The Doctor Who Years: The Seventies (documentary)

was the second episode of The Doctor Who Years, a three-part musical documentary series charting the history of the "Classic Series" of Doctor Who.
It was released on the Doctor Who website on 8 April 2005.
The style and format of the documentary was based on the BBC television series The Rock 'n' Roll Years (1984-94). It featured clips and images from every Doctor Who story, in chronological order, as well as various promotional appearances, merchandise and newspaper clippings, accompanied with tongue-in-cheek captions and scored with pop music from the UK Singles Chart at the time.
Initially it was only available to stream in RealPlayer (.ram) format, then on 6 July 2005 it was made avalable in a second format, Windows Media Video (.wmv), after a website visitor survey in which RealPlayer was heavily criticised.
== Lost episodes ==
Black-and-white clips from The Ambassadors of Death, The Mind of Evil & Invasion of the Dinosaurs were especially colourised for this documentary, whilst production photos were used to illustrate Shada.
== Other material featured ==
Other clips featured were:
* BBC1 ident (1972).
* Blue Peter, TX: 25 October 1971 & TX: 5 November 1973.
* Looking In: Behind the Scenes, TX: 7 November 1972.
* Nationwide, TX: 22 June 1973, TX: 31 December 1976 & TX: 22 November 1978.
* Pebble Mill at One, TX: 21 December 1973 & TX: 31 March 1977.
* Billy Smart's Children's Circus, TX: 6 January 1974.
* BBC Points West, TX: 21 November 1974.
* Swap Shop, TX: 2 October 1976.
* The Lively Arts: Whose Doctor Who, TX: 3 April 1977.
* Top of the Pops, TX: 31 December 1978.
Press clippings featured were:
* "Who's the girl? She's the doctor's...", c.26-27 June 1973.
* "Who girl bows out", Daily Mirror, 23 October 1976.
* "I'll wear the trousers - Dr Who's new girl", c.2 September 1978.
* Radio Times covers:
** 3-9 January 1970.
** 2-8 January 1971.
** 1-7 January 1972.
** 30 December 1972-5 January 1973.
** 15-21 December 1973.
Images of the following pieces of merchandise:
* The Making of Doctor Who.
* TV Action No. 71 (24 June 1972).
* The first three Target Books: Doctor Who and the Daleks, Doctor Who and the Zarbi & Doctor Who and the Crusaders.
* Radio Times Doctor Who Special.
== Captions ==
* Doctor Who bursts onto UK television screens in colour for the first time
* although 90% of viewers are still watching in black & white.
1970
* Jon Pertwee is the Doctor!
* Does this scene look familiar?
* 35 years before they terrorized Billie Piper, the Autons did the same to residents of Ealing Broadway!
* Caroline John has also joined the series as new companion Liz Shaw.
* This story, "The Ambassadors of Death", was unknowingly topical
* being broadcast as the world held its breath over the Apollo 13 mission.
* The new Doctor is an expert in Venusian Aikido!
1971
* "Terror of the Autons" opens the 1971 series with a new companion
* and a new arch enemy!
* The Autons are back, terrifying the nation's children again.
* The BBC is inundated with complaints and the matter is raised in Parliament!
* The Master appears in every story of the show's 8th season.
* The Brigadier & UNIT are also regulars in Earthbound adventures aplenty.
* The Doctor does escape briefly to the far off world of Uxarieus.
* Coincidentally, so does the Master.
* They interrupt a bunch of Colonists rehearsing for future Soap auditions.
* No, it's not "Doctor Who Confidential".
* It's "The Dæmons"!!
* The series is regularly featured on "Blue Peter", presented here by former companion Peter Purves.
1972
* "The Curse of Peladon" parodies our deliberation over entry into the EEC.
* David Troughton, Patrick's son, appears as King Peladon…
* …while the Ice Warriors reappear – as goodies this time!
* Viewers' enjoyment is spoiled as the Miners' strike blacks out TV screens in many parts of the UK.
* The first "behind the scenes" Dr Who book is published.
* A Sea Devil emerging from the water becomes one of the most iconic moments in Dr Who history.
* The TARDIS interior gets a refit in "The Time Monster".
1973
* The Three Doctors are united to celebrate the programme's 10th series.
* They face the wrath of Omega, the first of the Time Lords.
* Hero or God, the Doctors beat him. By putting a flute in a box.
* Producer Barry Letts also directed this story.
* That's him on the left.
* They're not chickens.
* They're Drashigs.
* Future companion Ian Marter talks a good fight.
* Target Books publish the first three of a hugely successful series of novelisations. 
* Jo Grant falls in love with some bloke she's only just met
* and immediately agrees to let him take her up the Amazon.
* Roger Delgado, alias The Master, is killed in a road accident in Turkey.
* New titles for Season 11
1974
* along with a new companion – enter Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane.
* "The Time Warrior" brings a new monster too – a Sontaran Warrior.
* Nice looking bloke.
* We also learn the name of the Doctor's home planet for the first time.
* As Jon Pertwee announces he will leave at the end of the series, the viewers are treated to Dr * Who's staple diets…
* Daleks….
* ……..and quarries!
* The Ice Warriors are back to their villainous selves in another political parody on Peladon.
* Pertwee reaches the end of the line.
* His replacement is little known actor Tom Baker, destined not to be little known for much longer.
1975
* Believe it or not, in 1975, Bubble-wrap was new.
* And scary.
* Ian Marter joins the new Doctor on his travels as companion Harry Sullivan.
* This is Davros
* He created this lot.
* Producer Phillip Hinchcliffe and Script Editor Robert Holmes begin to tailor the stories for an older audience.
* The Cybermen return after taking a time-out during Pertwee's era.
* After struggling with illness for some time, William Hartnell dies, aged 67.
* The TARDIS crew start the new Autumn Season in the Scottish Highlands
* where the Zygons are waiting for them
* and so is the Loch Ness Monster.
* The new team's change of emphasis is a great success and the ratings rocket past the 10 million mark.
* The new production team decide to phase out the Earthbound UNIT stories
* and "The Android Invasion" is the last until 1989.
1976
* The Doctor begins the New Year grappling with "The Brain of Morbius"
* and sees his past lives flash before him.
* The first three you know about. They're the ones on the right.
* The ones on the left bear an uncanny resemblance to members of the production team.
* As the 13th season closes out, the Doctor comes under fire from an enemy
* more deadly than any he has faced on the screen…
* …in the form of outspoken TV watchdog, Mary Whitehouse.
* Whitehouse is not the only one to complain about the frightening content in "The Seeds of Doom".
* Baker and Sladen appear in the first edition of "Swap Shop" to promote the new series.
* Elisabeth Sladen leaves after 3 years, breaking hearts all over the country.
* Tom Baker successfully lobbies for a story without a companion.
* Writer Robert Holmes takes him back to Gallifrey to shoot the President!
* The Master returns
* in dire need of moisturiser.
* The Doctor drowning in this cliff-hanger is the last straw for Mary Whitehouse.
1977
* The new companion is Louise Jameson, playing a scantily-clad savage, Leela.
* Producer Philip Hinchcliffe departs after 3 hugely successful years at the helm.
* He defends the show publicly against allegations of excessive violence.
* The "Lively Arts" documentary series devotes an edition to Dr Who.
* New Producer Graham Williams is under orders to tone down the violence.
* But in his very first story, every single guest character is brutally murdered.
* K9 is an immediate hit with younger viewers.
* Leela mirrors their enthusiasm and the mechanical dog joins the TARDIS crew.
* The production emphasis changes from horror to humour over the course of the season.
1978 
* The show now has a new enemy to fight – spiralling inflation!
* With budgets fixed well in advance, money is even tighter than usual.
* So in this adventure, they decide to make do with paintings instead of sets.
* The Doctor returns to Gallifrey for a well earned Presidency
* but stumbles upon a Sontaran invasion.
* Louise Jameson leaves the series.
* Leela stays on Gallifrey after falling in love with a bloke she's only just met.
* Mary Tamm is the new companion, playing haughty Time Lady Romana.
* She joins the Doctor in a season-long quest to find the Key to Time.
* "The Pirate Planet" is the first contribution from budding writer Douglas Adams.
* Its UK transmission coincides with the series' very first broadcast in the USA.
* "The Stones of Blood" is broadcast during the series' 15th anniversary.
* It is also the 100th Doctor Who adventure.
* Tom Baker makes a celebratory appearance on Nationwide.
* Mankind reach no. 25 in the charts with their disco version of the Dr Who theme
* which has the TOTP studio audience giving it plenty on the dance floor…
* …apart from Billy NoMates in the middle.
1979
* John Lesson, usually the voice of K9, makes a guest appearance in the flesh
* in a compelling story about green painted men and a giant octopus.
* As the Doctor closes in on the sixth segment of the Key to Time,
* Mary Tamm decides to leave the show after just one season.
* Lalla Ward lets herself in for an interesting few years as Romana II.
* The Daleks are back.
* So is Davros.
* The cast & crew film abroad for the first time.
* Tom & Lalla fall for each other during the production of "City of Death".
* Douglas Adams, who is now Script Editor, ends up writing most of the story.
* Adams persuades John Cleese to make a cameo appearance.
* Baker's Doctor is becoming more and more comedic.
* Producer Graham Williams leaves after three years which have seen the show change direction completely.
* The programme remains popular with the public and children in particular
* but is coming under fire from fans for its excessively comical approach,
* an approach typified by the season's finalé, "The Horns of Nimon".
* Williams' reign ends on a low as "Shada", the last scheduled story of the season
* is abandoned as a result of industrial action within the BBC.
== Music list ==
* "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" by Edison Lighthouse
* "Come and Get It" by Badfinger
* "Don’t Cry Daddy" by Elvis Presley
* "Bridge over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkle
* "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum
* "The Pushbike Song" by The Mixtures
* "No Matter What" by Badfinger
* "Rose Garden" by Lynn Anderson
* "Brown Sugar" by The Rolling Stones
* "Another Day" by Paul McCartney
* "Soley, Soley" by Middle of the Road
* "I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (in Perfect Harmony)" by The New Seekers
* "Son of My Father" by Chicory Chip
* "Meet Me on the Corner" by Lindisfarne
* "Without You" by Nilsson
* "Metal Guru" by T. Rex
* "One and One Is One" by Medicine Head
* "Blockbuster" by The Sweet
* "Part of the Union" by The Strawbs
* "Power to All Our Friends" by Cliff Richard
* "See My Baby Jive" by Wizzard
* "Giving It All Away" by Roger Daltrey
* "Daydreamer" by David Cassidy
* "The Ballroom Blitz" by The Sweet
* "Dyna-Mite" by Mud
* "Roll Away the Stone" by Mott the Hoople
* "Devil Gate Drive" by Suzi Quatro
* "The Air That I Breathe" by The Hollies
* "Spiders & Snakes" by Jim Stafford
* "Gonna Make You a Star" by David Essex
* "Down Down" by Status Quo
* "Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth" by Sparks
* "Now I’m Here" by Queen
* "Make Me Smile (Come Up & See Me)" by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
* "Bye, Bye Baby" by Bay City Rollers
* "The Last Farewell" by Roger Whittaker
* "S.O.S." by ABBA
* "Love Is the Drug" by Roxy Music
* "Golden Years" by David Bowie
* "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
* "No Regrets" by The Walker Brothers
* "Don’t Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John & Kiki Dee
* "Under the Moon of Love" by Showaddywaddy
* "Living Next Door to Alice" by Smokie
* "Couldn’t Get It Right" by Climax Blues Band
* "Don’t Leave Me This Way" by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
* "When I Need You" by Leo Sayer
* "Rockaria!" by Electric Light Orchestra
* "2-4-6-8 Motorway" by The Tom Robinson Band
* "Show You the Way to Go" by The Jacksons
* "How Deep Is Your Love?" by Bee Gees
* "Daddy Cool" by Darts
* "Nobody Does It Better" by Carly Simon
* "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty
* "Figaro" by Brotherhood of Man
* "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush
* "The Rivers of Babylon" by Boney M
* "Summer Nights" by John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
* "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper" by Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip
* "Dr Who" by Mankind
* "Oliver’s Army" by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
* "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen
* "Video Killed the Radio Star" by Buggles
* "Are 'Friends' Electric?" by Tubeway Army
* "Message in a Bottle" by The Police
* "Since You’ve Been Gone" by Rainbow
* "I Only Want to Be with You" by The Tourists
* "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd
* "I Don’t Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats
== External links ==
* The Doctor Who Years: The Seventies (archived)
== Footnotes ==
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