Transmat:Doctor Who
Doctor Who is both a television show and a global multimedia franchise created and controlled by the British Broadcasting Corporation. It centres on a time traveller called "the Doctor", who comes from a race of beings known as Time Lords. He travels through space and time in a time machine he calls the TARDIS with his friends. Another vital element of the show is the concept of regeneration — a process by which the Doctor can change his form when he's near death. This convenient trick thus allows the programme to change lead actors in a narratively sensible way.
Though it began on the day after the Kennedy assassination in 1963, it has had three distinct production eras. The first version — sometimes called "classic Doctor Who" by fans — ran from 1963 to 1989, and contained the adventures of the first seven Doctors. In 1996 an American co-production was attempted involving the Eighth Doctor. The current iteration of the show began broadcast in 2005, and is by far the most popular and critically successful version, beginning with the adventures of Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor.
In addition to the televised programme, the show has spawned a rich heritage of comics, audio stories, novels, short stories and even stage plays.
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.
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ 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