Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130309221950/@comment-26975268-20130310010537

Also note that no one's celebrating the 50th anniversary of the original report, or the day that Verity Lambert was hired. Those events lead up to the actual beginning of Doctor Who, when viewers got to actually see the show on their screens.

To put the word "anniversary" into perspective, do we celebrate the anniversary of the day he proposed once they've already been married? Or the day that they first met? Or, worse yet, the day that she failed a test, which ended up leading to her meeting him? Of course not — that would be ridiculous! No, we celebrate only the anniversary of the actual day of the wedding.

While it might be cool to look back and say, "hey, exactly 50 years ago, Verity Lambert was hired," we're hardly going to host special conventions, merchandise, episodes, expensive docu-dramas, comic stories, etc... in celebration of the day. 23 November 1963 was the date of marriage. And the whole world is celebrating it, 50 years later.