Very cool, I agree that the regenerations allowed the show to stay fresh and kept the audience tuning in to see how the new incarnation will get along with any existing companions that were accustomed to the previous Doctor.

With the advances being made in AI video, I would expect someday that even footage that is gone forever can be regenerated (pun intended) to fill in the gaps and even turn the audio novels into live action episodes.

 

This may interest you - and they're the real deal. (Maybe you could own your own Dalek?) 

Doctor Who announces its biggest props and costume auction ever with over 150 lots

RadioActive wrote:

This may interest you - and they're the real deal. (Maybe you could own your own Dalek?) 

Doctor Who announces its biggest props and costume auction ever with over 150 lots

Oh, I’ll definitely be placing pretend bids when I watch the auction I wish I had the cash for real bids, especially in support of Children In Need.

Thankfully the auction catalog will be full of details on the items, allowing replica makers to craft exact duplicates to sell at a lower price, like Troughton’s whistle.

And as I mentioned, because the Dr. Who production doesn’t run year round, the prop makers make additional copies of their props to sell to fans.

Kasim Bhatti, who turned a British Driver’s Licence wallet into the Psychic Paper prop for Ncuti Gatwa to currently use as the Doctor, has a pile of British Driver’s License wallets he’s converting, one of which is being sent my way He’s even including inserts for some of the psychic messages displayed in the series. Can’t wait to check it out.

Walter wrote:

Love science fiction. Loved The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, and a huge Star Trek Fan.  I even liked UFO, even though I think it had more to do with the female casts' wardrobe, but I never liked Dr. Who. I tried, but the whole thing just seemed so cheesy and dumb.  Its rabid cult following always struck me as unwarranted, but to each their own.

Definitely an acquired taste. The latest incarnation has a decent budget, but some of the cheapness of the monsters and the cheesiness of the original is what made it so charming. Especially when you were a kid. But I get why some people would have that reaction. Still, the stories were pretty good and the characters were fun. So that's why I enjoyed it. 

My all time favourite moment came during the Jon Pertwee years, when he and travelling companion Jo Grant, played by Katy Manning, were trapped in a room. She asked him the question I always wondered. "If this is such a disaster, why don't you just go back in your Tardis (time machine) and fix it back then?"

I've never forgotten Pertwee's answer. "Oh, that's the Blinovitch Limitation effect."

"The what?" Jo asks.

"The Blinovitch Limitation effect. That means - Oh wait! Someone's coming!" 

And we never did find out the answer.