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Starting 29 May 2018, Twitch ran a marathon of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' from the classic era starting with the 1963 episode ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'' on the [[TwitchPresents]] channel. The marathon began at 7pm UK Time/11am Pacific Time and ran for a seven week period from Monday to Friday. While watching, people could speak to fans all over the world who were also watching.<ref>https://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/classic-doctor-who-comes-to-twitch-for-seven-week-marathon</ref> | Starting 29 May 2018, Twitch ran a marathon of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' from the classic era starting with the 1963 episode ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'' on the [[TwitchPresents]] channel. The marathon began at 7pm UK Time/11am Pacific Time and ran for a seven week period from Monday to Friday. While watching, people could speak to fans all over the world who were also watching.<ref>https://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/classic-doctor-who-comes-to-twitch-for-seven-week-marathon</ref> | ||
This led to new evaluations of many stories with previously bad reputations.{{fact}} It also at one point caused ''[[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]'' and ''[[The Web Planet (TV story)|The Web Planet]]'' to be the #2 and #8 trending topic on [[United Kingdom|U.K.]] [[Twitter]] respectively.<ref>https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=Classic-Doctor-Who-on-Twitch-Tweet-Reactions-The-First-and-Second-Doctor/</ref> Interestingly, the | This led to new evaluations of many stories with previously bad reputations.{{fact}} It also at one point caused ''[[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]'' and ''[[The Web Planet (TV story)|The Web Planet]]'' to be the #2 and #8 trending topic on [[United Kingdom|U.K.]] [[Twitter]] respectively.<ref>https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=Classic-Doctor-Who-on-Twitch-Tweet-Reactions-The-First-and-Second-Doctor/</ref> Interestingly, the latter's original airing of episode 1 had 13.5 million viewers, the highest rated [[1960s]] ''Doctor Who'' episode. | ||
Several episodes from the classic run were omitted due to licencing issues. In total, five stories were left out of the run, including ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]''. Additionally, no animated reconstructions of missing stories were added as part of the marathon, though the tele-snap reconstruction of ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'' Episode Three from its DVD release was included, along with the remaining five existing episodes. | Several episodes from the classic run were omitted due to licencing issues. In total, five stories were left out of the run, including ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]''. Additionally, no animated reconstructions of missing stories were added as part of the marathon, though the tele-snap reconstruction of ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'' Episode Three from its DVD release was included, along with the remaining five existing episodes. | ||
