Doctor Whovian

English

Etymology

From Doctor Who +‎ -v- +‎ -ian.

Noun

Doctor Whovian (plural Doctor Whovians)

1. (rare) Synonym of Whovian.
   • 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:

     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 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:

     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).

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

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

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

     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 August 19, James Vincent, “North Korean internet users download Top Gear, violent video games and American porn”, in The Independent‎^[1], archived from the original on 8 July 2022:

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

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

     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?

   • 2018 February 24–25, “[Obituaries] Jack Carver”, in Elizabethton Star, volume 93, number 40, Elizabethton, Tenn., page 5A, column 2:

     He was a longtime Parrothead, Beatlemaniac, Doctor Whovian and a (Star) Trekker.

Adjective

Doctor Whovian (comparative more Doctor Whovian, superlative most Doctor Whovian)

1. (rare) Synonym of Whovian.
   • 2004 spring, Interzone, number 193, page 62, column 1:

     […] 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.

   • 2015 September 16, Amelia Mason, “How A Music Futurist Composes The Future”, in WBUR‎^[2], archived from the original on 16 April 2023:

     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.

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

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

   • 2016 January 1, Caroline Frost, “'Sherlock: The Abominable Bride' Review Finds Benedict Cumberbatch And Martin Freeman Suffering Time Constraints”, in HuffPost‎^[3], archived from the original on 16 April 2023:

     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.

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

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

   • 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:

     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.

   • 2021 March, Reed Magazine, volume 100, number 1, Portland, Ore.: the Office of Public Affairs at Reed College, →ISSN, page 38, column 1:

     1990 / Chris Lydgate built a Dalek with his Doctor Whovian kids.

   • 2022 August 19, Ollie Kew, “Genesis GV60 vs Polestar 2: EV newbie showdown”, in Top Gear‎^[4], archived from the original on 19 August 2022:

     Oh, sure Polestar was already Volvo’s racing team and go-faster division before its Doctor Whovian electric regeneration, and Californian dentists had access to a Genesis, but in the UK these are brand-new, um, brands.

   • 2022 November 2, Lee Brady, “The Dark Pictures comes to PS VR2 with essentially Doctor Who angels”, in TrueTrophies‎^[5], TrueGaming Network Ltd, archived from the original on 2 November 2022:

     Controlling the game with blinks is something we have seen done before, particularly with the well-regarded Before Your Eyes on PC, but tying that to some sort of Doctor Whovian monster mechanic in which the creatures can grab you if you blink too much is absolutely the best/worst possible application for this kind of game mechanic.

   • 2022 December 29, Chris Condry, “12 Witcher Stories Netflix Should Tell After Blood Origin”, in Looper‎^[6], Static Media, archived from the original on 30 December 2022:

     There are any number of Doctor-Whovian plots that could place the two together — failed mutation experiment, secondary mutation (a la Beast from "The X-Men," for example), or even a portal accident (which, in a fun Easter egg, would prove Geralt's well-documented disdain for the magic true).