Transmat:Doctor Who
Planet of the Dead was the first of the 2009 specials that ended David Tennant's tenure as the Doctor. It teamed the Tenth Doctor up with an aristocratic thief named Lady Christina De Souza for a one-off adventure that also heavily involved UNIT. Behind the scenes, it was important for a number of innovations, as it was the first episode to be filmed in HD, and the first to involve location filming in the Middle East. As of 2013, it was the only Doctor Who Easter special.
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.
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.
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.
But Baverstock wasn't the only BBC executive to have a profound impact on the development of Doctor Who. Make sure you read about Lorraine Heggessey, Mark Thompson, Danny Cohen, George Entwistle, Tony Hall, Shaun Sutton, Sydney Newman and others.- 1966
- Episode four of The Tenth Planet premiered on BBC1.
- Part one of the TV Comic story The Galaxy Games was published.
- 1977
- Part one of Image of the Fendahl premiered on BBC1.
- Part three of the TV Comic story The Devil's Mouth was published.
- 1992 - DWM 193 was published by Marvel Comics.
- 1994 - Return of the Sontarans part one premiered at Dreamwatch 94 in Earls Court London. The story was split into three parts, with the final two parts being shown the following day.
- 2001 - The audio story "Death to the Daleks!" was released by Big Finish Productions.[1]
- 2006 - Ghost Machine premiered on BBC Three.
- 2007 - Part one of Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? premiered on CBBC.
- 2008 - The Doctor Who: Battles in Time comic story The Battle for Time was published.
- 2009
- Part one of The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith premiered on CBBC.
- DWA 139 was published by BBC Magazines.
- 2010 - Evacuation Earth and Return to Earth were released by Nintendo.
- 2012 - The box set Doctor Who: Series 7, Part 1 was released in the UK on DVD and Blu-ray.
- 2013 - 1963: The Space Race and The Queen of Time were released by Big Finish.
- 2014
- The Eleventh Doctor #4 was published by Titan Comics.
- DWDVDF 151 was published by GE Fabbri Ltd.
- 2015
- Impossible Worlds was published by BBC Books.
- Beast of Fang Rock was published by Candy Jar Books.
- My Dad, The Doctor was published in First News.
- Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 144 was released online.
- 2016
- Nightvisiting premiered on BBC Three.
- "Nightvisitor" was released as a single on Spotify and iTunes.
- 2023 - Horrors of Arcbeatle was published by Arcbeatle Press.
- ... that costumer Sandra Reid was as important to the look of the Cybermen as Raymond Cusick was to that of the Daleks?
- ... that Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer were both responsible for the song, "Enough Is Enough"? (PROSE: Wetworld)
- ... that the instructional pamphlet, So You're Caught in a Rocket Attack, was once consulted by the Doctor when he actually was in the middle of a rocket attack? (PROSE: The Well-Mannered War)
- ... that Nyssa almost certainly lost her virginity with a man named Andrew in Stockbridge, England — while the Fifth Doctor enjoyed a season with the local cricket club? (AUDIO: Autumn)
- ... that the Ikkaba were a time-traveling race who had a huge cultural impact upon several galaxies — and even influenced the building of pyramids by the Aztecs, Babylonians and Yamayans — but died out en masse, leaving behind little more than poetry? (PROSE: Walking to Babylon)
- 1884 - Actor Bert Sims was born.[2]
- 1927 - Actor Bernard Martin was born.[3]
- 1935 - Actor Michael Jayston was born.[4]
- 1937 - Actor Hugh Futcher was born.[5]
- 1940 - Actor Angela Douglas was born.[6]
- 1953 - Actor Lorelei King was born.[7]
- 1957 - Director of photography Glen MacPherson was born.[8]
- 1959 - Actor Stephen Marzella was born.[9]
- 1967 - Actor Robert Portal was born.[10]
- 1979 - Sound recordist A. Ambler died.[11]
- 1983 - Actor Dillon Casey was born.[12]
- 1985 - Actor Nina Toussaint-White was born.[13]
- 1999 - Actor Cavan Kendall died.[14]
- 2010 - Writer Mervyn Haisman died.[15]
- 2011 - Television host Jimmy Savile died.[16]
- 2015 - Actor Kenneth Gilbert died.[17]
- 2018 - Stunt performer Peter Brace died.[18]
- 2019 - Actor Godfrey James died.[19]
- 2021 - Actor Ron Pinnell died.[20]
- 2023 - Actor Tony Rohr died.[21]
- 1963 - John Mair sent a memo to Joanna Spicer, detailing season 1's stories and their costs at the time. Donald Wilson and Verity Lambert met with Spicer, and agreed to go along with the earlier proposition made on 22 October.
- 1965 - "Day of Armageddon" was recorded at BBC Television Centre 3. (TCH 6)
- 1966 - Episode two of The Power of the Daleks was recorded at Riverside Studios 1. (TCH 9)
- 1969 - Location filming for Spearhead from Space took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor)
- 1970 - Location filming for The Mind of Evil took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor)
- 1971 - Location filming for The Sea Devils took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor)
- 1973 - Studio filming for Invasion of the Dinosaurs took place at BBC Television Centre studio 8. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor)
- 1974 - Studio filming for The Ark in Space took place at BBC Television Centre studio 3. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor)
- 1975 - Location filming for The Seeds of Doom took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor)
- 1981 - Location filming for Earthshock took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
- 1984 - Location filming for The Mark of the Rani took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Sixth Doctor)
- 2004 - The Big Finish audio story The Game was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2008 - Actor David Tennant won the "Outstanding Drama Performance" award at the National Television Awards for his work on Doctor Who. On accepting his award, Tennant finally officially announced his departure from Doctor Who as the Tenth Doctor at the end of the 2009 specials, something that had been speculated upon for weeks by then. He said, "I've had the most brilliant, bewildering and life-changing time working on Doctor Who, I have loved every day of it. It would be very easy to cling on to the TARDIS console forever and I fear that if I don't take a deep breath and make the decision to move on now, then I simply never will, and you'll be wheeling me out of the TARDIS in my bath chair."
- 2015 - The Big Finish audio story And You Will Obey Me was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2018
- Big Finish announced the casting of Rhianne Starbuck as the Fourth Doctor's companion Sharon Davies.
- Big Finish's audio anthology The Eighth of March was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2019 - Big Finish's audio anthology The First Doctor Adventures: Volume Five was recorded at the Soundhouse.
- 2021 - Big Finish's audio anthologies Silver and Ice and Blood & Steel were recorded at the Soundhouse.
- ↑ "Death to the Daleks!". Big Finish, via Internet Archive. Retrieved on 9 December 2002.
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ The Doctor Who Cuttings Archive
- ↑ TCH 42
- ↑ Carry On Blogging
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ People Pill
- ↑ Cinematographers
- ↑ Simple Movie
- ↑ Notre Cinema
- ↑ Doctor Who Guide
- ↑ Famous Birthdays
- ↑ Doctor Who Guide
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ BBC News
- ↑ The Independent
- ↑ IMDb
- ↑ http://doctorwhocastandcrew.blogspot.com/2014/07/underworld.html
- ↑ IMDb
- ↑ The Guardian