In what year was the very first episode of 'Doctor Who' broadcast?
"line, whispered by Clara to the young Doctor, is ""Fear makes companions of us all"" – a line originally spoken by the First Doctor in the third episode of the very first ""Doctor Who"" serial, ""An Unearthly Child"" (1963). Steven Moffat discussed the episode in an interview, saying: ""my impulse starting in that was just the idea, 'What does he do when he’s got nothing [to] do?' Because he’d throw himself off a building if he thought it’d be interesting on the way down ... he’s fascinated by anything. And here he’s with nothing to do, so he just goes"
"Doctor Who (season 1) The first season of British science fiction television programme ""Doctor Who"" was originally broadcast on BBC TV between 1963 and 1964. The series began on 23 November 1963 with ""An Unearthly Child"" and ended with ""The Reign of Terror"" on 12 September 1964. The show was created by BBC Television head of drama Sydney Newman to fill the Saturday evening timeslot and appeal to both the younger and older audiences of the neighbouring programmes. Formatting of the programme was handled by Newman, head of serials Donald Wilson, writer C. E. Webber, and producer Rex Tucker. Production"
"Hartnell's increased role in ""The Reign of Terror"", but felt that Susan was ""at her weakest"". Notes Footnotes Doctor Who (season 1) The first season of British science fiction television programme ""Doctor Who"" was originally broadcast on BBC TV between 1963 and 1964. The series began on 23 November 1963 with ""An Unearthly Child"" and ended with ""The Reign of Terror"" on 12 September 1964. The show was created by BBC Television head of drama Sydney Newman to fill the Saturday evening timeslot and appeal to both the younger and older audiences of the neighbouring programmes. Formatting of the programme"
"An Unearthly Child An Unearthly Child (sometimes referred to as 100,000 BC) is the first serial of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It was first broadcast on BBC TV in four weekly parts from 23 November to 14 December 1963. Scripted by Australian writer Anthony Coburn, the serial introduces William Hartnell as the First Doctor and his original companions: Carole Ann Ford as the Doctor's granddaughter, Susan Foreman, with Jacqueline Hill and William Russell as school teachers Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton. The first episode deals with Ian and Barbara's discovery of the Doctor and his time-space"
"circle with an intersecting line. A new opening title sequence was also introduced, however it did not debut until the second episode of the series. History of Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British television science fiction series, produced and screened by the BBC on the BBC TV channel from 1963 to 1964, and on BBC1 (later BBC One) from 1964 to 1989 and since 2005. A one-off television movie, co-produced with Universal Pictures and 20th Century Fox Television, was screened on the Fox Network in the United States in 1996. In March 1962, Eric Maschwitz, the Assistant and Adviser"
"the original colour videotapes had been wiped. See also ""Doctor Who"" missing episodes."" Whose Doctor Who Whose Doctor Who (a.k.a. 'Whose Dr. Who') was a 60-minute television documentary, (part of the BBC's The Lively Arts series) which was first transmitted on Sunday, 3 April 1977, on BBC 2. The programme was the first in-depth documentary chronicling the long-running BBC TV series ""Doctor Who"", being first broadcast the day after the final episode of the show's fourteenth season was transmitted on BBC1. Introduced by Melvyn Bragg, the programme features many clips from episodes of the show transmitted to date, along with"
"Whose Doctor Who Whose Doctor Who (a.k.a. 'Whose Dr. Who') was a 60-minute television documentary, (part of the BBC's The Lively Arts series) which was first transmitted on Sunday, 3 April 1977, on BBC 2. The programme was the first in-depth documentary chronicling the long-running BBC TV series ""Doctor Who"", being first broadcast the day after the final episode of the show's fourteenth season was transmitted on BBC1. Introduced by Melvyn Bragg, the programme features many clips from episodes of the show transmitted to date, along with interviews of cast and fans, including families, children, students, teachers, psychologists and educationalists."
"History of Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British television science fiction series, produced and screened by the BBC on the BBC TV channel from 1963 to 1964, and on BBC1 (later BBC One) from 1964 to 1989 and since 2005. A one-off television movie, co-produced with Universal Pictures and 20th Century Fox Television, was screened on the Fox Network in the United States in 1996. In March 1962, Eric Maschwitz, the Assistant and Adviser to the Controller of Programmes at BBC Television, asked Donald Wilson, the Head of the Script Department, to have his department's Survey Group prepare a"
"which Newman named """"Doctor Who"""". After much development work, the series was launched on 23 November 1963. The importance of ""Doctor Who"" to British television science fiction cannot be overstated. It lasted for twenty-six seasons in its original form, through which first emerged many of the writers who until the 1980s would create most of the genre's successful British shows. One of the few science fiction series to have become part of the popular consciousness, its success led the BBC to produce other efforts in the genre. Of particular note being its own science fiction anthology series ""Out of the"
"network also took an option on the second series. Candace Carlisle from BBC Worldwide found The Sci Fi Channel the perfect home for ""Doctor Who"". ""Doctor Who"" finally debuted in the U.S. on the Sci Fi Channel on 17 March 2006 with the first two episodes airing back-to-back, one year after the Canadian and UK showings. The series concluded its initial U.S. broadcast on 9 June 2006. The series was first released in volumes; the first volume, containing the first three episodes, was released in Region 2 on 16 May 2005. The second, with ""Aliens of London"", ""World War Three"","
"Mr. X who traveled through time and space in his ""Whatsis Box"" teaching children about history. Newman oversaw this series while working as head of programming for the CBC. Newman maintained a guiding influence over ""Doctor Who"" until he left the BBC in 1967 and was in talks with the BBC in 1986, when the show was foundering, to reformat the show and take the role of executive producer. The series made its North American premiere in January 1965 on CBC with the broadcast of William Hartnell's first 26 episodes, fourteen months following their first airing on the BBC. The"
"Doctor Who DVD Files in Issue 129 on 11 December 2013. The Mysterious Planet The Mysterious Planet is the first serial of the larger narrative known as ""The Trial of a Time Lord"" which encompasses the whole of the 23rd season of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 6 to 27 September 1986. The title ""The Mysterious Planet"" is not used on-screen and only appears in the serial's scripts with the four episodes that comprise the story being transmitted as ""The Trial of a Time Lord"" Parts"
"The Three Doctors (Doctor Who) The Three Doctors is the first serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 30 December 1972 to 20 January 1973. In the serial, the solar engineer Omega (Stephen Thorne), the creator of the experiments that allowed the Time Lords to travel in time, seeks revenge on the Time Lords after he was left for dead in a universe made of antimatter. The Time Lords recruit the time travellers the First Doctor (William Hartnell), the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), and"
"Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963. The programme depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called ""the Doctor"", an extraterrestrial being, to all appearances human, from the planet Gallifrey. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Accompanied by a number of companions, the Doctor combats a variety of foes while working to save civilisations and help people in need. The"
"the second serial required two evenings, on 31 March and 2 April 1964. The first episode was broadcast on BBC TV on 11 April 1964, and was watched by 9.9 million viewers, maintaining the audience from previous weeks. The following episode dropped to 9.4 million viewers, while the third returned to 9.9 million. The third episode became the first ""Doctor Who"" episode to be transmitted on BBC1, following its renaming from BBC TV due to the launch of BBC2. The fourth episode was the serial's most-watched, with 10.4 million viewers, followed by a significant drop for the fifth and sixth"
"March were marred by the accidental mixing of a few seconds of sound from Graham Norton hosting ""Strictly Dance Fever"". In the United States, the Sci Fi Channel originally passed on the new series as it found it lacking and believed it did not fit in its schedule, but the network later changed its mind. After it was announced that the first series would start in March 2006, Sci Fi Channel Executive Vice President Thomas Vitale called ""Doctor Who"" ""a true sci-fi classic"", with creative storytelling and colorful history, and was excited to add it to its line up. The"
"world premiere on CITV-TV in Edmonton, Alberta on 12 May 1996, two days before it aired on The Fox Network in the United States, and fifteen days before airing in The U.K. on the BBC. It is the only ""Doctor Who"" story to have had its premiere in Canada. The first Canadian cable network to air ""Doctor Who"" was YTV which, from 1989 to the mid-1990s, aired all existing episodes of the series up to Season 26 in a weekday afternoon timeslot. The final two Sylvester McCoy seasons were aired in a separate evening time slot. The original Hartnell and"
"Tuesday 12 January 1965. Individual episodes were sent to Australia by the BBC in the form of one 16mm black and white film print. If simultaneous broadcast was required (i.e. the same episode scheduled in two different cities on the same date) the ABC had to make copies and send them to the relevant stations for local transmission (until the late 1960s the national broadcaster wasn't networked and regional variations – both between metropolitan areas as well as between metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas – remained commonplace until as late as the mid-1980s. However, for much of Doctor Who's first decade"
"Doctor Who (film) Doctor Who, also referred to as Doctor Who: The Movie to distinguish it from the television series of the same name, is a 1996 television film continuing the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It was developed as a co-production between BBC Worldwide, Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox, and the American network Fox. It premiered on 12 May 1996 on CITV in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (which was owned by WIC at the time before being acquired by Canwest Global in 2000), 15 days before its first showing in the United Kingdom on BBC One and two"
"they are the same person. As seen on her gravestone, Clara's birthdate is 23 November, the date ""Doctor Who"" was first transmitted in 1963. Writer Steven Moffat stated that he wanted an ""epic"" quality to the Christmas special. The story would also show how the Doctor had responded to losing his previous companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams; Moffat said that ""I think he's probably reached the point in his life where he's saying, 'Friendship for me is just postponed bereavement — I want to be on my own for a while'."" Moffat compared the withdrawn Doctor seen at the"
"and original Doctor Who production staff who shared their memories and perspectives of Patrick Troughton. It also appeared on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's iView exclusively, part of their celebration for Doctor Who's 50th anniversary. Following the transmission of the first episode, the BBC's Head of Drama Sydney Newman personally congratulated Peter Bryant on what he had seen, which Bryant later recalled: ""Coming from the man who created ""Doctor Who"" that was the ultimate compliment, even more so seeing as it was my first job as producer."" However, the serial also attracted controversy. On 26 September 1967, Kit Pedler appeared on the"
"The Ark (Doctor Who) The Ark is the fifth serial of the third season of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 to 26 March 1966. The serial is set in the far distant future, at least ten million years. In the first two episodes of the serial, the time traveller the First Doctor (William Hartnell) and his travelling companions Steven Taylor (Peter Purves) and Dodo Chaplet (Jackie Lane) arrive on a generation ship Dodo names ""the Ark"", where the Doctor searches for a cure for a fever that"
"The Daleks The Daleks (also known as The Mutants and The Dead Planet) is the second serial in the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which was first broadcast on BBC TV in seven weekly parts from 21 December 1963 to 1 February 1964. Written by Terry Nation and directed by Christopher Barry and Richard Martin, this story marks the first appearance of the show's most popular villains, the Daleks, and the recurring Skaro people, the Thals. In the serial, the First Doctor (William Hartnell), his granddaughter Susan Foreman (Carole Ann Ford), and her teachers Ian Chesterton (William Russell)"
"Totally Doctor Who Totally Doctor Who was a children's television series produced by the BBC that was originally broadcast between 13 April 2006 and 29 June 2007, accompanying the second and third revived series of ""Doctor Who"". At the time of its original broadcast, ""Doctor Who"", a science fiction programme aimed at a family audience, had no existing children's spin-off; ""The Sarah Jane Adventures"", of which the pilot episode was broadcast on New Year's Day, 2007, would replace the series as the only children's show based on ""Doctor Who"" until 2009 when ""K-9"" aired. The first series of the programme"
"Files"" in issue 64 on 15 June 2011. The Masque of Mandragora The Masque of Mandragora is the first serial of the 14th season of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 4 to 25 September 1976. The serial is set in the fictional European duchy of San Martino in the late 15th century. In the serial, the astrologer Hieronymous (Norman Jones) seeks to summon the power of an intelligence called the Mandragora Helix to rule the Earth. The Doctor shows Sarah some of the TARDIS interior, and"
"however, they were refused permission to shoot in that area. ""Robot"" was the first serial of the twelfth season of ""Doctor Who"". Part one of ""Robot"" was first broadcast on BBC One on Saturday, 28 December 1974 and had a viewership of 10.8 million, which was higher than the first serial for season eleven. The next three parts were broadcast over the next successive Saturdays, each having an audience of over 10 million with the exception of the part four on Saturday, 18 January 1975 which only had viewership of 9 million. Viewer reaction was mixed as defined in an"
"By the beginning of the 1970s, the gap between UK and Australian premieres of ""Doctor Who"" had extended to twenty-one months. Individual episodes were still being shipped from one city to another for local transmission and ABC schedules were also still decided, at least to a limited extent, at a local level. Throughout April and May 1970 the ABC's first ""Doctor Who"" debut of the decade was The Dominators, first shown on BBC1 in August 1968. By the time the first episode to feature Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor premiered around the country during July and August 1971, the UK/Australia gap"
"the character of Dr Who first begins appearing in existing documentation from May of that year. The character was first portrayed by William Hartnell in 1963. At the programme's beginning, nothing at all is known of the Doctor: not even his name, the actual form of which remains a mystery. In the first serial, ""An Unearthly Child,"" two teachers from Coal Hill School in London, Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton, become intrigued by one of their pupils, Susan Foreman, who exhibits high intelligence and unusually advanced knowledge. Trailing her to a junk yard at 76 Totter's Lane, they encounter a"
"first appeared in the serial ""Spearhead from Space"" (1970), then reappeared on-screen in ""Terror of the Autons"" (1971). ""Doctor Who"" originally ran from 1963 to 1989, when it was cancelled after its twenty-sixth season. Television producer Russell T Davies had been lobbying the BBC in an attempt to revive the show from the late 1990s, and reached the discussion phase in 2002. It was announced in September 2003 that Doctor Who was returning and would be produced by BBC Wales via a BBC press release. The format of the programme was changed to 45-minute episodes, lightening the pace. Davies was"
"""Doctor Who"" throughout the ratings periods of 1982, 1983 and 1984, including numerous black and white Pertwee serials unscreened for ten years. In 1985 ""Doctor Who"" didn't return to the ABC until the premiere of Colin Baker's first full season in early December. On its original UK broadcast, Season 22 featured a change in format to 45-minute episodes. However, to fit with established scheduling here in Australia, the ABC cut each 45 minute episode in half, resulting in two roughly 23½ minute episodes and meaning a particularly poor 'non-cliffhanger' was created at around the halfway mark of each of the"
"Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS is a one-off, 50-minute television documentary, broadcast to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the science-fiction series ""Doctor Who"". It was originally transmitted on Monday 29 November 1993, on BBC One (BBC Two in Scotland). The programme was the first BBC-produced, in-depth documentary chronicling ""Doctor Who"" since the earlier ""Whose Doctor Who"" was broadcast in April 1977, although a thirty-minute, categorized compilation of archive clips had been broadcast in 1992 on BBC2 entitled ""Resistance is Useless"". The show featured many clips from episodes of the show transmitted"
"Doctor Who (series 1) The first series of the 2005 revival of the British science fiction programme ""Doctor Who"" began on 26 March 2005 with the episode ""Rose"". This marked the end of the programme's 16-year absence from episodic television following its cancellation in 1989, and was the first new televised ""Doctor Who"" story since the broadcast of the television movie starring Paul McGann in 1996. The finale episode, ""The Parting of the Ways"", was broadcast on 18 June 2005. The show was revived by longtime ""Doctor Who"" fan Russell T Davies, who had been lobbying the BBC since the"
"Doctor Who (season 4) The fourth season of British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"" began on 10 September 1966 with the 1st Doctor (William Hartnell) story ""The Smugglers"" and, after a change of lead actor (Patrick Troughton) part-way through the series, ended on 1 July 1967 with ""The Evil of the Daleks"". For the first time, the entire main cast changed over the course of a single season (the only other occasion this has happened is during Season 21). Only 10 out of 43 episodes survive in the BBC archives; 33 remain missing. No serials in this season exist"