctor Who" publicity campaigns, trying to urge their local television stations to keep airing the show. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation or ABC is Australias national non-profit public broadcaster. ...

Canada's Doctor Who Information Network (DWIN) is North America's oldest run Doctor Who fan club clocking in at 27 years as of 2007. Currently run out of Toronto, Ontario this not-for-profit organization is devoted to the celebration and promotion of 'Doctor Who' and its Fandom.

The Doctor Who Information Network (DWIN) was founded in 1980 and continues to serve fans in Canada, the USA and other countries around the world. It was one of the first Doctor Who clubs in North America, and is the longest running Doctor Who club on the continent. DWIN publishes an award winning bimonthly fanzine entitled Enlightenment, organized fan events and conventions, and supports the monthly Toronto Tavern fan gatherings.

The New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club (NZDWFC) was founded in 1988. They publish a fanzine, Time Space Visualiser (TSV), twice-yearly.

Fanzines

Perhaps the first form of organised fan activity was around fanzines - unofficial, homemade magazines celebrating the series. Generally these were typed, with hand-drawn illustrations, with the occasional photograph, and were usually photocopied or duplicated in small quantities. One of the first "'zines" was Tardis, around which the DWAS was organised. Other zines from the first decade of fandom included Gallifrey, Oracle, Skaro, Shada and Frontier Worlds. A fanzine (also called a zine) is an amateur publication created by fans of a particular cultural phenomena (such as a literary genre or type of music) to address or correspond with others who share their interest. ... A small, much-used Xerox copier in a high school library. ... Mimeograph machine The mimeograph machine (commonly abbreviated to mimeo) or stencil duplicator was a printing machine that was far cheaper per copy than any other process in runs of several hundred to several thousand copies. ... The TARDIS The TARDIS[1][2] is a time machine and spacecraft in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. ... Jack and Jill (J&J) or Dance with a Stranger (DWAS) is a format of competition in partner dancing, where the competing couples are the result of random matching of leaders and followers. ...

When video recording was in its infancy, much of the content of the first fanzines was devoted to documenting plots and characters. The success of Marvel's Doctor Who Weekly (later Doctor Who Magazine - DWM), providing a professional source of reference, meant that fanzines began to move to concentrate more on opinion - fan reviews of stories, debate, and letters. In these pre-internet times, most fanzines had active letters pages, which were the main conduit for debate around Doctor Who, especially with geographical spread of so many fans. The need to find new, original content meant that fanzines began to look closer at the series, subjecting stories and characters to ever-deeper analysis. Nerdish to some, for many this was one of the key aspects of fanzines, providing detail and discussion unavailable through more "official" channels. Marvel Comics is an American comic book line published by Marvel Publishing, Inc. ...

As technology developed, so did fanzines. A move from photocopying to offset litho printing in the early 1980s allowed the bigger selling fanzines to improve print quality, although lower-circulation titles continued to use photocopying for many years after this. Bath-based Skaro was one of the first fanzines to be professionally typeset, but by 1990 desktop publishing allowed most editors to do their own typsetting, with some achieving professional results. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Adobe InDesign CS2, one of many popular desktop publishing applications. ...

The mid 1980s has been described by some fans as "the golden age of A5 fanzines", as this period saw an explosion of activity, particularly in the UK. Although the enthusiasm of some editors could not be matched by their resources and many fanzines failed to see a second issue, some of the most popular zines appeared then, including Queen Bat, Star Begotten, Paradise Lost, Spectrox, the Black and White Guardian, Cygnus Alpha, Five Hundred Eyes, Eye Of Horus (in print between 1983-85 and online since 2004) and Purple Haze.

Format seemed to play a disproportionate role in how a fanzine was perceived, with divisions appearing between the cheaper-looking A5 fanzines and the glossier, more professional A4 "pro-zines" such as The Frame and Private Who. The news-zine DWB (later Dreamwatch) managed to straddle this divide, sometimes controversially, combining a professional A4 magazine format with some of the anarchism and disrespect for authority of the underground. ISO 216 specifies international standard (ISO) paper sizes, used in most countries in the world today. ... ISO 216 specifies international standard (ISO) paper sizes, used in most countries in the world today. ... Dreamwatch is a magazine covering science fiction and fantasy films, books and television programmes. ...

To a large extent, today fanzines have been replaced by websites and discussion boards, but a few do still exist. Many of them are published by fan clubs including the DWAS zine Celestial Toyroom, (which is the latest version of a number of DWAS fanzines which began with the fanzine TARDIS in the 1970s), the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club zine Time-Space Visualiser (TSV) which has been in existence since 1987, and the DWIN fanzine Enlightenment which has been published six times a year since 1983. Other individuals and groups still produce fanzines as well such as the highly popular, British-based, Black Scrolls Magazine, which has the distinction of being professionally printed and entirely in colour. Black Scrolls was the first prozine to offer a multimedia CDROM on its cover in 2005, featuring interviews with actors, Who-related art, a back issue archive and an alternative voice-over commentary for one of the episodes. Many fanzines still take the time-honoured route of printing and distributing their zine by mail, but many now distribute their fanzine as downloadable and printable PDFs - finally removing what was often the main cause for a fanzine's closure, the cost of printing and distribution. Fanzines have often been described as a magazine produced for love, not money. Now only love for the subject is needed ...

Many professional Doctor Who writers, for both the current TV series and the books, began their careers writing for fanzines, including Paul Cornell, Rob Shearman, Matt Jones, Marc Platt, Gareth Roberts, Clayton Hickman, David Howe and Stephen James Walker. Paul Cornell appearing on Doctor Who Confidential Paul Cornell (born July 18, 1967) is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as Doctor Who fiction. ... Robert Shearman appearing on Doctor Who Confidential Robert Shearman (also credited as Rob Shearman; born February 10, 1970 near London, England, United Kingdom) is currently best-known as a writer of Doctor Who audio plays for Big Finish, and for his ongoing association with Jarvis & Ayres Productions (Martin Jarvis and... This is about Matt Jones, the television writer. ... Marc Platt Marc Platt is a British writer. ... Gareth John Pritchard Roberts (born 5 June 1968) is a British television writer, best known for his work on various comedy series and soap operas. ... Clayton Hickman is a British writer, magazine editor and designer. ... David Howe is a known writer in the fields of science fiction and horror. ... Stephen James Walker is a writer and editor most associated with his work relating to the BBC Television series Doctor Who, usually with co-editors David J. Howe and/or Mark Stammers. ...

Celebrity fans

The series has a devoted global following of people from a range of backgrounds.

Some fans have ended up working creatively on the television series. One of the most prominent examples is the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the late Douglas Adams, who wrote or co-wrote several television scripts (The Pirate Planet, City of Death and Shada) and was script editor of the original series' seventeenth season. Adams had been a fan since the first season, and made two attempts to pitch a script for Doctor Who in the early 1970s before his first serial was commissioned.^[1] The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... Douglas NoÃ«l Adams (11 March 1952 â€“ 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ... The Pirate Planet is the second serial in the Key to Time arc of Doctor Who. ... City of Death is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from September 29 to October 20, 1979. ... Shada is an unaired serial of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Other celebrity fans have donated to the show in alternative ways. For example, the Panini publication The Complete Seventh Doctor (p47) lists singer Bob Dylan as a "great fan", such that he permitted his music to be used in the opening moments of season twenty-five without royalty. (Although Dylan's music was not in the event used). William Rees-Mogg, editor of The Times newspaper from 1967 until 1981, publicly declared his enjoyment of Doctor Who on an edition of the BBC's current affairs series Panorama in 1980.^[2] Prompted by this, the actor and dramatist Emlyn Williams admitted in the pages of The Times that he too was a keen follower of the series.^[2] Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is a Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. ... William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (born July 14, 1928) is a journalist and politician in the United Kingdom. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. ... Panorama is a long-running current affairs documentary series on BBC television, launched on 11 November 1953 and focusing on investigative journalism. ... Emlyn Williams (Agust, 1994 - August 6, 1987) was a Welsh dramatist and actor. ...

Celebrity fans include Queen Elizabeth^[3], comedians Jon Culshaw, David Walliams^[4], Mitch Benn, Peter Kay, Mark Gatiss, Stewart Lee, Matt Lucas, Toby Hadoke and Wil Anderson; actors David Hewlett,^[5] Eric McCormack^[6], and Elizabeth Hurley; Simpsons creator Matt Groening, graphic novelist and fantasy writer Neil Gaiman, horror novelist Brian Keene, and science-fiction writer and critic Harlan Ellison. Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ... Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born June 2, 1968 in Ormskirk, Lancashire) is an English impressionist and comedian. ... David Walliams, (born David Williams) August 20, 1971 in Surrey, is an English comedy actor, best known for his partnership with Matt Lucas in the sketch show Little Britain. ... Mitch Benn is a British musician and stand-up comedian famous for his satirical songs, many of which have been featured on BBC Radio 4 where he is a regular contributor to The Now Show, and BBC Radio 2s Its Been A Bad Week. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Mark Gatiss (born October 17, 1966) is an English actor and writer. ... Stewart Lee (born April 5, 1968 in Solihull) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director probably best known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically-acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera. ... Matthew Richard Lucas (born March 5, 1974) is an English comedy actor. ... Toby Hadoke (born Shropshire, 2 January 1974) is an English actor, writer and stand-up comedian. ... This article is about the Australian comedian. ... David Hewlett as Dr. Rodney McKay in Stargate Atlantis David Hewlett is both an actor and an Internet entrepreneur. ... Eric McCormack (born on April 18, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is an Emmy Award-winning Canadian actor of Scottish and Cherokee Canadian descent. ... Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born 10 June 1965) is an English actress, fashion model, producer and designer. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... Matthew Abram Groening (born February 15, 1954[2] in Portland, Oregon;[3] his family name is pronounced ) is an Emmy Award-winning American cartoonist and the creator of The Simpsons,[4] Futurama and the weekly comic strip Life in Hell. ... Neil Richard Gaiman () (born November 10, 1960, Portchester, Hampshire) is an English author of numerous science fiction and fantasy works, including many graphic novels. ... Brian Keene Brian Keene is a two-time Bram Stoker Award winning horror author, first in 2001 for his non-fiction work Jobs In Hell and then again in 2003 for his debut novel, the post-apocalyptic zombie tale The Rising. ... Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, essays, and criticism. ...

From the world of sport, cricketers Mike Gatting and Graham Gooch, footballer David Beckham, and from the music industry US heavy metal band Slipknot, Omar & Cedric of At the Drive-In/The Mars Volta, Jamie Lenman of UK band Reuben, Welsh hip-hop band Goldie Lookin Chain^[7], Jon Spencer of the US garage rock group Blues Explosion^[8], Paul & Phil Hartnoll of UK techno duo Orbital, singer and actress Toyah Willcox, and singer Meat Loaf^[9]. Michael William Gatting (born June 6, 1957) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club. ... Graham Alan Gooch (born July 23, 1953) is a former cricket captain for Essex and England. ... David Beckham David Robert Joseph Beckham OBE (born May 2, 1975) is an English footballer born in Leytonstone, London. ... Slipknot (sometimes typeset as SlipKnoT to fit their logo) is a metal band made up of nine members from Des Moines, Iowa. ... At the Drive-In was an American band from El Paso, Texas that existed from 1993 to 2001. ... The Mars Volta is an American rock group founded by Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. ... Reuben may refer to: People Ruben Zambrano,Basketball player for Houston Rockets]] Reuben, the first-born son of Jacob and the founder of the Tribe of Reuben mentioned in the Book of Genesis tried to save his brother. ... Goldie Lookin Chain (often abbreviated to GLC; not to be confused with the American rapper) are a Welsh pop group based in Newport, Wales. ... The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (sometimes abbreviated JSBX) is a New York based band, made up of members Jon Spencer (vocals, guitar), Judah Bauer (guitar) and Russell Simins (drums). ... Orbital was an English techno duo from 1989 until 2004, consisting of brothers Paul (born 19 May 1968) and Phil Hartnoll (born 9 January 1964). ... Toyah Ann Willcox (born May 18, 1958 in Kings Heath, Birmingham) is an English actress and singer. ... Meat Loaf is stage name of Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday on September 27, 1947)). He is an American rock singer and actor of stage and screen. ...

References

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See also

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External links

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