Doctor Who is the greatest television programme now, in the past or in the future. Way beyond it's time. If you watch the re-runs on UK Gold, the sci-fi concepts and the storylines are as good as anything you could hope to find in the likes of Babylon, the X-Files or any US sci-fi programme from the last twenty years. OK, I accept it collapsed into self-referential paradoy (or, "Shite", to you and me) in the 1980s. However, the BBC failed to see it for the cash cow it was and let it die (scheduling it against Coronation Street, then citing poor viewing figures as a reason to kill it) a long lingering death of a thousand budget cuts.
I also admit to being biased - The Enigmatic Dr X's icon would be at the top of this post, if only I could remember my password. Hopefully, that nice chap Wake is on the case.
Still, Nimeous is such a cool word!