Introduction:
Doctor Who, as we know, is a significant part of British popular culture and a long-running science-fiction TV drama. It has been broadcast more than 52 countries of the world during 1963 to 1989, although it has been suspended in 1989, it also got a high reputation for 26 seasons and when the "Doctor" came back in 2005, 7 series have been added to the old one.
The story of this drama is full of image: An adventures of a Time Lord—a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor. He explores the universe in his TARDIS. Along with a succession of companions, the Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilisations, help ordinary people, and right wrongs.
There are 12 actors play the role as the "Doctor", the transition from one to another is shown as "regeneration".
1.Analysis of British Elements:
Doctor Who is totally British, we can easily found plenty of British elements in the drama.
Settings: Most settings are made in British, because actually this drama was designed as an educating one for teenagers at the beginning , it was divided to two parts, some episodes were happened in ancient time and taught the knowledge of history, other episodes were happened in future and taught science.But for years,the science part became more dominant and replaced the history one. But some settings still historied in British.
Symbol:There are the most famous symbol of Doctor Who all over the world——TARDIS——the time machine of the Doctor, which is printed every where on advertisement poster and merchandise even on T-shirts.It is appear like a blue British police box, which is a common site in UK
Actors:The actors of Doctor Who are all British people and some characteristics such as the Prime minister of UK, Queen Victoria are full of British feature.At the same time ,some British famous people and actors are invited to be the guest performer in some episode.
Fashion: It is a wide topic to analyse British fashion elements in the drama, for example, some actress in the drama wear a costumes with British national flag and there are many famous band play the theme music for Doctor Who, some of them are British band.
Moran Caitline, a famous broadcast and TV critic said that"Doctor Who, is a thrilling and as loved as Jolene, or bread and cheese, or honey suckle, or Friday.It's quintessential to being British."
2.Evaluation of Popularity:
Some critics watched Doctor Who sines they were a little child, it influenced several generations of both culture areas and financial areas."Saturday is the family time for Doctor Who,of course,children watched it behind sofa because some scenes are thrilling but still attractive."One of the critic remembered .
Because of the popularity through the world, some merchandise about Doctor Who have been produced like the mug, wallet, T-shirt with the TARDIS and so on. Many actors of the Doctor also set up the charity career for the children in need.
For the culture areas, it plus living theaters in early time,adds other drama series like K-9 and Trochwood,documentary films about the history of Doctor Who, online games, novel, audios drama series and so on.It also lead the cultural references, for example there are several cities in UK have museums and exhibitions of Doctor Who,Glasgow,Newcastle and of course London."The museum of Moving Image" is the theme.
There is an interesting point that the word "TARDIS" entry into the Oxford English Dictionary as an vocabulary now.
The famous director Steven Spielberg has comment that"The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who."
3.Assessment of Longevity:
Another important feature of Doctor Who is its longevity,which made a record of the world's longest science-fiction drama in Ginniess book.
It also received as the finest drama in the world especially after 2005.The awards of this drama included many areas such as "the Best Writing(1975),the Best Popular Drama(1996),100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century(2000),and "National Television Awards" (2005-2010),and so on.
I think its longevity is for many reasons.
fund:the drama use the low-budget but creative special effect that donnot need a huge invest and can be produced by the independent production company like BBC and CBC for many years.
audience:both viewing numbers and public perceptions are good, because they designed as the family drama that can be watched by several generations and donnot have the generation gap in it, even when it be suspended in 1989 and came back in 2005, the new stories and characteristics still followed the old one.
stories：most longevity drama have to face this problem that when it broadcast more than 6 or 7 seasons, the stories would become bored and less of dramatic and image. But because Doctor Who's story is happened in future, so it could be more image and fresh to the audience.
The time to broadcast is also important and because Doctor Who has been broadcast for more than 30 years,it is not only a TV drama, but also an important part of British popular culture, even in the world.
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