Dr Who is back
It got us thinking about all the Time Lord’s links to Wearside and there are plenty.
How about the husband and wife who watched every episode in a marathon session which ended in their own book in 2013.
Or the man who built a fundraising Dalek that same year.
We have it all and more in this Echo archive tribute. Read on.
5. Time travel to 2009
Lee Sewell, 9, came face to face with an Ood at the 2009 birthday celebrations of the Bunney Hill Centre. | se
6. Who remembers this
Peter Dawson portrayed Dr Who when he launched the Science Fiction event at the North East Aircraft Museum in June 2011. | se
7. Daleks and a Tardis
Daniel Potts, 5, had a Dalek and a Tardis for company at a Father's Day event at the North East Aircraft Museum in 2011. | se
8. Creative in 2011
Louis Cutter (3) and his sister Madeleine (6) posed for a photo with a Meccano Dalek made by John Herdman, chairman of the North Eastern Meccano Society in 2011. | se