I like to add a few comments in this message instead of re editing my last message. Fans get quite passionate about Doctor Who and I'm sure there are lots of fans who are upset that the series has been suspended again. In my search for any campaigns against this, I found out that one fan had complained to the BBC about the general attitude of the new series, including the kind of language used, comments such as the Doctor in the first episode "Rose" reading a celebrity magazine and saying "That'll never work. She's an alien and he's gay!" and even claimed that Doctor Who had been remodelled on the soap Eastenders! Another fairly obsessive thing that happened years ago was that 5th Doctor Peter Davision received death threats because some fans thought that after 7 years of Tom Baker, no one else could play the Doctor. In the USA, the best known Doctor was Tom Baker, due to trade protectionism meaning that American TV networks avoided buying foreign programmes as much as possible, but this had broken down up to a point later on. Tom Baker's episodes got good distribution, which was followed up by at least some Peter Davision episodes. I think episodes from every single Doctor's era have been shown in Canada.
Each Doctor had his own perrsonality and a different outfit. The first Doctor looked quite elderly, had long hair like a scientist in an era when hardly any men had long hair, and wore a black suit with a white shirt and some kind of tie. Subsequent Doctors had more outlandish outfits, such as 2nd Doctor Patrick Troughton in a clown type costume and a Beatle haircut, Jon Pertwee in theatrical capes, velvet jackets and ruffled shirts, before leading on to the famous Tom Baker with his long scarf, etc. This was followed by Peter Davison an an Edwardian Cricket Umpire's outfit, Colin Baker in his multicoloured coat, then toned down for Sylvester McCoy, which just a few question marks, an umbrella, and a Panama hat.
It seems than Paul McGann was never accepted by lots of fans or even most fans because he appeared in an Americanised version of Doctor Who which just didn't work. His TV movie got low ratings in the USA because of whatever was shown on another network at the same time, so the years of planning were all for nothing. For anyone who hasn't yet seen the latest episode "Turn Left", I can tell you that it was an episode where one character's history was rewritten from a point where they were made to turn right instead of turning left. It also indicates that the last 2 episodes of season 4 will be a spectacular climax.
