Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. As of 23 October 2022,[update] 871 episodes of Doctor Who have aired, concluding the thirteenth series. This includes one television movie and multiple specials, and encompasses 300 stories over 39 seasons, starting in 1963. Additionally, four charity specials and two animated serials have also been aired. The programme's high episode count has resulted in Doctor Who holding the world record for the highest number of episodes of a science-fiction programme.[1] In May 2017, it was announced that BBC Worldwide sold the right of refusal on future series of the programme until and including series 15 in China.[2][3]
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Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. As of 23 October 2022,[update] 871 episodes of Doctor Who have aired, concluding the thirteenth series. This includes one television movie and multiple specials, and encompasses 300 stories over 39 seasons, starting in 1963. Additionally, four charity specials and two animated serials have also been aired. The programme's high episode count has resulted in Doctor Who holding the world record for the highest number of episodes of a science-fiction programme.[1]
Due to the BBC's 1970s junking policy, 97 episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960s are no longer known to exist. As a result, 26 serials are currently incomplete, with one or more episodes represented only by audio, which in many cases is in addition to clips or still frames. For commercial release, some episodes have been reconstructed using off-air audio recordings, paired to surviving visuals or newly commissioned animation.
The first incarnation of the Doctor was portrayed by William Hartnell. During Hartnell's tenure, the episodes were a mixture of stories set on Earth of the future with extraterrestrial influence, on alien planets, and in historical events without extraterrestrial influence, such as Marco Polo, one of the lost serials. In his last story, The Tenth Planet, the Doctor gradually grew weaker to the point of collapsing at the end of the fourth episode, leading to his regeneration.
The Smugglers and The Tenth Planet were the last serials to star the First Doctor, his regeneration to the Second occurring in the latter. It is also notable as the season with the most missing episodes, with not one serial existing in its entirety.
The Second Doctor was portrayed by Patrick Troughton, whose serials were more action-oriented than those of his predecessor. Additionally, after The Highlanders, stories moved away from the purely historical ones that featured during William Hartnell's tenure; instead, any historical tales also included a science fiction element. Patrick Troughton retained the role until the last episode of The War Games when members of the Doctor's race, the Time Lords, put him on trial for breaking the laws of time. The Doctor was forced to regenerate and thereafter exiled on Earth.
All serials in this season continue directly one after the other, tracing one single problematic voyage of the TARDIS crew. Despite the continuity, each serial is considered its own standalone story. This season also introduced the character of Harry Sullivan portrayed by Ian Marter as a companion; this character was intended to undertake action scenes, during the period prior to Tom Baker being cast, when it was unclear how old the actor playing the new Doctor would be.
In a return to the format of early seasons, virtually all serials from Seasons 18 through 20 are linked together, often running directly into each other. Season 18 forms a loose story arc dealing with the theme of entropy. Full Circle, State of Decay, and Warriors' Gate trace the Doctor's adventures in E-Space; they were released in both VHS and DVD boxsets with the umbrella title The E-Space Trilogy. This season saw the departure of Romana and the introduction of companions Adric and Nyssa, and soon-to-be companion, Tegan Jovanka.
The show moved from its traditional once-weekly Saturday broadcast to being broadcast twice-weekly primarily on Monday and Tuesday,[17] although there were regional variations to the schedule. Castrovalva, together with the previous two serials, The Keeper of Traken and Logopolis, form a trilogy involving the return of the Master. They were released on DVD under the banner title New Beginnings. The season marked the final appearance of Adric.[17]
The whole season is titled as The Trial of a Time Lord, and is split into four segments. The segments are commonly referred to by their respective novelisation's titles[18] (listed below) but the season was broadcast as one fourteen-part story and these titles did not appear on screen. Episode length returned to 25 minutes, but with only fourteen episodes in the season, making the total running time of this season (and subsequent seasons) just over half of the previous seasons, going back to season 7. The season saw the departure of Peri and the introduction of Bonnie Langford as companion Mel Bush.
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Some choices on this top 10 list could be controversial, but I'm fairly certain this one isn't. "Blink" was a fantastic episode told in a unique way, and was an introduction to one of Doctor Who's most bizarre but frightening villains: the Weeping Angels. This was another instance where the series used horror to tremendous effect, and in the process, created the best episode in the franchise.
The BBC has their own freelance Restoration Team, devoted to restoring and remastering episodes from the 1963-1989 run to as much of their former glory as possible, as well as doing some additional touch-ups to amend some of the... less graceful moments. In the process, they have pioneered a number of brand new restoration techniques, such as Reverse Standards Conversion (recovering PAL footage from NTSC copy), Chroma Dot Colour Recovery (using leftover dots to recolour a black and white copy) and Vid FIRE (increasing the frame rate of a film copy to that of the original video), which have since also been applied to other vintage TV shows. Until 1978, the BBC had a policy of junking episodes they thought they no longer needed; as a result, the master tapes for many episodes that aired from 1964 to as late as 1974 were in fact demagnetized for later reuse. Since 1978, a concerted effort by fans and the BBC itself has resulted in many episodes being recovered, as recently as 2013. At present, 97 of the 253 episodes from the 1960s remain missing from the BBC archives, though it is widely speculated that a number of episodes have been located. That said, audio recordings survive of all the missing episodes, and all of the incomplete or missing storylines have also been adapted as novels over the years. In more recent years, the BBC has even commissioned animated re-creations of missing episodes for DVD release, making use of reference photographs and utilizing the audio recordings.
Paul Rogan, a seemingly loving husband and father, has just set off a bomb in his office, which resulted in the death of 11 people. Everyone questioned why but when his wife and daughter were found chained up in their home, it became obvious that he was threatened to set off of the bomb or watch his family suffer. For Lt. Eve Dallas, she knows that whoever made Paul do it has another person on his list, and she must get to him first before it is late.
The best Doctor Who episodes written by Russell T. Davies run the gamut from weird and wacky to measured and meaningful. With the recent news that Davies is returning to Doctor Who as showrunner for the 60th anniversary (and at least a season beyond that), there's no time like the present to list his best episodes.
Before its highly successful 2005 revival, Doctor Who already had a long list of iconic stories and characters expanding a little over twenty-five years. The original BBC series became a staple of British television, charming millions of viewers before its cancellation in the last 1980s.
Unlike the new series, which is full of standalone and two-part stories, the classic era of Doctor Who is filled with long serials that range from four to twelve episodes each. Many of these epic multi-parters have become 'essential viewing' for any fan of the series or science-fiction in general.
"Inferno" was the first Doctor Who story to explore the concept of mirror universes. It's considered to be one of the Third Doctor's best serials for its exploration of a totalitarian Britain and its depiction of fan-favorite characters like the Brigadier, the founder and then leader of UNIT.
Like many other outstanding classic Doctor Who serials, "The Caves of Androzani" was written by Robert Holmes, who contributed over sixty episodes for the series and introduced much of its lore. The four-part serial also sees Peter Davison step down from his role as the Fifth Doctor after the character gives his own life to save his companion.
"The Talons of Wen-Chiang" has been championed as one of Doctor Who's best serials for its exceptional writing and impressive performances. Despite its many positives, the serial is also guilty of yellowface and racist depictions of Chinese culture that unfortunately sour an otherwise great story.
Recommended episode ranked: The (#) on recommended serials is their rank among the other recommended episodes from that Doctor. If you only have time for two serials-per-doctor, then just watch the (1) and (2) recommended serials for each Doctor, and so on. 2ff7e9595c
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