Transmat:Doctor Who
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.
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.
- 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]
