{"id":206,"date":"2008-11-23T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2008-11-22T21:20:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T02:20:19","slug":"happy-birthday-doctor-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/23\/happy-birthday-doctor-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Doctor Who!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"The Desktop of Rassilon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/doctorwho\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/who_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Doctor Who\" width=\"523\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"The Desktop of Rassilon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/doctorwho\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/doctorwho\/doctors10.jpg\" alt=\"The 10 Doctors\" width=\"367\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a>Today marks the 45th anniversary of the airing of the very first Doctor Who episode.\u00a0 It was Saturday, November 23, 1963 at 5:15pm GMT when an unheard of children&#8217;s program appeared on BBC television.\u00a0 It featured two school teachers, an oddball student, and a grumpy old man.\u00a0 Who knew this humble beginning would lead to 45 years worth of adventures!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even more surprising is how popular the show is nowadays.\u00a0 The show originally ran from 1963 &#8211; 1989.\u00a0 There was an American-made TV movie in 1996 which didn&#8217;t perform well.\u00a0 Then Doctor Who returned to the airwaves as a weekly TV series in 2005.\u00a0 Go back in time four years to 2004 and Doctor Who was remembered as a joke by most people.\u00a0 Now it&#8217;s one of the most popular television shows in the world with two spin-offs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just crazy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve personally been a fan for 25 years now.\u00a0 It boggles the mind that I&#8217;ve been following this show that long.\u00a0 I remember watching the 20 year anniversary special (The Five Doctors) when it originally aired.\u00a0 25 years!\u00a0 Geez, I&#8217;m getting old.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyway, happy birthday to that lonely old Timelord meandering around the universe in that rickety old Police Box!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-206\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" 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DOCTOR WHO - THE FORGOTTEN Within the past couple years, IDW has picked up the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/10doctors.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}