Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Doctor Who for the past three years, Peter Davison (No. 5), is about to be regenerated into Actor Colin Baker...
...clubs stoke the Who craze by holding auctions, selling Who paraphernalia, publishing newsletters and raising money for nonprofit TV stations so they can screen the series. Fund raising for the Doctor pulled in $40,000 in 90 minutes last March for Philadelphia's PBS station...
...Denver-based Doctor Who Fan Club of America has 18,000 members, each of whom receives a liquid-crystal badge that changes colors with body heat. Says Club President Ron Katz, 39: "I get a lot of letters from school principals who say that kids are not studying, they're rubbing their Doctor Who badges...
...surprising number of U.S. Whovians are women. Joan Paquette, 32, legal secretary in Boston, is attracted to Doctor Who's combination of bumbling charm and mastery of the impossible...
Says Graphic Designer Jan Souza, 34, of Cambridge, Mass.: "He's a humanist hero who fills a need in our technological soci ety." Notes Barbara Shewchuk, 28, a stenographer from Bridgeport, Pa.: "The fact that Doctor Who cares about all life forms shows that you can trust...