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".
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.- 1967 - Episode three of The Ice Warriors was recorded at Lime Grove Studios D. (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)
- 1979 - Studio filming for Shada took place at BBC Television Centre studio 3. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor)
- 2005 - Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith audio story Snow Blind 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.
- 2019
- Big Finish's audio anthology Thin Time / Madquake was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- Big Finish's audio adaptation of Revenge of the Cybermen's original storyline was recorded at Audio Sorcery.
- 2023 - The #DoctorDonnathon event took place at the Genesis Chamber.
- 1967
- Episode six of The Abominable Snowmen premiered on BBC1.
- Part two of the TV Comic story The Faithful Rocket Pack was published.
- 1972 - Part two of the TV Action comic story Steelfist was published.
- 1978 - Part two The Stones of Blood premiered on BBC1.
- 1981 - "The Forest of Fear" was repeated on BBC2.
- 1989 - The Incredible Hulk Presents comic story Technical Hitch was published.
- 2002 - The Infinity Race was published by BBC Books.
- 2009 - DWDVDF 22 was published by GE Fabbri Ltd.
- 2010
- A Shard of Ice were released by AudioGO.
- A Town Called Fortune was released by Big Finish Productions.
- DWA 191 was published by BBC Magazines.
- 2014 - The Story of Fester Cat was published by The Berkley Publishing Group.
- 2015
- The Ninth Doctor #5, The Eighth Doctor #1 and The Eleventh Doctor Year Two #2 were published by Titan Comics.
- TCH 71 was published by Hachette Partworks.
- 2016 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 192 was released online.
- 2018 - The Tsuranga Conundrum premiered on BBC One.
- 2019 - Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Reeltime Pictures.
- 2020 - Blue Boxes was released by Big Finish.
- 2021 - K9 Audio Annual and The Time Travel Collection were released by BBC Audio.
- 2022 - Origins was published by Titan Comics.
- 1971 - Actor Robyn Moore was born.[1]
- 1982 - Actor Talfryn Thomas died.[2]
- 1998 - Actor Bear McCausland was born.[3]
- 2017 - Composer Dudley Simpson died.[4]
