Transmat:Doctor Who
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.
Jane Tranter
Jane Tranter was an important advocate for the return of Doctor Who to BBC One in the early 2000s.
Today's releases
- 1966
- Episode three of The Tenth Planet was broadcast on BBC1.
- Part four of the TV Comic story Return of the Trods was published.
- 1977
- Part four of The Invisible Enemy was broadcast on BBC1.
- Part two of the TV Comic story The Devil's Mouth was published.
- 1992 - The script to The Dæmons was published by Titan Books.
- 1998 - DWM 271 was published by Marvel Comics.
- 2001
- The audio story Colditz was released by Big Finish Productions.[1]
- Mission to the Unknown and The Daleks' Master Plan were released together by BBC Audio.
- 2005 - The anthology Short Trips: The Solar System was published by Big Finish.
- 2006 - Everything Changes and Day One were broadcast on BBC Three, marking the première of Torchwood.
- 2007 - Part two of Warriors of Kudlak was broadcast on CBBC.
- 2009
- Part one of The Mad Woman in the Attic was broadcast on CBBC.
- DWA 138 was published by BBC Magazines.
- 2012 - The Claws of Axos Special Edition was released on Region 2 DVD.
- 2013
- Summer Falls and Other Stories was published by BBC Books.
- Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 36 was released online.
- 2014
- DWA 357 was published by Immediate Media Company London Limited.
- Browser game The Doctor and the Dalek was released on the BBC website.
- 2015
- The Way of the Empty Hand was released by Big Finish.
- DWFC 57 was published by Eaglemoss Collections.
- 2016 - For Tonight We Might Die and The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo were released on BBC Three, marking the première of Class.
- 2020 - Heritage 4 was released by Big Finish.
- 2021 - The Great Sontaran War was released by Big Finish.
- 2022 - Paradise Towers was published by Obverse Books.
Donald Baverstock
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 its producer, Verity Lambert. By choosing to commission only a few weeks at a time, Baverstock managed to exercise very specific financial control over the production, threatening to end Doctor Who several times over the course of its first year. It was largely he that was responsible for preventing actors' salaries from massively inflating after the show became a surprise hit after the Daleks were introduced.Today in production history
- 1963 - Donald Baverstock's 18 October memo concerning production costs was considered, and it was decided to produce thirteen episodes with a budget of £2,500 each.
- 1965 - "The Nightmare Begins" was recorded at BBC Television Centre 3. (TCH 6)
- 1966 - Episode one of The Power of the Daleks was recorded at Riverside Studios 1. (TCH 9)
- 1969 - Location filming for Spearhead from Space took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor)
- 1971 - Location filming for The Sea Devils took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor)
- 1979 - Pre-filming for Shada took place at Ealing Studios. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor)
- 1984 - Location filming for The Mark of the Rani took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Sixth Doctor)
- 2008 - The Big Finish audio story The Cannibalists 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.
- 2014 - Big Finish's audio anthology The Third Doctor Adventures was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2015 - The Big Finish audio story Death and the Queen was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2016 - Big Finish confirmed the thirteenth series of Jago & Litefoot.
- 2017 - Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill were officially announced as new companions Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair and Yasmin Khan.
- 2018
- Big Finish's The Paternoster Gang audio anthology Heritage 1 was recorded at the Soundhouse.
- Big Finish announced that Jon Culshaw had been cast as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, recreating the role originated by Nicholas Courtney.
- 2020 - Big Finish's audio anthology The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume Seven was recorded.
- 2021 - Big Finish's audio anthology Blood & Steel was recorded at the Soundhouse.
- 2022 - Big Finish announced the Class: The Audio Adventures audio story Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince.
Today's births and deaths
- 1926 - Actor Tim Condren was born.[2]
- 1927 - Actor James Grout was born.[3]
- 1936 - Actor Peppi Borza was born.[4]
- 1938 - Actor Derek Jacobi was born.[5]
- 1965 - Writer A. L. Kennedy was born.[6]
- 1972 - Actor Jack Melford died.[7]
- 2006 - Actor Richard Mayes died.[8]
- 2016 - Artist Steve Dillon died.[9]
- 2021 - Visual effects designer Chris Lawson died.[10]
- ↑ Colditz. Big Finish, via Internet Archive. Retrieved on 7 November 2001.
- ↑ Nerf-Herders Anonymous
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ IMDb
- ↑ British Council Literature
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ Doctor Who Guide
- ↑ People Pill
- ↑ DWM 572
