Watching Doctor Who

Watching Doctor Who explores fandom's changing attitudes towards Doctor Who. Why do fans love an episode one year but deride it a decade later? How do fans' values of Doctor Who change over time? As a show with an over fifty-year history, Doctor Who helps us understand the changing nature of notions of 'value' and 'quality' in popular television. The authors interrogate the way Doctor Who fans and audiences re-interpret the value of particular episodes, Doctors, companions, and eras of Who. With a foreword by Paul Cornell.

FiguresTablesForeword by Paul CornellAcknowledgements Notes on TitlesIntroduction: Going Forward in All Our Beliefs: Regenerating and Re-Valuing Doctor Who FandomChapter One: The Concept of Evaluation in Doctor Who ReceptionCase Study 1A: The Mightiest Values: Rankings of Doctor Who - Paul BoothCase Study 1B: Fan Reaction Videos: Responding to Doctor Who - Craig Owen JonesDialogue 1C: Evolving Evaluation of Doctor Who - Paul Booth and Craig Owen JonesChapter Two: Reception History and Fan Perceptions of Doctor WhoCase Study 2A: Tegan: The Makers' Vision - Craig Owen JonesCase Study 2B: Reception after the Fact: Companions in Big Finish - Paul BoothDialogue 2C: The Ends of an Era - Paul Booth and Craig Owen JonesChapter Three: The Error of ErasCase Study 3A: Nightmare of Eden and the Limitations of Genre - Paul BoothCase Study 3B: The Discovery of The Time Meddler - Craig Owen JonesDialogue 3C: Series 24 - Craig Owen Jones and Paul BoothChapter Four: Re-Evaluating Value in the Canon of Doctor WhoCase Study 4A: Evaluative Changes in The Talons of Weng-Chiang - Craig Owen JonesCase Study 4B: The Caves of Dilemma: or, The Twin Androzani? Evaluating Value at the Poles - Paul BoothDialogue 4C: Minisodes and Changing Appreciation - Craig Owen Jones and Paul BoothConclusion: Go Forward in All of Your Beliefs, and Prove to Me that I Am Not Mistaken in MineEndnotesBibliographyIndex