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The Name of the Doctor

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The Name of the Doctor was the beginning of Doctor Who's fiftieth anniversary storyline, and the conclusion of the seventh series produced by BBC Wales. It resolved the central mystery of the series by conclusively explaining how Clara Oswald had appeared and died at several points in the Doctor's life.

The episode contained the most Doctors ever seen in a single episode — though this was mostly achieved through the integration of old footage into new background plates. Nevertheless, the appearances were incidental; former Doctors were merely seen, not heard. A notable exception was the First Doctor, whose initial departure from Gallifrey was shown for the very first time on-screen — albeit in a way that essentially validated the depiction of the event seen in the 30th anniversary comic story, Time & Time Again.

While the main focus of the story was to explain Clara's splintered existence, it also had other reveals: the apparent conclusion of the Doctor's relationship with River Song, the definitive end of the Great Intelligence story arc and the shocking reveal of a previously unseen incarnation.
That reveal covemprised the episode's cliffhanger, which was not continued until the 50th anniversary episode itself.

The women who gave Doctor Who back to us

David Tennant interviews Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter

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. Meanwhile, her "partner in crime", Julie Gardner is tied only with Russell T Davies as the most prolific producer in Doctor Who history.

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.

The Quantel Paintbox was a graphics workstation that allowed Doctor Who to have a primitive form of colour grading in the 1980s.

John Cleese appeared in Doctor Who's highest rated televised story, City of Death, around the time of series 2 of Fawlty Towers.

The careers of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors are significantly longer in audio than on television.

Officially, only The Lodger has been explicitly adapted from a comic strip — also called The Lodger.

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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.

Production history for 24.10

• 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.

Things released on 24.10

• 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 and Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dance of the Dead 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.

24.10 births and deaths

• 1921 - Actor Walter Henry was born.
• 1929 - Actor Clifford Rose was born.
• 1930 - Actor Brian Peck was born.
• 1939 - Actor Callen Angelo was born.
• 1958 - Actor Sarah Greene was born.
• 1971 - Actor Dervla Kirwan was born.
• 1975 - Actor Martin Boddey died.
• 1981 - Actor Jemima Rooper was born.
• 1988 - Actor Valerie Taylor died.
• 1994 - Actor Kit Young was born.
• 2005 - Writer Robert Sloman died.
• 2018 - Actor Laurence Kennedy died.
• 2021 - Actor Thapelo Maropefela died.