This year stages a massive 50th Anniversary……….It’s 50 years since Doctor Who’s Tardis first landed on our TV screens!! The first Doctor Who to emerge from the Tardis in November 1963 was played by William Hartnell, as a white haired eccentric mad professor type and that trend has prevailed ever since.

Anyone between the age of 5 and 65 will have grown up with Doctor Who, in one of his many incarnations. The Recordpress author’s particular Doctor Who was played by the cool, suave, debonair and urbane Jon Pertwee ( 1970-1974 ). Strictly speaking my Doctor Who viewing years spanned three Doctors, with the more eccentric Doctors played by Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker on either side of Jon Pertwee. But the latter was the Doctor Who I identified with.

I can still remember how saddened and traumatised I was when in early 1974 Jon Pertwee was regenerated into Tom Baker at the end of the series. It really was like losing a friend and father figure. I had grown up with Jon Pertwee’s Doctor Who and he had been with me from the age of seven through to eleven – those Junior school years when a delicate, impressionable schoolboy needs to be guided by a Time Lord!!

Whichever  Doctor Who you identify with, he has always been unflappable and instilled you with a feeling of well-being at the end of a harrowing episode. At some time or another, many of us have watched the programme, peeking from behind the sofa, cowering from the Daleks, Cybermen or some equally scary adversary of Doctor Who. But throughout we were confident that the Doctor would save us and mankind from the grips of the evil monster!! Here’s to many more “light years” of Doctor Who vanquishing evil across the Universe!!

Recordpress would like to hear from you. Answer the three questions below and simply enter our Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Competition ( Prize details below ).

1) Who was your favourite Doctor Who and why?

2) Who was your favourite Doctor Who assistant and why?

3) Which was your favourite enemy or monster and why?

The author of the best reply to these three questions will WIN A PRIZE OF A FRAMED VINYL COPY OF THE DOCTOR WHO THEME MUSIC ( with accompanying picture sleeve depicting your favourite Doctor Who, whether it be Tom Baker, Peter Davison etc ) WITH A COMMEMORATIVE DOCTOR WHO 50th ANNIVERSARY PLAQUE– see image adjacent.

E-mail your three answers to info@MyFirstRecord.co.uk  All entries must be submitted with your name and e-mail address by the 30th October 2013. The winner will be notified shortly afterwards.

Alternatively if you cannot wait to celebrate Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary in November 2013, you can order the Doctor Who Theme Tune in a vinyl single or CD single format; framed and mounted as a picture disc souvenir. You can also personalise it with an inscribed / engraved plaque…… 

ORDER NOW…….. www.myfirstrecord.co.uk/

Framed vinyl records, framed CDs and framed DVDs with a personalised plaque, make unique presents or original gifts for a special celebration  / special occasion ie a Wedding ( Wedding First Dance Song ), an Engagement Party ( Our Song ), a House Warming Party ( New Home ), a 21st, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th Birthday ( How about the No1 song on the day of birth? ), a Silver, Ruby or Golden Wedding Anniversary, Father’s or Mother’s Day or Valentine’s Day!!  THE PERFECT PERSONALISED PRESENT!!