And because of the explosion of COMICON and the Big Bang Theory there is real interest in Britain’s Time Lord… so here’s what we call our Doctor Who Knew Tours.
Which, in true Doctor Who style, has two incarnations, the London years and the rebranded Russell T Davies Cardiff years.
All adding up to 60 of our Earth years.
Now there are as many tours or more as there have been Doctors.
London chilling
Jump into the Virgin Experience Days tour for two which is £30 for a two and a half hour jaunt.
And will follow in the footsteps of the Doctors from William Hartnell through to Peter Capaldi.
And include sites used in classic episodes.
Such as The Invasion and Remembrance of the Daleks, and Rose, The Shakespeare Code and The Bells of Saint John.
Or the Doctor Who Tour London, again a two-and-a-half-hour experience.
Starting out near London Bridge Station and ending by Waterloo Station.
And run by Whovians who take you behind the scenes.
The Great Shakes
While Britmovietours start outside London Bridge Station where you’ll see the Great Intelligence Base from The Bells of St John’s.
And you can take in The Globe Theatre as seen in The Shakespeare Code with David Tennant.
While Britmovietours also flag up their Cardiff itinerary.
With over 30 memorable scenes from more than 20 episodes.
So where will you visit?
Well, only the site of Donna Noble’s ill-fated wedding, Rose Tyler’s workplace, the theatre in which Charles Dickens meets an alien threat.
The deserted street where the Tenth Doctor and Astrid meet a newspaper seller named Wilfred, and many more.
Cardiff reincarnation
Then there’s the £30 two-hour Doctor Who Cardiff City Walking Tour for Two.
Red Letter Days tell us that they’ll show us as well as the staples, also the place where Danny Pink met his end.
And the National Museum of Wales which has hosted myriad memorable scenes.
While they’ll also walk us through how Cardiff was morphed into ancient Pompeii and 1970s New York.
Time travel to the Eighties
Of course, I’ll be asking too if their Tardis can land in the Woodville Bar, Cathays in 1987.
And I can exterminate the local who in first night of a year in the Welsh capital turned on me in the loos.
And cursed me out for my Scottishness and ‘cheating Wales out of two World Cups’ and Christening me something rhyming with runt.
Now that would be an addition to any Doctor Who Knew tours.