Check Out Child Out Of Time: Growing Up With Doctor Who In The Wilderness Years Created By Hayden Gribble Distributed In Electronic Text
DOCTOR WHO was a British institution, capturing the imaginations of generations of children,
But then, in, it was cancelled, The Doctor and his onscreen adventures were no more,
There was no longer a hero, a champion for the outcasts who struggled to fit in.
It was as though he had walked into his TARDIS and set his controls for dematerialisation, never to return: a whole generation lost to the powers of Science Fictions greatest creation.
It was in this Doctorless world that I grew up,
This is the story of how one little boy would try to find the Doctor in any way, shape or form and the obstacles he faced in doing so.
This is the story of growing up without Doctor Who in the Wilderness Yearsand how I lived through it.
A very passionate account of one fans discovery of the greatest science fiction of all time,
Hayden's enthusiasm rings through every sentence and also brings back memories of my own,
I can't remember how I came across this book, but when I did I ordered it immediately.
It was something of a revelation I didn't really know anyone personally who had become a Doctor Who fan before it was cool so, before theseries.
Hayden's story was affirming and closed some doors for me having been teased as a kid for passionately liking something so uncool, it was good to hear a similar story from someone else.
A must read for anyone who came to Doctor Who in theyears where it wasn't standard family entertainment! This is a lovely read, especially for Doctor Who fans who will relate to a lot of it.
Hayden was born in, in the time when there wasn't any Doctor Who on TV, He is one of the first generation of British kids who didn't have "their" Doctor to grow up with.
However he still discovered it in his own time, watching The TV Movie inand then finding old VHS tapes and Target novelisations.
Despite being an older fan myself Tom Baker being MY Doctor, I was nodding along with a lot of this and found it a really good, fun, light read.
Recommended.out of. Having also discovered Doctor Who during the's this book became an instant must read,
Even though I'm slightly older than the author, there was so many elements where I found myself constantly grinning with nostalgia as having experienced some of the same experiences.
I just missed out of the Seventh Doctor era, but I was aware of the show once trailers started to air for the forthcoming Eighth Doctor TV movie.
This may have been because like most families, we too watched Noel's House Party,
Hayden also describers the Doctor Who night and repeat series duringperfectly, it's so well detailed that I can vividly recall the evening so well.
Around this time I was attending college, I can remember checking episode lists online whilst heavily reliant on the video record taping these stories that I had seen before.
It's a perfect recollection of becoming a fan during that decade, Whilst also retelling some really sweet antidotes that will no doubt also appeal to any generation that grew up loving this show.
Hayden Gribble was born in the summer of, He spent his formative years absorbing the television of yesteryear through repeats of the Gerry Anderson Supermarionation series, Doctor Who, The Simpsons, Red Dwarf and Dads Army.
He was also mesmerised by the James Bond film series and the action cartoons of the lates and earlys.
As adulthood dawned he had tried to pass himself off as an adult by writing for a number of publications such as the Doctor Who Appreciation Society newszine, Celestial Toyroom, music writer for B Side Magazine, Features and Vortextra contributor to Doctor Who Online and working as a football writer for goal.
com and Eurosport. In, he wrote and self published his first novel, The Man in the Corner, He Hayden Gribble was born in the summer of, He spent his formative years absorbing the television of yesteryear through repeats of the Gerry Anderson Supermarionation series, Doctor Who, The Simpsons, Red Dwarf and Dads Army.
He was also mesmerised by the James Bond film series and the action cartoons of the lates and earlys.
As adulthood dawned he had tried to pass himself off as an adult by writing for a number of publications such as the Doctor Who Appreciation Society newszine, Celestial Toyroom, music writer for B Side Magazine, Features and Vortextra contributor to Doctor Who Online and working as a football writer for goal.
com and Eurosport. In, he wrote and self published his first novel, The Man in the Corner, He followed this up with a collection of poems and lyrics from his teenage years called Tales From Another Me, released as a kindle book in.
He appears regularly on the Diddly Dum Podcast and sincehas hosted his own show, Podcasters Royale: The James BondShow.
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