'Doctor Who' Writer Would Use TARDIS to See His Husband One Last Time

Russell T. Davies, the creator of Queer as Folk, Years and Years, and the guy who brought back Doctor Who for its "New Who" run back in 2005, gave an interview recently sharing what he would use the Doctor's time-traveling TARDIS for if given the chance. 

Davies was married in 2012, but he met his husband, Andrew Smith, back in 1998. The two were only able to share six years of marriage before Smith passed away.

And seeing him one last time is what Davies would do, given the chance.

"People always say to me, 'Where would you go if you had a TARDIS? And I would literally go up Canal [Street] and I'd be a bystander...on April 12, 1998 in Cruz 101 in Manchester, as I was standing at that railing, and [Andrew] was standing with his friend Martin at another railing, and we caught eyes," he said. 

"What a magic moment."

Smith was diagnosed with a brain tumor back in 2011, after experiencing worsening headaches. Davies put his career on hold to care for him, and he outlived all expectations, making it another seven years before he died.

"It was hard, and also it was an honor, to be the person doing that...I realized to myself that actually those eight years that I cared for him were our happiest years," Davies admitted.

"I actually miss that. I'm sure I wasn't a saint at the time. If you'd asked me at the time like, 'What's it like to be a carer?' I think in year four I'd have been going, 'oh, it drives me a bit mad, and I wouldn't mind a bit of freedom.'"

But time's insistence on marching forward has a way of changing how you look on the past, and the former Doctor Who showrunner certainly knows that.

"Now I've got the freedom, and I would chuck that freedom away in an instant just to have five more minutes sitting watching a television with him."

You can listen to the whole interview with Davies on the BBC website.