Doctor Who (TV story) | Tardis | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit The Doctor , nearing the end of his seventh life , is charged with transporting the remains of his fellow Time Lord , the Master , back to their home planet . Despite his precautions, his old enemy is not only not dead, but is out for revenge. Creating a timing malfunction in the TARDIS , and bringing the Doctor to San Francisco in 1999 , the Master escapes and puts his plans into motion. The Doctor must find a beryllium atomic clock and stop the Master, but after being shot down by members of a street gang , how will he succeed? Plot Edit The Seventh Doctor relaxes in his TARDIS. The Master has been placed on trial by the Daleks on Skaro , and is sentenced to extermination . As part of a "last, and somewhat curious, request", the Master asked that the Doctor , now late in his seventh incarnation , escort his ashes back to Gallifrey for proper burial. The Eighth Doctor narrates that Time Lords have thirteen lives , but the Master had already used all his .

As rules never mattered much to his old foe, he knew that even in death, he could not trust the Master: he locks the urn containing the Master's ashes inside another box with his sonic screwdriver - he claims he had learnt, by the end of his seventh life, that he could not help but be too careful. After returning to the main control room, the Seventh Doctor sets the TARDIS coordinates for Gallifrey . He then gets a cup of tea and returns to reading a book, H.G. Wells 's The Time Machine , whilst eating a bowl of jelly babies . At the same time, he has " In a Dream " playing on his gramophone . The Master, currently trapped in the form of a slime creature, approaches the TARDIS console. Nearby, the casket containing the Master's ashes shakes violently. The record begins skipping on the word "time", but the Doctor fixes it, remaining unaware of the situation. The shaking grows worse, until the casket breaks open; the Doctor's tea crashes to the ground as the record skips to a stop. Suspicious of these omens, the Doctor becomes more distracted.

A snake-like creature emerges from the box and, unseen by the Doctor, slithers into the TARDIS console. The resulting effect of the console malfunctioning as sparks fly out finally rouses the Doctor: leaving his chair, he rushes to fix it, but is unsuccessful; a critical timing malfunction forces him to make an emergency landing. Concerned that the Master may have had a hand in this, the Doctor quickly returns to where he left the ashes, only to see the box cracked open. The Doctor, shocked, stares at it with a worried expression. Meanwhile, in San Francisco on December 30th 1999 , two local Chinese-American gangs are having a shoot-out, reducing one to just Chang Lee . When the other gangsters prepares to fire on him, the TARDIS materialisation wind picks up and it appears in front of Lee. The gang fruitlessly fires at the TARDIS, emptying their guns. While they reload, the Doctor exits the TARDIS to find his bearings only to be shot by the gangsters, who quickly flee. Lee runs to the Doctor's side. The Doctor tries to warn Lee about the Master, who has slipped through the TARDIS keyhole.

However, Lee doesn't turn around in time to see him. The Doctor falls unconscious and Lee quickly runs to get an ambulance and accompanies the Doctor to Walker General Hospital . Unseen, the Master stows away in the ambulance. At the hospital , a surgeon removes the bullets, but the Doctor's two hearts cause confusion for the medical team. They assume he is fibrillating and that the X-rays showing his two hearts is a double exposure. A cardiologist , Dr. Grace Holloway , is summoned from her visit to the opera , and attempts to stabilize the Doctor's heartbeat. Regaining consciousness, from pre-op sedation by music from "Madame Butterfly" opera, just as she is about to begin the operation, the Doctor tries to prevent it by explaining his non-terrestrial origins and tells Grace that he needs a beryllium atomic clock. Salinger implies that they can't wait any longer to begin the operation, and Grace has the anesthesiologist administer the anesthetic. However, he fights the sedation and awakes from it twice, deliriously telling the people in the operating room, "Timing malfunction. The Master, he's out there! He's out there...

I've got to stop...him..." The medical team think this is just incoherent babble brought on by the anesthesia, and attempt to put him to sleep again. Once the Doctor falls asleep, they insert an endotracheal (breathing) tube in his throat and start their operation to stabilize his heart beat. The Doctor's anatomy confuses Grace, who believes his unusually fast heartbeat is an unwanted and life-threatening fibrillation. She decides to do exploratory surgery to fix it. She gets lost in his right side, which holds a second heart, knowing that she should be in the right side of his body, the surgical team identify his second-heart blood veins as the left side of the heart (the normal human heart parts). Grace attempts to move the microscopic probe in her plan B, accidentally damages his unfamiliar circulatory system with the probe, causing the Doctor's sedated body to have a massive seizure. Unable to get the probe out when it snaps off inside one of his vital heart vessels, killing him. The medical team shock his body in attempt to restart his heart. The Doctor's body starts to spasm violently, and he wakes from the anesthetic one more time, forced into consciousness by the incredible pain he is now feeling.

He lets out a final, horribly agonized scream, and collapses on the operating table. The medical team fail to revive the Doctor and they pronounce him dead. Grace takes of her surgical glasses and cap and runs out of the room upset. Wheeler covers the body with the Doctor's surgical drapes. When Grace tries to comfort Lee with the death of the Doctor, she realises he doesn't know him. Lee runs off with the Doctor's possessions. Around the same time, the Master has hitched a ride to the home of one of the ambulance workers, Bruce , by hiding in his jacket. The Doctor reborn into his eighth incarnation. The Doctor is put in the morgue after the attendants make spa jokes to his dead body. Elsewhere, the Master has entered Bruce's body, killing him and taking it for himself . Later that night, as Pete , a morgue attendant, watches the 1931 film version of Frankenstein , the Doctor comes back to life and, at last, regenerates into his eighth body . His old face twists and warps into the features of a brand new, younger man, followed by a release of dense, foggy breath from his mouth.

Surprised and slightly disoriented, he springs up from the gurney and begins banging on the door, attracting Pete's attention. When Pete arrives to see what is the source of the sound, the new Doctor knocks the metal door off its hinges. He is clad in just a shroud, a sight mirrored by the image in the movie. Pete faints in shock while the Doctor stumbles into a deserted wing of the hospital where he sees himself in broken pieces of mirror and cries out, "Who am I?" The next morning, the Doctor, after going through numerous hospital lockers, steals the Wild Bill Hickok costume that Pete's co-worker, Ted , intended to wear to the hospital's New Year's Eve costume party. Meanwhile, Chang Lee goes through the Doctor's possessions, finding his sonic screwdriver , pocket watch, jelly babies, a yo-yo , and TARDIS key . Elsewhere, Bruce's wife Miranda awakes to find, unbeknownst to her, the Master staring out the window. As the Master talks to himself about Bruce's body not lasting long and his need to find the Doctor, she asks him to come back to bed .

However, after her failed attempts to be seductive, she realises too late that the Master isn't Bruce when she sees the cat-like eyes the Master acquired in his time on Cheetah World ; the Master breaks her neck. At the hospital, the Doctor recognises Grace (who has quit her hospital job after an argument with the hospital administrator over covering up the surgery), and follows her to her car, asking for help as he believes she knows who he is. He removes the surgical probe which Grace had left in him the previous night, a sight which convinces her that this strange man is in fact her supposedly dead patient. She then drives off with the Doctor, at his request, to prevent the hospital staff from killing him again. "Bruce" goes to the hospital, where he learns that the Doctor died during surgery and that his body is missing and Lee has taken his possessions. Grace takes the Doctor to her house, where she discovers that her boyfriend has left her and taken some of her furniture to boot. She listens to the Doctor's hearts, and takes a sample of his blood, while the Doctor's spotty memory begins to return with anecdotes about Puccini and Leonardo da Vinci .

He also explains that his has thirteen lives, going on to say Grace became a doctor because of her childish dream to hold back death; according to the Doctor, she'll do great things. Chang Lee enters the TARDIS . Elsewhere, Chang Lee uses the TARDIS key to enter the TARDIS. There he encounters the Master, who entered before him. The Master hypnotises Lee into giving him the Doctor's possessions by staring with his inhuman eyes. Searching through the bag , the Master demands to know where the Doctor is. Lee says that the items he stole are his now, and that the Doctor is dead. With a snarl, the Master informs Lee that the Doctor is not dead and that he will die unless he finds him. Wondering what he'll get out of assisting the Master, Lee is told he'll get to live. Elsewhere, Grace has given the Doctor a pair of shoes left behind by her boyfriend, letting him keep them; her attempts to examine the Doctor's blood fail. They decide to take a walk, during which the Doctor remembers seeing a meteor storm on Gallifrey with his father during his initial incarnation .

Rummaging through some of the drawers, the Master withdraws some red pouches, going on to say the TARDIS and the Doctor's body were stolen from him. Lee once more says the Doctor died. The Master explains it's half true; that body, the body of the Seventh Doctor, died, but the Doctor regenerated into a new one. He goes on to lie that the Doctor used seven of his lives to commit terrible deeds as well-known villains in Earth history. He then gives Lee the pouches, which contains $5,000,000 in gold dust, as payment for his help, promising a full billion once he gets "his" body back. The Master takes Lee to the Cloister Room , where he uses Lee's human eyes to open the Eye of Harmony , the TARDIS' power source. In the meantime, the Doctor regains his memories. In a fit of enthusiasm, the Doctor announces, "I am the Doctor!" and kisses Grace, who asks him to kiss her again. In the Cloister Room, the Master sees a series of images: the Seventh Doctor, the newly regenerated Eighth Doctor, and a human retina.

The last causes him to assert, "The Doctor is half-human." The Doctor becomes aware that the Master has opened the Eye of Harmony as he holds Grace; at the same time, the Master and Lee see her through the Doctor's vision. However, the Doctor shuts his eyes, preventing nothing more than audio to come through the Eye's projection. The Doctor explains the Master's plan: he hopes to force the Doctor to look into the Eye of Harmony, which will destroy his soul and allow the Master to take over his body. The Master says the Doctor is lying again; however, Lee is worried Grace might believe him. At the same time, the Doctor asks Grace to help him find a beryllium atomic clock . However, Grace runs back to her house; the Doctor opens his again, but the visual doesn't return to the Eye. The Doctor tries talking to Grace, but she calls him insane and phones for an ambulance to take the Doctor to a mental institution. To prove that the Eye is open and changing the physical structure of the planet, the Doctor presses against one of the windows, making it bend; he walks through it and into Grace's house.

The Doctor explains that at midnight, the entire Earth will be sucked through it unless he can close it in time. Collapsing in shock, Grace asks for two ambulances over the phone. Hearing this, the Master decides to use the identity of his stolen body to commandeer an ambulance, with Lee. The Doctor weighs himself on scale as Grace's television reports strange weather occurring around the world, which has been caused by the Eye's opening. The Doctor is even more shocked to see he has lost twenty pounds in just the same amount of minutes. Watching a news report, the Doctor hears that a beryllium atomic clock is being unveiled at ITAR . When the ambulance arrives, the EMT is the Master, and the unseen driver is Chang Lee; the Doctor doesn't see Lee or know it's the Master. The Doctor asks to be taken to ITAR. Grace is still sceptical, but indicates for the driver to play along. As they are being driven, the Doctor questions Grace as to why she didn't tell him she had access to an atomic clock. Still playing along, Grace says she was more worried about what would happen to the Earth if the Eye isn't shut.

Their conversation changes subject, in which the Doctor explains he met Sigmund Freud and Madame Curie. However, Lee slams on the brakes at a traffic jam, making the ambulance shake, causing the sunglasses the Master had been using to hide his inhuman eyes to fall off; the Doctor recognises him. Putting his glasses back on, the Master has them pulled back off by the Doctor, who gets out of the way of a burning viscous substance spat by his foe; it lands on Grace's wrist. The Doctor temporarily blinds him with a fire extinguisher , while they flee. They flee into the blocked traffic as Lee cleans the foam off the Master. A policeman tells them to go back to their vehicles, but the Doctor instead offers him a Jelly baby ; sceptical about the sweet, the officer eats it. Grace explains that the Doctor is British to explain his odd habits just as he takes the officer's gun and points it at himself; he demands the officer hand over his motorcycle. The Doctor turns his attention to Grace, who he tells that he cannot make her dream to hold back death last forever, but he can make it come true tonight. Believing the Doctor, Grace takes the gun and shoots the radio, preventing the officer from calling for backup.

They take the keys and drive off, leaving the gun behind. At the same time, the Master reminds Lee that they are in an ambulance, which can go past traffic jams if the sirens are on; Lee complies and takes a shortcut to ITAR. The Doctor and Grace arrive shortly after, finding the empty ambulance; the Master and Lee are already inside, waiting for them. Grace, a board member of ITAR, gets herself and the Doctor inside the party; while looking around for a way to reach the clock, the Doctor explains that time travel is possible and that Time Lords who run out of regenerations, like the Master, are desperate in the fight for survival. She also gives him the alias " Dr Bowman " while introducing him to Professor Wagg , creator of the clock. As the Doctor tells Professor Wagg "a secret" ("I'm half-human, on my mother's side"), he surreptitiously removes Wagg's security pass. Grace and the Doctor steal a small component from the clock, which he needs to repair the TARDIS. They spot the Master and Chang Lee in the crowd, which prompts them to head for the exit.

They then find guards that the Master subdued by using the same substance; they are frozen in place, covered in goo. The Doctor activates the fire alarm to "liven things up" as he and Grace make their escape by lowering themselves from the roof with a fire hose. They flee on the motorcycle, and arrive at the TARDIS, where the Doctor remembers that he keeps a spare key in the cubbyhole above the letter "P" in " Police box ." They enter the TARDIS, where the Cloister Bell is ringing. The Doctor is able to close the Eye of Harmony ; however, a quick temporal scan confirms that the Eye has been open too long, and the Earth is still in danger. The only solution is to take the TARDIS back to a time before the Eye was opened — but since the Eye was open so long, the TARDIS now has no power. The Doctor attempts to jump-start the TARDIS by drawing energy directly from the Eye. While working under the console, the Doctor wonders why Grace is not helping as he instructed her to, looking up to see her eyes have turned black; Grace has been taken over by the Master's will.

Grace knocks the Doctor out just as the Master and Lee enter the TARDIS. The Doctor awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney in the Cloister Room. Chang Lee and the possessed Grace chain the Doctor to a balcony, under the supervision of the Master (who has decided to "dress for the occasion" in Gallifreyan robes). Lee explains he'll be rich once once the Master gets his body back. However, the Doctor tells him the Master neglected to mention Earth would be destroyed, making his payment pointless. Per the Doctor's slight manipulation, the Master inadvertently contradicts his earlier lies to Lee by claiming to have used all his lives. Lee now believes the Doctor and refuses to help the Master. Rather than waste more time by hypnotising Lee again, the Master snaps his neck. The Doctor comments that only Grace is left to open the Eye, but her eyes are not human. The Master taunts the Doctor and removes his influence on Grace as he kisses her, then forces her to look into the Eye. As the Master begins to absorb the Doctor's life energy, the Doctor implores Grace to return to the console room and jump-start the TARDIS.

Several disasters happen all around the Earth as lightning and heavy winds surround the TARDIS; Grace enters the control room as sparks fly out of the console. In the Cloister Room, the Master begins hearing the Doctor's memories and feeling his life force come into him, even briefly taking on his form several times. As the Earth celebrates the approaching new year, Grace manages to start the TARDIS one second before midnight, having remembered the Doctor told her piloting a TARDIS is like setting an alarm clock. The TARDIS enters a temporal orbit , something she needs the Doctor to explain. She returns to the Cloister Room and frees the Doctor, but the Master attacks them both. He throws her off the balcony, killing her. The Doctor and the Master struggle over the open Eye, and the Master falls in; the Doctor attempts to save him, but the Master rejects his hand and is sucked into the Eye. The TARDIS slips back in time before midnight. Energy travels from the Eye to the bodies of Grace and Chang Lee, reviving them, and the Eye closes. Amused by how sentimental his TARDIS is, the Doctor asks Grace how it felt to hold back death.

He then congratulates them, as they've been somewhere he's never been (yet). Grace tells him there's nothing to be afraid of, but wonders if they've gone back far enough. The Doctor tells her that they have or he's talking to a bunch of ghosts , and he doesn't believe in them. They return to the console room where, through a high-tech dome, the Doctor shows them alien galaxies and his home planet. Lee questions where the Master is just as a grumbling is heard from the TARDIS; "Indigestion," the Doctor remarks. Deciding where to leave them, the Doctor asks if they wish to be deposited back on the 29th. While Grace would rather not live through the day again, Lee knows he won't survive it; instead, the Doctor takes them to exactly the first minute of 2000 in a city park. The Doctor allows Lee to keep the bags of gold dust the Master originally bribed him with, and tells him not to be in San Francisco next Christmas; in exchange, Lee gives back the bag with the belongings of the Seventh Doctor in them. The Doctor asks Grace to travel with him, but she refuses and asks if the Doctor will stay with her.

However, both know he won't and they kiss. Grace thanks the Doctor, but he retorts "No, thank you, doctor." The Doctor relaxing once more with The Time Machine . The Doctor leaves in the TARDIS, off to a new adventure. Conducting maintenance on the new part inside the console with his newly recovered sonic screwdriver , the Doctor asks his beloved time machine where it will be they're going this time. He settles back in his armchair in the TARDIS control room to continue reading H G Wells' novel: The Time Machine. The gramophone record that he is listening to suddenly starts skipping (again). As the TARDIS continues on its flight, all the Doctor says is, "Oh no, not again." Cast Edit After the show had first aired in the United States , American companies had worked hard to purchase the rights for an American version. In the early '80s, when The Walt Disney Company were on their spending sprees, they attempted to buy the rights to the show, meaning the entire franchise would belong to Disney, not just an American version of the show. Steven Spielberg was their only choice to run the office.

Spielberg was more than willing to do it, as he felt that Disney was the only American studio who could do such an amazing British show justice. He lost interest when he was told that the show would be released under their Touchstone Television banner; he felt that such an imaginative show needs to be released under their Disney banner. British expatriate Philip Segal had been working since 1989 to forge a co-production deal between an American company and the BBC to make a new Doctor Who series even before the programme's twenty-sixth and final season, broadcast that year. At that time, Segal was working with Columbia Pictures, but little had come of his efforts by the time he left for a two-year stint at ABC. Subsequently, Segal went to work for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment. Shortly thereafter he resumed his efforts to acquire the rights to Doctor Who. By June 1992 , he was joined by Peter Wagg , producer of the eclectic science-fiction series Max Headroom.

There were several parties involved in the Doctor Who discussions: Amblin and the BBC, of course, but also Amblin's parent company, Universal Pictures, and the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Enterprises , which would shortly become BBC Worldwide . With each organisation trying to safeguard its own interests, negotiations stretched into 1993 , and then 1994 . Despite the many difficulties the complex situation presented, on 13 January 1994, an agreement was reached. Philip Segal was, for all intents and purposes, Doctor Who's newest producer. The race was on to get a series ready to be pitched to the American networks in time for the Fall 1994 season, essentially giving Segal and Wagg less than two months. One of Segal's first instructions from his superiors at Universal was to use a studio writer for the project, specifically John Leekley . Segal was hesitant, preferring to go outside Universal; former Doctor Who script editor Terrance Dicks was amongst the candidates he considered. However, aware that any fight with Universal would waste precious development time, Segal agreed to bring Leekley aboard.

As a TV series Edit With designer Richard Lewis , Segal and Leekley prepared an expensive and extensive series bible, The Chronicles Of Doctor Who?, to introduce Doctor Who in general, and the proposed new series in particular. Segal had envisioned this version as largely divorced from the original BBC series — although the basic concepts of Doctor Who were adhered to, the programme's mythos would be completely rewritten. The bible was written from the perspective of Cardinal Barusa (a misspelling of Borusa , a character who had first appeared in Season Fourteen 's The Deadly Assassin ). It introduced the Doctor and the Master , half-brothers and sons of the lost Time Lord explorer Ulysses , Borusa's son. When the evil Master becomes President of the Time Lords upon Borusa's death, the Doctor flees Gallifrey in a rickety old TARDIS to find Ulysses. Borusa's spirit becomes enmeshed in the TARDIS, enabling Borusa to advise his grandson. The Doctor takes the TARDIS to " the Blue Planet " to search for Ulysses, the native world of the Doctor's mother. They soon searched for the man to play the Doctor.

Many people were considered and auditioned, including Rowan Atkinson , Derek Jacobi , and Jim Carrey. It was under this script that Paul McGann later would audition. His brother Mark would as well. A third producer joined the Doctor Who team in March, much to the surprise and, at the time, the dismay of Segal. This was Jo Wright, assigned by the BBC to represent their interests. Around the end of March, Doctor Who was offered to the four American networks. NBC and ABC were completely uninterested. CBS president Peter Tortorici tentatively offered Segal a two-hour pilot and six one-hour episodes (presumably to serve as mid-season replacement series), but this was retracted by network head Howard Stringer in mid-May. That left Fox, at the time still the youngest American network. Led by head of series Robert Greenblatt, Fox was interested in Doctor Who, but was only willing to commit to a two-hour movie with the possibility of a second. It appeared Segal's dreams of producing a new Doctor Who series were fast disappearing. Despite this, he agreed to an offer made by Doctor Who historian Jean-Marc Lofficier and his wife Randy to become unofficial consultants on the project.

The Lofficiers would advise the production team on continuity and act as liaisons with the fan community. On 28 June , Fox indicated they were interested in having the initial movie serve as a "backdoor pilot"; if ratings were good, the property might shift from their Movie of the Week department to the series department.[ source needed ] At the suggestion of Trevor Walton, Fox's vice president in charge of movies, Segal and Wagg met with Matthew Jacobs , who had written for The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. (Jacobs was the son of Anthony Jacobs, who had played Doc Holliday in The Gunfighters, and had been present on the set.) The selection was approved by the other interested parties and Jacobs set to work on 5th May. Unlike the DeLaurentis iteration, it was decided to essentially discard all the work done to date, with Jacobs starting afresh on an entirely new script. Only the idea of the Doctor having a human mother would be retained. By 19th May, Jacobs had composed a storyline; unlike the earlier Leekley and DeLaurentis versions, this continued from the end of the original series, starting by introducing Sylvester McCoy 's Seventh Doctor.

The Doctor arrives on modern-day Earth in either San Francisco or New Orleans. However, the dying Master has transmogrified himself into a shape-shifting slick of DNA, and attacks the Doctor, mortally wounding him. The Doctor's body is found by a street kid named Jack. Jack brings the Doctor to the hospital, where he is operated on unsuccessfully by Dr Kelly Grace (an obvious play on the name of actress Grace Kelly). In the morgue, the Doctor regenerates; meanwhile, the Master acquires a temporary human host body. Jack has gained access to the TARDIS using gloves he has pilfered from the Doctor's body. The Master raises Jack's father from the dead and through him uses Jack to take over the TARDIS. As Halloween approaches, the Master uses the TARDIS to unleash an army of the dead. With Kelly's help, the Doctor returns to the TARDIS and draws himself, the Master, Kelly, Jack and the dead into another dimension. He defeats the Master, returns Jack to Earth and leaves with Kelly. Various changes were made by the time of the next draft, on June 27th.

The date was shifted to the days leading up to New Year's Eve instead of Halloween, and San Francisco was specified as the location. After regenerating, the Doctor sees a vision of his mother. Jack uses the TARDIS key instead of a pair of gloves to enter the time machine. In addition to Jack's father, Kelly is also confronted by someone from her past, and an earlier suggestion made by Jacobs that Jack be killed only to be brought back to life via the power of the TARDIS was included. Kelly also reluctantly remained behind at the end of this version. A movie is formed Edit Through mid-September, Leekley's script made the rounds of all the various organisations which had to approve it (Amblin, BBC Television, BBC Enterprises, the Fox network and Universal). Ironically, the death knell was sounded by Segal's own boss, Steven Spielberg. Spielberg was concerned that Leekley's script veered too closely to his own Indiana Jones franchise, and on 26th September asked Segal to start again with a new writer. This meant that principal photography would be delayed until at least February 1995.

The BBC, particularly BBC1 Controller and longtime Doctor Who supporter Alan Yentob and Tony Greenwood of BBC Enterprises were still enthusiastic about Doctor Who Around the start of October, at the instigation of Universal, Segal met with veteran writer/producer Robert deLaurentis . DeLaurentis agreed to put together a new story proposal, using Leekley's script as a starting point, but wanted to accentuate its "fun" aspects. On 7 October , DeLaurentis delivered a new draft of the storyline. This time, in the process of meeting Lizzie in World War II London, the Doctor also discovers that his father (no longer named Ulysses) was involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler. They travel forward to the United States in 1994, where the Doctor is reunited with his father. The Master lures the Doctor, his father and Lizzie to Skaro for a final confrontation. There, the Doctor destroys the Master's time-travelling warship, though the Master himself escapes with his Daleks.

Other minor alterations included Castellan being renamed Casteloan (though this would subsequently be changed back), and giving Lizzie a bulldog companion named Winston, who stays with the Doctor at the story's conclusion. At this stage some of the key crew positions started to be filled, most notably British director Geoffrey Sax, whose work included episodes of Bergerac and Lovejoy. Because the movie would be filmed in British Columbia, Canadian regulations meant that most of the rest of the crew would come from the country. This included production designer Richard Hudolin, who major task was a redesign of the TARDIS console room. Segal wanted to invoke the Jules Verne feel of the wooden version of the set used during Season Fourteen, but on a much grander scale. Construction on the TARDIS sets began very early on, during September, before the project had even been officially green-lit. Around the start of October, Fox announced Doctor Who would air in mid-May 1996. May was one of three key "sweeps" periods for the American networks (the others falling in November and February), when ratings performance determines advertising rates for the next quarter. Consequently, expectations for Doctor Who would be fairly high.

The next step was to cast the major roles. Sylvester McCoy had already agreed to appear, fulfilling a promise he had made to himself in 1989 to hand off the role of the Doctor to a successor in proper fashion. Jo Wright, in fact, had wanted Fourth Doctor Tom Baker to appear instead, but Segal was adamant that the telefilm continue from where the original series had left off. Segal also briefly considered the idea of including a role for Sophie Aldred as Ace , the Seventh Doctor's final companion. This, however, was quickly vetoed by the BBC. Segal did decide to give the Seventh Doctor a new wardrobe, having long disliked the umbrella and the question-mark pullover which were hallmarks of the original outfit. McCoy, similarly, had detested the pullover. Costume designer Jori Woodman composed a new costume which echoed the earlier version but was much more refined; to Segal's delight, McCoy brought with him the hat he had worn throughout his time in Doctor Who. With production just weeks away, Jacobs was working on fashioning his script into a finished form.

The BBC was much more receptive to his November draft, but passed it along to an in-house script editor, Craig Dickson , for comment. From this came the decision to eliminate the Millennium Star concept, with the Master's focus now simply to take over the Doctor's body. Jacobs' newest draft was ready by 29th December, and this was fundamentally the version which was recorded. Other small changes eventually made included changing Grace's surname from Wilson to Holloway; eliminating the Bill And Ted reference (which the BBC felt was out-of-date) by renaming the former Pete; having the Master break Bruce's wife's neck instead of shooting her; and excising a scene where the Master callously kills a hospital patient who resembles the Seventh Doctor. Much of Chang Lee's background had also been lost to timing issues by this stage, with all references to Sam and Jimmy Lee being dropped. 2 Police Box props. ( DOC : Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary ) As 1996 dawned, numerous difficulties still remained to be overcome. Geoffrey Sax had originally been promised a luxurious thirty-day shoot, but Beaton subsequently curtailed this to twenty-five days to save money.

Then Segal discovered that the BBC did not actually own the rights to the familiar Doctor Who theme music; this rested with Warner/Chappel Music, who wanted to charge a hefty fee for its use. Universal balked at this, but finally Segal convinced the BBC to pick up the cost. The new theme arrangement would be composed by John Sponsler and John Debney . Segal had not realised that McGann had recently cut his hair severely for another production until McGann arrived in Vancouver for a photo shoot on 7th January; this meant that hair stylist Julie McHaffire had to hastily put together a wig. Filming begins Edit Location filming began on 15 January , and was interlaced with the studio work which started on the 31st . Sites around Vancouver were used, including a disused wing of the BC Children's Hospital, the Plaza of Nations and several street exteriors; no filming was actually carried out in San Francisco; for establishing shots, stock footage was employed. The studio itself was located in nearby Burnaby. Some difficulty arose when Roberts found the wardrobe created for him by Woodman, which was largely in keeping with the Master's outfits from the original series, was too restrictive.

He was also uncomfortable with the serpentine contact lenses he was supposed to wear and with the prosthetics which would have depicted his body's gradual disintegration over the course of the movie. The result was that the effect of Bruce's body wearing out was essentially lost and it was decided to instead dress Roberts in dark sunglasses and a leather jacket for most of the film, unfortunately turning the Master into a silhouette of the Terminator from the two Arnold Schwarzenegger motion pictures. Elements of the Master's original costume would still be visible in the Time Lord outfit he wears in the later stages of the movie. Several other issues had to be confronted as the shoot went on. Some problems were found with the script such as the question of how the Master has gotten into the TARDIS when he first encounters Chang Lee, which had to be simply ignored. The final battle between the Doctor and the Master had been only briefly sketched and had to be quickly fleshed out for filming. Sax had hoped to have all the Doctors appear in the Eye of Harmony, but could not get clearance on the images in time. Ultimately, the production went four days over schedule; even then some sequences were greatly simplified to save time, such as Chang Lee's death scene.

Filming for Doctor Who was completed on 21 February . Post-production saw trims to the material, such as the loss of the scene where the Master confronts the security guards who are later found "slimed". The Dalek voices were originally in keeping with the original series, but were changed over concerns they weren't audible enough. (Later, in 2013, Sax would said that he wished he had employed Nicholas Briggs for the Dalek voices, and that he would consider employing Briggs for future home video releases.) A new introductory voiceover by Paul McGann was written on 2 April to replace earlier dialogue by the Master (voiced by Gordon Tipple) and the Daleks. The BBC expressed concerns the Master's snake form was too comical, but little could be done about it at this stage. Segal lent a rough cut of the movie to Los Angeles-based fan Shaun Lyon , organiser of the Gallifrey One conventions and editor of the Outpost Gallifrey website, to get his opinion. It was Lyon who caught several errors in the movie, most notably a reference to the Doctor having twelve lives. This was amended to the correct number, thirteen.

Segal also had to deal with various claims for credit from individuals who had worked on earlier stages of the project. Despite the protests of Fox and Universal, Segal won agreement for John and Ros Hubbard to be credited, as they had indeed been the first to bring McGann to his attention. John Leekley's case for a producer's credit was rejected, however, because virtually nothing remained of his work. Meanwhile, the various cost overruns on recording, casting and even the theme music, all to the tune of roughly US$170,000, was creating animosity between the coproduction partners, souring the relationships before the would-be back-door pilot had even aired. After filming, the cast were never called again. Most of the props were put in storage, including the main TARDIS console piece. The console was later saved from destruction by Doctor Who fan Paul J. Salamoff, who reconstructed the column and currently lets fans and ex-actors alike visit it freely. Paul McGann , Daphne Ashbrook and Yee Jee Tso are three people to have been known to visit.

References In the TARDIS the Seventh Doctor has a bowl of jelly babies , together with a cup of tea and The Time Machine by H. G. Wells . When Gareth asks for what's in the Eighth Doctor 's hand, the Doctor presents him with a jelly baby. He earlier offered jelly babies to a policeman, and had jelly babies amongst his possessions claimed at the hospital by Chang. Grace takes a glass of champagne at Professor Wagg's party. Gallifrey " Rassilon Era " appears on the TARDIS' console and screen. The Seal of Rassilon is featured extensively throughout the TARDIS. The Master uses the Eye of Harmony to spy on the Eighth Doctor and in an attempt to transfer his lives. It also nearly destroys the Earth due to gravitational distortion. Individuals Edit The Master, the Eighth Doctor and Grace name-drop throughout this story by referring to Marie Curie ("does she kiss as good as me?"), Sigmund Freud , Leonardo da Vinci , Puccini and Genghis Khan . (The Master also corrects Grace's grammar to "as well as you".) Grace obviously likes Madame Butterfly , and the Doctor has met its composer . The Seventh Doctor's x-ray reveals the presence of two hearts .

Both the Master and the Eighth Doctor state that the Doctor is half-human ("on my mother 's side"). The Doctor remembers to have watched a meteor storm with his father during his first incarnation. Technology This is the first televised Doctor Who to feature original narration (one of the characters addressing the audience in voice-over) since TV : The Deadly Assassin . In this instance, the Eighth Doctor sets the scene during the pre-credits sequence and immediately thereafter. This device would be used in the BBC Wales series in the following episodes: Father's Day , Army of Ghosts , The Family of Blood , Forest of the Dead , The End of Time , Cold Blood , A Town Called Mercy , and The Power of Three . It was originally intended that the opening narration would be by the Old Master, requesting that the Doctor transport his remains back to Gallifrey. Although Gordon Tipple recorded this voice-over, it was never used in the final version of the TV Movie. Tipple retained an on-screen credit despite no longer having any lines. According to DWM 497 , it is Tipple's eyes that are featured in close-up during the opening credits.

Radio Times credits Bill Croft (Motorcycle Policeman) as "Motorcycle Cop", Dee Jay Jackson (Security Guard) as "Security Man", and Joanna Piros (News Anchor) as "Co-anchor". According to press coverage at the time, the redesigned TARDIS console room set — clearly intended to have been an ongoing "standing set" in a series — cost $1 million to build. This is only one of two Doctor Who stories shot entirely on film, the other being TV : Spearhead from Space . Additionally, this is the only Doctor Who story to be entirely shot on 35mm film. The original script called for Bruce's body to start visibly decaying after the Master's possession; this was later dropped when the prosthetics caused Eric Roberts severe skin irritation. The only remaining aspect of this subplot is during the hospital sequence when Bruce removes a fingernail. In the original script, the Doctor's father was referenced and named " Ulysses ", a plot element later taken up in some of Eighth Doctor Adventures novels, most notably PROSE : The Gallifrey Chronicles . When the Eighth Doctor says he has thirteen lives, the actor in actual fact says "twelve". In an issue of Doctor Who Magazine , [ which?

] it is revealed that Paul McGann had to redub the line to say thirteen rather than the incorrect twelve after it was realised the count was wrong. When Chang Lee has to sign the Seventh Doctor 's medical form of release so the surgeons are permitted to operate on him, he does not know the Doctor's real name. Thinking up a fake identity, he pens out " John Smith ." This is a subtle reference to the Doctor's long-used alias, first given to his second incarnation by Jamie McCrimmon in TV : The Wheel in Space . Fox originally aired the movie in a standard two-hour (120-minute) timeslot, meaning it aired with approximately 35 minutes worth of commercial interruptions. As a result, it is sometimes erroneously listed as the longest single "episode" in Doctor Who history, but that title is still held by the 90-minute TV : The Five Doctors . Because it was the only full-length TV story featuring the Eighth Doctor, the Doctor Who telemovie was rebroadcast on 31 August 2013 on BBC America alongside the special The Doctors Revisited - The Eighth Doctor .

It also aired in the United Kingdom later in the year on 3 November , along with the Revisited special, on the The Day of the Doctor (TV story) that focused upon the Master's return in the series. This is, to date, the only canonical story in the Doctor Who franchise to be primarily produced by an American company (the later Torchwood arc, Miracle Day would still be co-produced by the BBC). Due to FOX's stringent protection over original characters & content, they have repeatedly[ source needed ] prohibited the characters of Grace Holloway, Eric Roberts's portrayal of the Master, and Chang Lee (among others) from reappearing in the revival series.[ source needed ] Thus, this story marks their only appearances in the series proper (however a photograph of Grace is included among those of other companions in TV : The Day of the Doctor , though only a portion of the photo is visible on screen (it is next to that of the Brigadier). As of 2016, Big Finish Productions has been unable to obtain the audio drama rights to Grace and Chang Lee (though the actors have performed other roles for the company).

There appears to be no prohibition on Grace appearing in comics form, however, as she appeared several times in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip and was featured in IDW's Prisoners of Time comic miniseries. Ratings The Sixth Doctor and his companion Melanie Bush saved the Earth from being taken over by Saraquazel , a being from the after-universe , and his servant Ashley Chapel . ( PROSE : Millennial Rites ) A younger version of the Seventh Doctor and an older version of Mel gate crashed the New Year's Eve party being thrown by Alisha Hammerson , the Auton head of Hammerson Plastic PLC , in London . They foiled her plan to replace her guests with Auton replicas so the Earth could be dominated and absorbed by severing her link to the Nestene Consciousness . ( COMIC : Plastic Millennium ) Alex Hopkins , Team Leader of Torchwood Three in Cardiff , had a mental breakdown and massacred his team within the Torchwood Hub . The only survivor was Captain Jack Harkness , who was both out on a mission and, by this time, immortal. Alex told Jack that the 21st century was when everything would change, and that they would not be ready.

Alex then committed suicide, leaving Jack in charge of Torchwood Three. ( TV : Fragments ) During a visit to Haven in the 28th century , the Seventh Doctor experienced a premonition of hearing Puccini while unconscious. ( PROSE : Companion Piece ) Death previously taunted the Doctor by telling him that his seventh incarnation would die without warning, without purpose, afraid and alone. ( PROSE : So Vile a Sin ) An alternative version of the Doctor settled down in San Francisco and eventually married Grace. ( PROSE : So Vile a Sin ) When Chang Lee and the Master get caught in a traffic jam caused by a spun out flatbed truck, the Master bemoans Chang Lee for thinking they are bound by civilian highway rules, shouting, "We are in an ambulance !" Eight years later in 2007 , when the Krillitanes took control of Deffry Vale High School and locked Mickey Smith and K9 Mark III out while they were sitting in a vehicle, K9 iterated "We are in a car" several times to Mickey before he understood they could simply crash the car through the entrance to gain entry.

( TV : School Reunion ) While the Doctor and Grace are escaping from Chang Lee and the Master via a ladder and fire hose, he cites a fear of heights. This is likely a reference to his fourth incarnation's fatal drop from the Pharos Project telescope in TV : Logopolis . When the TARDIS temporarily stops working, the Doctor "fixes" it by hitting the console. ( TV : The Five Doctors ) The Eighth Doctor loses his memory again in AUDIO : Minuet in Hell . Home video and audio releases Edit Despite the fact that the 1996 tele-film was made for American broadcast, it was until 2011 the only non- missing story which had not received a North American home video release in any format. Joint BBC/Universal ownership was problematic for North American publication, because the BBC are obliged to use Warner Brothers, and not Universal, for their Doctor Who DVD distribution. In August 2010 it was announced by Dan Hall , the commissioning editor of the Classic Doctor Who DVD range, that Universal had agreed on the release of the TV Movie outside the UK (including North America). Release finally occurred on 8th February 2011.

Several of the featurettes on the 2001 UK DVD were produced specifically for US audiences, and provided British home audiences with a look into the way Doctor Who was marketed in America. Some snippets of footage from the movie had made their way onto certain US releases. In 1999 the charity spoof The Curse of Fatal Death , which reused a short snippet of the TARDIS in flight from the TV movie, was released to UK and US audiences on VHS. In 2003, a special 40th anniversary music video that included footage from the film was added to a number of classic-series Region 1 DVDs. In July 2009, the Region 1 DVD release of Planet of the Dead included an unedited edition of Doctor Who Confidential that includes part of a dialogue scene from the film. The Next Doctor , also released to DVD in Region 1 in 2009, includes a short piece of footage from the film. A special edition DVD release was released 2010 in the UK as part of the Revisitations box set, with additional special features. It is this version that was also released to North America/Region 1 in February 2011.

Blu-ray Edit Released only in the UK 19 September 2016 as a 2 disc set, the first disc included the film itself and the second disc is a special features DVD disc instead of Blu-ray. This version is not re-scanned from the film's original negatives, and instead an HD upscaled version of the 480p broadcast copy. The Blu-ray disc also includes the 2013 short The Night of the Doctor . DVD releases Incidental Music: John Debney , John Sponsler & Louis Febre Notes: The 'Based on the BBC Television series' caption used for the US broadcast has been removed from the DVD. Editing for the DVD release was completed by the Doctor Who Restoration Team . Region 2 cover of the original DVD release 2010 A 2 disc version was released in October 2010 in the UK and on 8 February 2011 in North America.

It includes the following extras: Electronic Press Kit - Cast & crew interviews/behind the scenes footage/tour of the TARDIS set (from the 2001 release) Alternate/Extended Scenes (from the 2001 release) Audio commentary by director Geoffrey Sax. Second audio commentary by Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann, moderated by Nicholas Briggs Isolated music soundtrack. Four musical tracks taken from the soundtrack, including the song heard on the Doctor's record player. The Seven Year Hitch - detailing Philip Segal's efforts to get Doctor Who back on air (which began before production of Season 26 had concluded). Paul McGann's audition video, featuring two takes of him performing a scene from the early, rejected script for the film, set on Gallifrey . FX test reels, including early concepts for the opening credits and a proposed redesign of the Daleks. The Wilderness Years - The world of Doctor Who in between Survival and the TV Movie, featuring footage from several BBV and Reeltime Pictures productions.

Who Peter part 2 - 1989-2009 Edit The Press Kit To promote the film among North American media, Fox issued a small, coil-bound press booklet detailing the film and also explaining a bit of the history of Doctor Who. Contents Edit Introduction, a brief explanation of the film and the concept. Main credits: This is the only place where Paul McGann and Sylvester McCoy are actually credited as The Doctor and The Old Doctor, respectively, or Eric Roberts as The Master, Daphne Ashbrook as Grace Holloway, and Yee Jee Tso as Chang Lee, as they are not credited with their character names in the televised film. As in the film, John Debney receives sole music credit, with no reference made to Ron Grainer. Also, although it is common practice for US productions to credit a creator(s) for the characters, no individuals are credited in this way for Doctor Who. Production Notes: A primer on the concept of Doctor Who, including explanations of what regeneration is all about, what Time Lords are, The Master, etc., and includes actor comments on their characters.

About the Production: More on the making of the film, plus a discussion of the new TARDIS design, including a reference to the interior being covered by "round bells" (!). History: Brief primer on the history of the series back to 1963. Facts: Fast facts about the Doctor and the series. Interestingly, it makes reference to the Guinness Book of Records naming it the world's longest running SF series, even though official recognition of this would not occur until 2007. According to this section, the TV movie is the 696th instalment of the television series. Biographies: cast and crew biographies for the main actors. Technical information Edit This movie was shot on 35mm film, transferred to 525i60 Digital Betacam and edited. The finished master is 525i60 Digital Betacam. [3] The BBC owns 525i60 upconversion of this on Digital Betacam and on D3 Videotape. Universal Pictures only holds film trims in its archive.

External links Doctor Who - Fanlore Doctor Who 14 References Doctor Who is a UK science fiction television show that first aired on BBC One in 1963. The central character is an alien adventurer known as The Doctor who looks human but is actually a "Time Lord". He travels through time and space in his ship, the TARDIS (an acronym for Time And Relative Dimension In Space), which appears in the form of a blue police box from the 1950s. Due to its transdimensional nature, it is much larger on the inside. Each episode finds the Doctor visiting another planet, or a moment in Earth history. The Doctor often travels with one or more companions or assistants, the majority of whom are human women. The Doctor "regenerates" into a new body rather than dying, allowing a variety of actors to play the role; each incarnation has a different personality as well as physical appearance but retains most of the accumulated memories and knowledge of previous Doctors. Fans often refer to each different incarnation numerically; for example, the incarnation of the Doctor portrayed by Christopher Eccleston would be referred to as "The Ninth Doctor" or simply "Nine".

(See the Naming the Doctor section of the Doctor Who Fandom Glossary page.) A fan in 2010 said: "Doctor Who has so much canon the BBC has lost some of it." [1] Classic Who back cover of Bafflegab #2, one fan's humorous guide to distinguishing between the Fourth Doctor and the actor who plays him Doctor Who originally ran for 26 seasons on the BBC from 1963 to 1989 and featured seven different Doctors played by seven different actors. The series was structured as multiple-episode story arcs of varying length within each season or series. The series was also broadcast in many other countries, appearing on PBS in the US. Although the launch of the revival series in 2005 led to a reduction in the number of broadcasters showing the original, the original series series is widely available on streaming services and DVD. The BBC lost or destroyed many of the earliest episodes, mainly by reusing the tape they were stored on for other shows. The fannish practice of recording the audio of episodes as they aired resulted in the preservation of at least the sound tracks for all the missing episodes.

[2] Some episodes were later recovered from television broadcasters in other countries, with the most recent discovery in 2013. [3] As of the end of 2015, all known surviving/recovered episodes of Classic Era Doctor Who up to that point had been released to DVD in the UK. For a recent series of episode reaction posts, see copperbadge 's three things about classic who from 2010. Fanworks, Tropes and Trends Tegan Jovanka/Nyssa of Traken Between the Classic and the New A TV movie was also made in 1996. This was a co-production between the BBC and Universal, filmed in Canada; it was intended as a backdoor pilot for an ongoing American series, which never eventuated. The TV movie aired on Fox in the US, where it received poor ratings and reviews. It was more successful in the UK.

A key aspect of the TV movie is that while it was a reboot/relaunch of the series, it also was part of the same continuity as the original series, featuring the seventh Doctor regenerating into the eighth (though its official canonicity was not confirmed until the 2005 revival series began to include references to it). In the period between the cancellation of the original series in 1989 and the revival in 2005, there was a proliferation of semi-canonical material mostly concerning the Seventh and Eighth Doctors. These books and radio plays were created by fans but published professionally, and in some cases by the BBC. Outside of television, the franchise continued with a long-running series of original novels launched by Virgin Books in 1991 called the New Adventures, focusing primarily on the Seventh Doctor. A spin-off series, Missing Adventures, followed featuring the first six Doctors. In 1996, BBC Books took over the licence and launched the Eighth Doctor Adventures, focusing on that incarnation, and Past Doctor Adventures, which was a continuation of the Missing Adventures. Virgin, meanwhile, continued the New Adventures line for several more years featuring the exploits of companion Bernice Summerfield.

In 1999, Big Finish Productions began releasing professionally recorded audio dramas set in the Doctor Who universe. Initially, Big Finish made dramas featuring Bernice Summerfield (after obtaining the licence for the character from Virgin Books), but in 2000 it made the breakthrough with the BBC and obtained the licence to produce original audio dramas featuring the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors, with the Eighth Doctor added later. The original TV actors play the roles, and many companions from the original series also took part, again played by their original actors. As of 2016, Big Finish has produced hundreds of audio dramas featuring the first eight Doctors. In 2015, the company obtained the rights to feature Doctors and characters from the Modern Era and immediately announced plans for audio dramas featuring the War Doctor, Tenth Doctor and supporting characters such as River Song and Kate Stewart. The 1989-2005 "interregnum" also saw the production of numerous independent made-for-video productions featuring characters that were licensed directly from their creators, rather than from the BBC.

The Doctor could not be featured in any of these (as the BBC owned the rights to the character), but it was still possible for productions to be made such as Downtime, which featured the Classic Era characters Victoria Waterfield, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Sarah Jane Smith, again played by their original actors. A series of productions called P.R.O.B.E. saw Caroline John reprise her 1970 role of Liz Shaw in a series that had some similarities to the later official spin-off, Torchwood. New Who LJ icon featuring the Ninth Doctor and one of his catch phrases, design by kyizi In 2005, the BBC revived the series with Russell T. Davies as head writer and executive producer. The new series, filmed in Wales and made by BBC Wales, continued from the canon of the original series without substantial changes. The format of the show was altered from the multi-episode arcs to the more common television standard of mostly stand-alone episodes. Season running plot arcs—such as the one that launched the idea of Torchwood —are woven into the plot of episodes throughout the series.

Steven Moffat was a contributing writer from the beginning of Davies' tenure, and the BBC announced in May 2008 that Moffat would be taking over from Russell T Davies as head writer and executive producer for the revived show's fifth series, to be broadcast in 2010.

(Moffat and collaborator Mark Gatiss are also responsible for the BBC Sherlock , which is also a fan favorite, though in both cases, fans sometimes take issue with the showrunners' choices.) New Who has featured three Doctors and three actors as well as six main companions (almost all women): Rose Tyler - an ordinary girl who falls in love with the Doctor Martha Jones - a bright medical student who develops unrequited feelings for the Doctor Donna Noble - a feisty temp from Chiswick, the Doctor's "mate" and pal Amy Pond - who first met the Doctor as a small child and obsessed over him Rory Williams - the young man very much in love with Amy Pond Clara Oswald - an impossible girl who has a profound impact on the Doctor throughout his lives and leads him to obsess over her safety The Doctor has had several (potential) love interests in the New series, including Madame de Pompadour, River Song , and Clara Oswald , with River Song actually wedding the Doctor at one point. The series also broke from the original by establishing the possibility of romance between the Doctor and some of his companions. Fandom, however, is divided over this.

A few male companions have been along for shorter rides, including Captain Jack Harkness , Mickey Smith , and Wilfred Mott . In addition to the three "official" Doctors, in 2013 the series also revealed the existence of a previously unknown "unnumbered" incarnation between the eighth and ninth Doctors, known as the War Doctor. Both Classic Who and the new series are broadcast pre-watershed (before 9 pm) which means they are intended as family programming, suitable for children. [4] Fanworks, Tropes and Trends This article or section needs expansion . Discussion and Controversy Regarding the 12th Doctor Every time the Doctor has been recast has generated controversy. The announcement of the casting of the twelfth Doctor in 2013 was a particular sore spot for fans who had wanted a female Doctor, not only because another white man had been cast, but also due to comments by TPTB and others declaring why they didn't want a female Doctor.

An Open Letter to the Doctor Who Fandom , posted July 2013, "If you don’t see why regenerating into a woman would be only be “credible” or valuable to the narrative if it was the symptom of a plague that needs to be “cured” is offensive as all get out to female viewers and female-allies, you are currently demonstrating what the root of this problem is with this discussion currently: There is nothing wrong with being a woman, and a woman is not a terrible, inferior being." [5] Sexism of NewWho One of the more common controversies between Russell T. Davies and Steven Moffat arcs is the differences between the female characters during Davies' time and Moffat's time. Some fans had trouble connecting with Moffat's direction of the series, while others adored it. There were fans that couldn't quite connect with River Song or Amy Pond . Moffat is often criticized for not being able to write in-depth female characters and their relationships with men. In 2014 a universal study was done to see the differences. It tested the The Bechdel Test between the companions of Davies' era and Moffat's (Rose, Martha, Donna, Amy, and River).

It tested the companion's Bechdel test and companion's speaking time, along with the overall companion speaking time, female speaking time, and number of female speaking roles. According to the study, Moffat failed. University Study on Sexism In BBC’s Doctor Who Doctor Who Fandom Doctor Who has one of the oldest media fandoms. See Doctor Who Offline Fandom for information about the physical manifestations of the fandom; Doctor Who Online Fandom for the internet fandom. The main off-Livejournal archive for Doctor Who fanfic is A Teaspoon and an Open Mind , which also includes fanfic for all Doctor Who spinoffs. This archive was created before the new series began. The show's current star, Peter Capaldi, is notable in this regard for not only being a longtime fan of the series, but it is documented that he attempted to take over the official Doctor Who Fan Club in the early 1970s, when he was a teenager, and corresponded with the show's then-producer, Barry Letts, at one point even being gifted with scripts from a yet-to-be-broadcast Third Doctor episode. Australian Fandom .

Spin-off Fandoms The television show Torchwood was spun-off of the "new" Doctor Who around the character of Captain Jack Harkness . Though characters like Captain Jack and Martha Jones have crossed over between the two shows, many fandom communities focus on only one show or the other. Torchwood is designed for a more adult audience than the family-friendly Doctor Who. The Sarah Jane Adventures is another television spin-off with Sarah Jane Smith —who was a companion of the Third and Fourth Doctors in the 1970s and made guest appearances on New Who—as its main character. It is designed for a younger audience than Doctor Who. Big Finish creates a number of audio dramas based upon the Doctor Who franchise. These are fully licensed productions featuring original TV cast members. Up until 2015 the company was restricted to only using characters and concepts up to the Eighth Doctor. In 2015, its licence expanded to include Torchwood and "modern era" Doctors and characters up to the end of the Eleventh Doctor. A 2013 "mini-episode", "The Night of the Doctor", established that at least the stories featuring the Eighth Doctor were considered part of the TV canon.

Fanzines "The first British fanzine appeared in 1975. This was TARDIS. It comprised twelve photocopied pages and cost a meagre 5 pence. The second issue of TARDIS appeared three months later. The page count had now risen to twenty pages for 8 pence... The second issue of TARDIS was the first to include a letters page and thus what can be described as the first real communication between fans." [6]

Question: What is the name of Rose Tyler’s boyfriend in the UK television series ‘Doctor Who’?
Answer: Mickey Smith