Doctor Who without the Daleks is like Batman without the Joker. But then, so is Doctor Who without Tom Baker. I used to love the show, but now I can not watch that PC dreck.
I stopped watching when they trannyfied the Master. (Yes, I hung in there that long; I remembered the show from when I was a kid watching it on BBC.)
The guy who writes the show now, Steven Moffat, is the same guy who wrote the 1999 parody episode “The Curse of Fatal Death”, where (and how do you like this foreshadowing) Rowan Atkinson “regenerates” into Joanna Lumley.
My thought was more: now it’s the new year’s special and not the Christmas special?
Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee were the ones I grew up with. A lot of the William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton episodes (and some of the Pertwee ones) were destroyed by the BBC bureaucrats but a number of them since recovered.
I never found the Daleks nearly as viscerally ‘Oh Holy Crap!’ awful as I did the Angels. I STILL avoid making eye contact with an angel statue on the rare occasion I see one...
Mrs WBill has been a fan for decades. She was excited about the new, female, doctor. "About time.", or somesuch was her comment.
She watched the first show, and none since. It may have even gone too PC for my lovely wife. I'll not bother asking, glad not to have it on in the house, and if she's just forgotten about it, all the better.