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{{thead|The women who gave ''Doctor Who'' back to us}} | |||
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Think ''Doctor Who'' is just for boys? Don't you believe it. Not only was the show's [[Verity Lambert|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. | |||
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The '''[[Quantel Paintbox]]''' was a graphics workstation that allowed ''[[Doctor Who]]'' to have a primitive form of [[colourist|colour grading]] in the [[1980s]]. To find out more about the "business of show", go to '''[[:category:production information]]''', where you can read about [[colour separation overlay]], [[low loader]]s, [[telerecording]]s, [[vidFIRE]], [[rostrum camera]]s, [[2" quad]] tape, [[Ealing Studios]] and tons more.</div> | |||
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The careers of the [[Fifth Doctor|Fifth]], [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]], [[Seventh Doctor|Seventh]] and [[Eighth Doctor]]s are '''significantly''' longer [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|in audio]] than on television. Check out their latest works at '''[[:category:{{CURRENTYEAR}} audio stories]]'''. | |||
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Officially, only ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'' has been explicitly adapted from a comic strip — also called ''[[The Lodger (comic story)|The Lodger]]''. | |||
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However, several stories have clearly taken material from comic strips — often those in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''. ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'' contains a good amount of material from ''[[A Groatsworth of Wit (comic story)|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 (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'' and ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]''. | |||
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'''[[Donald Baverstock]]''' was the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|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 '''[[:category:BBC executives|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. </div> | |||
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The Mind of Evil was a Third Doctor story that brought a radical change in the way United Nations Intelligence Taskforce was portrayed. Instead of being a primarily investigative body interested in alien or unexplained phenomena, here UNIT was mostly seen as a simple security force, guaranteeing the safety of international diplomats. In other words, the "United Nations" portion of their acronym was stressed over the "Intelligence Taskforce" bit — as would later happen in such stories as Day of the Daleks and The Time Warrior. Meanwhile, the main plot about the mind-control device was something writer Don Houghton intentionally included as an homage to A Clockwork Orange. Evil went badly over budget, thanks in no small part to one of Doctor Who's rare usages of a real helicopter in the concluding episode. An unimpressed Barry Letts therefore withdrew director Timothy Combe from his informal "director's rota", and Combe never worked on the programme again.
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.
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.- 1968 - Part three of the TV Comic story The Killer Wasps was published.
- 1974 - Part two of the TV Comic story Lords of the Ether was published.
- 1984 - The Doctor Who Pattern Book was published by W. H. Allen.
- 1987
- Part three of Paradise Towers premiered on BBC1.
- Build the TARDIS was published by Target Books.
- 1988 - Part three of Remembrance of the Daleks premiered on BBC1.
- 1989 - The novelisation of The Daleks' Master Plan was published by Target Books.
- 1995
- Head Games and Millennial Rites were published by Virgin Books.
- Companions was published by Virgin Books.
- 1996 - Part one of the Radio Times comic story Ascendance was published.
- 2000 - DWM 297 was published by Panini Comics.
- 2006 - Welcome to Torchwood premiered on BBC Three.
- 2010 - Part two of The Vault of Secrets premiered on CBBC.
- 2011 - DWDVDF 73 was published by GE Fabbri Ltd.
- 2015 - The Torchwood audio story Fall to Earth was released by Big Finish Productions.
- 2016
- Rulebook was released by Big Finish.
- Supremacy of the Cybermen #4 and The Twelfth Doctor Year Two #10 were published by Titan Comics.
- TCH 43 was published by Hachette Partworks.
- 2017
- Aliens Among Us 2 was released by Big Finish.
- Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 222 was released online.
- DWM 518 was published by Panini Comics.
- DWFC 109 was published by Eaglemoss Collections.
- 2018 - The vinyl edition of Zygon Hunt was released exclusively to Sainsbury's customers.
- 2021
- The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume Eight was released by Big Finish.
- Paradise Towers: Paradise Found #1 was published by Cutaway Comics.
- 2022 - The Torchwood Soho audio story The Unbegotten was released by Big Finish.
- 2023 - The Torchwood audio story Odyssey was released by Big Finish.
- ... that actor Louis Mahoney, whose most recent role in Doctor Who was that of the elder Billy Shipton in Blink, had previously appeared in both Frontier in Space and Planet of Evil?
- ... that Nina Rogers was a Cardiff student who, from a distance, saw Torchwood Three at work on at least three different occasions? (PROSE: Consequences, Risk Assessment, Lost Souls)
- ... that the instructional pamphlet, So You're Caught in a Rocket Attack, was once consulted by the Doctor when he actually was in the middle of a rocket attack? (PROSE: The Well-Mannered War)
- ... that Susan was once prevented from drowning by the then-retired Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart? (PROSE: The Gift)
- ... that horrorkons were huge, two-headed, metal-loving beasts whom Andy and Mary Stone once tricked into literally eating a whole squad of Daleks? (COMIC: Monsters of Gurnian)
- 1909 - Actor Robert Beatty was born.[1]
- 1917 - Actor Peter Ducrow was born.[2]
- 1940 - Actor Michael Gambon was born.[3]
- 1951 - Costume assistant Barry Simmons was born.[4]
- 1968 - Actor Kacey Ainsworth was born.[5]
- 1987 - Actor Ray Handy died.[6]
- 2010 - Actor Graham Crowden died.[7]
- 2014 - Actor Lynda Bellingham died.[8]
- 2015 - Writer Dick Sharples died.[9]
- 1964 - Head of Serials Donald Wilson decided to combine the third and fourth episodes of Planet of Giants, hoping this reduction in length would make the serial more exciting. (INFO: "Crisis")
- 1970 - The Mega, to be written by Bill Strutton was commissioned. It was ultimately scrapped.
- 1971 - Studio filming for Day of the Daleks took place at BBC Television Centre studio 8. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor)
- 1978 - Filming for The Power of Kroll took place at Bray Studios. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor)
- 1979 - Location filming for Shada took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor)
- 2005 - The original script for Attack of the Graske, then called Christmas Challenge, was prepared. (DWMSE 14)
- 2009 - The Big Finish audio story Legend of the Cybermen was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2012 - The Big Finish audio story The Schorchies was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2017 - Big Finish's audio anthology The Comic Strip Adaptations: Volume One was recorded at Audio Sorcery.
- 2018 - Big Finish's The Paternoster Gang audio anthology Heritage 1 was recorded at the Soundhouse.
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ CBBC Newsround
- ↑ Partington Smith, Maggie (December 2018). Costume designer and assistant. Prospero. BBC Pension Scheme. Retrieved on 30 July 2019.
- ↑ Famous Birthdays
- ↑ Doctor Who Guide
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ The Telegraph