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While his humour isn't fully compatible with my funnybone, the pages of Nick Griffiths' "Dalek I Loved You: A Memoir" (2007) keep on turning. It recounts his fluctuating "Doctor Who" fandom from 5.15pm, January 3, 1970 - when he gazed in boyish wonder at Jon Pertwee's debut in the first episode of "Spearhead From Space" - through school, work and fatherhood to the present day. If the English fan experience wasn't different enough to the Antipodean one, Griffiths ends up a privileged insider, writing about the show for the "Radio Times" and gaining access to cast'n'crew. I suspect he still loves Daleks.