Ahead of the start of the Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials, showrunner and writer Russell T Davies has given fans some insight on how his interest in the series came to be.Davies is a self-proclaimed Doctor Who mega fan, often acting like an encyclopedia of knowledge for the long-running franchise. While writing for The Guardian, the Welshman expressed how he became interested in the series in the first place, crediting the TARDIS in particular. “But Doctor Who’s greatest idea is that the TARDIS can land anywhere,” Davies said. “I’d walk home from school wishing I could turn the corner and see that blue box and run inside to escape everything. I don’t think that wish has quite gone.”Davies went on to describe the first time he ever watched Doctor Who. “I was agog. Terrified. OK, I barely knew what was happening, but I felt a deep, unnerving sense of strangeness and fear twisting in the pit of my heart. Did that moment shape my entire life? Well, here I am,” he said, referencing his role as showrunner and the fact he’s spent years of his life working on the series.Doctor Who Doesn’t Just Attract Big Stars – It Makes Them Instead
Ahead of the start of the Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials, showrunner and writer Russell T Davies has given fans some insight on how his interest in the series came to be.
Davies is a self-proclaimed Doctor Who mega fan, often acting like an encyclopedia of knowledge for the long-running franchise. While writing for The Guardian, the Welshman expressed how he became interested in the series in the first place, crediting the TARDIS in particular. “But Doctor Who’s greatest idea is that the TARDIS can land anywhere,” Davies said. “I’d walk home from school wishing I could turn the corner and see that blue box and run inside to escape everything. I don’t think that wish has quite gone.”
Davies went on to describe the first time he ever watched Doctor Who. “I was agog. Terrified. OK, I barely knew what was happening, but I felt a deep, unnerving sense of strangeness and fear twisting in the pit of my heart. Did that moment shape my entire life? Well, here I am,” he said, referencing his role as showrunner and the fact he’s spent years of his life working on the series.
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