The head of drama Sydney Newman was mainly responsible for developing the programme, with the first format document for the series being written by Newman along with the head of the script department (later head of serials) Donald Wilson and staff writer C.
Discussions and plans for the programme had been in progress for a year. It was to be a regular weekly programme, each episode 25 minutes of transmission length. The Doctor's various incarnations have gained numerous recurring enemies during their travels, including the Daleks, their creator Davros, the Cybermen, and the renegade Time Lord the Master.ĭoctor Who first appeared on the BBC Television Service at 17:16:20 GMT on Saturday, 23 November 1963 this was eighty seconds later than the scheduled programme time, because of announcements concerning the previous day's assassination of John F. The Doctor is centuries old and as a Time Lord, has the ability to regenerate when there is mortal damage to their body. The Doctor rarely travels alone and is often joined by one or more companions on these adventures these companions are usually humans, owing to the Doctor's fascination with planet Earth, which also leads to frequent collaborations with the international military task force UNIT when Earth is threatened. Īcross time and space, the Doctor's many incarnations often find events that pique their curiosity, and try to prevent evil forces from harming innocent people or changing history, using only ingenuity and minimal resources, such as the versatile sonic screwdriver. Due to a malfunction, the Doctor's TARDIS remains fixed as a blue British police box. The TARDIS has a vast interior but appears smaller on the outside, and is equipped with a " chameleon circuit" intended to make the machine take on the appearance of local objects as a disguise. The Doctor fled Gallifrey, the planet of the Time Lords, in a stolen TARDIS ("Time and Relative Dimension(s) in Space"), a time machine that travels by materialising into, and dematerialising out of, the time vortex. It has been the subject of many parodies and references in popular culture.ĭoctor Who follows the adventures of the title character, a rogue Time Lord with somewhat unknown origins who goes by the name " the Doctor". Doctor Who has also spawned numerous spin-offs, including comic books, films, novels, audio dramas, and the television series Torchwood (2006–2011), The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007–2011), K9 (2009–2010), and Class (2016). The series was relaunched in 2005 and since then, has been produced in-house by BBC Wales in Cardiff. There was an unsuccessful attempt to revive regular production in 1996 with a backdoor pilot in the form of a television film titled Doctor Who. The series originally ran from 1963 to 1989. The series is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running science-fiction television series in the world, as well as the "most successful" science-fiction series of all time, based on its overall broadcast ratings, DVD and book sales, and iTunes traffic. Fans of the series are sometimes referred to as Whovians. It has influenced generations of British television professionals, many of whom grew up watching the series. The series is a significant part of popular culture in Britain and elsewhere it has gained a cult following. The time-travelling feature of the plot means that different incarnations of the Doctor occasionally meet.
Each actor's portrayal is distinct, but all represent stages in the life of the same character, and together, they form a single lifetime with a single narrative. The transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the series with the concept of regeneration into a new incarnation, a plot device in which a Time Lord "transforms" into a new body when the current one is too badly harmed to heal normally. With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, works to save civilisations, and helps people in need.īeginning with William Hartnell, thirteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor in 2017, Jodie Whittaker became the first woman to officially play the role on television.
The TARDIS exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.
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