Doctor Who
(11/1963 - 5/1996)





Airs: Returning

DVD releases:

Story #006: The Aztecs (3/04/2003)
Story #010: The Dalek Invasion of Earth (10/07/2003)
Story #013: The Web Planet (09/05/2006) [Buy It]
Story #037: The Tomb Of The Cybermen (8/06/2002)
Story #045: The Mind Robber (9/06/2005)
Story #048: Seeds Of Death (3/02/2004)
Story #051: Spearhead From Space (9/11/2001)
Story #054: Inferno (09/05/2006) [Buy It]
Story #057: The Claws Of Axos (11/01/2005)
Story #065: The Three Doctors (3/02/2004)
Story #066: Carnival Of Monsters (7/01/2003)
Story #076: The Ark In Space (8/06/2002)
Story #078: Genesis of the Daleks (06/06/2006)
Story #082: Pyramids Of Mars (9/07/2004)
Story #087: The Hand of Fear (11/07/2006)
Story #090: The Robots Of Death (9/11/2001)
Story #091: Talons of Weng-Chiang (10/07/2003)
Story #092: Horror Of Fang Rock (9/06/2005)
Story #098: The Ribos Operation (10/01/2002)
Story #099: The Pirate Planet (10/01/2002)
Story #100: The Stones Of Blood (10/01/2002)
Story #101: The Androids Of Tara (10/01/2002)
Story #102: The Power Of Kroll 10/01/2002)
Story #103: The Armageddon Factor (10/01/2002)
Story #105: City Of Death (11/01/2005)
Story #110: The Leisure Hive (6/07/2005)
Story #122: Earthshock (9/07/2004)
Story #130: The Five Doctors [Special Edition] (9/11/2001)
Story #134: Resurrection of the Daleks (7/01/2003)
Story #136: The Caves Of Androzani (4/02/2002)
Story #139: Vengeance on Varos (3/04/2003)
Story #140: The Mark of the Rani (11/07/2006)
Story #141: The Two Doctors (6/01/2004)
Story #143: Revelation of the Daleks (06/06/2006)
Story #152: Remembrance Of The Daleks (4/02/2002)
Story #157: Ghost Light (6/07/2005)
Story #158: The Curse Of Fenric (6/01/2004)
(Season Releases) Key To Time: The Complete Adventure (10/01/2002)
Lost In Time - Patrick Troughton Years (11/2/04)
Lost In Time - William Hartnell Years (11/2/04)
Lost In Time Collection (11/2/04)
(new) Doctor Who: The Complete First Season (02/14/06 - Canada)
(new) Doctor Who: The Complete First Season (07/04/06 - USA) [Buy It]

News:

(03/17/05) - Sci Fi Wire recently spoke to executive producter Russell T. Davies about his revival of this long-running BBC series (which debuts on SCI FI Channel with episodes "Rose" and "The End of the World", starting at 9 p.m. ET/PT on March 17). "I think the BBC had their eye on it as a very good property that could be resurrected," Davies said in an interview. "And the drama department as well as the controller of BBC1, wanted to work with me, which sounds very arrogant, but it's the truth. They'd been asking me to write all sorts of things; every year, they'd phone up and say, 'Do you want to want to adapt A Tale of Two Cities? or 'do you want to write another series about gay men?' [Davies was best known for his series Queer as Folk.] Or something like that, and every year I quite confidently (and cheekily) sat there and said, 'No, I just want to do Doctor Who!'"

"Once they asked me to do it and commissioned me, I came up with my take on it, and the miracle from my point of view was that I was given a clean slate," he said.

"My only wariness in going to work for the BBC, especially on an in-house production, is that the BBC is a labyrinthine organization. I was very wary of the red tape, the committees, focus groups and all the systems that were in place. But, to my astonishment, I discovered that the opposite was true. When I did my treatment, I didn't have to go through 27 different committees, so I was given an enormous amount of freedom, and then they followed that up by backing it with a budget, which again was my worry. I didn't want to do a cheap version of Doctor Who, but the heads of various departments and the heads of certain channels all wanted the same thing, so everyone was in the right place, and I was lucky enough to be the one they wanted."

"The interesting thing about when the BBC approached me, I was amazed that they wanted the same thing that I did, which was that they also wanted the series to be on in prime time. You could have done a 9 o'clock, post-watershed version of Doctor Who on BBC2, which is one of our smaller channels, a more niche or elite channel, and that would have created a much more adult Doctor Who, much more like the new Battlestar Galactica, or they could have commissioned something with a much smaller budget for, say, BBC3, which is a wild youth-based channel, in which case, Doctor Who would have been possibly a [bit] Monty Python: very wild and extreme and even a bit radical and much more comedy-based. But I was delighted that they put it on for the primary channel, which is BBC1, on Saturday night."

"I know it isn't the same in the States, but in Britain, Saturday night is the ratings war night, in which we play Pop Idol [similar to the U.S. American Idol] and all the big entertainment shows, the Dance Fever shows. It's the biggest battleground of all, so the fact the BBC was investing in it so much by putting it in that prime-time slot very much determined what it should be, which is very much the sort of Doctor Who that I wanted to make anyway, which was a very inclusive version, which would include all sorts of viewers, not just niche science-fiction viewers, but was a great big, bold, wild family drama. So I was lucky that the constellations were in the right shape."

(12/01/05) - The BBC has made the unusual decision to release the Doctor Who: The Complete First Season DVD in the United States before the show had found a broadcast outlet. But the BBC plans to still air the show on American TV.

The U.S. DVD will feature the entire first season of Doctor Who and hits stores on Feb. 14, 2006. The DVD will also feature audio commentary by cast and crew, including Davies, Piper, John Barrowman (Captain Jack), Mark Gatiss and Simon Callow; a new Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound mix for all episodes; more than five hours of "making of" interviews and behind-the-scenes footage; a BBC interview with Christopher Eccleston; and a behind-the-scenes look of the upcoming holiday episode The Christmas Invasion, which premieres this month in the United Kingdom. The suggested retail price is $99.98.

"It will be going on television," Burton Cromer (vice president of BBC Direct) said in an interview with SCI FI Wire. "There're lots of discussions going on, and I can't really talk about that. This is a unique situation, really, because there are so many fans of Doctor Who ... already out there, and we were just finding [that] people were getting ... secondhand copies or copies from the U.K. ... We really wanted fans to get the best, most complete version in the United States as [soon as] we possibly could. So we made the decision, and it is unique, to go ahead of the TV broadcast with the DVD and to release the gift set of the DVD basically within two and a half to three months [after] the U.K. [version]."

"The good news for us is that we already have that loyal fan base, but then when the show does broadcast in the U.S., we'll have a whole new fan base, because it's just a new Doctor Who: very exciting, but still the great stories and as great as the old Doctor Who," he said.

(6/13/05) - According to casting calls received by London and Welsh actors, the Cybermen will return for season two of the new series.

(05/24/05) - According to The Sun, Billie Piper, who plays the Doctor's sidekick Rose Tyler, will be leaving the show next season.

A BBC insider said, "Billie's really proved herself as an actress in Doctor Who and she's been bombarded with offers of work both in England and in America. Billie will feature in some of the second series. But her character Rose won't be the Doctor Who companion at the end of it. It's a nine-month hard slog filming, Chris and Billie were knackered.

"It's claimed that she could appear in just three episodes of the new series, which begins filming in July, but programme bosses hope she'll stick around for seven. David Tennant is taking over from Christopher Eccleston for the new series after Chris made the decision to quit at the end of March.

(04/19/05) - BBC has confirmed that David Tennant will be playing the tenth Doctor Who. Tennant's recent credits include the critically-acclaimed drama series Casanova and Blackpool. Billie Piper will return as Rose Tyler next season. The new 13-episode series and Christmas special begins filming in Cardiff in the summer. The Christmas special will probably feature the famous "regeneration" scene where the ninth Doctor will die and become the tenth.

(04/04/05) - The March 26 U.K. premiere of BBC's new Doctor Who series drew around 10 million viewers, which makes it a huge hit for the BBC. There are reports that the BBC, encouraged by the ratings, has ordered a second season. But Christopher Eccleston has quit the title role out of fear of being typecasted. There are talks of replacing him with Casanova star David Tennant. Billie Piper is expected to return for a second season.

(01/27/05) - According to BBCAmerica, the next two Doctor Who DVD titles, that will follow The Green Death and The Visitation, are The Leisure Hive and Ghost Light. There is no exact date yet, but it will be in Spring 2005.

(12/06/04) - The BBC has posted a teaser trailer for the new Doctor Who series.

(10/14/04) - I have started adding links to transcipts found at the Doctor Who Transcript Project website.

(11/17/03) - Russell T. Davies, the producer who is reviving Doctor Who for the BBC, told the British TV Times that the new Doctor's companion will be different from those in the original series. "A screaming girly companion is unacceptable now," he told the magazine. "I don't mean in terms of women's rights. Dramatically, we've got Buffy the Vampire Slayer now, so a screaming girly companion would be laughed out of the room." Davies also revealed that the new series won't rely on old monsters.

The ninth Doctor Who has been officially selected. The BBC reported that 40-year old British dramatic actor Christopher Eccleston has been cast to play the Time Lord in this new incarnation of the Doctor Who series.

Cast:

Christopher Eccleston as The Ninth Doctor (Season 27)
Billie Piper as Rose Tyler (Season 27)
William Hartnell as The First Doctor (eps. 1-29)
Patrick Troughton as The Second Doctor (eps. 30-50)
Jon Pertwee as The Third Doctor (51-74)
Tom Baker as The Fourth Doctor (eps. 75-116)
Peter Davison as The Fifth Doctor (eps. 117-136)
Colin Baker as The Sixth Doctor (eps. 137-147)
Sylvester McCoy as The Seventh Doctor (eps. 148-159)
Paul McGann as The Eighth Doctor (ep. 160)
Sophie Aldred as Ace (eps. 151-159)
David Brierley as Voice of K9 (eps. 106-109)
Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown (eps. 135-145)
Nicholas Courtney as The Brigadier
Michael Craze as Ben Jackson (eps. 27-35)
Roger Delgado as The Master
Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka (eps. 116-134)
Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman (eps. 1-10)
Richard Franklin as Captain Yates
Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright (eps. 1-16)
Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon (eps. 31-50)
Louise Jameson as Leela (eps. 89-97)
Caroline John as Liz Shaw (eps. 51-54)
Jackie Lane as Dodo Chaplet (eps. 22-27)
Bonnie Langford as Mel (eps. 146-151)
John Leeson as Voice of K9 (eps. 93-103, 110-114)
John Levene as Sergeant Benton
Katy Manning as Jo Grant (eps. 55-69)
Ian Marter as Harry Sullivan (eps. 75-80)
Maureen O'Brien as Vicki (eps. 11-20)
Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot (eps. 43-50)
Peter Purves as Steven Taylor (eps. 16-26)
William Russell as Ian Chesterton (eps. 1-16)
Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith (eps. 70-87)
Mark Strickson as Turlough (eps. 126-135)
Sarah Sutton as Nyssa (eps. 115-127)
Mary Tamm as Romana (eps. 98-103)
Lalla Ward as Romana (eps. 104-114)
Matthew Waterhouse as Adric (eps. 112-122)
Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield (eps. 36-42)
Anneke Wills as Polly (eps. 27-35)

Crew:

Sydney Newman - Creator
Donald Wilson - Creator
Barry Letts - Executive Producer (1980-1981)


Episode List

Episode #Prod #Original
Air Date		 Episode Title
 
 
Season One
1. 1-1A23-Nov-1963 100,000 BC
2. 1-2B21-Dec-1963 The Daleks
3. 1-3C08-Feb-1964 Inside the Spaceship
4. 1-4D22-Feb-1964 Marco Polo
5. 1-5E11-Apr-1964 The Keys of Marinus
6. 1-6F23-May-1964 The Aztecs
7. 1-7G20-Jun-1964 The Sensorites
8. 1-8H08-Aug-1964 The Reign of Terror
 
Season Two
9. 2-1J31-Oct-1964 Planet of Giants
10. 2-2K21-Nov-1964 The Dalek Invasion of Earth
11. 2-3L02-Jan-1965 The Rescue
12. 2-4M16-Jan-1965 The Romans
13. 2-5N13-Feb-1965 The Web Planet
14. 2-6P27-Mar-1965 The Crusade
15. 2-7Q24-Apr-1965 The Space Museum
16. 2-8R22-May-1965 The Chase
17. 2-9S24-Jul-1965 The Time Meddler
 
Season Three
18. 3-1T11-Sep-1965 Galaxy 4
19. 3-2T/A09-Oct-1965 Mission to the Unknown
20. 3-3U16-Oct-1965 The Myth Makers
21. 3-4V13-Nov-1965 The Daleks' Master Plan
22. 3-5W05-Feb-1966 The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
23. 3-6X05-Mar-1966 The Ark
24. 3-7Y02-Apr-1966 The Celestial Toymaker
25. 3-8Z30-Apr-1966 The Gunfighters
26. 3-9AA28-May-1966 The Savages
27. 3-10BB25-Jun-1966 The War Machines
 
Season Four
28. 4-1CC10-Sep-1966 The Smugglers
29. 4-2DD08-Oct-1966 The Tenth Planet
30. 4-3EE05-Nov-1966 The Power of the Daleks
31. 4-4FF17-Dec-1966 The Highlanders
32. 4-5GG14-Jan-1967 The Underwater Menace
33. 4-6HH11-Feb-1967 The Moonbase
34. 4-7JJ11-Mar-1967 The Macra Terror
35. 4-8KK08-Apr-1967 The Faceless Ones
36. 4-9LL20-May-1967 The Evil of the Daleks
 
Season Five
37. 5-1MM02-Sep-1967 The Tomb of the Cybermen
38. 5-2NN30-Sep-1967 The Abominable Snowmen
39. 5-3OO11-Nov-1967 The Ice Warriors
40. 5-4PP23-Dec-1967 The Enemy of the World
41. 5-5QQ03-Feb-1968 The Web of Fear
42. 5-6RR16-Mar-1968 Fury from the Deep
43. 5-7SS27-Apr-1968 The Wheel in Space
 
Season Six
44. 6-1TT10-Aug-1968 The Dominators
45. 6-2UU14-Sep-1968 The Mind Robber
46. 6-3VV02-Nov-1968 The Invasion
47. 6-4WW28-Dec-1968 The Krotons
48. 6-5XX25-Jan-1969 The Seeds of Death
49. 6-6YY08-Mar-1969 The Space Pirates
50. 6-7ZZ19-Apr-1969 The War Games
 
Season Seven
51. 7-1AAA03-Jan-1970 Spearhead From Space
52. 7-2BBB31-Jan-1970 Doctor Who and the Silurians
53. 7-3CCC21-Mar-1970 The Ambassadors of Death
54. 7-4DDD09-May-1970 Inferno
 
Season Eight
55. 8-1EEE02-Jan-1971 Terror of the Autons
56. 8-2FFF30-Jan-1971 The Mind of Evil
57. 8-3GGG13-Mar-1971 The Claws of Axos
58. 8-4HHH10-Apr-1971 Colony in Space
59. 8-5JJJ22-May-1971 The Daemons
 
Season Nine
60. 9-1KKK01-Jan-1972 Day of the Daleks
61. 9-2MMM29-Jan-1972 The Curse of Peladon
62. 9-3LLL26-Feb-1972 The Sea Devils
63. 9-4NNN08-Apr-1972 The Mutants
64. 9-5OOO20-May-1972 The Time Monster
 
Season Ten
65. 10-1RRR30-Dec-1972 The Three Doctors
66. 10-2PPP27-Jan-1973 Carnival of Monsters
67. 10-3QQQ24-Feb-1973 Frontier in Space
68. 10-4SSS07-Apr-1973 Planet of the Daleks
69. 10-5TTT19-May-1973 The Green Death
 
Season Eleven
70. 11-1UUU15-Dec-1973 The Time Warrior
71. 11-2WWW12-Jan-1974 Invasion of the Dinosaurs
72. 11-3XXX23-Feb-1974 Death to the Daleks
73. 11-4YYY23-Mar-1974 The Monster of Peladon
74. 11-5ZZZ04-May-1974 Planet of the Spiders
 
Season Twelve
75. 12-14A28-Dec-1974 Robot
76. 12-24C25-Jan-1975 The Ark in Space
77. 12-34B22-Feb-1975 The Sontaran Experiment
78. 12-44E08-Mar-1975 Genesis of the Daleks
79. 12-54D19-Apr-1975 Revenge of the Cybermen
 
Season Thirteen
80. 13-14F30-Aug-1975 Terror of the Zygons
81. 13-24H27-Sep-1975 Planet of Evil
82. 13-34G25-Oct-1975 Pyramids of Mars
83. 13-44J22-Nov-1975 The Android Invasion
84. 13-54K03-Jan-1976 The Brain of Morbius
85. 13-64L31-Jan-1976 The Seeds of Doom
 
Season Fourteen
86. 14-14M04-Sep-1976 The Masque of Mandragora
87. 14-24N02-Oct-1976 The Hand of Fear
88. 14-34P30-Oct-1976 The Deadly Assassin
89. 14-44Q01-Jan-1977 The Face of Evil
90. 14-54R29-Jan-1977 The Robots of Death
91. 14-64S26-Feb-1977 The Talons of Weng-Chiang
 
Season Fifteen
92. 15-14V03-Sep-1977 Horror of Fang Rock
93. 15-24T01-Oct-1977 The Invisible Enemy
94. 15-34X29-Oct-1977 Image of the Fendahl
95. 15-44W26-Nov-1977 The Sun Makers
96. 15-54Y07-Jan-1978 Underworld
97. 15-64Z04-Feb-1978 The Invasion of Time
 
Season Sixteen
98. 16-15A02-Sep-1978 The Ribos Operation
99. 16-25B30-Sep-1978 The Pirate Planet
100. 16-35C28-Oct-1978 The Stones of Blood
101. 16-45D25-Nov-1978 The Androids of Tara
102. 16-55E23-Dec-1978 The Power of Kroll
103. 16-65F20-Jan-1979 The Armageddon Factor
 
Season Seventeen
104. 17-15J01-Sep-1979 Destiny of the Daleks
105. 17-25H29-Sep-1979 City of Death
106. 17-35G27-Oct-1979 The Creature from the Pit
107. 17-45K24-Nov-1978 Nightmare of Eden
108. 17-55L22-Dec-1979 The Horns of Nimon
109. 17-65MUNAIRED Shada
 
Season Eighteen
110. 18-15N30-Aug-1980 The Leisure Hive
111. 18-25Q27-Sep-1980 Meglos
112. 18-35R25-Oct-1980 Full Circle
113. 18-45P22-Nov-1980 State of Decay
114. 18-55S03-Jan-1981 Warriors' Gate
115. 18-65T31-Jan-1981 The Keeper of Traken
116. 18-75V28-Feb-1981 Logopolis
 
Season Nineteen
117. 19-15Z04-Jan-1982 Castrovalva
118. 19-25W18-Jan-1982 Four to Doomsday
119. 19-35Y01-Feb-1982 Kinda
120. 19-45X15-Feb-1982 The Visitation
121. 19-56A01-Mar-1982 Black Orchid
122. 19-66B08-Mar-1982 Earthshock
123. 19-76C22-Mar-1982 Time-Flight
 
Season Twenty
124. 20-16E03-Jan-1983 Arc of Infinity
125. 20-26D18-Jan-1983 Snakedance
126. 20-36F01-Feb-1983 Mawdryn Undead
127. 20-46G23-Feb-1983 Terminus
128. 20-56H01-Mar-1983 Enlightenment
129. 20-66J15-Mar-1983 The King's Demons
 
Special
130. 0-16K25-Nov-1983 The Five Doctors
 
Season Twenty One
131. 21-16L05-Jan-1984 Warriors of the Deep
132. 21-26M19-Jan-1984 The Awakening
133. 21-36N26-Jan-1984 Frontios
134. 21-46P08-Feb-1984 Resurrection of the Daleks
135. 21-56Q23-Feb-1984 Planet of Fire
136. 21-66R08-Mar-1984 The Caves of Androzani
137. 21-76S22-Mar-1984 The Twin Dilemma
 
Season Twenty Two 45 min.
138. 22-16T05-Jan-1985 Attack of the Cybermen
139. 22-26V19-Jan-1985 Vengeance on Varos
140. 22-36X02-Feb-1985 The Mark of the Rani
141. 22-46W16-Feb-1985 The Two Doctors
142. 22-56Y09-Mar-1985 Timelash
143. 22-66Z23-Mar-1985 Revelation of the Daleks
 
Season Twenty Three 25 min.
144. 23-17A06-Sep-1986 The Trial of a Time Lord 1-4 (aka The Mysterious Planet)
145. 23-27B04-Oct-1986 The Trial of a Time Lord 5-8 (aka Mindwarp)
146. 23-37C01-Nov-1986 The Trial of a Time Lord 9-12 (aka Terror of the Vervoids)
147. 23-47C29-Nov-1986 The Trial of a Time Lord 13-14 (aka The Ultimate Foe)
 
Season Twenty Four
148. 24-17D07-Sep-1987 Time and the Rani
149. 24-27E05-Oct-1987 Paradise Towers
150. 24-37F02-Nov-1987 Delta and the Bannermen
151. 24-47G23-Nov-1987 Dragonfire
 
Season Twenty Five (stereo)
152. 25-17H28-Oct-1988 Remembrance of the Daleks
153. 25-27L02-Nov-1988 The Happiness Patrol
154. 25-37K23-Nov-1988 Silver Nemesis
155. 25-47J14-Dec-1988 The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
 
Season Twenty Six
156. 26-17N06-Sep-1989 Battlefield
157. 26-27Q04-Oct-1989 Ghost Light
158. 26-37M25-Oct-1989 The Curse of Fenric
159. 26-47P22-Nov-1989 Survival
 
Special
160. 0-250/LDX071Y/01X27-May-1996 Doctor Who (aka DW - The Movie, The Enemy Within)
 
Season Twenty Seven
161. 27-1 26-Mar-2005 Rose
162. 27-2 02-Apr-2005 The End of the World
163. 27-3 09-Apr-2005 The Unquiet Dead
164. 27-4 16-Apr-2005 Aliens of London (1)
165. 27-5 23-Apr-2005 World War Three (2)
166. 27-6 30-Apr-2005 Dalek
167. 27-7 07-May-2005 The Long Game
168. 27-8 14-May-2005 Father's Day
169. 27-9 21-May-2005 The Empty Child (1)
170. 27-10 28-May-2005 The Doctor Dances (2)
171. 27-11 04-Jun-2005 Boom Town
172. 27-12 11-Jun-2005 Bad Wolf (1)
173. 27-13 18-Jun-2005 The Parting of the Ways (2)
 
Season Twenty Eight
174. 28-1 18-Nov-2005 Children In Need (Special Mini Adventure)
175. 28-2 25-Dec-2005 The Christmas Invasion
176. 28-3 2006 The Attack of the Graske
177. 28-4  New Earth
178. 28-5  Tooth and Claw
179. 28-6  School Reunion
180. 28-7  The Girl in the Fireplace
181. 28-8  Rise of the Cybermen
182. 28-9  The Idiot's Lantern
183. 28-10  The Satan Pit (1)
184. 28-11  The Satan Pit (2)
185. 28-12  Deep Realms
186. 28-13  Army of Ghosts
187. 28-14  Doomsday



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