Transmat:Doctor Who
The War Games was a 1969 serial which significantly changed Doctor Who. It was the first story which named the Doctor's people as "Time Lords", and the first to ever depict his home planet. It was also the first to show that the Doctor was genuinely a renegade, liable to the criminal courts on his home world. But it was also full of "lasts". It was the final serial in black and white, and the swan song for the Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot. In fact, it was the only story prior to David Tennant's finalé which involved the departure of the entire cast of regulars. It was the last serial for several years in which the TARDIS was fully functional and under the Doctor's control, as one of the consequences of the story was that the Doctor be exiled on Earth thereafter. However, because the serial did not end with a clear regeneration, or actually seeing the Doctor be forced to go to Earth, a narrative gap was created between it and the next televised story. There are therefore many Second Doctor stories which take place after the Doctor's sentencing in this story, but before its execution. One of the biggest contributions to Doctor Who lore caused by The War Games is thus the so-called "Season 6b".
Jane Tranter was an important advocate for the return of Doctor Who to BBC One in the early 2000s. Considering her importance to Doctor Who it's somewhat ironic that her only on-screen credits are for Torchwood: Miracle Day.
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.
- 1970 - Studio filming for Terror of the Autons took place at BBC Television Centre 8. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor)
- 1975 - Studio filming for The Brain of Morbius took place. (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)
- 2005 - Untitled shooting scripts for Doctor Who series 2, episodes 12 and 13, later titled Army of Ghosts and Doomsday, were issued. (DWMSE 14)
- 2012 - The Big Finish/AudioGO audio story Vengeance of the Stones was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2017 - Big Finish's Torchwood audio story Believe was recorded.
- 2018 - The Big Finish audio story The Monsters of Gokroth was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2022 - Big Finish's Torchwood audio story Oodunnit was recorded at the Soundhouse.
- 1970 - Part eight of the TV Comic story Doctor Who and the Robot was published.
- 1996
- Damaged Goods and Speed of Flight were published by Virgin Books.
- DWM 245 was published by Marvel Comics.
- 2002 - The audio stories The Sandman[1] and Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dance of the Dead[2] were released by Big Finish Productions.
- 2012 - Love and War was released by Big Finish.
- 2013 - DWFC 5 was published by Eaglemoss Publications Ltd.
- 2014 - The interactive story featuring the Twelfth Doctor premiered at the Doctor Who Experience.
- 2015 - The Woman Who Lived premiered on BBC One.
- 2016 - The Robot Reveal premiered on CBBC.
- 2019 - The Target Storybook was published by BBC Books.
- 1921 - Actor Walter Henry was born.[3]
- 1929 - Actor Clifford Rose was born.[4]
- 1930 - Actor Brian Peck was born.[5]
- 1939 - Actor Callen Angelo was born.[6]
- 1958 - Actor Sarah Greene was born.[7]
- 1971 - Actor Dervla Kirwan was born.[8]
- 1975 - Actor Martin Boddey died.[9]
- 1981 - Actor Jemima Rooper was born.[10]
- 1988 - Actor Valerie Taylor died.[11]
- 1994 - Actor Kit Young was born.[12]
- 2005 - Writer Robert Sloman died.[13]
- 2018 - Actor Laurence Kennedy died.[14]
- 2021 - Actor Thapelo Maropefela died.[15]
- ↑ The Sandman. Big Finish, via Internet Archive. Retrieved on 9 December 2002.
- ↑ The Dance of the Dead. Big Finish, via Internet Archive. Retrieved on 8 December 2002.
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- ↑ The Guardian
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- ↑ Doctor Who Guide
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- ↑ Famous Birthdays
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- ↑ People Pill
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- ↑ DWMSE 51
- ↑ The South African