So I just caught the end of my first ever episode of Dr Who, and was left really rather confused about the whole thing.

So who is Dr Who? Is he human? And what does he do? Just fly around in that phone box and fight fake-looking monsters?

Does he have a first name? Is it Doctor? So if he got a doctorate, would he be Dr Doctor Who? Or was he just given an awful first name by parents with a twisted sense of humour and therefore invented this persona for himself? Ralph Who? That would lead into a whole new world of stupid jokes.

And why the phone box? Why not a swimming pool cubicle? Or a minibus? Or a toilet under the stairs?

Or, perhaps the most pertinent question of all, why the heck do the BBC make this plop?

*No offence intended to Dr Who fans, but the 15 minutes I saw looked like utter shite.*