![]() The expansive interior of the Doctor’s time-traveling space ship - which, as fans know, materializes in different lands and eras as a humble London police box - is just one of the free virtual backgrounds now offered by the BBC. You can, in other words, make a call from inside the TARDIS. But even that hugely influential comedy series commands only low-intensity worldwide devotion when set alongside Doctor Who, which has aired on the BBC in one form or another since 1963. One can express one’s membership in the global Doctor Who fandom in many ways, now including, in this period of all-digital professional and social interaction, one’s choice of virtual backgrounds on Zoom or other videoconferencing software. All of us have known someone, or indeed been someone, who shifted their cultural allegiances wholesale after watching a single episode of, say, Monty Python’s Flying Circus. That goes even more so for British television fandom outside Britain. ![]() Enthusiasm for British television is a force of nature.
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