After 50-plus years, TV's favorite time traveler is at his/her best when she worries us. The Doctor is one of pop culture’s most long-lasting characters, and always a deliberate enigma. Over the ...

In the late 1980s, a gang of feisty teenage girls briefly helped the good Doctor. But his female companions were still mostly there to show how clever he was. My time as a ‘scary girl’ on ...