Dr Who and the Sunderland links

An Echo film tribute to the show as it 60th anniversary approaches

Transcript

00:00 Who knew? Wearsight has loads of links with Doctor Who. Let's regenerate them as we celebrate

00:07 the 60th anniversary of the show which arrives next month. First the stars. Tom Baker was

00:14 in town for the Santa Parade in 1977 and he is Sylvester McCoy at Dame Dorothy Primary

00:21 in 1990. Elizabeth Sladen came to a Who convention in 2007. We had a double dose of Who in 2010

00:33 when Matt Smith and Karen Gillan came to Sunderland University to promote a new episode and hundreds

00:40 of children joined them for the viewing. Then there's the fans. Sandra Whitmore had a compost

00:47 bin in the shape of a darling in 2005. It was great at exterminating leaves. In 2007

00:56 this lot dressed as different doctors for a Who convention on Wearsight and here's some

01:02 Whovians pictured in the same year. In 2008 the St John's Cubs had some out of this world

01:09 visitors. In 2009 the Bunny Hill Centre celebrated its third birthday with a Who theme. Ood

01:18 do you recognise? That same year Who fan Liam Powell got our attention with his TARDIS bedroom

01:26 door. Lastly, did you know? A Sunderland animator has helped bring lost Doctor Who episodes

01:33 back to life. Find out more about that in Curious Sunderland on Shots TV.

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