{"id":4564,"date":"2010-11-23T06:45:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T11:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2010-11-19T16:58:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T21:58:30","slug":"happy-birthday-and-merry-christmas-to-doctor-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/23\/happy-birthday-and-merry-christmas-to-doctor-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday and Merry Christmas to Doctor Who"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Doctor Who\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/drwho_newlogo.jpg\" alt=\"Doctor Who\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today marks the 47th anniversary of the airing of the very first <em>Doctor Who<\/em> episode.  It was Saturday, November 23, 1963 at 5:15pm GMT when an unheard of children\u2019s program appeared on BBC television.  It featured two school teachers, an oddball student, and a grumpy old man. Humble beginnings!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s surprising to me how popular the show is nowadays.  The show originally ran from 1963\u20131989.  There was an American-made TV movie in 1996 which didn\u2019t perform well.  Then <em>Doctor Who<\/em> returned to the airwaves as a weekly TV series in 2005.  Go back in time six years to 2004 and <em>Doctor Who<\/em> was still remembered as a joke by most people.  Now it\u2019s one of the most popular television shows in the world with two spin-offs.    Just crazy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We&#8217;re going to celebrate Doctor Who&#8217;s birthday today by watching the trailer to this year&#8217;s Christmas special &#8211; A CHRISTMAS CAROL<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"700\" height=\"418\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/98x9FwsqzHQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;hd=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Happy birthday to that lonely old Timelord meandering around the universe in that rickety old Police Box!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My thanks to <a title=\"EC Technology Consulting, LLC\" href=\"http:\/\/ectech.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ed<\/a> for directing me to the new trailer!<\/p>\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-4564\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/23\/happy-birthday-and-merry-christmas-to-doctor-who\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-4564\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/23\/happy-birthday-and-merry-christmas-to-doctor-who\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/23\/happy-birthday-and-merry-christmas-to-doctor-who\/?share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/23\/happy-birthday-and-merry-christmas-to-doctor-who\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-4564\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/23\/happy-birthday-and-merry-christmas-to-doctor-who\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 47th anniversary of the airing of the very first Doctor Who episode. It was Saturday, November 23, 1963 at 5:15pm GMT when<\/p>\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-4564\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/23\/happy-birthday-and-merry-christmas-to-doctor-who\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-4564\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/23\/happy-birthday-and-merry-christmas-to-doctor-who\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/23\/happy-birthday-and-merry-christmas-to-doctor-who\/?share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/23\/happy-birthday-and-merry-christmas-to-doctor-who\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-4564\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/23\/happy-birthday-and-merry-christmas-to-doctor-who\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[1557,249,320,1654,1659],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdwqIt-1bC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":206,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/23\/happy-birthday-doctor-who\/","url_meta":{"origin":4564,"position":0},"title":"Happy Birthday Doctor Who!","date":"November 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"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's program appeared on BBC television.\u00a0 It featured two school teachers, an oddball student, and a grumpy old man.\u00a0 Who knew this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Doctor Who&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"The 10 Doctors","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/doctorwho\/doctors10.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5079,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/23\/happy-48th-birthday-doctor-who\/","url_meta":{"origin":4564,"position":1},"title":"Happy 48th Birthday Doctor Who!","date":"November 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"To help celebrate the 48th birthday of Doctor Who, below we're featuring the trailer for the upcoming Christmas special!\u00a0 It looks sooooo good! 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