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? That's The Doctor's...", 1973.
 * "Who girl bows out", Daily Mirror, 23 October 1976.
 * "I'll wear the trousers - Dr Who's new girl", 1978.
 * Radio Times covers from 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, and the Radio Times Doctor Who Special.

Captions
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
 * Doctor Who bursts onto UK television screens in colour for the first time
 * although 90% of viewers are still watching in black & white.
 * 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!
 * "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.
 * "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".
 * 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
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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