Transmat:Doctor Who
Playback was a television production technique in which pre-recorded material was literally played into a scene, rather than being added as a post-production effect. It was universally used in the 1960s as the method by which actors were seen on view screens. As seen in the picture at the left, William Hartnell was pre-recorded separately, then projected live into the scene with the actors in the foreground. Though antiquated, the technique was used even into the 1980s, most notably for the title sequence. The quality of the opening titles for the 1963 version of Doctor Who was never high, because it was never a first-generation copy of the titles. Instead, they were played live into the recording of the first scene of many episodes, causing actors to have to time their first lines to the final notes of the studio-audible Doctor Who theme.
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.
- 1967 - Location filming for The Enemy of the World concluded at Villiers House and Walpole Park. (TCH 11)
- 1972 - Location filming The Three Doctors took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor)
- 1994 - The BBC Radio 2 audio story The Ghosts of N-Space was recorded at Maida Vale 6.
- 2004- The Big Finish audio story Dreamtime was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2005
- Rewrites known as a "blue revision" or "blue rewrites" were made on Attack of the Graske, or Christmas Interactive Challenge: Attack of the Graske, and on Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel. For Graske this mainly gave clearer instructions on how to play the hatchery segment of the interactive adventure to younger audiences, while the rewrites on Rise and Steel covered the scenes where Jackie complained about her birthday banner, the Tenth Doctor agreeing with Rose Tyler about meeting Pete Tyler, the two at the Tylers' mansion, the Doctor at the computer terminal, Pete asking about Torchwood, the arrival of the Cybermen, and Angela Price and the Doctor inside the tunnel filled with Cybermen. (DWMSE 14)
- The Big Finish audio story The Settling was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2011 - The Big Finish audio story The Emerald Tiger was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2015 - The Big Finish audio story Vampire of the Mind was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2016 - Big Finish's audio anthology The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume Three took place at the Soundhouse.
- 2018 - The Big Finish audio story Dead Woman Walking was recorded at the Soundhouse.
- 2022 - Big Finish's audio anthology Comrades-in-Arms was recorded at the Soundhouse.
- 1964 - Part one of the TV Comic story The Klepton Parasites was published. The Doctor Who comic strip made its debut in the 674th issue.
- 1968
- Episode two of The Invasion premiered on BBC1.
- Part two of the TV Comic story Ice Cap Terror was published.
- 1974 - Part five of the TV Comic story Lords of the Ether was published.
- 1981 - Episode one of The Krotons was repeated on BBC2.
- 1987 - Part two of Delta and the Bannermen premiered on BBC1.
- 1988 - Part two of The Happiness Patrol premiered on BBC1.
- 1989 - DWM 155 was published by Marvel Comics.
- 1994 - DWCC 26 was published by Marvel Comics.
- 1996 - Part four of the Radio Times comic story Ascendance was published.
- 1998 - The VHS box set The Ice Warriors Box Set was released.
- 2006 - DWM 376 was published by Panini Comics.
- 2007 - An anthology containing The Mind's Eye and Mission of the Viyrans was released by Big Finish Productions.
- 2010
- Part two of Lost in Time premiered on CBBC.
- Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series was released on Region 1 DVD.
- The CD Doctor Who - Series 5 was released by Silva Screen.
- 2015 - Extinction was released by Big Finish.
- 2016 - Order of the Daleks was released by Big Finish.
- 2020
- Time Lord Victorious: Road to the Dark Times was released on Blu-ray.
- Dalek Empire: Series I - II and Series III - IV were released by Big Finish.
- The Daleks was published by Panini Comics.
- 2023
- DWM 597 and 60 Moments in Time were published by Panini Comics.
- The War Master audio anthology Rogue Encounters was released by Big Finish.
- 1922 - Supervising sound editor John Peverill was born.[1]
- 1929 - Actor Eric Thompson was born.[2]
- 1938 - Actor Tim Goodman was born.[3]
- 1950 - Actor Ewart James Walters was born.[4]
- 1951 - Actor John Benfield was born.[5]
- 1965 - Actor Lionel Gadsden died.[6]
- 1966 - Actor Maxine Evans was born.[7]
- 1974 - Actor Ian Hallard was born.[8]
- 1993
- Composer Stanley Myers died.[9]
- Actor Lizzy Watts was born.[10]
- 1994 - Actor Ralph Michael died.[11]
- 2021 - Actor Roy Holder died.[12]
