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Revision as of 18:59, 11 October 2013
The Name of the Doctor was the beginning of Doctor Who's fiftieth anniversary storyline, and the conclusion of the seventh series produced by BBC Wales. It resolved the central mystery of the series by conclusively explaining how Clara Oswald had appeared and died at several points in the Doctor's life.
The episode contained the most Doctors ever seen in a single episode — though this was mostly achieved through the integration of old footage into new background plates. Nevertheless, the appearances were incidental; former Doctors were merely seen, not heard. A notable exception was the First Doctor, whose initial departure from Gallifrey was shown for the very first time on-screen — albeit in a way that essentially validated the depiction of the event seen in the 30th anniversary comic story, Time & Time Again.
While the main focus of the story was to explain Clara's splintered existence, it also had other reveals: the apparent conclusion of the Doctor's relationship with River Song, the definitive end of the Great Intelligence story arc and the shocking reveal of a previously unseen incarnation.
That reveal covemprised the episode's cliffhanger, which was not continued until the 50th anniversary episode itself.
Think Doctor Who is just for boys? Don't you believe it. Not only was the show's very first producer a woman, but it would never have come back without the fierce advocacy of Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner. Considering her importance to Doctor Who it's somewhat ironic that Tranter's only on-screen credits are for Torchwood: Miracle Day. But Gardner, her "partner in crime", is tied only with Russell T Davies as the most prolific producer in Doctor Who history.
John Cleese appeared in Doctor Who's highest rated televised story, City of Death, around the time of series 2 of Fawlty Towers. Find out more about the thousands of actors who have been on Doctor Who by exploring Doctor Who guest actors.
The careers of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors are significantly longer in audio than on television. Check out their latest works at category:2024 audio stories
Officially, only The Lodger has been explicitly adapted from a comic strip — also called The Lodger.
However, several stories have clearly taken material from comic strips — often those in Doctor Who Magazine. The Shakespeare Code contains a good amount of material from A Groatsworth of Wit, and the notion of the Doctor absorbing the time vortex in order to spare a companion was explored in both The Parting of the Ways and The Flood.
Donald Baverstock was the BBC executive who set the the wheels in motion that eventually led to the creation of Doctor Who. Essentially the original commissioner of the programme, he hired Sydney Newman and later imposed a sense of financial responsibility upon producer Verity Lambert.
But Baverstock wasn't the only BBC executive to have a profound impact on the development of Doctor Who. Make sure you read about Lorraine Heggessey, Mark Thompson, Danny Cohen, George Entwistle, Tony Hall, Shaun Sutton, Sydney Newman and others.- 1967 - Episode two of The Abominable Snowmen was recorded at Lime Grove Studios D. (TCH 11)
- 1969 - Location filming for Spearhead from Space took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor)
- 1971 - Location filming for Day of the Daleks took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor)
- 1981 - Studio filming for Castrovalva took place at BBC Television Centre 3. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
- 2004 - The Big Finish audio story Her Final Flight was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2016 - Big Finish's audio anthology Classic Doctors, New Monsters: Volume Two was recorded.
- 1965 - The novelisation of The Web Planet was published by Frederick Muller.
- 1967
- Episode three of The Tomb of the Cybermen premiered on BBC1.
- Part three of the TV Comic story Egyptian Escapade was published.
- 1972 - Part five of the TV Action comic story The Ugrakks was published.
- 1978 - Part three of The Ribos Operation premiered on BBC1.
- 1982 - The novelisation of Full Circle was published by Target Books.
- 1989 - The Noel Edmond's Saturday Roadshow special premiered.
- 1993 - The novel Iceberg and the non-fiction book The Sixties were published by Virgin Books.
- 2004 - DWM 348 was published by Panini Comics.
- 2010
- The Only Good Dalek was published by BBC Books.
- DWA 184 was published by BBC Magazines.
- 2013 - Scream of the Shalka was released on DVD.
- 2015 - The Yes Men was released by Big Finish Productions.
- 2016
- The HAVOC Files was published on Kindle by Candy Jar Books.
- Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 185 was released online.
- 2020 - The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume Four was released by Big Finish.
- 2021
- The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles: Volume Two was released by Big Finish.
- DWM 569 was published by Panini Comics.
- 1932 - Actor Bill Meilen was born.[1]
- 1934 - Actor Andre Boulay was born.[2]
- 1937 - Actor Bella Emberg was born.[3]
- 1955 - Actor Janet Ellis was born.[4]
- 1974 - Actor Ed Stoppard was born.[5]
- 1987 - Actor Simon Gipps-Kent died.[6]
- 1994 - Documentary Maker Josh Snares was born.[7]
- 1997 - Actor Oscar Lloyd was born.[8]
- 2005 - Actor David Wolliscroft died.[9]
- 2009 - Actor Timothy Bateson died.[10]
- 2014 - Director Michael Hayes died.[11]
- 2016 - Actor Andrew Staines died.[12]
- 2020 - Actor John Cannon died.[13]
- 2022 - Actor Zulema Dene died.[14]
