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Doctor Who was a BBC science fiction/drama series that premiered in late 1963.
The series oriented around the adventures of the eponymous time traveller, "the Doctor", also was also referred to as "Doctor Who". (PROSE: Hospitality)
History
Development
After becoming too well recognised in Earth history, the Doctor presumably had retconned themselves into popular culture; (PROSE: Afterword) subsequently, on the 26th of March, 1963, Winston Churchill sent a letter a Mr Newman, to pitch the concept of a show about Churchill's old friend, the Doctor. (PROSE: Stop, Thief!)
A young woman, Verity, went to the BBC, and became the producer of the show, despite the protests of the "Men Who Knew What To Do". By standing her ground against their blatant sexism, she helped the Doctor Who series flourish with her creative ideas. (PROSE: Verity)
In the 20th century
A BBC science fiction series beginning Doc- was first broadcast on television at 5:15 pm on Saturday 30th of November, 1963. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks, PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
One serial would receive a novelisation, called "Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks", which contradicted another novelisation. (PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion)
In 1974, an episode of the series aired, portraying the regeneration of Third Doctor into his next incarnation, the Fourth Doctor. (PROSE: Fanboys)
In 1978, Iris Wildthyme was sent by the Ministry to investigate Geoff Love as the Ministry suspected of secreting in subliminal messages into his reworkings of TV sci-fi themes. Iris helped Geoff develop the Doctor Who theme while proving that the Ministry was indeed correct with their suspicions. (PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion)
Sometime in 1980, another episode aired, where the Fourth Doctor would then too would regenerate into the Fifth Doctor. (PROSE: Fanboys)
In the late 1990s, an unspecified incarnation of the character was portrayed by Paul McGann in the Doctor Who TV movie. (PROSE: Hospitality)
In the 21st century
Around the early 2000s, Paul Magrs wrote in a short piece of prose about his books and inspritations. In this piece, he stated that the second and fourth incarnations of the Doctor resembled Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker, respectively. (PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion)
By the 21st century, Cybermen, Weeping Angels, Sontarans and Slitheen had appeared. David Karpagnon, an orphan with dissociative personality disorder, watched the show around this time. The Doctor helped him with his problems from inside his head. (PROSE: The Terror of the Umpty Ums)
In November 2014, (PROSE: "Assessing the Risk") when the Earth became overgrown with trees, a double decker bus had an advertisement on its side, depicting the TARDIS and individuals closely resembling the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald. An unknown source rated the show four stars out of five commenting "A-MAZE-ING ENTERTAINMENT!". (TV: In the Forest of the Night)
Around October of 2015, the ninth series of the show was broadcast on BBC One, starring another unspecified incarnation, who travelled with a companion called Clara; the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor bore a great similarity to this fictional depiction, and the same could be said about Clara Oswald. (WC: The Zygon Isolation)
By 2020, the show had 12 series and 167 episodes that were available on BBC iPlayer. The ninth series appeared to include episodes such as The Magician's Apprentice, The Witch's Familiar, Under the Lake, Before the Flood, The Girl Who Died, The Woman Who Lived, The Zygon Invasion, The Zygon Inversion, Sleep No More, Face the Raven, and Heaven Sent. There also existed at some point an episode titled The Day of the Doctor.
On 10 May, 2020, the two Osgoods conversed over Zoom. Afterwards, one of the duo went onto BBC iPlayer after ending the chat, scrolling past several episodes of Doctor Who from Series Nine, until she decided to watch The Zygon Invasion. (WC: The Zygon Isolation)
By 2020, the Doctor was portrayed by a female actress. (PROSE: The Terror of the Umpty Ums, WC: The Zygon Isolation)
Alternate accounts
While many accounts support the Doctor having a near identical fictional counterpart, other sources, while similar in nature, show distinguishable accounts.
- Main article: The Time Surgeon
A couple of accounts show that there was an comic book series, Time Surgeon, about the titular Time Surgeon and his companion Kara, who travel in a flat pack wardrobe; (COMIC: The Fourth Wall, Invasion of the Mindmorphs) curiously, while the Doctor is shown to be aware of the series based around his own adventures in time and space, (PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion, TV: In the Forest of the Night) the Twelfth Doctor is baffled by the existence of Time Surgeon. (COMIC: The Fourth Wall, Invasion of the Mindmorphs)
- Main article: Doctor X
Without interaction from the Doctor, a series known as Doctor X was first aired in around the same time as Doctor Who. The series centred around the titular character. (PROSE: In Search of Doctor X)
- Main article: Professor X
Established by around a dozen of accounts, another series with an extremely similar title to Doctor X, Professor X was aired on BBC One at the exact same time and date as Doctor Who, creating two very irreconcilable accounts of the series about the Doctor. (AUDIO: An Unearthly Woman, PROSE: No Future, et al.)