Let’s deal with the formalities right out of the gate: Doctor Who is a British sci-fi show
about an alien, his human companion, and their shenanigans through time and
space inside their ship that looks like a police box. The actors playing both roles have come and gone numerous
times in the show’s 50 year history with the human character just leaving while
the alien, named The Doctor, regenerates into a new actor whenever he’s
catastrophically injured. It’s a
good show, very imaginative and enjoyable, massive history, I’ve talked about
it before. What we’re here to
discuss today is Doctor Who
spin-offs. A new spin-off of the
show was announced last week entitled Class,
the idea being that it would revolve around the Coal Hill School that was
initially featured in the show’s pilot and then never again until the 50th
anniversary. However, that got me
thinking about Doctor Who’s previous
spin-offs so I’m going to talk about them because I made a column about geeky
television and that’s what we do.
