Doctor Whovian

plural Doctor Whovians

1. rareSynonym of Whovian.

   Why Doctor Whovians Owe It All To H.G. Wells

   2012, Jean Asta, Quicklet: An Unofficial Guide: H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine, Hyperink Inc., →ISBN

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   These Doctor Whovians, as they call themselves, will be particularly earnest in their pleas because the future depends on it. […] Many of the Doctor Whovians are members of a 2-year-old Seattle organization called the Society of the Rusting Tardis.

   1987 April 24, Andee Beck, “‘Dr. Who’ fans have hopes of bringing their hero to KTPS”, in The News Tribune, 105th year, number 17, Tacoma, Wash., page D7, columns 1–2

   Doctor Whovians will further get the chance to see a real Tardis (a time-travel vehicle), a mockup of the ship’s control panel, and Bessie, the banana-colored 1953 Ford that belonged to Doctor No. 3 (played by Jon Pertwee).

   1987 September 9, Andee Beck, “Dr. Who’s coming to Tacoma: The real McCoy will sign autographs at Bates school”, in The News Tribune, 105th year, number 155, Tacoma, Wash., page D10, column 2

   To maintain cover, I went to some UFO conventions in America, and Star Trek ones too. That was a blast, because I had been a Trekkie and also a Doctor Whovian.

   2014, Don Bambrick, 5 Short Stories, Xlibris, →ISBN

   For Doctor Whovians, the episode downloaded was the final episode of season seven 'The Name of the Doctor'.

   2014 August 19, James Vincent, “North Korean internet users download Top Gear, violent video games and American porn”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2022

   As I was staring way too hard, I caught sight of faint Jolt grid marks up her right arm and forgot to breathe. Were those for real? Or was she just fangirling, like those Doctor Whovians with their pen-and-ink hash marks?

   2016, Jill Williamson, Broken Trust, Novel Teen Press, →ISBN, page 23

   Synonyms: Whovian

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1. rareSynonym of Whovian.

   One part of this is the Doctor Whovian urge to hide behind the sofa, but it’s far more than that.

   2017 January, Kieron Gillen, “Life and Darth”, in SFX, number 281, page 60

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   […] it contains all-original short stories by a swarm of the usual Doctor-Whovian suspects: Jonathan Blum, Martin Day, Paul Ebbs, Jim Mortimore, Kate Orman, Justin Richards, Dave Stone and many others.

   2004 spring, Interzone, number 193, page 62, column 1

   This is not the sleek white Apple-store vision of the future, but something altogether Doctor Whovian in its sensibilities, as enamored with the past as with the future’s mind-boggling possibilities.

   2015 September 16, Amelia Mason, “How A Music Futurist Composes The Future”, in WBUR, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2023

   In a surreal multimedia performance-lecture, Nina Stuhldreher recounts an artistic research trip which accidentally turned into a Doctor Whovian robinsonade.

   2016, “Nootropics and the Last Frontier of (Un)consciousness”, in Bristol Biennial 2016: In Other Worlds, page 24

   Except, that was Moriarty in the bride's frock, and none of this was real, because it was all taking place in one of Sherlock's mind palaces, that Doctor Whovian device whereby Messrs Moffat and Gatiss can do exactly what they want with their lead characters, in this case, tell a head-scratching one-off tale, while they wait for their two stars to pause making blockbusting films long enough to make a whole series.

   2016 January 1, Caroline Frost, “'Sherlock: The Abominable Bride' Review Finds Benedict Cumberbatch And Martin Freeman Suffering Time Constraints”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2023

   The "I" here also could refer to Offa talking about himself in that sort of Doctor Whovian floating between the eighth century and the twentieth century.

   2020, Nadia Ali Ismael, “Anachronism in Geoffrey Hill's 'Mercian Hymns'”, in Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies, volume 5, number 1, published February 2021, →ISSN, page 75

   Synonyms: Whovian