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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.- 1963 - The first filming session for the very first Doctor Who story, An Unearthly Child, took place. It was a one-day shoot at Ealing Studios of the last few seconds of episode one, depicting a caveman casting his shadow over the Doctor's TARDIS.
- 1969 - Location filming for Spearhead from Space took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor)
- 1970 - Location filming for Terror of the Autons took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor)
- 1980 - Studio filming for Warriors' Gate took place at BBC Television Centre studio 3. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor)
- 2011 - Episode two of The Underwater Menace was recovered.
- 2012 - The sixth series of Big Finish's audio series Gallifrey was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2016 - The Big Finish audio drama The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook was recorded at Audio Sorcery.
- 2017 - Big Finish's Torchwood One audio anthology Machines was recorded at the Soundhouse.
- 2018 - Big Finish announced the first series of their Doctor Who spin-off Missy.
- 2019 - Big Finish's audio anthology The First Doctor Adventures: Volume Four was recorded at the Soundhouse.
- 2022 - The Big Finish audio story The Artist at the End of Time was recorded.
- 1970 - Part three of the TV Comic story Doctor Who and the Robot was published.
- 1985 - The Doctor Who Illustrated A to Z was published by W.H. Allen & Co.
- 1996 - The Death of Art and Twilight of the Gods were published by Virgin Books.
- 2002 - DWM 322 was published by Panini Comics.
- 2003 - Davros, He Jests at Scars... and Deadline were released by Big Finish Productions.
- 2006 - DWA 13 was published by BBC Magazines.
- 2007 - The Doctor Who: Battles in Time comic story Second Wave was published.
- 2012
- Gods and Monsters, The Burning Prince, Project Nirvana and The Rosemariners were released by Big Finish.
- DWDVDF 97 was published by GE Fabbri Ltd.
- 2013 - DWM 465 was published by Panini Comics.
- 2015 - The Magician's Apprentice premiered on BBC One.
- 2018 - TCH 84 was published by Hachette Partworks.
- 2019
- DWM 543 was published by Panini Comics.
- Doctor Who The Official Annual 2020 was published by Penguin Group.
- DWFC 159 was published by Eaglemoss Collections.
- 2023 - Trapped was released by Big Finish.
- 2024
- Fifteen Doctors 15 Stories was published by Penguin Group.
- The Hollow Choir was released by Big Finish.
- 1925
- Actor Dallas Cavell was born.[1]
- Actor Keneth Thornett was born.[2]
- 1939 - Actor Charles Pemberton was born.[3]
- 1940 - Actor Caroline John was born.[4][5]
- 1954 - Actor David Bamber was born.[6]
- 1973 - Actor Jeremy Lindsay-Taylor was born.[7]
- 1977 - Actor Michael Godfrey died.[8]
- 1979 - Actor Dannielle Brent was born.[9]
- 1997 - Actor Jack May died.[10][11]
- 2019 - Actor Sheila Vivian died.[12]
- 2021
- Actor John Challis died.[13]
- Actor Stephen Critchlow died.[14]
- Actor Morris Perry died.[15]