BBC The BBC ( short for British Broadcasting Corporation ) was an Earth television network . It was based in the United Kingdom and was founded in the 20th century . History . On 14 July 1930 , the BBC broadcast a television adaptation of " The Man with the Flower in His Mouth " by Luigi Pirandello . This was the first television drama to be produced in the United Kingdom . Provided that the broadcast was successful , the BBC considered producing an adaptation of " Black Orchid " by George Cranleigh . ( PROSE : " The Wheel of Ice " ) On 2 June 1953 , the BBC broadcast live coverage of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II from Alexandra Palace . ( TV : " The Idiot ' s Lantern " ) The science fiction television series " Nightshade " , starring Edmund Trevithick as the title character , ran on the BBC from 1953 to 1958 . It was rebroadcast on BBC2 in December 1968 . ( PROSE : " Nightshade " ) A BBC News bulletin on 15 October 1957 reports on the recent launch of " Sputnik " , Earth ' s first artificial satellite , by the Soviet Union . ( AUDIO : " Unregenerate ! " ) On a Saturday in November 1963 , Ace briefly watched BBC television at Mike Smith ' s house . At 5 : 15 , a new science fiction series was about to start airing , whose name started with " Doc — " . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) In 1966 , BBC newsreader Kenneth Kendall reported on the War Machine crisis and announced when the first machine had been destroyed . ( TV : " The War Machines " ) Circa the 1970s , BBC3 broadcast live , on the public affairs programme " The Passing Parade " , the opening of the Devil ' s Hump . ( TV : " The Dæmons " ) In 1976 , UNIT , members of the band Plasticine , the Seventh Doctor , Bernice Summerfield and Ace broke into the BBC in an attempt to stop a Vardan invasion . ( PROSE : " No Future " ) In 1996 , the Blue Peter garden was destroyed by a member ( or members ) of Faction Paradox , the effect of which was a far more intense psychological reaction than any direct assault on the people ' s psyche . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book Two " ) While in 2001 , Fitz Kreiner noted to himself that even the BBC logo had changed since the 1960s into a blocky square style . ( PROSE : " Escape Velocity " ) In 2005 , the BBC correspondents Francis Currie and Scott Christie were among the newscasters reporting on alien attacks and civil unrest in London . Right after the live broadcast of the Deputy PM Meena Cartwright , the BBC was knocked off the air when an ICIS - brainwashed suicide bomber attacked it during a live broadcast , killing Christie . Currie referred to the attack as a " double - whammy " propaganda move . ( AUDIO : " The Coup " , AUDIO : " The Longest Night " ) In 2006 , the BBC did a news report on the alien crash in the Thames . ( TV : " Aliens of London " ) On Christmas of that year , the BBC broadcast Prime Minister Harriet Jones ' s address to Great Britain rather than the traditional greeting by the monarch ( in this case , Elizabeth II ) . ( TV : " The Christmas Invasion " ) In 2007 , the BBC broadcast a news story to warn people of the Cybermen . ( TV : " Army of Ghosts " ) The Cybermen took control of all the TV channels , including the BBC , to broadcast their message of world domination around the globe . ( TV : " Doomsday " ) In 2007 , a BBC News bulletin reported that the United States and United Kingdom governments were anticipating final victory in the Iraq War in the near future . ( AUDIO : " Unregenerate ! " ) In 2008 , broadcast his message about contact with alien life through the BBC . ( TV : " The Sound of Drums " ) The channel also reported on two highly destructive cataclysms . ( TV : " Revenge of the Slitheen " , " The Lost Boy " ) In 2009 , the BBC covered multiple emergencies such as the ATMOS disaster , ( TV : " The Poison Sky " ) the Earth ' s abduction , ( TV : " The Stolen Earth " ) the Zodiac brainwashing , ( TV : " Secrets of the Stars " ) and the 456 crisis . ( TV : " Children of Earth " ) In 2012 the Eightfold Truth purchased the BBC centre and converted it into the headquarters of their cult . ( AUDIO : " The Eight Truths " ) Clara Oswald liked to use the TARDIS to catch up on missed BBC television programmes . ( TV : " The Time of the Doctor " ) By the 2060s , the BBC had turned into the British Film and Television Corporation ; following the Myloki war , its London headquarters were used as a covert base for SILHOET . ( PROSE : " The Indestructible Man " ) Parallel universes . Beep the Meep travelled to a parallel universe , in which the Doctor ' s universe existed only as part of a BBC science fiction television series called " Doctor Who " , on 12 October 1979 , and took control of the BBC Television Centre . The Eighth Doctor and his companion Izzy Sinclair defeated Beep with the help of the actor Tom Baker , who infuriated him with his endless rambling . Strangely , Baker both physically resembled the Fourth Doctor and played him on the television series . The Doctor learned the truth when he discovered the first issue of " Doctor Who Weekly " . ( COMIC : " TV Action ! " ) Behind the scenes . The Cybus Industries website , which tied into " Rise of the Cybermen " and " The Age of Steel " , featured an interview with the creator of the Cybermen of Pete ' s World , John Lumic . When asked the " best " and " worst " things about the BBC , Lumic simply responded that he abolished the BBC after Cybusnet became the sole global information provider .