Leach (popular culture and film, Brock U., Ontario) examines the BBC series that launched in 1963 and has become the longest running science fiction series in television history. Anchoring each chapter on a particular episode, he discusses what the show reveals about the appeal of television and popular culture in general. He covers Doctor Who at the BBC, who watched, daemons and other elements of the fantastic, the show's formula, talking about regeneration, time television, the future that was, and the return of Doctor Who in a new series begun in 2005. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)