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The First QuestionA Doctor Who Research

Project

Project Overview

• Doctor Who is currently one of BBC Worldwide’s biggest exports. The show first aired internationally in New Zealand in 1966. Through the 1970s the show built up a solid fan-base in the US and Australia and this has since extended to a wider international audience, it is currently screened in fifty countries. The aim of this project is explore how the show speaks to its trans-national audience. Although scholars such as DiPaolo (2010) have argued the new series, and in particular the Russell T. Davies years of 2005-10, have been highly critical of the US, this project proposes that Doctor Who’s international success is due to the character’s ability to speak to cross-cultural concerns. Where the work of DiPaolo and Jones (2010) has discussed the show at the level of international politics through the clear references to 9/11 and the war on terror, this project is concerned with the Doctor as trans-national hero, drawing on the work of Lawrence and Jewett (2002) and Coogan (2006) to suggest that the Doctor functions as an effective superhero. This project involves the collection of fan memories using an open-access online survey. The survey will collect demographic data and fan responses related to the meaning of Doctor Who characters and story elements and ask for recollections of the viewer's first memories of the show.

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