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Elgin libraries host Doctor Who Day this weekend

Elgin libraries host Doctor Who Day this weekend
Elgin Gail Borden Public Library director of KidSpace Jennifer Bueche poses with a Dalek and Peter Capaldi as the Doctor while wearing a scarf like the one made famous by Tom Baker when Baker played the Doctor. The library's three branches are hosting Doctor Who Day on Saturday. (Mike Danahey / Courier-News)

Doctor Who fans of all ages can spend part of Labor Day weekend at any of the three branches of Elgin's Gail Borden Public Library, which will be celebrating the long-running television series.

The main library, 270 N. Grove Ave. in Elgin, Rakow branch, 2751 W. Bowes Rd. in Elgin, and South Elgin branch, 127 South McLean Blvd., are hosting a Doctor Who Day on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with free activities for all ages including photo opportunities and scavenger hunts.

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The main library downtown is asking fans to dress up as their favorite Doctor Who characters to parade through the building at 3:15 pm. The main library also will be offering Escape Room: Escape from Planet Skaro! In the game, geared toward children in grades 3 to 8, participants will be trapped on the planet Skaro and must work with a team to solve puzzles to escape before time runs out. Four sessions are offered: 1, 1:30, 2 and 2:30 pm.

Jennifer Bueche, director of KidSpace for the library, said the game involves a series of questions that must be answered in order to get the combinations of locks, leading to unlocking a box to get a prize.

Bueche said the idea for holding the Doctor Who Day came from Catherine Blair, the middle school services librarian. Saturday also is the fourth annual Doctor Who Comics Day, a worldwide promotion tied to Titan Comics' Doctor Who comic books.

The BBC television series involves the exploits of Doctor Who, a time lord from Gallifrey who takes human companions on adventures throughout history and across galaxies using the TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Space), a spaceship of sorts that looks like an English police box on the outside. The sci-fi series originally ran from 1963 until 1989. There was a made for TV movie in 1996, and the series returned to the BBC in 2005.

The Doctor can regenerate, with another actor assuming the role. In July, during the men's final for the Wimbledon tennis tournament, the BBC announced that Jodie Whittaker, 35, will be the 13th Doctor, with Peter Capaldi, 59, stepping aside from the part he assumed in 2013.

"We know how popular the show has become and the attention it had recently when it revealed that for the first time a woman would be playing the role of Doctor Who," Bueche said.

This will be the second time the library has hosted an event with a Doctor Who theme, the other being in 2013 to mark the 50th anniversary of the show's first airing.

That celebration drew hundreds of people during the course of the day, including fans, from toddlers to grandparents, dressed up as their favorite Doctor Who characters, Bueche said.

Bueche doesn't watch the show, but said, "I appreciate the level of addiction its fans have. I have shows I like a lot, too, like 'Sherlock' (the re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes set in present-day England that also has Steven Moffat as its showrunner, a job Moffat had with Doctor Who from 2009 until the conclusion of the 2017 season). I appreciate how Doctor Who has reinvented itself over the years, and I am thrilled the new Doctor is a female."

For information and to register for one of the escape room game sessions, go to www.gailborden.info or call 847-429-4597.

mdanahey@tribpub.com

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