I wonder...

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if Sam and Gene ever argue about the relative merits of the various Doctors. Gene, of course, predates Doctor Who, he had a Wholess childhood (my god, he's prehistoric!), but if he did start to watch the show at some point, his allegiance probably lies with Hartnell or Troughton. For Sam, on the other hand, the One True Doctor must be either Pertwee (though he may be just a tad too young for that) or Tom Baker. Baker, probably, simply because that must have been the predominant Doctor of his childhood.

Hmm...

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Re: Does this go for non-fannish folks, too?

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Hmm. I come from a one-tv household myself (born 1976 - in Germany, multiple tv sets per home were not common even well into the eighties), but, with me not having younger siblings, we didn't watch programming that was mainly aimed at children anymore when I became a teenager.

Granted, Doctor Who is a 'family show', but was it really being watched by the whole family even in families where there are no children present? A lot of teenagers are very anxious to leave behind anything that seems like it's aimed at children... (Sam doesn't have siblings, and his family only consists of his mother and him, so he would have had some considerable influence on the choice of what to watch, I imagine.)

Another factor that just now occurred to me:

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Sam has daddy issues. He may be more attached to older male characters than to younger ones, on TV. Though I'm not sure how good a father figure Tom Baker makes... possibly Sam's Doctor would be Three, after all.