“It all started out as a mild curiosity in the
junkyard, and now it’s turned out to be quite a great spirit of adventure.”
– The Doctor, The Sensorites (1964)
– The Doctor, The Sensorites (1964)
A letter to Who,
When you exploded
back onto our screens eight years ago, your Northerner’s voice asked us to join
you on an adventure. “Do you want to come with me?” you asked us,
before issuing a caveat. “Because if you do, then I should warn you – you’re going
to see all sorts of things. Ghosts from the past. Aliens from the future. The
day the Earth died in a ball of flame. It won’t be quiet, it won’t be safe, and
it won’t be calm. But I’ll tell you what it will be: the trip of a lifetime.”
We followed you then, thousands upon thousands of us, faithfully, blindly;
trusting you with our own lives and our Saturday evenings. We followed you to
the end and back again, many times over, and you never let us down.
