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Waris Hussein has been a leading light in film and television since the early 1960s, and will probably be most familiar to our readers as the very first, and very influential, director of Doctor Who. He even became a character (played by Sacha Dhawan, below) in Mark Gatiss’s “origins of Who” drama, An Adventure in Space and Time (2013). There is, of course, so much more to his career. The youngest drama director employed by the BBC in 1960, Waris…

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** Warning – This clip contains mild innuendo and may not be suitable for younger readers ** https://twitter.com/georgiaEtennant/status/957666470233870337 It’s not that we haven’t loved the incarnations of the Doctor since, but there’s something about David Tennant’s turn as Doctor Who that really sticks with us. Yes, still. Fortunately, David’s wife Georgia – who has more than a few Doctor Who connections herself – has made our collective days by sharing a throwback clip of her and David as the Doctor. And this isn’t behind-the-scenes…

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Last month saw all sorts of new beginnings for Doctor Who, with Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor making her debut while longtime series writer Chris Chibnall took over with a plan to take the sci-fi series in a bold new direction later this year. However, all these new starts meant that we had a few sad endings as well, with Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi, companion Pearl Mackie and showrunner Steven Moffat all saying their goodbyes in the Christmas special. Now, a…

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