"I'm the Doctor.", "Dr. Who?"

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

47. Yes, actually watched it twice :)

I was and still am a fan of Verity. Her vision for her "childrens' show" lives. Was way into Dr. Who when we first discovered it in the 70's.

As a speculative fiction fan (I hate the misnomer "science fiction&quot from the summer leading into 6th grade I read everything I could get my hands on. There were so many women who had to hide or masquerade. A favorite early author was Andre Norton who turned out to really be Alice Mary North, a librarian. The great male teen coming-of-age, The Outsiders, was written by S. E. Hinton. Both of these "authors" had the obligatory "biographies" on the book jackets. Of course, once her books became classics, Susan Hinton was able to reveal her true self... and has a cameo in the film version of The Outsiders as a librarian.

But the best fake mail in speculative TV fiction has to be D. C. Fontana who was the lead writer for Gene Roddenberry's original StarTrek in the 1960's. It took a while for Dorothy Fontana to actually get the credit she deserved.

When I started teaching in the late 1960's it was the school librarian (who became my dearest life-long friend) who taught me to learn about the authors' lives to really understand the meaning of their books. I've been trying to pass that forward now for over 40 years.

TV and Film are the same. Just a little harder with book writer, screenwriter, producer, director, actors to discover whose message is really coming through. But fun to investigate.

Sorry to turn this into an epic, but the week's celebration of The Doctor was such a trip for me.