[101] The show introduced the Time Lords' ability to change gender on regeneration in earlier episodes, first in dialogue, then with Michelle Gomez's version of The Master. It has been constantly updated since its release and features all of the Doctors as playable characters as well as over 100 companions.[211]. Notably, in 2013, John Hurt guest-starred as a hitherto unknown incarnation of the Doctor known as the War Doctor in the run-up to the show's 50th anniversary special "The Day of the Doctor". [156] The series moved to TVNZ 1 in 2021. 2104259 by The British Broadcasting Corporation to register a series of three marks in Classes 9, 16, 25 and 41 And in the Matter of – Opposition thereto under No. [131] In 2011, the theme tune charted at number 228 of radio station Classic FM's Hall of Fame, a survey of classical music tastes. American composer John Debney created a new arrangement of Ron Grainer's original theme for Doctor Who in 1996. [185], Numerous other spin-off series have been created not by the BBC but by the respective owners of the characters and concepts. In The Five Doctors, Richard Hurndall played the First Doctor due to William Hartnell's death in 1975; 34 years later David Bradley similarly replaced Hartnell in Twice Upon a Time. Standard episode length changed to 45 minutes, with … Challenges from Doctor Who to the mad scientist trope.". Down below the Weeping Angels are stirring, but the Doctor has someone else to contend with; none other than the mysterious Professor River Song. Doctor Who has also spawned numerous spin-offs, including comic books, films, novels, audio dramas, and the television series Torchwood (2006–2011), The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007–2011), K-9 (2009–2010), and Class (2016), and has been the subject of many parodies and references in popular culture. [122] The Daleks' début in the programme's second serial, The Daleks (1963–64), made both the Daleks and Doctor Who very popular. It was announced on October 2, 2020 right after the debut of Season 3.1 It was released January 15, 2021.2 1 Plot 2 Episode list 3 Gallery 3.1 Videos 3.2 Images 4 References After several failed attempts to claim gold, including the lost hidden treasures stolen by the past generations of the organization, V.I.L.E. Some notable exceptions were: The Daleks' Master Plan, which aired twelve episodes (plus an earlier one-episode teaser,[59] "Mission to the Unknown", featuring none of the regular cast[60]); almost an entire season of seven-episode serials (season 7); the ten-episode serial The War Games;[61] and The Trial of a Time Lord, which ran for fourteen episodes (albeit divided into three production codes and four narrative segments) during season 23. (2011). On rare occasions, other actors have stood in for the lead. "Official" reconstructions have also been released by the BBC on VHS, on MP3 CD-ROM, and as special features on DVD. Only the series from 2005 onwards are also available on Blu-ray, except for the 1970 story Spearhead from Space, released in July 2013 and the 1996 TV film Doctor Who released in September 2016. There have been three aftershow series created, with the latest one titled Doctor Who: The Fan Show, which began airing from the tenth series. Davros has also been a recurring figure since his debut in Genesis of the Daleks, although played by several different actors. [14] Although it was effectively cancelled with the decision not to commission a planned 27th season, which would have been broadcast in 1990, the BBC repeatedly affirmed, over several years, that the series would return. Guest stars in the series included former companions Jo Grant, K9, and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney). [103] Another example is from the 1986 serial The Trial of a Time Lord, where Michael Jayston portrayed the Valeyard, who is described as an amalgamation of the darker sides of the Doctor's nature, somewhere between the twelfth and final incarnation. ; the Australian-produced television series K-9, which aired a 26-episode first season on Disney XD;[186] and the audio spin-off Counter-Measures.[187]. [183] The series was picked up by BBC America on 8 January 2016 and by BBC One a day later. [5][6] It was to be a regular weekly programme, each episode 25 minutes of transmission length. [78][79], Between about 1967 and 1978, large amounts of older material stored in the BBC's various video tape and film libraries were either destroyed,[note 3] wiped, or suffered from poor storage which led to severe deterioration from broadcast quality. Another recent game is called Doctor Who Infinity, which was released on Steam on 7 August 2018. These Cybus Cybermen were created in a parallel universe by the mad inventor John Lumic; he was attempting to preserve the humans by transplanting their brains into powerful metal bodies, sending them orders using a mobile phone network and inhibiting their emotions with an electronic chip. These include board games, card games, gamebooks, computer games, roleplaying games, action figures and a pinball game. With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, works to save civilisations and helps people in need. Murray Gold and Russell T Davies answered questions during the interval and Daleks and Cybermen appeared whilst music from their stories was played. Other original plays have been staged as amateur productions, with other actors playing the Doctor, while Terry Nation wrote The Curse of the Daleks, a stage play mounted in the late 1960s, but without the Doctor. It also featured a crossover with the soap opera EastEnders, the action taking place in the latter's Albert Square location and around Greenwich. Featuring three of the first five Doctors, a new actor to replace the deceased William Hartnell, and unused footage to represent Tom Baker.[189]. As of 1 January 2013[update], the modern series has been broadcast in more than 50 countries. Fisher, R. Michael, and Barbara Bickel. [23] The tenth series debuted in April 2017, with a Christmas special preceding it in 2016. "[218] The programme is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running science fiction television show in the world,[219] the "most successful" science fiction series of all time—based on its overall broadcast ratings, DVD and book sales, and iTunes traffic—[220] and for the largest ever simulcast of a TV drama with its 50th anniversary special. The Doctor remarks in response, "Yeah, I know the feeling." While the show continued to use historical settings, they were generally used as a backdrop for science fiction tales, with one exception: Black Orchid (1982), set in 1920s England. Venice: The Series is a soap opera web series co-produced by and starring American actress Crystal Chappell, and is inspired in part by the "Otalia" storyline on the daytime drama Guiding Light.The series has been streamed on VenicetheSeries.com since December 4, 2009, and is currently in its sixth and final season.. Venice is described by Chappell as "a show about … The character of Jack Harkness also served to launch a spin-off, Torchwood, (2006–2011) in which Martha Jones also appeared. A second series of Torchwood aired in 2008; for three episodes, the cast was joined by Freema Agyeman reprising her Doctor Who role of Martha Jones. They even attack the Time Lords in the Time War, as shown during the 50th Anniversary of the show. Such spin-offs include the novel and audio drama series Faction Paradox, Iris Wildthyme and Bernice Summerfield; as well as the made-for-video series P.R.O.B.E. The Masks of Venice Caper 25m. A concert featuring the orchestra performing music from the first two series took place on 19 November 2006 to raise money for Children in Need. [223] In 2005, the series came first in a survey by SFX magazine of "The Greatest UK Science Fiction and Fantasy Television Series Ever". The Ninth Doctor was portrayed by Christopher Eccleston in 2005.. Beginning with series 1 of the BBC Wales-produced Doctor Who the multi-episode serial format was abandoned in favour of a mixture of standalone single-episode stories and two- (or three-) parters, in an ongoing story arc. The Doctor fled Gallifrey, the planet of the Time Lords, in a stolen TARDIS ("Time and Relative Dimension in Space"), a time machine that travels by materialising into, and dematerialising out of, the time vortex. [163] The Canadian cable network Space (now known as CTV Sci-Fi Channel) broadcast "The Next Doctor" (in March 2009) and all subsequent series and specials. His eccentric style of dress and quirky personality became hugely popular, with viewing figures for the show returning to a level not seen since the height of "Dalekmania" a decade earlier. Davies' successor, Steven Moffat, has continued the trend by reviving the Silurians in series 5, Cybermats in series 6, the Great Intelligence and the Ice Warriors in Series 7, and Zygons in the 50th Anniversary Special. They met later, albeit briefly, in “The Timeless Children” later that year. [84] With the approval of the BBC, efforts are now under way to restore as many of the episodes as possible from the extant material. Bin Diving ... Series 5: Episode 4. An excerpt from the original (1963) classic theme music to, Newman is often given sole creator credit for the series. The Radiophonic Workshop was dropped after 1986's The Trial of a Time Lord series, and Keff McCulloch took over as the series' main composer until the end of its run, with Dominic Glynn and Mark Ayres also contributing scores. In 1985 the channel's controller Michael Grade attempted to cancel the series, but this became an 18-month hiatus instead. [69], The early stories were serialised in nature, with the narrative of one story flowing into the next, and each episode having its own title, although produced as distinct stories with their own production codes. [213][214], Since the creation of the Doctor Who character by BBC Television in the early 1960s, a myriad of stories have been published about Doctor Who, in different media: apart from the actual television episodes that continue to be produced by the BBC, there have also been novels, comics, short stories, audio books, radio plays, interactive video games, game books, webcasts, DVD extras, and stage performances. Trapped among an army of Weeping Angels, the Doctor and his friends must try to escape through the wreckage of a crashed space liner - but in the forest vault, Amy Pond finds herself under a yet more deadly attack. Licensed media such as novels and audio plays provided new stories, but as a television programme Doctor Who remained dormant until 2003. [150], Doctor Who has been broadcast internationally outside of the United Kingdom since 1964, a year after the show first aired. In the Channel 4 series Queer as Folk (created by later Doctor Who executive producer Russell T. Davies), the character of Vince was portrayed as an avid Doctor Who fan, with references appearing many times throughout in the form of clips from the programme. These amateur reconstructions have been tolerated by the BBC, provided they are not sold for profit and are distributed as low-quality copies.[83]. Beginning with William Hartnell, thirteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor, and in 2017 Jodie Whittaker became the first woman to play the role. [212] It was nominated for "Best Start-up" at The Independent Game Developers' Association Awards 2018. In 1975, Season 11 of the series won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for Best Writing in a Children's Serial. [88] Six of the eleven films discovered were the six-part serial The Enemy of the World (1968), from which all but the third episode had been missing. "[198], There have also been many references to Doctor Who in popular culture and other science fiction, including Star Trek: The Next Generation ("The Neutral Zone")[199] and Leverage. Numerous Doctor Who video games have been created from the mid-80s through to the present day. Watch previews, find out ways to watch, go behind the scenes, and more of Season 11 Episode 2 of the SHOWTIME Original Series Shameless. A pilot episode ("A Girl's Best Friend") for a potential spinoff series, K-9 and Company, was aired in 1981 with Elisabeth Sladen reprising her role as companion Sarah Jane Smith and John Leeson as the voice of K9, but was not picked up as a regular series. Rich and powerful rap mogul extraordinaire Samurai Apocalypse (Wu-Tang's RZA) is pimped-out famous - and hell bent on getting our bad boy writer into more trouble than he's ever known. The 4 episodes of the anime were initially developed as OVAs or Original Video Animation, which were released between 2017 and December 2019. [36] Other notable moments in that decade include a disembodied brain falling to the floor in The Brain of Morbius[37] and the Doctor apparently being drowned by a villain in The Deadly Assassin (both 1976). In January 2011 the Mankind version was released as a digital download on the album Gallifrey And Beyond. Now I am neither." Since the relaunch of the programme in 2005, a new range of novels have been published by BBC Books. From 1979 to 1981, TVO airings were bookended by science-fiction writer Judith Merril who introduced the episode and then, after the episode concluded, tried to place it in an educational context in keeping with TVO's status as an educational channel. In the early 1970s, Trevor Martin played the role in Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday. Producers introduced the concept of regeneration to permit the recasting of the main character. The Doctor rarely travels alone and is often joined by one or more companions on these adventures; these companions are usually humans, owing to the Doctor's fascination with planet Earth, which also leads to frequent collaborations with the international military task force UNIT when Earth is threatened. [210] One of the recent ones is a match-3 game released in November 2013 for iOS, Android, Amazon App Store and Facebook called Doctor Who: Legacy. [144] The first of these was the "Dalekmania" period (circa 1964–1965), when the popularity of the Daleks regularly brought Doctor Who ratings of between 9 and 14 million, even for stories which did not feature them. [102] He is shown in mini-episode "The Night of the Doctor" retroactively inserted into the show's fictional chronology between McGann and Eccleston's Doctors, although his introduction was written so as not to disturb the established numerical naming of the Doctors. Occasionally, regular-series episodes will exceed the 45-minute run time; notably, the episodes "Journey's End" from 2008 and "The Eleventh Hour" from 2010 exceeded an hour in length. [179] A second animated serial, Dreamland, aired in six parts on the BBC Red Button service, and the official Doctor Who website in 2009. Since its 2005 return, the series has featured occasional use of excerpts of pop music from the 1970s to the 2000s. Conceived as "Professor Moriarty to the Doctor's Sherlock Holmes",[124] the character first appeared in 1971. [140] In February 2011, a soundtrack was released for the 2010 Christmas special: "A Christmas Carol",[141] and in December 2011 the soundtrack for Series 6 was released, both by Silva Screen Records. In 1988, during a hiatus in the television show, Slipback, the first radio drama, was transmitted. [18] Eccleston left after one series and was replaced by David Tennant. The series moved to the Canadian cable channel Space in 2009. It has been claimed that the transmission of the first episode was delayed by ten minutes due to extended news coverage of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy the previous day; in fact it went out after a delay of eighty seconds. The theme tune has also appeared on many compilation CDs, and has made its way into mobile-phone ringtones. The TARDIS has a vast interior but appears smaller on the outside, and is equipped with a "chameleon circuit" intended to make the machine take on the appearance of local objects as a disguise; due to a malfunction, the Doctor's TARDIS remains fixed as a blue British police box. in season Title Directed by Written by Original air date; 79: 1 "Extortion" Christian Nyby: Robert I. Holt: September 15, 1971 (): Starting with this episode, Malloy is promoted to Senior Lead Officer (Police Officer III+1) and begins to wear the two chevrons with a star under them, Sgt. The head of drama Sydney Newman was mainly responsible for developing the programme, with the first format document for the series being written by Newman along with the head of the script department (later head of serials) Donald Wilson and staff writer C. E. Webber. One episode of Doctor Who (The Infinite Quest) was released on VCD. These characters were intended to act as audience surrogates, through which the audience would discover information about the Doctor who was to act as a mysterious father figure. [144] The second was the mid to late 1970s, when Tom Baker occasionally drew audiences of over 12 million.[144]. [102] In the following episode, "The Day of the Doctor", David Tennant's Tenth Doctor appeared alongside Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and John Hurt as the War Doctor, as well as brief footage from all of the previous actors. [95][96] The episode "The Time of the Doctor" (2013) depicted the Doctor acquiring a new cycle of regenerations, starting from the Twelfth Doctor, due to the Eleventh Doctor being the product of the Doctor's twelfth regeneration from his original set.[97][98]. This is similar to the 1988 continuation of Mission Impossible,[25] but differs from most other series relaunches which have either been reboots (for example, Battlestar Galactica[26] and Bionic Woman) or set in the same universe as the original but in a different time period and with different characters (for example, Star Trek: The Next Generation and spin-offs). The show is a significant part of British popular culture,[2][3] and elsewhere it has gained a cult following. [192], Doctor Who has been satirised and spoofed on many occasions by comedians including Spike Milligan (a Dalek invades his bathroom — Milligan, naked, hurls a soap sponge at it) and Lenny Henry. During the original run, each weekly episode formed part of a story (or "serial") — usually of four to six parts in earlier years and three to four in later years. Children in Need 2012 featured the mini-episode "The Great Detective". … Starring Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor, Doctor Who finally returned with the episode "Rose" on BBC One on 26 March 2005. The Silurians are preparing for war, A war that could decide who gets to live on earth, The Silurians or-the humans.. The BBC Philharmonic and the London Philharmonic Choir performed Murray Gold's compositions for the series, conducted by Ben Foster, as well as a selection of classics based on the theme of space and time. [53] In 2007, Caitlin Moran, television reviewer for The Times, wrote that Doctor Who is "quintessential to being British". [112][113] The primary companions of the Ninth and Tenth Doctors were Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman), and Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) with Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke) and Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) recurring as secondary companion figures. [15] Segal's negotiations eventually led to a Doctor Who television film, broadcast on the Fox Network in 1996 as an international co-production between Fox, Universal Pictures, the BBC and BBC Worldwide. There have been instances of actors returning at later dates to reprise the role of their specific Doctor. In addition, several planned films were proposed, including a sequel, The Chase, loosely based on the original series story, for the Cushing Doctor, plus many attempted television movie and big screen productions to revive the original Doctor Who, after the original series was cancelled. In the early 1970s, Jon Pertwee, who had played the Third Doctor, recorded a version of the Doctor Who theme with spoken lyrics, titled, "Who Is the Doctor". [168] From 2020, the revival series is available for streaming on HBO Max.[169]. During that story, the role was then assumed by John Simm who returned to the role multiple times through the Tenth Doctor's tenure. [47], The 21st century revival of the programme became the centrepiece of BBC One's Saturday schedule and "defined the channel". The Canadian Constellation Awards have also recognised the series. There are two Dr. Who [sic] feature films: Dr. Who and the Daleks, released in 1965 and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. in 1966. Some episodes have been returned to the BBC from the archives of other countries who bought prints for broadcast, or by private individuals who acquired them by various means. [21] He was replaced by Peter Capaldi.[22]. The original theme was composed by Ron Grainer and realised by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, with assistance from Dick Mills and was released as a single on Decca F 11837 in 1964. [10], The BBC drama department's serials division produced the programme for 26 seasons, broadcast on BBC 1. Carmen Sandiego: Season 4 (Trailer) Carmen Sandiego: Season 3 (Trailer) ... 4. [38] Mary Whitehouse's complaint about the latter incident prompted a change in BBC policy towards the series, with much tighter controls imposed on the production team,[39] and the series' next producer, Graham Williams, was under a directive to take out "anything graphic in the depiction of violence". The show has received recognition as one of Britain's finest television programmes, winning the 2006 British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series and five consecutive (2005–2010) awards at the National Television Awards during Russell T Davies' tenure as executive producer. 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The most frequent musical contributor during the first 15 years was Dudley Simpson, who is also well known for his theme and incidental music for Blake's 7, and for his haunting theme music and score for the original 1970s version of The Tomorrow People. January 2020 TV Calendar: New and Returning Shows, Editors' Picks: Streaming at Home for the Holidays, What IMDb Editors Are Thankful for This Year, Editors' Picks: Our Favorite Reboots and Remakes. It is the forty-eighth episode of the series overall. In 1996, BBC television held the "Auntie Awards" as the culmination of their "TV60" series, celebrating 60 years of BBC television broadcasting, where Doctor Who was voted as the "Best Popular Drama" the corporation had ever produced, ahead of such ratings heavyweights as EastEnders and Casualty. In 2011, David Yates announced that he had started work with the BBC on a Doctor Who film, a project that would take three or more years to complete. Three Men and a Brittle Lady Series 5: Episode 5. Had we had anything else ready we would have made that." From the 2005 revival to the 2017 Christmas episode "Twice Upon a Time",[135] all incidental music for the series was composed by Murray Gold and Ben Foster, and has been performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales from the 2005 Christmas episode "The Christmas Invasion" onwards. Golden Globe winner David Duchovny is back in a bangin' new season of CALIFORNICATION - and Hank Moody has become hip hop's most wanted. Doctor Who has always appeared initially on the BBC's mainstream BBC One channel, where it is regarded as a family show, drawing audiences of many millions of viewers; episodes were also repeated on BBC Three, before its transition to an online-only channel. The initially irascible and slightly sinister Doctor quickly mellowed into a more compassionate figure and was eventually revealed to be a Time Lord, whose race are from the planet Gallifrey, which the Doctor fled by stealing the TARDIS. The electronic theme music too was perceived as eerie, novel, and frightening, at the time. Each note was individually created by cutting, splicing, speeding up and slowing down segments of analogue tape containing recordings of a single plucked string, white noise, and the simple harmonic waveforms of test-tone oscillators, intended for calibrating equipment and rooms, not creating music. There was an unsuccessful attempt to revive regular production in 1996 with a backdoor pilot, in the form of a television film titled Doctor Who. After the film, he continued the role in audio books and was confirmed as the eighth incarnation through flashback footage and a mini episode in the 2005 revival, effectively linking the two series and the television movie. The fifth series of the British science-fiction television programme Doctor Who was originally broadcast on BBC One in 2010. The 1983 20th anniversary special The Five Doctors had its début on 23 November (the actual date of the anniversary) on a number of PBS stations two days prior to its BBC One broadcast. Series 2. (See Doctor Who in Australia) The ABC has periodically repeated episodes; of note were the weekly screenings of all available classic episodes starting in 2003, for the show's 40th anniversary, and the weekdaily screenings of all available revived episodes in 2013 for the show's 50th anniversary. This article is about the television series. Filming took place in South Wales and on location in Oxford and Venice. Eight original series serials have been released on Laserdisc[166] and many have also been released on Betamax tape and Video 2000. The programme was relaunched in 2005, and since then has been produced in-house by BBC Wales in Cardiff. For two performances, while Pertwee was ill, David Banks (better known for playing Cybermen) played the Doctor. [11] In 1981, after a record seven years in the role, Baker was replaced by Peter Davison, at 29 by far the youngest actor to be cast as the character in the series' first run, and in 1984 Colin Baker replaced Davison. It has won the Short Form of the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, the oldest science fiction/fantasy award for films and series, six times since 2006. This article is about the episode. Throughout the programme's long history, there have been revelations about the Doctor that have raised additional questions. The programme depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called "the Doctor", an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The First and Second Doctors appeared in the 1973 Third Doctor story, Often mistitled "I am the Doctor" on YouTube uploads. Yates indicated that the film would take a different approach to Doctor Who,[171] although then Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat stated later that any such film would not be a reboot of the series and a film should be made by the BBC team and star the current TV Doctor.[172][173].
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