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.
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 - "Devil's Planet" was recorded at BBC Television Centre Studio 3. (TCH 6)
- 1966 - Episode three of The Power of the Daleks was recorded at Riverside Studios 1. (TCH 9)
- 1967 - Location filming for The Enemy of the World began at Climping Beach. (TCH 11)
- 1969 - Location filming for Spearhead from Space took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor)
- 1976 - Pre-filming for The Robots of Death took place at Ealing Studios. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor)
- 1978 - Studio filming for The Armageddon Factor took place at BBC Television Centre studio 3. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor)
- 1979 - Studio filming for Shada took place at BBC Television Centre studio 3. Prematurely, this concluded production on the story. Further studio filming was planned for later in the month and the beginning of December, but industrial action prevented these recording sessions from taking place, leaving the story incomplete. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor)
- 1980 - Studio filming for The Keeper of Traken took place at BBC Television Centre studio 6. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor)
- 1998 - Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield audio stories Walking to Babylon and Birthright were recorded. These were based on the two novels of the same name.
- 2008 - The Big Finish audio story The Magic Mousetrap was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2009 - Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unproduced TV story Point of Entry was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2013 - The Big Finish audio story The Labyrinth of Buda Castle was recorded.
- 2018 - Big Finish's Rose Tyler audio drama anthology The Dimension Cannon was recorded.
- 2021 - Big Finish's audio anthology Hidden Depths was recorded.
- 1966
- Episode one of The Power of the Daleks premiered on BBC1.
- Part two of the TV Comic story The Galaxy Games was published.
- 1977
- Part two of Image of the Fendahl premiered on BBC1.
- Part four of the TV Comic story The Devil's Mouth was published.
- 1981 - "The Firemaker" was repeated on BBC2.
- 1993 - Bigger Inside Than Out premiered on BBC One.
- 2001
- The Adventuress of Henrietta Street and Instruments of Darkness were published by BBC Books.
- Colony in Space and The Time Monster were released together in a VHS tin set.
- 2006 - Cyberwoman premiered on BBC Three.
- 2007
- Part two of Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? premiered on CBBC.
- The Infinite Quest was released in its entirety on Region 2 DVD.
- The audio version of The Curse of Peladon, audiobooks of Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion and Doctor Who and the Giant Robot, and The Sarah Jane Adventures audio stories The Glittering Storm and The Thirteenth Stone were released by BBC Audio.
- The CD Doctor Who - Series 3 was released by Silva Screen.
- 2009
- Part one of The Eternity Trap premiered on CBBC.
- The Circus of Doom was released by AudioGO.
- The novelisation of The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith was published by Penguin Character Books.
- The audiobook of Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth was released by BBC Audio.
- DWA 140 was published by BBC Magazines.
- 2010 - Short Trips - Volume I was released by Big Finish Productions.
- 2012 - Destiny of the Daleks was released by BBC Audio.
- 2014
- The Sixth Doctor Sourcebook was published by Cubicle Seven.
- The Tenth Doctor #5 was published by Titan Comics.
- The Tenth Doctor #4 was published digitally by Titan Comics.
- DWA 358 was published by Immediate Media Company London Limited.
- 2015
- Forgotten Lives was released by Big Finish.
- The Deep Time audiobook was released by BBC Audio.
- DWA15 8 was published by Panini Comics.
- DWFC 58 was published by Eaglemoss Collections.
- 2016 - Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart premiered on BBC Three.
- 2019 - The Short Trips audio story Hall of the Ten Thousand was released by Big Finish.
- 2020
- Daleks Destroy: The Secret Invasion & Other Stories and the re-release of The Lost TV Episodes - Collection Four were released by BBC Audio.
- I Am The Master: Legends of the Renegade Time Lord and Adventures in Lockdown were published by BBC Books.
- Time Traveller's Diary was published by BBC Children's Books.
- Listen to the voice of your Master! was released by Big Finish.
- 1918 - Actor Alan Tilvern was born.[1]
- 1927 - Actor Kenneth Waller was born.[2]
- 1953 - Writer Malcolm Kohll was born.[3]
- 1970 - Actor Tamzin Outhwaite was born.[4]
- 1971 - Actor Chris Addison was born.[5]
- 1979 - Actor Liz White was born.[6]
- 1983 - Actor Andrew Hayden-Smith was born.[7]
- 1993 - Actor Michael Bilton died.[8]
- 2003 - Actor Brian McDermott died.[9]
- 2006 - Actor R.J. Bell died.[10]
- 2016 - Actor John Carson died.[11]
- 2017 - Actor John Bown died.[12]
- 2020
- Actor Timothy Craven died.[13]
- Actor Geoffrey Palmer died.[14]
- 2022 - Producer Muirinn Lane Kelly died.[15]
