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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. | 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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<div class="tr-box one">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.</div> | {{tcap|Click for a video of a [[21st century]] geek as he takes delivery of one of the two Paintboxes used by the BBC in the 1980s}} | ||
<div class="tr-box | 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]]''. | 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 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.
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.- 1965 - Part one of the TV Comic story Enter: The Go-Ray was published.
- 1969 - Part four of the TV Comic story U.F.O. was published.
- 1975
- Part one of Pyramids of Mars premiered on BBC1.
- Part one of the TV Comic story The Space Ghost was published.
- 1979
- Terry Nation's Dalek Special was published by Target Books.
- DWM 3 was published by Marvel Comics.
- 1980 - Part one of Full Circle premiered on BBC1.
- 1986 - Part four of Mindwarp premiered on BBC1.
- 1989 - Part one of The Curse of Fenric premiered on BBC1.
- 1990 - Encyclopedia of The Worlds of Doctor Who: L-R was published by Piccadilly Press.
- 2000 - Doctor Who: Regeneration was published by HarperCollins.
- 2007 - DWA 41 was published by BBC Magazines.
- 2010
- Part one of Death of the Doctor premiered on CBBC. Later, episode three of Sarah Jane's Alien Files premièred with it.
- The Seeds of Doom was released on Region 2 DVD.
- 2011 - The Sarah Jane Adventures Collection was released by BBC Physical Audio.
- 2012
- DWA 292 was published by Immediate Media Company London Limited.
- Voyage to Venus, The Acheron Pulse and The Last Post were released by Big Finish Productions.
- 2014 - In the Forest of the Night premiered on BBC One.
- 2016
- The Whoniverse was published by Harper Design.
- The first episode of Classmates was released on YouTube.
- 2017 - The Eleventh Doctor Year Three #11 was published by Titan Comics.
- 2018
- The Good Doctor was published by BBC Books.
- Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 235 was released online.
- 2019 - The vinyl version of The Abominable Snowmen was released by Demon Records.
- 2022
- Kaleidoscope was released by Big Finish.
- TARDIS Tales: Volume One was published by Cubicle Seven.
- 2023 - The Union was released by Big Finish.
- ... that Catherine Tate's introductory scene as Donna Noble was filmed twice due to a change in cinematographers?
- ... that David Hasselhoff's singing was so abhorrent to the Doctor that he went to the fall of the Berlin Wall twice just so he could avoid hearing Hasselhoff perform? (PROSE: Autonomy)
- ... that the Jeggorabax Cluster was a region of space that was the home of the energy entity which landed on Earth in 1283 and became known as the Pied Piper? (TV: The Day of the Clown)
- ... that both Jackie Tyler and Clyde Langer could make shepherd's pie? (TV: World War Three, TV: The Gift)
- ... that the Aranjia were parasites who could eradicate the colour blue, even from the skies of planets like Thelka? (COMIC: Blue Skies Thinking)
- 1919 - Actor Peter Howell was born.[1]
- 1955 - Actor Glynis Barber was born.[2]
- 1958
- Actor Simon Gipps-Kent was born.[3]
- Actor Phil Daniels was born.[4]
- 1964 - Actor Carla Mendonça was born.[5]
- 1966 - Actor Ian Collins was born.[6]
- 1981 - Actor Francesco Martino was born.[7]
- 1991 - Actor John Stratton died.[8]
- 1993 - Actor Bernard Martin died.[9]
- 2008 - Actor Harry Brooks died.[10]
- 1963
- Margot Maxine became the first actor to walk off the set of Doctor Who when she refused to have her teeth blackened. An extra, she was to have played one of the cave people in "The Cave of Skulls"
- Christopher Barry replied to J. N. Shearme's 18 October message, informing him that the BBC had decided not to use either of the methods suggested for Dalek voices — vocoder and computer generation — and that most would be done live, in-studio.
- 1968 - Episode six of The Invasion was recorded at Lime Grove Studios D. (TCH 13)
- 1971 - Location filming for The Sea Devils took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor)
- 1976 - Studio filming for The Face of Evil took place at BBC Television Centre studio 3. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor)
- 1982 - Studio filming for Terminus took place at BBC Television Centre studio 8. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
- 1984 - Location filming for The Mark of the Rani took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Sixth Doctor)
- 2004 - The Big Finish audio story Catch-1782 was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2005 - The shooting script for Rise of the Cybermen, then titled Parallel World Part 1, was prepared. (DWMSE 14)
- 2006 - The first meeting for series 2 of Torchwood took place in Cardiff. The arrangement at the time included Helen Raynor's "Toshiko story" and an episode by Russell T Davies. RTD did not end up writing a story for that series in the end. The concept for Chris Chibnall's Fragments was originally intended for the sixth episode, and Catherine Tregenna had already thought up the idea of Adam Smith and his self-titled episode. (TM 1)
- 2010 - The Big Finish audio story Voyage to the New World was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2012 - The second series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Counter-Measures was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2017 - Big Finish announced the Torchwood One audio box set Machines.
- 2018 - Big Finish's audio anthology The Eighth of March was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2021 - Big Finish's audio anthology Silver and Ice was recorded at the Soundhouse.