But the thing is, DtheG, Dr Who used to be entertaining years ago when it was a kids' programme. I remember that my brothers and I loved the papier mache monsters ('grolly men' - as we used to call them). We looked forward to each episode and were delighted with the outlandish creations that the BBC props dept. came up with. My youngest brother even watched each episode from the traditional place behind the sofa. We knew that it was rubbish then but we delighted in the pantomime silliness of it.

In its more recent incarnations, though, it has become hideously pretentious and full of its own importance. It thinks that its 'relevant' and its become sort of 'actorly' in a nauseating, trendy, metropolitan, 'meeja studies' sort of way. And, for me, that only serves to emphasise the thread-bare stupidity and ignorance of the plot-lines.