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List Of Doctor Who Novelisations
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963. Hundreds of novelisations of the series have been published by various publishers, the majority based on the original 1963–1989 run of the series. History Frederick Muller Ltd. Frederick Muller Ltd. commissioned David Whitaker to novelise the first Dalek serial under the title ''Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks'', which was published November 1964 in hardcover just in time for the second Dalek serial, ''The Dalek Invasion of Earth'' to be transmitted. The success of this book warranted two reprintings by 1965 and led Frederick Muller to commission two further novelisations, ''Doctor Who and the Zarbi'' and ''Doctor Who and the Crusaders'', which were published in 1965 and 1966 respectively. Sales of these books did not live up to the first and so the short range was brought to an end. ''Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks'' was reissued in pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterrestrial being called the Doctor, part of a humanoid species called Time Lords. The Doctor travels in the universe and in time using a time travelling Spacecraft, spaceship called the TARDIS, which externally appears as a British police box. While travelling, the Doctor works to save lives and liberate oppressed peoples by combating List of Doctor Who villains, foes. The Doctor usually travels with Companion (Doctor Who), companions. Beginning with William Hartnell, List of actors who have played the Doctor, fourteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; the most recent being Ncuti Gatwa, who portrayed the Fifteenth Doctor from 2023 to 2025. The transition between actors is written into the plot of the series with the Regeneration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downtime (Doctor Who)
''Downtime'' is a direct-to-video spin-off of the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterre ...''. It was produced by the independent production company Reeltime Pictures. It is a sequel to the Second Doctor serials ''The Abominable Snowmen'' (1967) and ''The Web of Fear'' (1968). ''Downtime'' stars Nicholas Courtney, Deborah Watling, Jack Watling and Elisabeth Sladen reprising their roles as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Victoria Waterfield, Professor Edward Travers and Sarah Jane Smith, respectively. It introduces the character of Kate Lethbridge-Stewart. The film received overall mixed reviews from critics, but was successful enough to get a sequel, ''Dæmos Rising'', in 2004. Synopsis Sometime after V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Evil Of The Daleks
''The Evil of the Daleks'' is the mostly-missing ninth and final serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which originally aired in seven weekly parts from 20 May to 1 July 1967. In this serial, the Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and his travelling companion Jamie (Frazer Hines), shortly after losing the TARDIS, are transported to 1866, where the Daleks force the Doctor to help them in their latest plot to implement the human factor into Dalek brains in order to 'humanise' themselves into even deadlier living weapons. This serial marked the debut of Deborah Watling as the Doctor's new companion, Victoria Waterfield. It is also notable for introducing the Dalek Emperor. Only episode two, the episode in which Victoria first appears, is held in the BBC archives; the other six remain missing. This story was initially intended to be the last Dalek story on ''Doctor Who''. Writer Terry Nation, the creator of the Daleks, was trying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who Meets Scratchman
During the long history of the British science-fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', a number of stories were proposed but never fully produced. Below is a list of unmade serials submitted by recognized professionals. Although the BBC intended to produce the serials, they were not made. Many have become subjects of features in ''Doctor Who Magazine'' or other periodicals and books devoted to the television show. The unmade serials existed during the tenure of each of the previous thirteen incarnations of the Doctor. Reasons include strike action (which caused the partially-filmed ''Shada'' to be abandoned), actors leaving roles (''The Final Game'', cancelled after Roger Delgado's death), and the series' going on hiatus twice—in 1985 and 1989. The plots of the unmade serials varied. The theme of a civilization in which women are dominant was proposed twice, for ''The Hidden Planet'' and ''The Prison in Space''. In some cases, elements of an unmade series were adapted or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who And The Krikkitmen
During the long history of the British science fiction on television, science-fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', a number of stories were proposed but never fully produced. Below is a list of unmade serials submitted by recognized professionals. Although the BBC intended to produce the serials, they were not made. Many have become subjects of features in ''Doctor Who Magazine'' or other Periodical literature, periodicals and books devoted to the television show. The unmade serials existed during the tenure of each of the previous thirteen Regeneration (Doctor Who), incarnations of the Doctor. Reasons include strike action (which caused the partially-filmed ''Shada'' to be abandoned), actors leaving roles (''The Final Game'', cancelled after Roger Delgado's death), and the series' going on hiatus twice—in 1985 and 1989. The plots of the unmade serials varied. The theme of a civilization in which women are dominant was proposed twice, for ''The Hidden Planet'' and ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revelation Of The Daleks
''Revelation of the Daleks'' is the sixth and final serial of the 22nd season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in two weekly parts on 23 and 30 March 1985. This was the final serial to be broadcast in 45-minute episodes; this format would return 20 years later when the series resumed in 2005. ''Revelation of the Daleks'' is the only time the Sixth Doctor encountered the Daleks in a television story. The serial is set on the planet Necros. The galaxy is suffering from famine, but Davros ( Terry Molloy) is masquerading as the Great Healer and has commandeered a funeral home, the high-tech facility Tranquil Repose, as a base from which he can convert humans into either food for the starving or into Daleks for his new secret army. However, his manufacturing ally Kara ( Eleanor Bron) wants his business and has hired the assassins Orcini ( William Gaunt) and Bostock ( John Ogwen) to kill him. Plot The TARDIS lands on Necros, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resurrection Of The Daleks
''Resurrection of the Daleks'' is the fourth serial of the 21st season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in two weekly parts on BBC1 between 8 February and 15 February 1984. The serial was intended to be transmitted as four 23-minute episodes but a late scheduling change by the BBC meant that it was transmitted as two episodes of 46 minutes; reruns (and the 2002 DVD release) restored it to its intended format. Written by the series' script editor, Eric Saward, the serial marks the Fifth Doctor's only encounter with the Daleks, last seen in '' Destiny of the Daleks'' (1979), the debut of Terry Molloy as the third actor to play the Daleks' creator, Davros, and the final regular appearance of Janet Fielding as companion Tegan Jovanka. Plot A group of humanoids in 1984 London are shot by policemen led by Commander Lytton. Two, Galloway and Stien, escape into the adjacent Butler's Wharf where a time corridor is situa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shada (Doctor Who)
''Shada'' is a story from the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Written by the series' script editor Douglas Adams, it was intended as the final serial of the 1979–80 season ( season 17) but was never originally completed, owing to strike action at the BBC during studio recording. Entering production as a six-part story (6 x 25-minute episodes) in 1979, the story was later revised to be broadcast as a four-part story (4 x 25-minute episodes) in 1980. Ultimately however, the story was never completed in either format. The BBC released a completed version of ''Shada'' in 2017, with missing dialogue newly recorded by the original cast, using the same audio equipment employed in the initial shoot, and animated by the team that undertook the reconstruction of the 1966 serial ''The Power of the Daleks''. This version was released on DVD and Blu-ray in 2017, and finally broadcast on television as a feature length TV moviewhich was titled ''The Lost Episode'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Death
''City of Death'' is the second serial of the seventeenth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor. It was produced by the BBC and first broadcast in four weekly parts between 29 September 1979 and 20 October 1979 on BBC1. The serial was written by " David Agnew" – a pseudonym for the combined work of David Fisher, Douglas Adams, and Graham Williams – and directed by Michael Hayes. ''City of Death'' features the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and his companion Romana ( Lalla Ward). Set primarily in present day Paris, the plot concerns a scheme by Count Scarlioni ( Julian Glover), in reality an alien called Scaroth, to steal the ''Mona Lisa'' to finance experiments in time travel in the hope of averting the accident that killed the remainder of his race four hundred million years previously, which began the existence of life on the planet as well. The origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pirate Planet
''The Pirate Planet'' is the second serial of the 16th season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 30 September to 21 October 1978. It forms the second serial of the ''Key to Time'' story arc. It was written by Douglas Adams and features some of his humour. The tyrant Queen Xanxia (a dual role played by Vi Delmar and Rosalind Lloyd) and the Captain (Bruce Purchase) use the hollow planet Zanak as a spaceship that surrounds smaller planets, including Calufrax, the second segment of the powerful Key to Time in disguise, to plunder the planets' resources that help keep Xanxia alive. Plot The Key to Time tracer points the Fourth Doctor and Romana to the cold and boring planet of Calufrax, but when they arrive they find an unusual civilisation living in perpetual prosperity. Although a strange band of people with mysterious powers known as the Mentiads are feared by the society, the Doctor discove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Past Doctor Adventures
The ''Past Doctor Adventures'' (sometimes known by the abbreviation ''PDA'' or ''PDAs'') were a series of spin-off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and published under the BBC Books imprint. For most of their existence, they were published side-by-side with the '' Eighth Doctor Adventures''. The novels regularly featured the First through Seventh Doctors. '' The Infinity Doctors'' had an ambiguous place in continuity and featured an unidentified incarnation of the Doctor. The Eighth Doctor co-starred with the Fourth Doctor in one novel ('' Wolfsbane'') and, after the Eighth Doctor Adventures had ceased publication, a novel ('' Fear Itself'') featuring the Eighth Doctor and set between two earlier Eighth Doctor Adventures ('' EarthWorld'' and ''Vanishing Point'') was published within the Past Doctor series. Publication history Between 1991 and 1997, Virgin Publishing produced successful spin-off novels under the New Adventu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who (1996)
''Doctor Who'', also referred to as ''Doctor Who: The Movie'' or as ''Doctor Who: The Television Movie'' or ''Dr Who'' in America is a 1996 television film continuing the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Developed as a co-production (media), co-production between Universal Pictures, Universal Studios and BBC Worldwide, it premiered on 12 May 1996 on CITV-TV, CITV in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 15 days before its first showing in the United Kingdom on BBC One and two days before being broadcast in the United States on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox. It was theatrically released in some countries. The first attempt to revive ''Doctor Who'' following its suspension in 1989, it was intended as a backdoor pilot for a new American-produced ''Who'' TV series. It introduced Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor in his only televised appearance as the character until "The Night of the Doctor" in 2013 (though McGann has portrayed the Doctor also in various audio product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
