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Steven Moffat, the show's chief writer, attributed its success to having "a simple hero who can go anywhere in time and space" and transforming itself every few years with a new lead character and updated technology.
One centerpiece of the show is the Doctor's Tardis time machine, which appears in the form of a blue police box. The Tardis had been designed to blend in with its surroundings, which it did nicely in the 1963 broadcast set in London, where such boxes were a common sight as they were a constable's telephone link to his police station at that time in Britain. Unfortunately, the function froze after the first series, leaving the Tardis in the same, subsequently rather strange form for future visits to far away planets and distant times.
The show has its critics, as even the BBC acknowledges. "Daleks are like a wheelie bin with a plunger. I am simply not scared of them, no matter how much people may scream," wrote one observer, Chris Sallis, in an article on the BBC website. "The Tardis itself just doesn't interest me, either. What is interesting about a blue police box compared with the starship Enterprise or the Millennium Falcon?" Yet fans keep clamoring for more.
The lead role has been played by 11 actors, starting with William Hartnell in 1963 through to the incumbent Doctor Matt Smith, who will hand over the keys to the Tardis later this year to the 12th Doctor, Oscar-winner Peter Capaldi.
Each doctor has brought his own character to the role and the reinvention of the Time Lord has been hailed as also showing the possibility for change at the BBC, which has been attacked in the past year for its management and strategy. "I suppose you can't be the home of 'Doctor Who' for 50 years without learning something about regeneration," the BBC's new Director-General Tony Hall quipped last month.
Colin Baker, who played the Doctor in the 1980s, said it might be time for change. "I want to see a lady play the Doctor," he said. Moffat played down fan concerns that the show could grind to a halt because, according to one episode, the Doctor only has the power to regenerate 12 times. "We are not going to disregard that, but as to whether the BBC will discard one of its most successful programs, I will leave you to make your own conclusions," he said. As always, it seems, time is on the Doctor's side.
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