Shall I make your distress even greater by saying that the new series is very good? It's matured to the point where it's clearly more of an adult-oriented show that children could still watch, it preserves most of what was great about the old series while using modern dramatic conventions for how the stories are presented. It's going back to a good many of the old meta-themes and looking at what they mean. and it's still fun to watch.

And, oddly enough, I knit a Tom Baker scarf for a good friend of mine back when I was in college.