Television

The Apollo moon landing on television. (DW: Day of the Moon)

Television was a system that allowed people to view broadcast plays, news, drama and comedy. It was a major source of entertainment and information on Earth from the mid 20th century onwards.

In 1903, after receiving a wealth of information from the future, Grigori Rasputin foresaw the creation of television. (CC: The Wanderer)

The television was invented by John Logie Baird during the 1920s and was commonly known as a televisor in its earliest years. On 14 July 1930, the BBC broadcast a television adaptation of The Man With the Flower in His Mouth by Luigi Pirandello. This was the first television drama to be produced in the United Kingdom. (PDA: The Wheel of Ice)

By the early 1950s, the sets were already highly developed, although advances would continue to be made. The Wire tried to regain a physical body by using an Alexandra Palace television transmission of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953, but the Tenth Doctor managed to trap her in a video cassette. (DW: The Idiot's Lantern)

On 20 July 1969, according to the Eleventh Doctor, half a billion people watched the Apollo 11 moon landing on television. (DW: Day of the Moon)

By 1998, television had become interactive thanks to technology introduced by I2. (MA: System Shock) By the early 21st century, they were also holographic, capable of 3-D broadcasting. (NA: Cat's Cradle: Warhead)

In the far future, television was still a popular past-time. Violent television was much more common than before in such places as the planet Varos and in the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. (DW: Vengeance on Varos, DW: Bad Wolf) Other human nations, such as the New Earth Republic, liked to watch shows from old Earth. (PDA: Synthespians™)