Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The show has been a large influence in the media since its inception in 1963. Running parallel to its parenting seasons and series' lie 20 miscellaneous television broadcasts, 2 home video "exclusive" releases and 9 video games.
Television broadcasts
editThere have been several special Doctor Who episodes and serials that are produced by the BBC. They usually consist of spoofs and crossovers with other TV shows, and stories produced for special occasions.
| Title | Episodes | Writer | Director | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "A Fix with Sontarans" | 1 episode, 9 minutes | Eric Saward | Marcus Mortimer | 23 February 1985 |
| A segment of Jim'll Fix It during Colin Baker's tenure as the Sixth Doctor, also starring Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka. | ||||
| "Search Out Science: The Ultimate Challenge"[1] or "Search Out Space" | 1 episode, 20 minutes | Lambros Atteshlis and Stuart Berry-Anne Billingsley | Stuart Berry-Anne Billingsley | 21 November 1990 |
| A special edition of the children's education programme Search Out Science featuring Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace and John Leeson as K-9. | ||||
| Dimensions in Time | 2 episodes, 13 minutes total | John Nathan-Turner and David Roden | Stuart MacDonald | 26–27 November 1993 |
| A thirtieth anniversary programme for Doctor Who for Children in Need. The special was also a crossover with EastEnders. It featured Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor plus many of the companions. | ||||
| Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death | 4 parts, 23 minutes total | Steven Moffat | John Henderson | 12 March 1999 |
| A Comic Relief spoof, starring Rowan Atkinson, Richard E. Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant, and Joanna Lumley as the Doctor, and Jonathan Pryce as the Master. | ||||
| "Doctor Who: Children in Need" | Also known as "Born Again",[2] (7 mins) | Russell T Davies | Euros Lyn | 18 November 2005 |
| The Doctor has just regenerated; but will Rose be able to trust this strange new Doctor? | ||||
| "Attack of the Graske" | 14-minute interactive episode | Gareth Roberts | Ashley Way | 25 December 2005 |
| An interactive "mini-episode" debuting on the BBC Red Button service | ||||
| The Infinite Quest | 13 parts, 45 minutes total | Alan Barnes | Gary Russell | 2 April – 30 June 2007 |
| An animated serial debuting as segments during Totally Doctor Who made during David Tennant's tenure as The Doctor, plus his companion Martha Jones. | ||||
| "Time Crash" | Children in Need special (8 mins) | Steven Moffat | Graeme Harper | 16 November 2007 |
| The episode, set during the last scene of the previous episode "Last of the Time Lords", depicts a humorous encounter between the Doctor's fifth and tenth incarnations, played by Peter Davison and David Tennant respectively. | ||||
| "Music of the Spheres" | 7 minutes | Russell T Davies | Euros Lyn | 27 July 2008 BBC iPlayer and BBC Radio 3 (audio only) 1 January 2009[3] BBC One |
| A segment of the 2008 BBC Proms | ||||
| "Doctor Who: Tonight's the Night" | 3 minutes | Russell T Davies | Alice Troughton | 23 May 2009 |
| A segment of Tonight's the Night written for the winner of the Doctor Who Alien Talent Search competition.[4] Starring the competition winner Tim Ingham as Sao Til,[5] John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness and David Tennant as himself. | ||||
| Dreamland | 6 parts, 45 minutes total | Phil Ford | Gary Russell | 21–26 November 2009[6] BBC Red Button and online 5 December 2009 BBC Two |
| An animated serial debuting on the BBC Red Button service and the BBC Doctor Who website, and later broadcast as one episode on BBC Two. | ||||
| "Space" "Time" |
2 Comic Relief specials (3 mins each) | Steven Moffat | Richard Senior | 18 March 2011 |
| The episodes form a two-part story, set entirely within the TARDIS, starring Matt Smith as The Doctor, Karen Gillan as Amy Pond and Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams, and were written by the programme's head writer Steven Moffat. | ||||
| "Death Is the Only Answer"[7] | 4 minutes | The Children of Oakley Junior School | Jeremy Webb | 1 October 2011 |
| Doctor Who Confidential special | ||||
| "Good as Gold"[8][9] | 3 minutes | The Children of Ashdene School | Saul Metzstein[10] | 24 May 2012 |
| Blue Peter special | ||||
| Pond Life | 5 mini-episodes | Chris Chibnall | Saul Metzstein | 27–31 August 2012 (webcast) 1 September 2012 (BBC Red Button) |
| Five part mini-adventure premiering on the BBC's Doctor Who website. An omnibus version was shown on 1 September 2012 on the BBC Red Button service. Amy and Rory's life is seen throughout the year after the Doctor reunited with them at Christmas. Several times, they receive the Doctor's calls, learning of many ridiculous things he's up to. Other times, he shows up at the wrong time due to the TARDIS malfunctioning. He even accidentally leaves an Ood with them for a short while. When the Doctor calls again, he finds no one is home; he deletes his call. Unknown to him, Amy has kicked Rory out and is wishing the Doctor will come. | ||||
| "P.S." | 1 mini-episode (5 mins) | Chris Chibnall | 12 October 2012 (webcast) | |
| A mini episode, depicted in simple drawings, of a letter from Rory to his father Brian explaining that they will never see each other again. The scene was originally intended to be included on the DVD release, but was not filmed due to actor availability problems.[5] Due to popular demand to see a conclusion to Brian, the scene was constructed with storyboards and released online. | ||||
| "The Great Detective" | 1 mini-episode (3 mins) | Steven Moffat | 16 November 2012 | |
| A mini episode for Children in Need 2012, Vastra, Jenny and Strax attempt to lure the Doctor out of retirement in this prologue to "The Snowmen". | ||||
| "The Night of the Doctor" | 7 minutes | Steven Moffat | John Hayes | 14 November 2013 (webcast) |
| The episode, set during the Time War, shows the previously unseen last moments of the Eighth Doctor (McGann), and his artificially controlled regeneration into the War Doctor (John Hurt). | ||||
| "The Last Day" | 4 minutes | Steven Moffat | Jamie Stone | 21 November 2013 (webcast) |
| From the perspective of a Gallifreyan soldier, a look into the Last Great Time War. The beginning of the Fall of Arcadia is one of the final battles that heralds the War Doctor ending the Time War. | ||||
| The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | 31 minutes | Peter Davison | Peter Davison | 23 November 2013 |
| A 50th anniversary Doctor Who comedy homage debuting on the BBC Red Button service, featuring former stars Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and others. | ||||
Home video releases
edit| Title | Episodes | Writer | Director | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meanwhile in the TARDIS | 2 episodes, 7 minutes total | Steven Moffat | Euros Lyn | 8 November 2010 |
| Two additional scenes, starring Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, specially filmed for "The Complete Fifth Series" boxset which reveal what occurred between selected regular episodes. The first instalment is set between "The Eleventh Hour" and "The Beast Below", the second is set between "Flesh and Stone" and "The Vampires of Venice". | ||||
| Night and the Doctor[11] | "Bad Night" "Good Night" "First Night" "Last Night" "Up All Night", 16 minutes total |
Steven Moffat | Richard Senior[12] | 21 November 2011 |
| Five additional scenes written and produced for "The Complete Sixth Series" boxset. | ||||
Video games
editIn 1983 Doctor Who: The First Adventure was released for the BBC Micro.[13] followed by Doctor Who and the Warlord in 1985[14] and Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror also in 1985.[15] Later several other games were released.
The Adventure Games
editOn 7 April 2010, the BBC announced that the fifth series would be supplemented with four "interactive episodes",[16] released online for free in the UK. They are described as "part of the Doctor Who universe", and will "go on to define the look and feel of future TV episodes." Executively produced by Moffat, Wenger and Willis with Anwen Aspden and Charles Cecil, the games are developed by Sumo Digital and written by Phil Ford and James Moran. Matt Smith and Karen Gillan provide full voiceovers for the digitised Doctor and Amy, both of whom are playable characters. Each episode offers around two hours of gameplay.[16] The Adventure Games were recommissioned by the BBC for a second series in 2011,[17] but after the release of The Gunpowder Plot, they were cancelled so the BBC could focus more on console games such as Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock.
| No | Title | Writer | Original release |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "City of the Daleks" | Phil Ford | 5 June 2010 |
| 2 | "Blood of the Cybermen" | Phil Ford | 26 June 2010 |
| 3 | "TARDIS" | James Moran | 27 August 2010 |
| 4 | "Shadows of the Vashta Nerada" | Phil Ford | 22 December 2010 |
| 5 | "The Gunpowder Plot" | Phil Ford | 31 October 2011 |
See also
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References
edit- ^ "Search Out Science". Dominique Boies. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ^ Tribe, Steve (2009). Doctor Who: Companions and Allies. BBC Books. ISBN 1-84607-749-4.
- ^ "Programme Information – BBC Network TV Weeks 52/53 – BBC ONE" (Press release). BBC Press Office. Retrieved 3 December 2008.
- ^ "David Tennant makes surprise return to the TARDIS!". BBC. 22 May 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
- ^ "County man stars as Doctor Who alien". Lincolnshire Echo. 22 May 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2009.
- ^ Will R – Online Host (4 November 2009). "Doctor Who: Dreamland Animation Blog". BBC. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
{{cite web}}:|contribution=ignored (help)[dead link] - ^ "BBC announces one-off mini-episode of Doctor Who" (Press release). BBC Press Office. 24 August 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
- ^ "Blue Peter | 24/05/2012". Radio Times. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
- ^ "Doctor Who is Back". Blog Post. BBC. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
- ^ "Twitter / saulmetzstein". 24 May 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
- ^ "Doctor Who: The Complete Series Six Boxed Set confirmed for 21 November". Doctor Who News. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
- ^ Richard Senior, interviewee (2011). Doctor Who Confidential:The Nights' Tale. 2 Entertain. Event occurs at 40 seconds. Documentary included on the Doctor Who: Complete Series 6 DVD/BD release. Richard Senior interviewed about directing the shorts and named as director in caption.
{{cite AV media}}:|format=requires|url=(help)CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ Doctor Who: The First Adventure at MobyGames
- ^ Micro Fun With BBC TV's Doctor Who, Sci-fi-online.com
- ^ Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror, Gamespot
- ^ a b "Doctor Who: The Adventure Games". BBC. Archived from the original on 12 April 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
- ^ "Gaming – News – 'Doctor Who: Adventure Games' to return – Digital Spy". Digital Spy. UK. 20 September 2010. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
External links
edit- Doctor Who Reference Guide – detailed descriptions of all televised episodes, plus spin-off audio, video, and literary works.
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