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Name: Kassandra.

Location: El estado de Coahuila, desculpe- Tejas.

Interests: Political/Environmental activism, bibliophiliac, cinephile, Buddhism, Taoism, Doctor Who (2005-), Seattle, Austin, Asian cultures, languages & philosophies, nice intelligent guys, zen rock gardens, laying on the ground watching clouds roll by, thunderstorms, exploring abandoned buildings, photography, writing, Chinese astrology, science, history, computer geek. I'm also very much into connecting with others, learning who they are and what they're about. I've often noticed many haven't asked themselves such questions which makes for rather interesting an exchange. I expect what drives me most is becoming the change I want to see in the world, and the desire to leave it a better place when it's time for me to go.

Influences & Heroes: Buddha, my Mother & Grandparents, Gloria Steinem, RFK, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Al Gore, Laurie David, Rosa Parks, Julia Butterfly Hill, Chief Seattle, The Doctor, Wonder Woman, Superman

Authors, Artists & Poets: Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, e.e. cummings, William Butler Yeats, Lao Tse, Neil Gaiman, Alex Garland, Vincent Van Gogh, Joel Settles, Jack Kerouac, John Pilger, Bill Moyers, David Edwards, Molly Ringwald, Penelope Keith, Miranda Richardson, Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore, Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Clive Owen, Helena Bonham-Carter, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Gina McKee, Helen Mirren, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Wong Faye, Zhiyi Zhang, Gong Li, Linus Roache, Cecelia Cheung, Allison Elliot, Joan Allen, Laura Linney

Favourite Films: A Room With A View, Howards End, The Remains Of The Day, The Hours, Possession, Enchanted April, Brokeback Mountain, Memoirs Of A Geisha, King Kong, Superman Returns, The Ice Storm, Hulk, Chungking Express, Hero, In The Mood For Love, 2046, Lost In Translation, All That Heaven Allows, All About Eve, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, House Of Flying Daggers, Pleasantville, Garden State, Secrets & Lies, Amelie, An Inconvenient Truth

Television: Planet Earth, Coast, Shakespeare Retold, The British Isles, The UP Series, Berkeley In The Sixties, Making Sense Of The Sixties, Black Adder, Frasier, The Young Ones, Twilight Zone ('85), Outer Limits (classic series), Doctor Who (2005-), Coupling, Goodnight Sweetheart, Keeping Up Appearances, UltraViolet, Are You Being Served?, The Good Life, Once & Again, I Love Lucy, Homefront, Documentaries, Heroes, The Night Stalker

Year became a Doctor Who fan: 1983/2005

Favourite Doctor: Christopher Eccleston

Favourite Companion: Rose Tyler, Donna...for making the Doctor take a look at himself from a different perspective

Favourite Episode: Chips scene in End Of The World, Dalek, Father's Day, Parting Of The Ways, Love & Monsters (yes, I know I asked for one)

Age : 40 Joined : 03 Feb 2007 Posts : 156

Okay.

Name: Mikal

Location: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Interests: Oh, definitely. Arthuriana, Grail Lore, superheroes, British sci-fi, Tokusatsu, books, Disney stuff, things, other stuff.

Influences & Heroes: Ah, my primary trinity are William Blake, C.S. Lewis, and Terry Scott Taylor.

Authors, Artists & Poets: See "Influences & Heroes."
Also, I like Stephen R Lawhead, Tolkien, George MacDonald, Agatha Christie, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, my little sister, Stephen King, Edith Pargeter (aka Ellis Peters), and others.

Favourite Films: *ahem* ... don't laugh... Joe versus the Volcano... The Mighty, Secondhand Lions, Knights of the Round Table, Pi, Brazil...

Television: currently watching; Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, Lost, Smallville, Scrubs, Monk, Stargate: SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, Doctor Who, Life on Mars, Sentai, Kamen Rider, and Ryukendo.

Year became a Doctor Who fan: 1992? 93?

Favourite Doctor: varies with mood

Favourite Companion: toss up between Jamie and Ace

Favourite Episode: the one where Ace goes at the Dalek with the souped-up baseball bat.
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And here's the thing that's going to shock you, Mikal... I know who Terry Scott Taylor is...

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Age : 35 Joined : 04 Feb 2007 Posts : 481

Name: Tom (aka: Dr, Valeyard, Rev)

Location: Central GA

Interests: Lots of stuff!

Influences & Heroes: Jim Henson, God, others.

Authors, Artists & Poets: Me, hmmm....

Favourite Films: Hmmm.... classic horror, Superman & Batman films, Young Frankenstein, Monty Python films....

Television: Heroes, Smallville, Scrubs, Doctor Who, Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Kappa Mikey....

Year became a Doctor Who fan: 1988 or so.

Favourite Doctor: More of Troughton, but I do like them all.

Favourite Companion: see other post.

Favourite Episode: Peri in a bikini! Razz

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Age : 40 Joined : 03 Feb 2007 Posts : 156

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Age : 24 Joined : 01 Feb 2007 Posts : 44

Name: Catherine Taylor

Location: Sheandoah Valley, Va

Interests: music,t.v. pets(I have 6 gerbils,one fish and a fat cat:) I love reading and make clay animals in my spare time.

Influences & Heroes: God, my parents

Authors:Karen Hancock, Kathy Tyers,Bill Myers,The doctor who authors:)

Favourite Films:old movies Kate and Leopold,Flicka Narnia movies sci-fi ones ....

Television: Smallville, Doctor Who, Jake 2.0,dresdin files,Supernatural,

Year became a Doctor Who fan: 2006

Favourite Doctor: David Tennant

Favourite Companion: rose

Favourite Episode:all of them Smile

Age : 37 Joined : 02 Feb 2007 Posts : 148

Name: Jeremy Benner

Location: Vancouver, B.C. Canada. The place where they filmed the 1996 DR.WHO TV Movie. (I have some good stories about that...)

Interests: Guitar (The playing thereof). Book Collection (DR.WHO). Hockey (CANUCKS). Artwork (the making thereof).

Influences & Heroes: Captain Kirk. Goldie Lookin' Chain (Safe).

Authors: Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole). William Shatner (or his ghost writers).

Favourite Films: Haloween (H20). Friday The 13th (JASON X IS SUPERB). Hellraiser. Mike Leigh (NAKED is great). OLDBOY. STAR TREK.

Television: Alan Partridge (AHA). Good Neighbors (Felicity Kendal is a Godess). Sandbaggers. Fawlty Towers. Red Dwarf. CORONATION STREET (been watching it longer than I've been watching DR.WHO). The Office. Extras. BENNY HILL. Hancock (Tony). Only fools and horses (Rodney you Plonker!). BOTTOM.

Year became a Doctor Who fan: 1979 (I think...It was a long time ago...)

Favourite Doctor: I'll always have a soft spot for Colin Baker).

Favourite Companion: Turlough was pretty good. Jamie. Tegan...

Favourite Episode: City Of Death. INFERNO. Caves of Androzani. Gunfighters. Tomb of the Cybermen.

Age : 40 Joined : 01 Feb 2007 Posts : 33

Name: Blayne T. Jensen

Location:Cedar Rapids/Iowa City, IA

Interests: Writing, (I have written a science-fiction time-travel supernatural romantic comedy adventure novel set in the Jazz Age Chicago of the Roaring Twenties).
Reading, watching movies, crossword puzzles, playing with my cat Midnight, collecting photos of my muse Amber Benson.

Influences/Heroes: Douglas Adams, Chuck Jones, John Cleese, Gordon Lightfoot, P.G. Wodehouse, Amber Benson, Neil Gaiman, Nic Jones, Garnet Rogers, Michael Feldman.

Authors/Artists/: Douglas Adams, P. G. Wodehouse, James Herriot, Ben Elton, Robert Llewellyn, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, John Irving, Amber Benson, Christopher Golden, Kurt Vonnegut, J. D. Salinger, Charles Dickens, Richard Dawkins, J.R.R. Tolkien, Sue Townsend, Titian, Botticelli, Edward Hopper, Degas.

Favorite Films: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars(the orginal 1977 Theatrical Version) and them's fightin' woids who says otherwise, The Blues Brothers, The Sting, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Gregory's Girl, Local Hero, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, The Adventures of Robin Hood, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Blazing Saddles, Blade Runner, 2001, KRULL, Clash of the Titans, Dragonslayer, Flash Gordon, Logan's Run, Free Enterprise, Videodrome, Time Bandits, Soylent Green, Excalibur, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Electric Horseman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

T.V.: Doctor Who, Blake's Seven, Red Dwarf, Babylon Five, Neverwhere, BTVS, Angel, Firefly, Fawlty Towers, The Goodies, The Two Ronnies, Only When I Laugh, Mind Your Language, Open All Hours, Three Up, Two Down, As Time Goes By, Oliver's Travels, All Creatures Great and Small, Campion, Jonathan Creek, At Home With the Braithwaites, Good Neighbors, To The Manor Born, Upstairs, Downstairs, The House of Elliot.

Year Became a Who Fan:1983/1984(?)-the year Iowa Public Television started showing it on Friday nights when I was in high school. While other kids went out and got drunk at keg parties, I stayed home and watched British programs on Iowa Public Television.

Favorite Doctor-Jon Pertwee. His stories, during the U.N.I.T/Jo Grant years always had the feel of epic space operas about them and they did topical ecological commentary without resorting to ham-fisted morality plays like Star Trek:TNG always did.

Favorite Companion- Rose Tyler, Ace, Leela, Romana II.

Favorite Episode- City of Death(default because Douglas Adams wrote it and for Julian Glover, Tom Chadbon, and Catherine Schell)
Talons of Weng Chiang
Inferno and The Green Death-see above in Favorite Doctor

Age : 25 Joined : 28 Feb 2007 Posts : 44

Hello! Just joined, been a long time Who fan, but just noticed there was a forum here :p

Im an avid prop collector and maker and have been for years, which is where I got into Dr Who toys, so most of my collection consists of lifesize things, like the Sonic Screwdriver, Cyberman Head etc, as well as a few homemade props from the new series and Torchwood.

I am a 23 year old graphic/web designer from Jefferson, Wisconsin. Here are my websites for examples of my prop work and more about me.

http://www.raynecreations.com
http://www.myspace.com/raynecreations

Joined : 17 Feb 2007 Posts : 44

Hi guys,

My Name is Dana, I live in Portland, Maine...Where I live with my partner of seven years and our new cat, Chloe.

I'm an amateur writer, artist and action figure customizer....I work at a local hospital overnights...Blech!

I collect Doctor Who figures (of course), X-Men film figures and Micronauts/Micromen.

An old fan who started with Tom Baker's Who (watched him in the seventies on Maine and New Hampshire PBS stations) and now I'm a fan of the new Doctor Who. A big fan of The Avengers (Mr. Steed and Mrs. Peel) and of Space:1999 (I absolutely love the first season). Not really a Trekkie, but I like some of the various ST series. I like Star Gate: SG1, but I'm only able to catch the odd episode every now and again.

I'm a fan of Buffy, Angel and Charmed...Also used to watch (blush) Hercules and Xena...LOL.

I'm a reformed Star Wars fan (generally because I can't stand what George Lucas has done to the original Star Wars films...I saw the first in '78 at a drive in?). I watched the old Creature Features back in the seventies too and I fell in love with Godzilla movies (still love Godzilla today...Old and New).

I also enjoy Marvel comics' Horror and monster comics (mostly from the seventies and eighties), Alpha Flight and DC's Doom Patrol.

Let's see...

Year I became a Who fan...1974 or 75...I'm not sure which...Hey! It was long time ago.

My favorite Classic Doctor would have to be Tom Baker, followed by Jon Pertwee, then Patrick Troughton.

My fave new Doctor is David Tennant (he's so darn cute!).

My Favorite companion would have to be Sarah Jane Smith, followed by Leela, K-9, then Rose (sorry Rose).

I also really dig Torchwood (which I got caught up watching it on Youtube)...Good show.

Oh...Sarah Jane Adventures was fun too...I'll have to put that on my list of shows to catch....Whew! That was long-winded...I apologize.

Best.

Dana

Age : 25 Joined : 03 Feb 2007 Posts : 10

Name: Sarah Malken

Location:Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Interests:Writing, reading, nature, icecream

Influences & Heros:My Dad, Martin Luther King, The Doctor

Authors:Douglas Adams, Charles Dickens, William Kotzwikle, Poppy Z. Brite, J.R.R Tolkien, David Eddings

Films: Interiors, Pi, Girl Interrupted, Lord Of THe Rings(all of them!), and really anything by Woody Allen

T.V.:I don't watch alot of T.V., but I do like the Daily Planet, Doctor Who goes without saying, and the Colbert Report

Year I became a Doctor Who fan: Well, My Dad was always a fan, so I guess I've been watching my whole life. When the new series came out, though, I started collecting books and other things just like he does. I guess it runs in the family!

Favorite Doctor: I love Tennant, but I have a special spot for the 5th Doctor

Favorite Companion: Here's a shocker...Tegan! Of course Rose is pretty cool

Favorite Episode: Bad Wolf(1&2), Caves of Androzani, Earthshock

Age : 33 Joined : 06 Mar 2007 Posts : 270

Name: Brian Terranova

Location: Pennsylvania

Interests: Acting, Making Films, Writing, Playing the Guitar, Art, oh and Doctor Who. I run a Doctor Who website with Two friends from the UK at www.Kasterborous.com we have reviews, article, nice art work, and news.

Influences & Heroes: I do tend to be influenced by the ideals of my TV hero’s, but to be honest I can’t think of any real like examples.

Authors: Douglas Adams. Why go any further. I read all five of the hitchhikers books and never had to put the books down due to boredom. (Something that most books do to me very easily.)

Films: Snatch, Star War (original Trilogy, the new ones have yet to grow on me, though they have their moments), James Bond fan, and I’ll go with the last poster and say Woody Allen films.

T.V.: Doctor Who, new, old and the TV Movie, Life On Mars (BRILLIANT show), The X-Files, The Saint, Star Gate SG1, Medium, House, and.. you know for a guy who doesn’t have time for TV anymore, I sure have a lot of favorites. I do feel that reality TV is killing TV. I haven’t really watched a show regularly since the X-files ended, and now Doctor Who and Life on Mars, so hopefully Reality TV has had it’s day.

Year I became a Doctor Who fan: The 80’s, not sure exactly when as I was a Kid watching it on PBS, but I did drift for a few years until I rediscovered it again in 1995. since then I have done everything I can to follow the show. I have all the Doctor Who Big Finish plays, and I am collecting all the missing stories on audio, and now I even run a site for the show.

Favorite Doctor: Bit of a cliché but I have to say Tom Baker, but he is followed VERY closely by Patrick Troughton and Paul McGann. Tennant’s great though, maybe he’ll be in the tops by the time his era is over. Mind you the rest of the Doctors are great fun too, yes even Colin.

Favorite Companion: Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan. Those two coupled with Tom were the Dream team in my book. But there have been so many and I could say some many nice things about all of them.

Favorite Episode: Hard to say, but I have to say all of Tom Bakers first two series.
‘Inferno’,
‘The War Games’,
‘The Chase’,
‘Remembrance of the Daleks’,
‘The Girl in the Fireplace’,
‘The Empty Child’ two parter,
‘Caves of Androani’,
‘The Mark of the Rani’,
And for Paul McGann, I’ll go with an audio and say,
‘Time Works’
and ‘Seasons of Fear’.
There, one (or so) for each of them.
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Age : 45 Joined : 02 Feb 2007 Posts : 7

Name: Steve Roby

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Interests: Science fiction, crime fiction, old movies, atheism, film noir, punk/postpunk/new wave/alternative etc music

Influences & Heroes: Bugs Bunny

Authors, Artists & Poets: Philip K. Dick, H.P. Lovecraft, Cornell Woolrich, Thorne Smith, Kate Bush, Cocteau Twins, Joy Division/New Order, Ultravox/John Foxx, Brian Eno, David Bowie...

Favourite Films: Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, Blade Runner, the Lady Eve, the Thin Man series, Gun Crazy (the original), Double Indemnity, Animal House, Young Frankenstein, Hard Boiled, Pulp Fiction.

Television: Star Trek (well, some Trek series), Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, The Prisoner, Space: 1999, Life on Mars, Coronation Street, Babylon 5, Blake's 7, Coupling, Seinfeld.

Year became a Doctor Who fan: It was a gradual process. First heard of Who in the late 1970s, thanks to newspaper and magazine articles and sightings of Target novelizations, but it wasn't on TV where I lived. Watched it a few times in the 1980s, noticed the New Adventures in bookstores (Kate Orman was a regular on rec.arts.startrek.current around that time) but was overwhelmed by the number of them, watched the TV movie in 1996, and for no single particular reason dived in headfirst in 2001 at last. I'd always intended to get into it and that's when I got around to it.

Favourite Doctor: I don't know that I have one. It really depends on the story. McGann did a great job in a not so great movie, and Eccleston was great, and I started with Pertwee and Tom Baker... nah, can't narrow it down.

Favourite Companion: Bernice Summerfield.

Favourite Episode: Not sure. Most of the ones that still exist on video I've seen only once, and there are a few I still haven't seen at all.

Age : 30 Joined : 26 Apr 2007 Posts : 4

Name: Christopher.

Location: Beech Grove, Indiana

Interests: Transformers, TNA Wrestling, ROH Wrestling, Sci-Fi, comics, movies, Country Music.

Influences & Heroes: My father, Optimus Prime, Superman, The man called Sting, Samoa Joe, Kurt Angle, and the Doctor

Authors, Artists & Poets: Peter David, Jim Starlin, Simon Furman, Andy Wildman, Geoff Senior, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Julianne Moore, Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Clive Owen, Helena Bonham-Carter, Peter Davison, Frank Miller, and Orson Wells

Favourite Films: King Kong (1931 version), Citzen Kane, Serenity, Transformers: The Movie, F for Fake, Batman Begins, Superman Returns, Horror of Dracula, and Curse of Frankenstien

Television: Transformers (all series), Robotech, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Tru Calling, Firefly, Angel, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who (2005-),

Year became a Doctor Who fan: 2006

Favourite Doctor: Peter Davison

Favourite Companion: Rose Tyler and Teagn

Favourite Episode: The Five Doctors and Doomsday

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Name: Chris

Location: Ankeny, IA

Interests: Art, Computers, books, movies, video production, drawing, reading, British history & culture (admitted anglophile), comics, toys, 80's nostalgia, and tea.

Authors, Artists & Poets: Douglas Adams, Pratchett, Gaiman, Alan Moore, Terry Goodkind (at times), Tolkien, Lewis, ...

Favourite Films: I don't have the energy to answer this one right now. Very Happy

Television: Doctor Who, Firefly, STTNG, Are You Being Served, Father Ted, House,

Year became a Doctor Who fan: Late one night in the late 80's, watching PBS in my bedroom with the volume turned down so my parents would think I was alseep. Again on March 5th, 2005 when SciFi picked up the series.

Favourite Doctor: I want to say Chris... but Mr. Tennant has won me over.

Favourite Companion: Rose.

Favourite Episodes:

The Doctor Dances
The End of the World

The Satan Pit - I love the idea of something so ancient and powerful that even the Doctor can't accept its existence.

Fear her - The first 2 minutes after the opening theme. The rest was rubbish. First he lands the Tardis and can't get out, then "Nobody else in this entire galaxy's ever even bothered to make edible ball bearings. Genius." This is my "chips" moment.

Joined : 06 Feb 2007 Posts : 24

Name: Peter

Location: upstate NY

Interests: scifi movies, Games, Fishing

Influences & Heroes: Doctor who and god

Authors, Artists & Poets: Rand Miller

Favourite Films: scifi films (time bandits), The muppet movies

Television: Heroes, Smallville, Jherico, Doctor Who, both Stargate shows, Gilmore girls, The old battle star glactica

Year became a Doctor Who fan: 1977 or so.

Favourite Doctor: Tom baker, Willam Hartnell.

Favourite Companion: Adric and romana2.

Favourite Episode: The brain of mobius

Joined : 30 Nov 2007 Posts : 26

Name: Matt

Location: the middle of South Dakota

Interests: Reading, computing, hanging with my kids, Marvel Ultimates, Buffalo Bills

Influences & Heroes: Parents

Authors: Stephen King (The Stand, Dark Tower), Neil Gaiman (American Gods, Neverwhere), Ken Follett,

Favourite Films: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire Strikes Back, 40 year old virgin, Blade Runner, Terminator

Television: Doctor Who, Venture Bros., The Office, Heroes, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Monk, Psych, Burn Notice, Seinfeld

Year became a Doctor Who fan: 1986 (or so)

Favourite Doctor: hard to say, but Colin Baker is towards the top along with Davison and Tennant

Favourite Companion: Old School Sarah Jane Smith

Favourite Episode: Hand of Fear (the first episode I ever watched), and Talons of Weng Chiang in a dead heat.

Age : 37 Joined : 20 Oct 2007 Posts : 355

Name: greenk9
Location: South Holland, Il
Interests: Sleeping, oil painting, persian cats, scaring small children
Influences and Heroes: Elmo
Authors: Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling
Films: Better Off Dead, Star Wars, American Dreamer, Dead Again, 13th Warrior, Harry Potter
Television: Dr. Who, Mystery! NCIS
Year Dr. Who Fan: 1982 1st episode Logopolis on WTTW
Favorite Doctor: Tom and Tennant...nice chaps all of them...oh heck I love them all!
Favorite Companions: Ian, Jamie, Harry and k9
Favorite Episodes: The Chase, The Mind Robber, The Daemons, City of Death, Stones of Blood, Girl in the Fireplace, Blink and Family of Blood.

Age : 39 Joined : 01 Feb 2007 Posts : 1075

Hey Green K9!! Hammond Here!!!!! But dont hold that against me
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Age : 37 Joined : 20 Oct 2007 Posts : 355

Hoosier Whovian...I would not hold Hammond against you...I was born in Hammond! Yeah!

Age : 39 Joined : 01 Feb 2007 Posts : 1075

You have my sympathies, LOL I have only lived here for 12 years.

it is nice to know I am not alone here. Oooh do I feel a Doctor Who fanclub forming? haha

Age : 37 Joined : 20 Oct 2007 Posts : 355

Mr. Hoosier....Awwwww 12 years...in Hammond. What a survivor.

Yes you are not alone in the freezing rain, poluted skies of the beautiful midwest.

Age : 39 Joined : 01 Feb 2007 Posts : 1075

no need to be formal, you can call me who, ahahahaha always wanted to do that. Well, I am thinking about running away. There is nothing around here anymore, so maybe the east coast or back out west.

Ah to have a TARDIS to call home 4th Doctor