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I would love to be named the new Dr Who

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Could I be the new Dr. Who? ...i wish it were so So it’s the 50th anniversary of Dr. Who and we are to have a new Doctor. It’s definitely been an interesting ride with Matt as the Doctor. I feel he was just getting into his stride and then he’ll be gone. Dr. Who has been part of my life since a child. Like many British citizens I scrambled behind the sofa as the first Doctor William Hartnell took up against the Daleks or the Cybermen as they took over London or corned the Doctor on a far off world. What couldn’t be cool? To be a time lord, able to travel in TIME and SPACE! As a child growing up in the 1960s …when we had just started our baby steps to explore space for the first time, this all seemed so possible, AND in a blue Police Box, which was MUCH bigger on the inside than the outside. At the time my father was working on the British (European) rocket project Blue Streak originally conceived as a British medium range ballistic missile (M...