Twitch

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Doctor Who

Starting 29 May 2018, Twitch ran a marathon of Doctor Who from the classic era starting with the 1963 episode An Unearthly Child on the TwitchPresents channel. The marathon began at 7pm UK Time/11am Pacific Time and ran for a seven week period from Monday to Friday. While watching, people could speak to fans all over the world who were also watching.

This led to new evaluations of many stories with previously bad reputations. It also at one point caused The Time Meddler and The Web Planet to be the #2 and #8 trending topic on U.K. Twitter respectively. Interestingly, the latter's original airing of episode 1 had 13.5 million viewers, the highest rated 1960s Doctor Who episode.

Several episodes from the classic run were omitted due to licencing issues. In total, five stories were left out of the run, including Day of the Daleks, The Five Doctors, Resurrection of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks. Additionally, no animated reconstructions of missing stories were added as part of the marathon, though the tele-snap reconstruction of The Web of Fear Episode Three from its DVD release was included, along with the remaining five existing episodes.

The start of each Doctor's era was preceded by a twenty-minute "pre-show" interview segment hosted by Yogscast members Mark "Turps" Turpin and Matthew Toffolo. Each episode featured a panel of guests introducing each new Doctor with stories and anecdotes. Guests included Katy Manning, Paul Cornell, Tom Spilsbury, Bob Baker, Beth Axford and Billy Garratt-John.

During the break at the end of each episode, a trailer for the era of the show that was currently streaming was shown. Many memes came from those trailers, most memorable was Ian saying "London, 1965!". The meme encouraged the official Doctor Who YouTube channel to change the name of the clip of Ian and Barbara leaving the Doctor to "London 1965".