Your song must end soon, Doctor

Rumors have been circulating that the series is ending, but only from tabloids so far:

http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2007/06/01/story-stating-end-of-doctor-who-absolute-rubbish/

I'm glued to this one.

[...]I'm kind of afraid of what they are planning, as I've heard talk that David Tennant might not do more Doctor Who after Series 4 (this season).[...]

The serial The Deadly Assassin established that a Time Lord can regenerate twelve times, for a total of thirteen incarnations (although at least one Time Lord, The Master, has managed to circumvent this). To date, the Doctor has gone through this process and its resulting after-effects on nine occasions, with each of his incarnations having his own quirks and abilities but otherwise sharing the memories and experience of the previous incarnations:

   1. First Doctor, played by William Hartnell (1963–1966)
   2. Second Doctor, played by Patrick Troughton (1966–1969)
   3. Third Doctor, played by Jon Pertwee (1970–1974)
   4. Fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker (1974–1981)
   5. Fifth Doctor, played by Peter Davison (1981–1984)
   6. Sixth Doctor, played by Colin Baker (1984–1986)
   7. Seventh Doctor, played by Sylvester McCoy (1987–1989, 1996)[42] [43][44]
   8. Eighth Doctor, played by Paul McGann (1996)
   9. Ninth Doctor, played by Christopher Eccleston (2005)
  10. Tenth Doctor, played by David Tennant (2005–present)

Other actors have also played the Doctor, though rarely more than once (see the list of actors who have played the Doctor for details).

Dr. Who (Cushing) and his granddaughters, Susan (Tovey) and Barbara (Linden), show Barbara's boyfriend Ian (Castle) the Doctor's latest invention, a time machine called TARDIS.

Doctor??

Grand Moff Tarkin

Dr. Who (Cushing) and his granddaughters, Susan (Tovey) and Barbara (Linden), show Barbara's boyfriend Ian (Castle) the Doctor's latest invention, a time machine called TARDIS.

And he's shocked he has a daughter??? why????

In "Fear Her," the Tenth Doctor states he "was a Dad once," but does not elaborate further.

I'm a few seasons far-behind, but I'm wondering if she has inherited the same Time-Lord abilities.

yeah... Cushing isn't canon :) It's still interesting that in the early days that they went there.

Susan is the granddaughter and a companion of the Time Lord known as the Doctor. Her last name of Foreman is an alias taken from the junkyard, owned by an "I. M. Foreman", at 76 Totter's Lane where she and the Doctor lived during their time in London in 1963. The original outline for the series did not intend for the pair to be related, but writer Anthony Coburn created the family tie as he was disturbed by the possible sexual connotations of an old man traveling alone with a teenage girl.

The Doctor explains in "An Unearthly Child" (the very first episode of Doctor Who and a title often used for the first four-part serial) that he and Susan are exiles from their own people. Susan adds, "I was born in another time, on another world" (presumably Gallifrey).

Susan continues to travel with the Doctor and her two teachers until the 1964 serial, The Dalek Invasion of Earth. During the events of that story, Susan falls in love with David Campbell, a freedom fighter in the 22nd century. However, Susan feels that she has to stay with and take care of her grandfather. The Doctor, realising that Susan is now a grown woman and deserves a future away from him, locks her out of the TARDIS and leaves after a tearful farewell.

BBC Fiction controller Jane Tranter said: "Doctor Who is one of the BBC's best loved and most successful dramas.  It's journey over the past three series has been one of the most ambitious and exciting that we have had, and I'm delighted to be able to confirm not only three exciting specials for 2009, but a fifth series in 2010."

Tennant will star in three Doctor Who specials, written by Russell T Davies, on BBC One in 2009.  A spokeswoman for Doctor Who said she was unable to comment whether Tennant would return for the 2010 series.

In the series, the Doctor pilots an unreliable, stolen, obsolete Type 40 TARDIS, once referred to as a TT Capsule, whose chameleon circuit is faulty, leaving it locked in the shape of a 1950s-style London police box. It was stolen from Gallifrey where it was an old decommissioned derelict, and the unpredictability of the TARDIS's short range guidance — that is, relative to the size of the entire Universe — has often been a plot point in the Doctor's travels.

TARDISes are grown, not made

Before a TARDIS becomes fully functional, it must be primed with the biological imprint of a Time Lord, normally done by simply having a Time Lord operate the TARDIS for the first time. This imprint comes from the Rassilon Imprimatur, part of the biological makeup of Time Lords, which gives them both a symbiotic link to their TARDISes and the ability to withstand the physical stresses of time travel

Some cool stuff:

(I edited one of my previous posts, and added some Susan stuff up above too)

The 4th Doctor Tom Baker was on the Simpsons!

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Simpsons_Doctor_Who.jpg)
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she is way too hot for her own good.
good choice on the orbital track as well.