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.
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.- 1973 - Part four of the TV Comic story Nova was published.
- 1979 - Part two of The Creature from the Pit premiered on BBC1.
- 1981 - "The Cave of Skulls" was repeated on BBC2.
- 1986 - Revenge of the Cybermen was released on VHS.
- 1994 - The Seventies was published by Doctor Who Books.
- 1997
- Ghost Devices was published by Virgin Books.
- The VHS box set The E-Space Trilogy was released.
- 2003
- Exile was released by Big Finish Productions.[1]
- Deadly Reunion was published by BBC Books.
- Marco Polo was released by BBC Audio.
- 2008
- Part one of The Mark of the Berserker premiered on CBBC.
- Doctor Who: The Complete Fourth Series was released on Region 2 DVD.
- 2010 - DWDVDF 48 was published by GE Fabbri Ltd.
- 2011
- Aladdin Time was released by AudioGO.
- DWA 242 was published by BBC Magazines.
- DWI 8 was published by Panini UK.
- 2015 - The Doctor Who Level Pack for LEGO Dimensions was released.
- 2016
- The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume 2 was released by Big Finish.
- The CD re-release of Tales from the TARDIS: Volume One was released by BBC Audio.
- DWFC 84 was published by Eaglemoss Collections.
- 2021 - Timejacked! was released by Big Finish.
- 2022
- Tenth Doctor Novels Volume 5 and the audiobook of The Power of the Daleks were released by BBC Audio.
- A special illustrated hardback edition of Doctor Who and the Daleks was published by BBC Books.
- ...that the first issue of IDW's Don't Step on the Grass was released on 17 March 2010 in central and western North America, but was delayed on the east coast until the 24th?
- ... that Beep the Meep, a character that originated in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip, made his one and only appearance in performed Doctor Who with the audio story The Ratings War?
- ... that Spiral Yssgaroth was an alternate dimension, one of whose doorways into the main universe was located at Stonehenge? (PROSE: The Pit)
- ... that Rani Chandra and her parents moved to Ealing from Danemouth? (TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic)
- ... that Baaraddelskelliumfatrexius Beasts were giant, squirrel-like creatures that Raxacoricofallapatorians hunted to extinction? (TV: The Revenge of the Slitheen)
- 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
- The Children in Need Special was filmed at Upper Boat Studios. (DWMSE 14)
- Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith audio story Buried Secrets was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2006 - Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield audio story The Tub Full of Cats was recorded.
- 2009 - Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unproduced TV story The Macro Men was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2018 - Big Finish's Rose Tyler audio drama anthology The Dimension Cannon was recorded.
- 2020 - Big Finish's audiobook version of Fellowship of Ink was recorded remotely.
- ↑ Exile is (Almost) Here.... Big Finish, via Internet Archive. Retrieved on 14 December 2003.
- ↑ Doctor Who Guide
- ↑ People Pill
- ↑ The Guardian
