Short presentation of "Doctor Who", the adventures of the famous alien (tv show).

1. Salim Bahri
Clélie Giraud
Doctor Who

2. What’s ?
TV show:
The story of The Doctor’s adventures,
an alien who travel through space and
time on his ship, the TARDIS,
with his human companions.
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3. The Show
• British science-fiction TV show (BBC)
• Produced since 1963
 Classic series: 1963 – 1989
 Television film: 1996
 Revived series: 2005 – present
Since 2005 there are 9 seasons of the
show (10th will begin in april 2017)
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4. The Doctor
• Alien race: Time Lord
• Planet of origin (lost): Gallifrey
• Time Lords and Ladies live hundreds
years : when they’re about to die
they regenerate with a new body and
a new personality but keep their
memories.
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5. 13 reincarnations of The Doctor
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13 reincarnations of The Doctor

7. Since the show's revival in 2005 :
4 Doctor’s reincarnations
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8. The Tardis
• Time And Relative Dimension In Space
• Space & time traveling machine
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• Look like a blue police
box because the
chameleon circuit is
broken (in fact it’s
because the production
don’t have enough

9. « It’s bigger on the inside ! »
(Time lords space engineering)
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10. « It’s bigger on the inside ! »
(Time lords space engineering)
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11. Dr Who& Science
• “Science-fiction” show  also
based on actual science questions,
facts or theories (it was created, in
part, to teach science to children).
• The producers extrapolate around
actual scientific wondering and give
an idea of one possible way it could
be if it was actually real.
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12. • Cloning science:
the Sontaran
empire and army
(reproducing by
cloning)
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13. • Quantum Zeno Effect
(quantum mechanic):
Weeping Angels can only
move when unseen
13Don’t blink !

14. • Nanotechnologies
Nanogenes in gas: robots at a molecular
level who can act and modify the body
(“Are you my mommy?” creepiest
episode)
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15. • Transhumanism
Cybermen are men
“upgraded” with a metal
body and all emotions
removed
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16. Dr Who&History
Real historical character and event
appear in Dr Who.
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Adolf HitlerWilliam Shakespeare

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Vincent Van Gogh
Queen Elizabeth

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Queen Victoria
Richard Nixon
Winston Churchill
Agatha Christie

19. Dr WhoReferences in pop-culture
• In Cardiff, a museum of Doctor Who
exist: “The Doctor Who experience”.
• The show is an institution (oldest
science fiction series) it inspired a lot
of universe and we can see lot of Dr
Who references in pop-culture
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22. Numbers
• For now:
 35 seasons (263 stories)
 13 Doctors (actors)
 ~ 50 companions
 364 universe creatures and aliens
species appearing in the show
https://youtu.be/naf4NO_kvCs
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23. Thanks
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