"Take any progressive series and convert it into binary notation. Take the sum of the integrates, and express the result as a power series, then the indices show the basic binary blocks."
This formula truly has an amazing range of applications. For example, it aptly describes the traditional TV sitcom series. Many of these revolve around several bright young twenty to thirty hims, hers, and its sharing the same flat or house and inflicting on each other and to the audience their job / marital / financial / psychological hang-ups.
These series try to convey the illusion of being progressive. They work their way though the life adventures of the usual collection of amiable idiots and lead to some being united in binary fashion - either de facto or wedded.
The sum of the integrates are their actual or potential offspring who proceed to engage in a power play to try to dominate their doting moronic parents.
Apply this formula to a science fiction series and it works - substitute space ship for house or flat, the binary notation relates to forming or dissolving alliances, while the power play takes place between humans and aliens or bug-eyed monsters.
Doctor Who himself occupies a Tardis in which he entertains a series of girlfriends, stowaways, birds of passage and the odd mechanical dog, and allies himself with various oddball planets and/or species while jousting with Daleks, Cybermen and a host of badly made up monsters against a background of cheap special effects.
The sum of the integrates is the succession of reborn Doctors, while the basic binary blocks are the episodes. Even the current bout of US Presidential candidates is covered by the formula.
A progressive series of state by state votes become the binary notation of the Press Corps, the ultimate sum of the results become the power play of the ingrates with clear indications of the resultant blockheads.
Thus the candidates will kick and gouge each other until the pecking order is established and then kiss and make up in an orgy of bondings of convenience into pairs - potential President/Vice-President teams seeking election.
The Doctor is right again - as usual.