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A Doctor Who fan has turned her house into her very own Tardis.
Erica Quinn has recreated the famous time machine from her front door in Glasgow.
She even matched the paint from an original 1960s police box that still sits a stone's throw away at the corner of the city's Botanic Gardens.
Life-sized cardboard cut-outs of the Tenth and Eleventh incarnations of the Doctor, as played by Matt Smith and David Tennant, companions Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and time agent Captain Jack (John Barrowman), and a Dalek peer out from behind the curtains of the flat-turned-Tardis on Clouston Street.
Mrs Quinn dresses them up on special occasions like Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween and Easter - giving each a costume.
The Captain Jack figure even spent last year wearing a black armband in mourning for the regeneration of the tenth doctor, played by Scottish actor David Tennant.
The 39-year-old rearranges them throughout the year - currently the enemies and companions are grouped together, with the two Doctors occupying her bedroom, and a solitary Ood in the hall vestibule.
Mrs Quinn, who shares the house with her husband Quinn, two daughters, Joan and Alice and cat, Lucy, said: "They switch around and sometimes they come out of the windows," she said.
"They are an excellent deterrent against having your house broken into because it looks like someone is watching".
The house has become a local landmark, with passers by stopping to take pictures of her tribute to the show.
She said: "I call it my double take door. People walk by and just stop and stare. People have started calling me the Doctor Who House Lady.
"Once I was getting a taxi on the other side of Glasgow - and I went up to the taxi rank and asked to go to the West End.
"One of the drivers said: 'I'll take you, because I want to go past the Doctor Who House. I was like, "That's my house".
"There have been so many people that I have run into in different places and discovered that they knew about my house. People use it as a point of reference to tell people where they are.
"I think it's great that people love to talk to me about it. You often here people stopping and talking about it outside the house. Everyone under the age of five loves Amy the most."
She said her tribute to the cult show began as a joke, but rapidly expanded.
"I'm no more of a Doctor Who fan that most people in Britain - I watch it and I enjoy it, but I'm not obsessed," she said.
The couple, who originally hail from California and Australia, bought the main door flat in 2003 and have been painstakingly restoring it.
It is next door to where the Scottish Colourist JD Ferguson once lived - but no planning permission was needed for the work.
Mrs Quinn said: "It's just when we came to redo the front door, I thought it should probably have a theme. Doctor Who seemed as good a theme as any - it became a bit of a running gag.
"The front door was really terrible. It was brown UPV. My husband hated it more than life itself."
Mrs Quinn is now making plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show next year.
She hopes to build a replica console room in the hall vestibule to complete the effect.
And she's hoping John Barrowman might admire her handiwork this year.
The Glasgow-born actor is in the city to star in pantomime Robinson Crusoe and the Pirates with the Krankies.
Last year, she contacted the actor's agents inviting him to come and have a look - but he was struck down by a chest infection.
Later she was sent a goodie bag addressed to "The Doctor Who Fan".

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The Doctor Who star plays the actress and model in We'll Take Manhattan, a TV movie about Jean's relationship with the photographer David Bailey.

Karen said: "I guess there is more pressure because part of me thinks I should stay true to what this person actually was. And they're still alive which is quite a significant thing as well, because they're going to see how you portray them.

"But she has seen it and she's really happy, which is really nice."

To mark the tenth sci-fi intro, I'd thought I'd post up one that everyone would agree with.

Dr Who has been a sci-fi staple for generations of kids (and adults) since the early 60s.

The difficulty was always going to be picking which version to feature - some versions of the iconic song I prefer to others but they didn't always match up to the visuals.

They did veer from the creepy (the early ones) to the cool (I love a good rainbow lens flare) to the downright cheesy (Baker's smile and McCoy's wink).

So what the hell, here they all are!

Construction of a multi-million pound Doctor Who attraction has begun in Cardiff, where the series is filmed.

Cardiff council is spending £2 million to construct a permanent home for the Doctor Who Experience, which is due to relocate from London's Olympia.

The attraction, which will be run by BBC Worldwide, will rise up alongside the new BBC drama village in Cardiff Bay.The head of a Cyberman - one of the Doctor's deadliest enemies - was excavated at a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday at Porth Teigr.

The Experience will invite visitors on a journey through time and space, combining a walk- through adventure with the largest exhibition ever assembled of sets, props and memorabilia from the series.

This includes special effects, new footage of Matt Smith, a recreation of today's Tardis and a 3D finale, as well as original costumes, a full-scale recreation of two Tardis sets from previous eras, and numerous monsters, including several generations of the Daleks.

Council leader Rodney Berman said: "I'm delighted that the council has managed to bring the Doctor Who Experience to Cardiff and in digging the first piece of earth we will be marking the start of the work on this fantastic new attraction.

"It is set to bring millions of pounds into the city's economy, and the benefits to Cardiff will be immense in tourism terms."

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BY ROZ LAWS

AS one of Doctor Who's companions, Arthur Darvill has his pick of the universe.
So where is his dream place to live? The paradise planet of Apalapacia, perhaps, or the sub-tropical jungles of Deva Loka?

Ready for the Doctor's return this Saturday?

Here's the official prequel to the controversial Let's Kill Hitler episode, specially put together by Steven Moffat himself!

The mini-episode bridges the gap between A Good Man Goes To War and Let's Kill Hitler, revealing how Amy feels in the aftermath of events at Demon's Run.

As we approach the return of everyone's favourite doc, here's a fantastic, and handily, infographic to get us up to speed.

Click on the image to embiggen.

Calling all Jedi-wannabes. It is time to dig out the lightsabre and hyperspeed it along to the Heritage Motor Centre for the weekend of July 9 and 10, when there will be an attempt at the Guinness World Record for the largest Light Sabre battle.

You can either bring along your own weapon or make one on the day and join in.

The record attempt is part of a sci-fi weekend at the centre, when visitors can enjoy close encounters with some of the stars of movie and TV classics of the genre.

On the Saturday, Colin Baker, the sixth Doctor Who, Mark Silk, the voice actor in Star Wars for Aks Moe, and Rusty Goffe, who played Jawa in Star Wars Episode IV, will be attending.

On the Sunday R2D2, aka Kenny Baker, Mike Edmunds, who played an Ewok, and Rusty will be there to meet and greet fans.

A "Sci-Fi at the Movies" exhibition will feature original weapons, artefacts and costumes from films, on loan from the private collection of Skywalker Promotions.

Dave Matthews from the Creaky Cauldron, Stratford-upon-Avon's unofficial wizard, will be hosting special workshops over the two days where children can learn how to make a wand, how to create spells and how to be a wizard or witch.

Dave will also be running an old fashioned, fully functioning apothecary using a selection of traditional herbs, roots and incense.

In addition, there will be special exhibits, tours, quizzes, story-telling, fancy dress competitions and craft activities. Visitors are encouraged to come in fancy dress and have their photo taken with the characters and celebrities. They can also watch a selection of movies in the cinema and buy official sci-fi merchandise.

There will be sci-fi fun throughout the summer holidays as well with the 'Sci-Fi at the Movies' exhibition, daily quizzes and other activities, including family craft activity Thursdays, running from July 23-Sept 4.

There is no extra charge for the sci-fi events as it is all included in the standard museum entry fees which are £11 for adults and £8 for children aged five to 16. Under-fives get in free. Concessions are priced at £9 and a family ticket is £34.

For more information visit the website at www.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk 

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Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville guest stars in the third episode of the new Doctor Who series.

The 47 year-old appears in the new episode, called The Curse Of The Black Spot, as pirate captain John Avery, on Saturday.

The actor recently spoke of the role and described it as a 'dream come true' - "I've never had so much fun with my boots on! I've been badgering my agent for years, saying, 'Please get me a Doctor Who!' It's a cracking episode.

"I was a big Doctor Who fan as a child, I was a Jon Pertwee boy. That music haunted my childhood, and always reminds me of being at my gran's on a Saturday afternoon, just after the football scores.

"The Doctor has got this Peter Pan quality about him.

"And this year you've got this darker side and the death of the Doctor comes
up. We grown-ups engage because of the legacy, but he gets into the imagination
of youngsters."