'I screamed': Nigerian Doctor Who fan thrilled show is coming to Lagos

"Whatever I was doing - possibly cleaning up oregon doing homework - erstwhile I heard the 'oooh-oooh-oooooh'," Adesoji Kukoyi says, mimicking the iconic Doctor Who taxable tune, "I dropped everything and ran consecutive to the television."

As a kid increasing up successful 1980s Nigeria, Mr Kukoyi was infatuated with sci-fi sensation Doctor Who. British shows similar Allo Allo and Fawlty Towers aired regularly arsenic a taste hangover from the assemblage era, but nary captured Mr Kukoyi's imaginativeness similar the time-travelling Doctor did.

"He ever spoke to me," 44-year-old Mr Kukoyi, who presently has a vintage Doctor Who taxable arsenic the ringtone connected his phone, tells the BBC.

"Like there's idiosyncratic watching retired for us... yes, we marque mistakes, but we bash our best, particularly if we person a teacher that volition pb america connected the close path."

Mr Kukoyi has been watching Doctor Who for decades, truthful erstwhile helium heard that connected Saturday an occurrence will, for the precise archetypal time, beryllium acceptable successful Nigeria, helium was elated.

"I was watching past week's occurrence with my woman and the preview [for the pursuing week] said: 'Welcome to Lagos, Nigeria'. I screamed similar a small girl!" Mr Kukoyi says.

The mounting is momentous not conscionable for Mr Kukoyi - a autochthonal of Nigeria's biggest and liveliest metropolis Lagos - but for the amusement too. Saturday's escapade volition beryllium the archetypal chiefly acceptable successful Africa.

It is fitting that the producers chose Nigeria for this milestone - successful 2013, fans worldwide were delighted when 9 mislaid Doctor Who episodes from the 1960s were unearthed successful a Nigerian TV facility.

Ariyon Bakare, who successful the upcoming occurrence plays the mysterious Barber, says fans tin expect "a time-bending taste ancestral collision" and "hair, tons of hair".

The preview besides teases a vibrant barber shop, a brimming Lagos marketplace and a towering, monstrous-looking spider.

Fans speculate that this carnal is Anansi, a legendary quality successful West African and Caribbean folktales, but scriptwriter Inua Ellams is keeping specifics nether wraps.

As for wherefore the amusement has enjoyed specified popularity successful Nigeria, helium says: "There's thing Nigerian astir the Doctor. Nigerians are benignant of loud, gregarious people... the Doctor is mysterious, boisterous, benignant of over-confident but someway manages to prevention the day."

Ellams, who moved from Nigeria to the UK arsenic a child, besides considers wherefore successful 62 years, a quality known to traverse the beingness has hardly spent immoderate clip successful Africa.

It could beryllium that nary writer has felt assured capable to nutrient an authentic African story, helium says, oregon it mightiness beryllium down to the Doctor's request to "blend into his situation and beryllium inconspicuous".

"Ncuti Gatwa [who plays the Doctor] being an histrion of African descent means that we tin archer caller stories with the Doctor and negociate successful antithetic spaces due to the fact that of his appearance.

"And this is the brilliance of the amusement - each Doctor creates caller opportunities to archer caller stories successful antithetic ways," Ellams tells the BBC.

But these caller Doctor Who stories person a smaller scope than the aged ones did, arsenic the amusement is nary longer broadcast connected Nigerian nationalist TV. If you are successful the state and privation to drawback up connected the Doctor's exploits, you would person to subscribe to streaming work Disney Plus.

Regardless, Mr Kukoyi insists that a dedicated unit of Nigerian Doctor Who lovers volition beryllium sitting transfixed connected their sofas connected Saturday evening, bearing witnesser to the Tardis materialising successful Lagos.

"I'm waiting with baited breath," helium says. "Finally, helium is coming!"

Mr Kukoyi - whose archetypal acquisition of the Doctor was 1 played by a stripy scarf-wearing Tom Baker - says his young daughters are not truthful taken with his beloved show.

He is "trying to get them onboard", helium says.

Perhaps seeing the Doctor wearing accepted Nigerian clothing, squeezing his mode done a quintessential Lagos marketplace and getting caught up successful section folklore will assistance them autumn successful emotion with the amusement the mode their begetter erstwhile did.