Doctor Who is a British science fiction television program produced by the BBC since 1963. This program describes Time Lord's adventure called "the Doctor", a celestial being from the planet Gallifrey. The Doctor explores the universe in a space ship travel time called TARDIS. The exterior appears as a blue English police squad, which was a common sight in England in 1963 when the first series aired. Accompanied by a number of friends, the Doctor fights enemies, while working to save civilization and help those in need.
This show is an important part of British popular culture, and elsewhere has gained the cult following. This has influenced the professional generation of British television, many of whom grew up watching this series. The program originally ran from 1963 to 1989. There were unsuccessful attempts to revive regular production in 1996 with a backdoor pilot, in the form of a television movie titled Doctor Who . The program was relaunched in 2005, and has since been produced in-house by BBC Wales in Cardiff. Doctor Who has also spawned many spin-offs, including comic books, movies, novels, audio dramas, and television series Torchwood (2006-2011), The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007-2011), K-9 (2009-2010), and Class (2016), and has been the subject of many parodies and references in popular culture.
Twelve actors have starred in the series as Doctors. The transition from one actor to another is written into the show plot by the concept of regeneration into a new incarnation - a plot device where Lord Time is too bad for the body to heal normally, can even recover by turning into a "new" body. Each actor's portrayal is different, but all represent the stages in the life of the same character and form a single life with a single narrative. Time travel features of the plot mean that different incarnations of Doctors occasionally meet. The Doctor is currently portrayed by Jodie Whittaker, who took on the role after Peter Capaldi's release in 2017 special Christmas "Twice Upon a Time".
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Premise
Doctor Who follows the adventure of the main character, a naughty Lord Lord of planet Gallifrey, who uses the name "the Doctor". The Doctor escapes Gallifrey in stolen TARDIS - "Time and Relative Dimensions in Space" - a time machine that moves by realizing and dematerializing of the vortex of time. TARDIS has a spacious interior but looks smaller on the outside, and is equipped with a "chameleon circuit" intended to make the machine take the look of local objects as a disguise; because of the damage, TARDIS The doctor remains as a blue English police squad.
Doctors often find incidents that arouse their curiosity and try to prevent evil forces from harming innocent people or changing history, using only minimal ingenuity and resources, such as a versatile sonic screwdriver. Doctors rarely travel alone and often bring one or more friends to share this adventure. These friends are usually human, because of the Doctor's interest with the planet Earth, which also led to frequent collaborations with international military task forces when Earth itself was threatened. As a Time God, the Doctor is centuries old and has the ability to regenerate in the event of mortal damage to the body, taking on new looks and personality. The Doctor has gained many recurring enemies during their journey, including Daleks, Cybermen, and the Master, a rebellious Lord of Time.
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History
Doctor Who first appeared on BBC TV at 17:16:20 GMT on Saturday, November 23, 1963; this is eighty seconds slower than the scheduled program time, due to the killing of John F. Kennedy the day before. It becomes a regular weekly program, every episode 25 minutes of transmission length. Discussions and plans for the program have been going on for a year. Sydney Newman drama chief is primarily responsible for developing the program, with the first format document for the series written by Newman along with the head of the script department (later serial head) Donald Wilson and staff writer C. E. Webber. Author Anthony Coburn, story editor David Whitaker and early producer Verity Lambert also greatly contributed to the development of this series. The program was originally intended to attract a family audience, as an educational program using time travel as a means to explore scientific ideas and famous moments in history. On July 31, 1963 Whitaker commissioned Terry Nation to write a story titled The Mutants . As originally written, Daleks and Thals are victims of an alien neutron bomb attack but the Nation then drops the aliens and makes Daleks an aggressor. When the manuscript was presented to Newman and Wilson, it was immediately rejected because the program was not allowed to contain "bug-eyed monsters". According to producer Verity Lambert; "We do not have much choice - we only have the Dalek series to go... We have a little bit of a crisis of confidence because Donald [Wilson] is so adamant that we should not do it.If we have other things ready we will make it." Nation being the second Doctor Who serialÃ, - The Daleks (aka The Mutants ). The series introduces the eponymous aliens who will become the most popular monster of the series, and is responsible for the BBC's first merchandise boom.
The division of the BBC drama series department produced the program for 26 seasons, broadcast on the BBC 1. Falling view figures, decreased public perception of events and less-prominent transmission slots saw production suspended in 1989 by Jonathan Powell, BBC 1 controller. not to commission a series of 27 planned events for transmission in 1990, the BBC has repeatedly insisted that the series will return.
While in-house production has stopped, the BBC hopes to find an independent production company to relaunch the show. Philip Segal, a British expatriate working for Columbia Pictures television in the United States, has approached the BBC about such an attempt as early as July 1989, while the 26th series is still in production. Halal negotiations eventually led to the television movie Doctor Who, aired on Fox Network in 1996 as an international co-production between Fox, Universal Pictures, BBC and BBC Worldwide. Although the film was a success in the UK (with 9.1 million viewers), it was less so in the United States and did not lead to the series.
Licensed media such as novels and audio dramas provide new stories, but as a Doctor Who television program remained inactive until 2003. In September of that year, BBC Television announced the in-house production of the new series after several years of effort by BBC Worldwide to find support for feature film versions. Executive producers of the new incarnation of the series are the authors Russell T Davies and BBC Cymru Wales drama chief Julie Gardner.
Doctor Who finally returned with "Rose" episode on BBC One on March 26, 2005. Since then there have been nine more series in 2006-2008 and 2010-2015, and special Christmas days every year since 2005. No there was a full series that aired in 2009, although four additional specials starring David Tennant were made. In January 2016, Moffat announced that he would resign after the 2017 final, to be replaced by Chris Chibnall in 2018. The tenth series debuted in April 2017, with a special Christmas before in 2016.
The 2005 version of the Doctor Who is a continuation of the live plot of the original 1963-1989 series and telefilm of 1996. This is similar to the continuation of Mission Impossible in 1988, but is different from most of the series others that have been rebooted (eg Battlestar Galactica and Bionic Women ) or set in the same universe as the original but in different time periods and with characters (for example, Star Trek: The Next Generation and spin-off).
This program has been sold to many other countries around the world (see Ownership).
Public awareness
It has been claimed that the first episode transmission was delayed by ten minutes due to an expanded news coverage about the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy the day before; actually it comes out after an eighty second delay. The BBC believes that many viewers have missed this introduction into the new series due to murder coverage, as well as a series of power outages across the country, and they broadcast it again on November 30, 1963, just before the second episode.
The program soon became a national institution in the UK, with a large following among the viewers in general. Many famous actors ask or are offered the role of guest stars in various stories.
With the popularity comes the controversy over the suitability of the show for children. Moral activist Mary Whitehouse repeatedly complained to the BBC in the 1970s about what she saw as scary and dreadful content. John Nathan-Turner produced the series during the 1980s and was heard to say that he was looking forward to Whitehouse's comments, because the ratings of the show will increase as soon as he gets them.
The phrase "hiding in the back (or" watching from behind ") the sofa" enters the British pop culture, signifies the early stereotypical behavioral humor of children who want to avoid seeing the scary part of the television program while staying in the room to watch the rest. This expression maintains this relationship with Doctor Who, until 1991 at the Museum of the Moving Image in London mentioning their exhibition celebrating the "Behind the Sofa" program. Electronic theme music is also considered scary, new, and frightening, at the time. A 2012 article puts the juxtaposition of childhood out of fear and this sensation "in the midst of many people's relationships with performances", and online voting 2011 at Digital Spy considers the series to be "the scariest TV show of all time".
During the second series of Jon Pertwee as Doctor, in the series of Terror of the Autons (1971), pictures of plastic killer dolls, daffodils kill unsuspecting victims, and police with a blank feature mark the peak of the show's performance. to frighten the children. Other important moments of the decade included a bodyless brain that fell to the floor in Morbius's Brain and Doctor was apparently drowned by a criminal in The Deadly Assassin (both 1976).
A survey of BBC's audience research conducted in 1972 found that, by their own definition of violence ("any action that could cause physical and/or psychological harm, harm or death of persons, animals or property, whether intentional or unintentional") > Doctor Who is the most violent of the drama programs produced by the company at the time. The same report found that 3% of the audience surveyed considered the show to be "very unsuitable" to see the family. Responding to survey findings in The Times, journalist Philip Howard stated that, "to compare the violence of the Dr Who , who is loved by the horse laughter of nightmares, with more realistic violence from another television series, where actors who looked like blood-blooded human beings looked like blood, like comparing Monopoly to the London property market: they were fantasy, but meant to be taken seriously. "
TARDIS's image has become closely related to the show in public awareness; The BBC's Anthony Coburn, who lives in the Herne Bay, Kent resort, is one of those people who conceptualize the police box idea as a time machine. In 1996, the BBC submitted an application for a trademark to use the blue TOSIS police box design in merchandising associated with Doctor Who . In 1998, the Metropolitan Police Authority filed a complaint over a trademark claim; but in 2002, the Patent Office decided to support the BBC.
The appeal of this program attracts the attention of children and families as well as science fiction fans.
The 21st century awakening program has been at the center of Saturday's BBC One schedule, and has "defined the channel". Since its return, Doctor Who has consistently received high ratings, both in the number of viewers and as measured by the Appreciation Index. In 2007, Caitlin Moran, television reviewer for The Times , wrote that Doctor Who is, "classic to be English". Director Steven Spielberg commented that, "the world will be a poorer place without Doctor Who ".
On August 4, 2013, the direct program titled Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor is broadcast on BBC One, where the actor who will play Twelfth Doctor is revealed. The show is directly watched by an average of 6.27 million in the UK, and is also broadcast in the United States, Canada and Australia.
Episode
Doctor Who originally ran for 26 seasons on BBC One, from 23 November 1963 to 6 December 1989. During the initial run, every weekly episode forms part of a story (or "serial") Ã, - usually four up to six parts in previous years and three to four years later. Some notable exceptions are: Daleks Master Plan , which airs twelve episodes (plus one previous episode teaser, "Mission to the Unknown", which does not feature regular players); almost the entire season of the seven episode series (season 7); ten episode series of The War Games ; and The Trial of Time Lord, which lasted fourteen episodes (though divided into three production codes and four narrative segments) during season 23. Sometimes the series are loosely connected to the storyline, like season 8 focus on the Doctor fighting against a villain Left God summoned the Master, searching for the 16th season for Key to Time, 18th season travel through E-Space and entropy themes, and the 20th Black Guardian trilogy season.
The program is meant for education and to see families on an early Saturday night schedule. These were originally stories alternated set in the past, which teach younger members of the audience about history, and with them in the future or outer space, focusing on science. This is also reflected in the physician's real friend, one of whom is a science teacher and the other a history teacher.
However, science fiction stories dominate the program, and historical-oriented episodes, unpopular in the production team, were dropped after The Highlanders (1967). While the show continues to use historical settings, they are commonly used as backgrounds of science fiction, with one exception: Black Orchid, set in the 1920s in England.
The initial stories are naturally serialized, with one story narrative flowing to the next, and each episode has its own title, although it is produced as a story different from their own production code. Following the The Gunfighters (1966), however, each series is given its own title, and individual parts are only given an episode number.
Of the many program authors, Robert Holmes was the most prolific, while Douglas Adams became the most famous outside the Doctor Who itself, due to the popularity of his book Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The serial format changed for the 2005 revival, with the series typically consisting of thirteen episodes 45 minutes, self-contained (60 minutes with commercials, on overseas commercial channels), and 60-minute episode broadcasts extended on Christmas Day. The system is shortened to twelve episodes and one special Christmas following the eighth series of awakening. Each series includes both a stand-alone and multiple episodic story, linked to a loose storyline completed in the final series. As in the early "classic" era, each episode, either stand-alone or part of a larger story, has its own title. Occasionally, regular series episodes will exceed 45 minutes of walking time; especially, the episode "Journey's End" from 2008 and "The Eleventh Hour" from 2010 exceeded an hour's length.
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the event, a special 3D episode, "The Day of the Doctor", airs in 2013. In March 2013, it was announced that Tennant and Piper will return, and that the episode will be limited to cinematic releases at the whole world.
In April 2015, Steven Moffat confirmed that Doctor Who will run for at least five years, extending the show until 2020.
Missing episode
Between about 1967 and 1978, a large amount of old material stored in various video footage and the BBC film library was destroyed, erased, or suffered from poor storage that caused severe damage to the quality of the broadcast. This includes many old episodes of Doctor Who , mostly stories featuring the first two doctors: William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton. Overall, 97 of the 253 episodes generated during the first six years of the program were not kept in the BBC archive (notably seasons 3, 4, & 5, of the 79 missing episodes). In 1972, almost all episodes were made known to be on the BBC, while in 1978 the practice of wiping cassettes and destroying copies of the "spare" film had been stopped.
No episodes of the 1960s were in their original video recordings (all the prints that survive were film transfers), though some were transferred to the film for editing before transmission, and were in their broadcast form.
Several episodes have been returned to the BBC from archives of other countries that purchase prints for broadcast, or by private individuals who obtain them in various ways. Initial off-air color videotape footage has also been taken, as well as footage filmed from television screen to 8 mm cine film and clips featured on other programs. The audio version of all the missing episodes exists from the home viewers who are making the recording of the event. Short clips from each story with the exceptions of Marco Polo , "Missions to the Unknown" and St Bartholomew's Eve Massacre also exist.
In addition to this, there are off-screen photographs made by photographer John Cura, employed by various production personnel to document many of their programs during the 1950s and 1960s, including Doctor Who . This has been used in fan reconstruction of serial. This amateur reconstruction has been tolerated by the BBC, provided they are not sold for profit and distributed as low quality VHS copies.
One of the most searched lost episodes is part four of the last William Hartnell series, The Tenth Planet (1966), which ended with the First Doctor turning into the Second. The only part of it, restricting some low-quality, low-quality 8-mm clips, is a few seconds from the regeneration scene, as shown in the children's magazine show Blue Peter . With the approval of the BBC, efforts are now being made to recover as many episodes of extant material as possible.
"Official" Reconstruction has also been released by BBC on VHS, on MP3 CD-ROM, and as a special feature on DVD. The BBC, together with the animated studio Cosgrove Hall, reconstructed the lost episodes 1 and 4 of The Invasion (1968), using remastered audio tracks and comprehensive stage notes for original movie making, for serial DVD releases on the moon November 2006. The missing episode of The Reign of Terror was animated by the Theta-Sigma animation company, in collaboration with the Big Finish, and became available for purchase in May 2013 through Amazon.com. The next animations created in 2013 include the Tenth Planet , The Ice Warriors and The Moonbase .
In April 2006, Blue Peter launched a challenge to find the missing Doctor Who episode with the promise of a full-scale Dalek model as a reward.
In December 2011, it was announced that part 3 of Galaxy 4 and part 2 of The Underwater Menace have been returned to the BBC by fans who have purchased it by mid-year. -1980 without realizing that the BBC does not have a copy.
On October 10, 2013, the BBC announced that a film of eleven episodes, including nine missing episodes, had been found on Nigeria's television relay station in Jos. Six of the eleven films found are the six-part series The Enemy of the enemy World, from which all three episodes have been lost. The remaining movies are from another six-part series, Web of Fear , and include previously lost episodes 2, 4, 5, and 6. Episode 3 of Web of Fear
Character
The Doctor
The Doctor was initially shrouded in mystery. All that is known about the characters in the early days of the program is that they are an eccentric foreign explorer with tremendous intelligence battling injustice while exploring time and space in an unreliable time machine, "TARDIS" (acronym for Time and Relative Dimension in Space), which looks much larger on the inside than on the outside (a quality called "dimensional transcendentality").
The initially violent and slightly cynical doctor quickly softened into a more compassionate figure and was eventually revealed to be a Lord of Time from the planet Gallifrey, whose Doctor escaped by stealing TARDIS.
Appearance changes
Manufacturers introduced the concept of regeneration to enable the re-establishment of the main characters. This is driven by ill health from the original star, William Hartnell. The term "regeneration" is not contained until the third regeneration on the Doctor's screen; Hartnell's Doctor only describes undergoing "renewal", and the Second Doctor underwent a "change of appearance". This device has made it possible to re-show the actor several times in the event's history, as well as alternative Doctors portrayals either from the past or the future of the relative Doctor.
The Deadly Assassin and Mawdryn Undead series specify that the Time Lord can only regenerate 12 times, totaling 13 incarnations. This line becomes trapped in public awareness even though it is not often repeated, and is recognized by the show's producers as a plot barrier when the event finally has to regenerate the thirteen-time Doctor. The "The Time of the Doctor" episode describes the Doctor obtaining a new cycle of regeneration, starting from the Twelfth Doctor, as the Eleventh Doctor becomes the twelfth product of Doctor's regeneration from the original set.
Although the idea of ​​choosing a woman as a Doctor has been suggested by the author of the show several times, including by Newman in 1986 and Davies in 2008, until 2017, all official portrayals were played by the men. Jodie Whittaker takes over the role of Doctor Thirteen at the end of the 2017 Christmas special, and is the first woman to act as a character. Whittaker has previously starred in television series such as Back to Cranford Broadchurch with David Tennant (Tenth Doctor) and dystopian anthology Black Mirror . The show introduced Time Lords ability to change gender on regeneration in previous episodes, first in dialog, then with version of Michelle Gomez from The Master.
In addition to the actors who have the title of the series, others have described the Doctor's version in the guest role. Specifically, in 2013, John Hurt became a guest star as an unknown incarnation known to Doctors known as War Doctors on the special occasion of the 50th anniversary of "The Day of the Doctor". He was featured in a retroactive mini-episode of "The Night of the Doctor" put into the show's fictional chronology between McGann and Eccleston's Doctors, although his introduction was written so as not to interfere with numerical naming that had been established from Doctors. Another example is from the 1986 series The Trial of a Time Lord, in which Michael Jayston describes the Valeyard, which is described as an amalgamation of the dark side of the Doctor's nature, somewhere between the twelfth and final incarnations.
On rare occasions, other actors stand to lead. In The Five Doctors , Richard Hurndall played the First Doctor because of William Hartnell's death in 1975; 34 years later, David Bradley replaces Hartnell at Twice Upon a Time . In Time and Rani , Sylvester McCoy briefly plays the Six Doctors during the regeneration sequence, proceeding as the Seventh. For more information, see the list of actors who have played Doctor. In other media, Doctor has been played by various other actors, including Peter Cushing in two films.
Casting a new Doctor often inspires debate and speculation. Common focus topics include Doctor's gender (before Whittaker casting, all official incarnations are male), race (all Doctors are currently white) and age (the youngest actor to be cast is Smith at 26, and the oldest is Capaldi and Hartnell, both 55).
Different incarnation meetings
There are some actors who return on a later date to re-enact the role of their specialist Doctor. In 1973 The Three Doctors William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton returned with Jon Pertwee. For 1983's The Five Doctors, Troughton and Pertwee returned to the stars with Peter Davison, and Tom Baker appeared on a previously unseen recording of the unfinished episode Shada . For this episode, Richard Hurndall replaces William Hartnell. Patrick Troughton came back in 1985 with The Two Doctors with Colin Baker. In 2007, Peter Davison returned in "Time Crash" Requiring Children with David Tennant, and in a special episode of the 50th anniversary of 2013, "The Day of the Doctor", Tenth Doctor David Tennant appeared with Matt Smith as Eleventh Doctors and John Sick as War Doctors, as well as short snippets of all previous actors. In 2017, First Doctor (this time played by David Bradley) back with Peter Capaldi in "The Doctor Falls" and "Twice Upon a Time". In "The Name of the Doctor," the Eleventh Doctor meets his previously unseen incarnation, later declared a Doctor of War. In addition, several incarnations of Doctors have met in various audio and novel dramas based on television shows.
Revelations about Doctor
Throughout the program's long history, there has been a disclosure of Doctors who have asked additional questions. In The Brain of Morbius (1976), it implies that the First Doctor may not be the first incarnation (though the other face depicted may be the incarnation of Lord Morbius of Time). In the next story, the First Doctor is described as the earliest incarnation of the Doctor. In Mawdryn Undead (1983), the Fifth Doctor explicitly affirms that he is currently in his fifth incarnation. Later in the same year, on the 20th Anniversary of 1983 The Five Doctors, First Doctor inquired about the regeneration of the Fifth Doctor; when the Fifth Doctor confirmed "Fourth", the First Doctor excitedly replied "Geez So now there are five people." In 2010, the Eleventh Physician also called himself "Eleventh" in "The Lodger". In the episode of 2013 "The Time of the Doctor," the Eleventh Doctor clarified that he was the product of the twelfth regeneration, because of his previous incarnations which he chose not to count and one other aborted regeneration. The eleventh name is still used for this incarnation; the same episode portrays the prophesied "Fall of the eleventh" who has trailed the entire series.
During the era of the Seventh Doctor, it implied that the Doctor was more than a god. In the 1996 television film, the Eighth Doctor described himself as "half human". The BBC FAQ for this program notes that "puritans tend to ignore this", instead of focusing on its Gallifreyan heritage.
The first series of this program, Unusual Children , shows that Doctor has a granddaughter, Susan Foreman. In the 1967 series, Tomb of the Cybermen , when Victoria Waterfield doubts Doctors can remember his family because, "becomes very ancient", Doctor says that he can when he really wants - "The rest of their sleep in my mind ". The 2005 series reveals that the Ninth Doctor thought he was the last surviving Lord, and that his home planet had been destroyed; in "The Empty Child" (2005), Dr. Constantine stated that, "Before the war began, I was father and grandfather, now I am not." The Doctor commented as an answer, "Yes, I know that feeling." In "Smith and Jones" (2007), when asked if he has a brother, he replied, "No, not anymore." Both in "Fear Her" (2006) and "The Doctor's Daughter" (2008), he states that he, in the past, was a father.
In "The Wedding of River Song" (2011), it is implied that the Doctor's real name is a secret that should not be disclosed; this was further explored in "The Name of the Doctor" (2013), when River Song spoke his name allowing Great Intelligence to enter his grave, and in "The Time of the Doctor" (2013) where his real name spoke into a signal where the Time Lords will know they can safely return to the universe.
Friends
Prominent figures - generally human beings - have been a constant feature in the Doctor Who since the beginning of the program in 1963. One of the companion roles is to be a reminder for the "moral duty" of the Doctor. Doctor's first friend seen on the screen was his granddaughter Susan Foreman (Carole Ann Ford) and his teacher Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill) and Ian Chesterton (William Russell). These characters are meant to act as a substitute audience, through which the audience will find information about the Doctor who acts as a mysterious father figure. The only story of the original series in which the Doctor traveled alone was The Deadly Assassin . The prominent companions of the previous series included Romana (Mary Tamm and Lalla Ward), a Time Lady; Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen); and Jo Grant (Katy Manning). Dramatically, these characters provide an image that can be identified by the audience, and serve to advance the story by asking for explanations from the Doctor and the dangers of manufacturing that the Doctor must accomplish. Doctors regularly make new friends and lose old ones; sometimes they return home or find new causes - or love - in the world they visit. Some have died during the series. Friends are usually human, or humanoid aliens.
Since 2005 revival, Doctors generally travel with major female colleagues, who occupy a larger narrative role. Steven Moffat described his companion as the main character of the show, because the story resumed with every friend and he experienced more change than the Doctor. The main friends of the Ninth and Tenth Doctors are Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman), and Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) with Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke) and Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) repeated as secondary companions. The Eleventh Doctor became the first to travel with a married couple, Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill), while meetings that did not sync with River Song (Alex Kingston) and Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) provided story bows. The tenth series introduced Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts, Doctor's latest traveling companion. Bill Potts is the doctor's first gay companion. Pearl Mackie says that increasing representation for LGBTQ people is important in mainstream events.
Some friends have reappeared, either in the main series or in the spinoff. Sarah Jane Smith became the central figure in The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007-11) after returning to Doctor Who in 2006. The guest stars in the series include former colleague Jo Grant, K9, and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney). Jack Harkness's character is also in charge of launching a spin-off, Torchwood , (2006-2011) in which Martha Jones also appeared.
Enemy
When Sydney Newman commissioned the series, he specifically did not want to perpetuate the cliché "bug-eyed monster" of science fiction. However, monsters are very popular among audiences and became the subject of Doctor Who almost from the beginning.
With the resurgence of 2005, executive producer Russell T Davies expressed his intention to reintroduce the classic icon Doctor Who . The Autons with Nestene Consciousness and Daleks back in series 1, Cybermen in series 2, Macra and Master in 3 series, Sontarans and Davros in series 4, and Time Lords including Rassilon in Specials 2009-10. Davies' successor, Steven Moffat, continues the trend by reviving the Silurians in series 5, Cybermats in the 6th series, Great Intelligence, and Ice Warriors in Series 7, and Zygons in the 50th Anniversary Special. Since 2005, the series has also introduced new recurring aliens: Slitheen (Raxacoricofallapatorian), Ood, Judoon, Weeping Angels and Silence.
In addition to the rare appearance by Ice Warriors, Ogrons, Rani, and Black Guardian, the three enemies have become very iconic: Daleks, Cybermen, and Masters.
Daleks
The Dalek race, which first appeared in the second series of the show in 1963, is Doctor Who ' s the oldest villain. Daleks is Kaleds of the planet Skaro, mutated by the scientist Davros and housed in a protective shell for mobility mechanics. The real creature resembles an octopus with a large brain being spoken. Their protective sleeves have one eye stalk, a sink-like apparatus that serves the purpose of the hand, and an energy-directed weapon. Their main weakness is their eyestalk; attacking them using various weapons can blind the Dalek, make him go crazy. Their main role in the series plot, as they often comment in their directly recognizable metallic voice, is to "annihilate" all non-Dalek creatures. They even attacked Time Lords in the War of Time, as shown during the 50th Anniversary of the show. They continue to be repetitive 'monsters' in the Doctor Who franchise, their latest appearance being in the 2015 episode "The Witch's Familiar" and "Hell Bent". Davros has also been a recurring figure since his debut at Genesis Daleks , although played by several different actors.
Daleks was created by writer Terry Nation (who intended them to be aliori of the Nazis) and BBC designer Raymond Cusick. Daleks' dÃÆ' Â © but in the second series of programs, The Daleks (1963-64), made Daleks and Doctor Who very popular. A Dalek appeared on a stamp celebrating British popular culture in 1999, photographed by Lord Snowdon. In the "Victory of the Daleks", a new set of Dalek is introduced in various colors; colors that indicate its role in the species.
Cybermen
Cybermen originally were an entirely organic species of humans derived from Earth Mondas twin planets that began to plant more and more artificial parts into their bodies. This causes the race to be very cold and calculate the cyborg, with emotion usually only shown when naked aggression is called. With the demise of Mondas, they acquired Telos as their new home planet. They continue to be repetitive 'monsters' in the Doctor Who franchise.
The 2006 series introduces a completely new variation of Cybermen. This Cybus Cybermen was created in a parallel universe by the mad inventor John Lumic; it seeks to preserve humans by transplanting their brains into powerful metal bodies, sending them commands using mobile phone networks and inhibiting their emotions with electronic chips.
Master
The Master is the main enemy of the Doctor, a misleading Time Master who wants to dominate the universe. Created as "Professor Moriarty for Doctor Sherlock Holmes", the character first appeared in 1971. Like the Doctor, this role has been described by some actors, for the Master is Lord of the Time as well and capable of regeneration; the first of these actors was Roger Delgado, who continued his role until his death in 1973. The Master was briefly played by Peter Pratt and Geoffrey Beevers until Anthony Ainley took over and continued to play the character until Doctor Who's hiatus in 1989. The Master returned within a 1996 television film from Doctor Who , and played by American actor Eric Roberts.
Following the revival of the series in 2005, Derek Jacobi gave the character re-introduction in the 2007 episode "Utopia". During the story, the role was later assumed by John Simm who returned to the role several times through the ten Physician tenure. In the episode of 2014 "Dark Water," it was revealed that the Master has become a female incarnation or "Time Lady," with the name "Missy" (short for Mrs, the feminine equivalent of "Master"). This incarnation is played by Michelle Gomez.
John Simm returned in his role as Master in the tenth series.
Music
Music theme
The theme music Doctor Who is one of the first electronic music songs for television, and after five decades remains one of the most recognizable songs. The original theme was composed by Ron Grainer and realized by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, with the help of Dick Mills and was released as a single on Decca F 11837 in 1964. Various sections were built using the musical technique of concrÃÆ'¨te, by making a tape loop of piano strings which are individually beaten and oscillator and individual test filters. Setting Derbyshire presented, with minor edits, as the theme tune until the end of season 17 (1979-1980). It is considered a significant and innovative part of electronic music, which is well recorded before the availability of commercial synthersers or multitrack mixers. Each note is made individually by cutting, connecting, speeding up and slowing down the analog band segments containing single-picked string recordings, white noise, and simple harmonic waveforms from the tone-test oscillator, intended for equipment and room calibration instead of creating music. New techniques were created to allow mixing of music, as it was before the era of multitrack tape machines. Hearing the finished result, Grainer asked, "God, Delia, did I write that?" Although Grainer was willing to give Derbyshire co-composer credit, it was against the BBC's policy at the time.
Different settings were recorded by Peter Howell for season 18 (1980), which in turn was replaced by the setting of Dominic Glynn for the season-long series The Trial of a Time Lord in season 23 (1986). Keff McCulloch provided a new setting for the Seventh Physician era that lasted from season 24 (1987) to series suspension 'in 1989. American composer John Debney created a new setting from Ron Grainer's original theme for Doctor Who in 1996 For the return of the series in 2005, Murray Gold provides a new arrangement featuring samples from the original 1963 with further added elements; in the 2005 Christmas episode "The Christmas Invasion", Gold introduced a modified closing credit arrangement that was used until the end of the 2007 series.
The new theme setting, again by Gold, was introduced on the 2007 Christmas special episode, "Voyage of the Damned"; Gold returns as a composer for the 2010 series. He is responsible for a new version of the theme reported to have unfriendly acceptance from multiple audiences. In 2011, the theme song was mapped at number 228 of the FM Classic Hall of Fame radio station, a survey of classical music tastes. The revised version of the 2010 Gold setting has debuted on the opening of Christmas 2012 specials "The Snowmen", and further revisions of the arrangements were made for the special 50th Anniversary of "The Day of the Doctor" in November 2013.
The version of "Doctor Who Theme" has also been released as pop music for years. In the early 1970s, Jon Pertwee, who had played Third Doctor, recorded the Doctor Who theme with oral lyrics, entitled, "Who Is The Doctor". In 1978 the disco version of this theme was released in the UK, Denmark and Australia by the Mankind group, which reached number 24 on the UK charts. In 1988 the band The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (later known as The KLF) released the single "Doctorin 'the Tardis" under the name The Timelords, which reached No. 1 in the UK and No. 2 in Australia; this version includes several other songs, including "Rock and Roll Part 2" by Gary Glitter (who recorded vocals for several versions of the remix single "Doctorin 'the Tardis"). Others who have covered or redefined themes include Orbital, Pink Floyd, Australian Fourplay strings, New Zealand punk band Blam Blam Blam, The Pogues, Thin Lizzy, Dub Syndicate, and comedians Bill Bailey and Mitch Benn. Both the theme and obsessive fans are satirised on The Chaser's War on Everything . The theme song also appears on many compilation CDs, and has made its way into mobile phone ringtones. Fans have also produced and distributed their own remixes from themes. In January 2011 the Mankind version was released as a digital download on the album Gallifrey And Beyond .
On June 26, 2018, producer Chris Chibnall announced that the music score for the 11 series will be awarded by alumnus Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Segun Akinola.
Incidental music
Most innovative incidental music for Doctor Who has been specially commissioned from freelance composers, although in the early years some episodes also used stock music, as well as occasional footage of original recordings or cover versions of songs by popular music acts such as The Beatles and The Beach Boys. Since 2005, the series has often used pop music footage from the 1970s to the 2000s.
Incidental music for the first adventure Doctor Who , An Unearthly Child , was written by Norman Kay. Many of the stories of the William Hartnell period are printed by electronic music pioneer Tristram Cary, whose Doctor Who credits include The Daleks , Marco Polo , < i> Daleks Master Plan , The Gunfighters and The Mutants . Other composers in this early period include Richard Rodney Bennett, Carey Blyton, and Geoffrey Burgon.
The most frequent music contributor during the first 15 years is Dudley Simpson, who is also famous for the incidental themes and music for Blake's 7, and for the haunting theme music and scores for the 1970s version. People Tomorrow . The first score of Simpson Doctor Who was Planet of Giants (1964) and he went on to write music for much of the 1960s and 1970s adventures, including most of the stories from Jon Pertwee/Tom Baker period, ending with The Horns of Nimon (1979). He also made a cameo appearance in The Talons of Weng-Chiang (as a Music hall conductor).
In 1980 it began with the series The Leisure Hive the task of creating incidental music assigned to the Radiophonic Workshop. Paddy Kingsland and Peter Howell contributed many scores in this period and other contributors included Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke and Jonathan Gibbs.
The Radiophonic workshop was dropped after the 1986 series The Trial of Time Lord, and Keff McCulloch took over as the main composer of this series to the end of its influence, with Dominic Glynn and Mark Ayres also contributing.
All incidental music for the revived series of 2005 has been composed by Murray Gold and Ben Foster and has been performed by the Wales Welsh National Orchestra of the 2005 Christmas episode "The Christmas Invasion". A concert featuring an orchestra featuring music from the first two series took place on November 19, 2006 to raise money for Children in Need. David Tennant held the event, introducing different parts of the concert. Murray Gold and Russell T Davies answered questions during the interval and Daleks and Cybermen appeared as the music of their story played. The concert was aired on the BBCi on Christmas Day 2006. A Prom Doctor was celebrated on July 27, 2008 at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the annual BBC Prom. BBC Philharmonic and London Philharmonic Choir showcase the compositions of Murray Gold for this series, hosted by Ben Foster, as well as classic selection based on the theme of space and time. The show was presented by Freema Agyeman and guest-presented by various other stars of the show with many monsters participating in the process. It also features a specially filmed mini-episode of "Music of the Spheres", written by Russell T Davies and starring David Tennant.
Six soundtrack releases have been released since 2005. The first seeded tracks of the first two series, second and third seeded music of the third and fourth series. The fourth was released on October 4, 2010 as a special edition of two discs and contains music from 2008-2010 Specials ( The Next Doctor to End of Part 2 ). Soundtrack for the 5 Series was released on November 8, 2010. In February 2011, the soundtrack was released for Christmas specials 2010: "A Christmas Carol", and in December 2011 the soundtrack for the 6 Series was released, both by Silva Screen Records.
In 2013, a 50th anniversary audio CD set was released featuring the music and sound effects of the 50-year history of Doctor Who. The celebration continues in 2016 with the release of Doctor Who: The 50th Anniversary Collection of Four LP Box hosted by Spacelab9 based in New York City. The company hit 1,000 copies of the set on "Metallic Silver" vinyl, dubbed "Cyberman Edition".
Views Count
United Kingdom
Toward the day after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the first episode of Doctor Who was repeated with the second episode of the following week. Doctor Who always appears on BBC One's main channel BBC One, where she is considered a family event, attracting millions of viewers; episodes are also repeated on BBC Three, before being redirected to online channels only. The popularity of the program has changed and shrunk for decades, with three notable high-ranking periods. The first is the period of "Dalekmania" (circa 1964-1965), when Dalek's popularity regularly brings Doctor Who ratings between 9 and 14 million, even for stories that do not show it.. The second was the mid to late 1970s, when Tom Baker occasionally attracted an audience of over 12 million.
The audience survey during the 1970s revealed that by that time 60% of viewers were adults.
During the ITV network strike of 1979, the number of viewers reached 16 million. The numbers remained honorable to the 1980s, but fell after the 23 series of programs was postponed in 1985 and the show took off for 18 months. At the 1982 Season 19 broadcast, the show was watched by a global audience of 98 million, 88 million in 38 foreign countries, and an average of ten million in the UK.
The late 1980s performance of three to five million viewers was viewed as poor at the time and, according to the BBC Board of Control, the main cause of the 1989 program suspension. Some fans consider this dishonest, since the program is scheduled to fight the soap opera Coronation Street , the most popular show at the time. During Tennant's run (a notable third high-ranking period), the show has consistently high impressions; with Christmas specials regularly attracting over 10 million.
BBC One's broadcast of "Rose", the first episode of the 2005 revival, drew an average audience of 10.81 million, the third highest for BBC One that week and seventh in all channels. The current awakening also garnered the highest Appreciation Index of any drama on television.
International
Doctor Who has been broadcast internationally outside the UK since 1964, a year after the first show aired. Since January 1, 2013, the modern series has been or is currently broadcast weekly in more than 50 countries.
Doctor Who is one of the five best-selling titles for BBC Worldwide, the BBC's commercial arm. BBC Worldwide CEO John Smith says that Doctor Who is one of the few Superbrands to be promoted Worldwide.
Only four episodes have ever performed their first show on a channel other than BBC One. The special 20th anniversary of 1983 The Five Doctors had dà © Å but on 23 November (actual date of anniversary) on a number of PBS stations two days before BBC One broadcast. The story of 1988 Silver Nemesis was broadcast with all three episodes aired back to TVNZ in New Zealand in November, after the first episode has been shown in the UK but before the last two installments have been aired there. Finally, the 1996 television film aired on May 12, 1996 at CITV in Edmonton, Canada, 15 days before BBC One appeared, and two days before it aired on Fox in the United States.
Oceania
New Zealand was the first country outside the United Kingdom to screen the Doctor Who, beginning in September 1964, and has continued to refine this series for years, including a new series from 2005.
In Australia, the show has a strong fan base from the start, first run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) since January 1965. (See Doctor Who in Australia) ABC has repeatedly episodes periodically; of note is the weekly playback of all the classic episodes available from 2003, for the 40th anniversary of the event, and the weekly playback of all revived episodes in 2013 for the 50th anniversary of the event. ABC broadcast the modern series first run on ABC1 and ABC ME, with repetition on ABC2. ABC also provides partial funding for the special 20th anniversary of The Five Doctors in 1983.
America
The series also has a fan base in the United States, where it is shown in syndication from the 1970s to the 1990s, especially in PBS stations.
TVOntario took the show in 1976 starting with The Three Doctors and aired each series (several years late) until the 24th series in 1991. From 1979 to 1981, TVO's impressions were lent by science-fiction writer Judith Merril which will introduce the episode and then, after the episode is over, try to place it in the educational context according to TVO status as an education channel. Its broadcast The Talons of Weng-Chiang was canceled as a result of allegations that the story was racist; The story was then broadcast in the 1990s on YTV cable TV station. The CBC started showing the series again in 2005. The series moved into Canadian cable channel space in 2009.
For Canadian broadcasting, Christopher Eccleston recorded a special video for each episode (including the trivia question as part of the audience contest) and a quote from the Doctor Who Confidential documentary that plays on top of the closing credits; to broadcast "The Christmas Invasion" on December 26, 2005, Billie Piper recorded a special video introduction. The CBC began airing the second series on October 9, 2006 at 20:00 E/P (20:30 in Newfoundland and Labrador), shortly after that day, CFL double headers on Thanksgiving in most countries.
The three series began broadcasting on the CBC on June 18, 2007 followed by the second Christmas specials, "The Runaway Bride" at midnight, and the Sci Fi Channel began on July 6, 2007 starting with a special Christmas second at 8:00 pm E/P followed by the first episode.
Series four aired in the United States on Sci Fi Channel (now known as Syfy), started in April 2008. Aired on CBC starting September 19, 2008, even though the CBC did not air a special Voyage of the Damned. Canada cable network Space broadcast "The Next Doctor" (in March 2009) and all the next series and specials.
Home media
A wide selection of series is available from BBC Videos on DVD, sold in the UK, Australia, Canada and the United States. Every remaining series has been released on VHS, and BBC Worldwide continues to regularly release the series on DVD. The 2005 series is also available overall at UMD for the PlayStation Portable. Eight original series series have been released in Laserdisc and many have also been released on Betamax tape and Video 2000. One episode of Doctor Who (The Infinite Quest) was released on VCD. Only the series from 2005 onwards are also available on Blu-ray, except for 1970's Spearhead from Space , released in July 2013 and the 1996 TV movie Doctor Who released in September 2016. Many early releases have been re-released as a special edition, with more bonus features.
Adaptations and other appearances
Movie Doctor Who
There are two feature movies Doctor Who : Dr. Who and the Daleks, was released in 1965 and DaleksÃ, Invasion Earth: 2150 AD in 1966. Both are retellings of existing television stories (in particular, the first two Dalek series, < i> The Daleks and The Dalek Invasion of the Earth respectively) with larger budgets and changes to the draft series.
In these films, Peter Cushing plays a human scientist named "Dr. Who", who travels with his granddaughters and grandchildren and other friends in the time machine he finds. The Cushing version of the character reappears in both comic strips and short stories, the latter trying to reconcile the continuity of the film with that of the series.
In addition, some of the planned films proposed, including the sequel, The Chase, are loosely based on the original series story, for Cushing Doctor, plus many television movie experiments and large screen productions to revive the original Doctor Who , after the original series was canceled.
Paul McGann starred in the only television film as the eighth incarnation of Doctor. After the film, he continued the role in the audio book and was confirmed as the eighth incarnation via flash recording and mini episodes in 2005, effectively connecting two series and television movies.
In 2011, David Yates announced that he had started working with the BBC on the movie Doctor Who, a project that would take three or more years to complete. Yates indicated that the film would take a different approach to Doctor Who, although current Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat stated later that such a film would not be a reboot of the series. and movies must be created by the BBC team and the current TV Doctor star.
Spin-off
Doctor Who has appeared on stage several times. In the early 1970s, Trevor Martin played a role in Doctor Who and Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday . In the late 1980s, Jon Pertwee and Colin Baker played Doctor at different times during a drama run called Doctor WhoÃ, - The Ultimate Adventure . For two shows, while Pertwee is sick, David Banks (better known to play Cybermen) plays the role of Doctor. Other original dramas have been staged as amateur productions, with other actors playing Doctor, while Terry Nation wrote The Curse of the Daleks, a stage game set up in the late 1960s but without a Doctor.
A pilot episode ("A Girl's Best Friend") for the potential spin-off series, K-9 and Company, was broadcast in 1981 with Elisabeth Sladen repeating her role as a companion of Sarah Jane Smith and John Leeson as a voice K9, but not taken as a regular series.
The concept art for the animated series Doctor Who was produced by animation company Nelvana in the 1980s, but the series was not produced.
Following the success of the 2005 series produced by Russell T Davies, the BBC commissioned Davies to produce a 13-part spin-off series titled Torchwood (anagram of "Doctor Who"), which is organized in modern-day Cardiff and investigates activities and foreign crimes. The series debuted on BBC Three on October 22, 2006. John Barrowman replicated his role Jack Harkness from the 2005 Doctor Who series. Two other actresses who appeared in Doctor Who also starred in the series; Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper, who also plays a similar girl named Gwyneth in the 2005 episode of The Unquiet Dead, and Naoko Mori who mimics her role as Toshiko Sato was first seen in "Aliens of London ". The second series of Torchwood that aired in 2008; for three episodes, the players joined Freema Agyeman who repeated his role as Doctor Who from Martha Jones. The third series aired from 6 to 10 July 2009, and consists of a five-part story called Children of Earth mostly in London. The fourth series, Torchwood: Miracle Day produced jointly by BBC Wales, BBC Worldwide, and American entertainment company Starz, debuted in 2011. The series is mostly made in the United States, although Wales remains a part of the event. Settings.
The Sarah Jane Adventures , starring Elisabeth Sladen who took on her role as investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith, developed by CBBC; specifically aired on New Year's Day 2007 and full series starting on September 24, 2007. A second series followed in 2008, famous for (as mentioned above) featuring the return of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The third in 2009 featured a crossover appearance from the main event by David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor. In 2010, further appearances featured Matt Smith as Eleventh Physician with former actress Katy Manning repeating her role as Jo Grant. The last series, the fifth series of backgrounds that aired in the fall of 2011 - has not been completed due to the death of Elisabeth Sladen in early 2011.
The animated series, The Infinite Quest , aired alongside the 2007 series Doctor Who as part of the children's television series Totally Doctor Who . The series features sounds from the fixed series of David Tennant and Freema Agyeman but is not considered part of the 2007 series. The second animated series, Dreamland , airs in six parts on the BBC Red Button service, and the official website Doctor Who in 2009.
Class , featuring students at the Coal School, was first shown online on BBC Three from October 22, 2016, as a series of eight 45 minute episodes, written by Patrick Ness. Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor appeared in the first episode of the show. The series was taken by BBC America on January 8, 2016 and by BBC One a day later. On September 7, 2017, BBC Three Damian Kavanagh controller confirmed that the series had officially been canceled.
Many other spinoff series are made not by the BBC but by their respective owners of characters and concepts. Such spin-offs include novels and audio drama series, Paradox Faction, Iris Wildthyme and Bernice Summerfield; as well as series created for video P.R.O.B.E. ; the Australian television production series K-9 , which aired the first 26 episodes of the season at Disney XD; and spin-off audio Counter-Measures .
Aftershows
When the revived series of Doctor Who was brought back, aftershow series was created by the BBC, titled Doctor Who Confidential . There are three series of aftershow made, with the latest being Doctor Who: The Fan Show
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