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On This Day In History
1963: Doctor Who first airs

Quote Of The Day
"I saw the Doctor as a kind of lama, one of those long-lived old boys out in Tibet who might be anything up to eight-hundred years old but only look seventy-five."
(William Hartnell)

An interesting take on the Doctor, I thought. I wonder if William Hartnell was aware of the Doctor's ability to regenerate when he said this? That would make the Doctor even more like a lama, specifically the Dalai Lama, who has now "regenerated" fourteen times since the the first Dalai Lama, Genden Drub (1391-1474.) So, in a sense, Tenzin Gyatso, the current Dalai Lama, is 578 years old.

Wait a minute; we are approaching Doctor Who's fourteenth regeneration and Tenjin Gyatso is the fourteenth Dalai Lama. Spooky-time!

Thirteen Doctors In One Opening Sequence