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Planet of the Dead was the first of the 2009 specials that ended David Tennant's tenure as the Doctor. It teamed the Tenth Doctor up with an aristocratic thief named Lady Christina De Souza for a one-off adventure that also heavily involved UNIT. Behind the scenes, it was important for a number of innovations, as it was the first episode to be filmed in HD, and the first to involve location filming in the Middle East. As of 2013, it was the only Doctor Who Easter special.
Think Doctor Who is just for boys? Don't you believe it. Not only was the show's very first producer a woman, but it would never have come back without the fierce advocacy of Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner. Considering her importance to Doctor Who it's somewhat ironic that Tranter's only on-screen credits are for Torchwood: Miracle Day. But Gardner, her "partner in crime", is tied only with Russell T Davies as the most prolific producer in Doctor Who history.
The careers of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors are significantly longer in audio than on television. Check out their latest works at category:2019 audio stories
Officially, only The Lodger has been explicitly adapted from a comic strip — also called The Lodger.
However, several stories have clearly taken material from comic strips — often those in Doctor Who Magazine. The Shakespeare Code contains a good amount of material from A Groatsworth of Wit, and the notion of the Doctor absorbing the time vortex in order to spare a companion was explored in both The Parting of the Ways and The Flood.
Donald Baverstock was the BBC executive who set the the wheels in motion that eventually led to the creation of Doctor Who. Essentially the original commissioner of the programme, he hired Sydney Newman and later imposed a sense of financial responsibility upon producer Verity Lambert.
But Baverstock wasn't the only BBC executive to have a profound impact on the development of Doctor Who. Make sure you read about Lorraine Heggessey, Mark Thompson, Danny Cohen, George Entwistle, Tony Hall, Shaun Sutton, Sydney Newman and others.- 1967 - Episode one of The Evil of the Daleks was first broadcast on BBC1.
- 1967 - Part three of the TV Comic story The Exterminator was first published.
- 1972 - Episode one of The Time Monster was first broadcast on BBC1.
- 1972 - Part four of the TV Action comic story A Stitch in Time was first published.
- 1976 - The novelisation of Revenge of the Cybermen was released by Target Books.
- 1978 - Part seven of the TV Comic story Guardian of the Tomb was first published.
- 1982 - The novelisation of The Keeper of Traken was first released by Target Books.
- 1993 - Lucifer Rising was first published by Virgin Books.
- 2002 - The Ambassadors of Death was released on VHS.
- 2004 - The anthology Short Trips: Past Tense was first published by Big Finish.
- 2006 - The Age of Steel was first broadcast on BBC One. Later, From Zero to Hero aired on BBC Three. Also, Tardisode 7 was released online.
- 2009 - The anthology Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus was first published by Obverse Books.
- 2009 - DWDVDF 10 was first published by GE Fabbri Ltd.
- 2010 - The Doctor Who Adventures comic story Track Attack was first published.
- 2013 - The box set Doctor Who: Series 7, Part 2 was released in the UK.
- 2015 - The first part of Titan Comics' comic story Conversion was first published.
- 2015 - The Titan Comics comic story Bow-ties for Goal Posts was first published.
- 2015 - Last of the Cybermen was first released by Big Finish.
- 2016 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 170 was released online.
- 2017 - Extremis was first broadcast on BBC One.
- ... that costumer June Hudson — although closely associated with the clothing for Lalla Ward's Romana and the season 18 costume for the Fourth Doctor — also designed the iconic white outfit for Mary Tamm's Romana in The Ribos Operation?
- ... that Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer were both responsible for the song, "Enough Is Enough"? (PROSE: Wetworld)
- ... that the Malicious Damage Act 1861 applies to lighthouses — at least according to the Fourth Doctor? (TV: Horror of Fang Rock)
- ... that Susan was once prevented from drowning by the then-retired Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart? (PROSE: The Gift)
- ... that Baaraddelskelliumfatrexius Beasts were giant, squirrel-like creatures that Raxacoricofallapatorians hunted to extinction? (TV: The Revenge of the Slitheen)
- 1915 - Actor Peter Copley was born.[source needed]
- 1926 - Writer John Lucarotti was born.[1]
- 1931 - Actor Michael Spice was born.[2]
- 1932 - Actor Vera Fusek was born.[3]
- 1961 - Actor Owen Teale was born.
- 1963 - Actor Jenny Funnell was born.
- 1966 - Associate producer Mervyn Pinfield died.[4][5][6]
- 1977 - Director Lennie Mayne died.[7]
- 1989 - Actor Judith Byfield died.
- 1996 - Actor Jon Pertwee died.[8]
- 2014- Actor Barbara Murray died. [9]
- 1966 - Episode two of The Savages was recorded at Riverside Studios 1. (TCH 8)
- 1967 - Episode two of The Evil of the Daleks was recorded at Lime Grove Studios D. (TCH 10)
- 2008 - It was announced Russell T Davies would step down as head writer and executive producer of Doctor Who; Steven Moffat would replace him.
- 2010 - Recording for The Invasion of E-Space took place at The Moat Studios.
- 2012 - Recording for New Frontiers took place at The Moat Studios.
- 2013 - Recording for Trial of the Valeyard took place at The Moat Studios.
