Watching Doctor Who

<p>Through a richly detailed account of fan cultures and media over the over fifty-year history of the show <i> Watching Doctor Who</i> explores fandom's changing attitudes towards this much-loved TV series. Why do fans love an episode one year but deride it a decade later? How do fans' values of <i>Doctor Who </i>change over time? As a show that's featured as part of the shared landscape of home entertainment since the 1960s <i>Doctor Who</i> helps us understand the changing<br>nature of notions of 'value' and 'quality' in popular television. Through a series of in-depth case studies of fan polls and debates Paul Booth and Craig Owen Jones interrogate the way <i>Doctor Who</i> fans and audiences re-interpret the value of particular episodes Doctors companions and eras of <i>Who</i>. <p/>With a foreword by Paul Cornell.</p>