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Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known only as "The Doctor". It is also the title of a 1996 television movie featuring the same character. It is common to see the show's title abbreviated as Dr. Who, even by the BBC, although purists consider this form incorrect.
The programme is a significant part of British popular culture, widely recognised for its creative storytelling and use of innovative music (originally produced by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop). It is also known for its innovative use of low-budget special effects for most of its history. Elements of the programme are extremely well known and identifiable even to non-fans. In Britain and elsewhere, the show has become a cult television favourite on a par with Star Trek and has influenced generations of British television writers, many of whom grew up watching the series. Doctor Who was ranked third in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the twentieth century, produced by the British Film Institute in 2000 and voted on by industry professionals.
After a long period off screen, a new series of Doctor Who began in 2005, continuing the programme from the original 1963–1989 run and the 1996 television movie. It is produced in-house by BBC Wales with some development money contributed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). A critical and ratings success, the revived programme has finished its second series, with a Christmas special produced for and aired on Christmas 2006, and a third series to follow in 2007.
Selected article
Many episodes of the long-running British science fiction television programme Doctor Who are missing, with no known film or videotape copies existing. They were erased (or "junked") by the BBC during the 1960s and 70s for a variety of commercial and space-saving reasons. In all, 108 of 253 episodes produced during the first six years of the programme are not currently held in the BBC's archives, although the situation was much worse in the past before episodes were recovered from a variety of sources.
Efforts to recover the missing episodes continue, both by the BBC and by fans of the series. Extensive restoration has been carried out on many surviving and recovered 1960s episodes for release on VHS and more recently on DVD. The surviving soundtracks of missing episodes have been released on CD.
Did you know...
...that Doctor Who is the longest-running science fiction television series in the world?
...that the Doctor Who theme music was originally realised by manually assembling sounds on magnetic tape?
...that Doctor Who spoofs range from a 1964 novelty Christmas single by the Go-Go's called "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek" to two sketches on Saturday Night Live?
...that The Christmas Invasion, broadcast on Christmas Day 2005, was the first Doctor Who Christmas special to be explicitly labelled as one?
...that Torchwood was the first spin-off from Doctor Who since the pilot for K-9 and Company in 1981?
...that an animated Doctor Who serial, The Infinite Quest, will air in 2007 as part of the children's magazine show Totally Doctor Who?
...that "torchwood" is an anagram of "Doctor Who"?
Selected story
Doomsday (first broadcast on 8 July 2006). Humanity is caught in the crossfire as the Cybermen and the Daleks wage war against each other. When the mysterious Genesis Ark opens, the Tenth Doctor is faced with an impossible decision: saving the world could mean losing Rose Tyler forever…
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Television stories - Spin-offs - Audio plays - Books
Characters - Companions - Time Lords - Races - Audio characters - Book characters - Comic strip characters - United Nations Intelligence Taskforce
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