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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:2020 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.- 1964 - Radio Times printed its first-ever Doctor Who-related cover (dated February 22-28) to promote the first episode of Marco Polo, "The Roof of the World".
- 1965 - "The Zarbi" was first broadcast on BBC1.
- 1965 - The part two of the TV Century 21 comic story Power Play was first published.
- 1971 - Episode four of The Mind of Evil was first broadcast on BBC1.
- 1971 - Part one of Gemini Plan was first published in Countdown's very first issue.
- 1992 - Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible was first published by Virgin Books.
- 1992 - DWM 184 was released by Marvel Comics.
- 1997 - The Room With No Doors and A Device of Death were first published by Virgin Books.
- 2008 - Dead Man Walking was first broadcast on BBC Three, followed by Animal Pharm.
- 2008 - The Doctor Who: Battles in Time comic story Dusty Death was first published.
- 2009 - The Time Squad action figure range was first released by Character Options.
- 2011 - The London branch of the Doctor Who Experience exhibition opened. This included an interactive story.
- 2012 - The London branch of Doctor Who Experience closed, exactly one year after having opened.
- 2013 - DWDVDF 108 was first published by GE Fabbri Ltd.
- 2013 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 7 was released online.
- 2015 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 108 was released online.
- 2019 - Torchwood: God Among Us 2 was first released by Big Finish.
- 2020 - Time War: Volume Three was first released by Big Finish.
- ... that Love & Monsters director Dan Zeff was already a three-time BAFTA winner before he tackled the Abzorbaloff?
- ... that Horatio Nelson was someone whose historic deathdate the Second Doctor actively tried to change? (DAN: H.M.S. TARDIS)
- ... that the creation of Stonehenge was witnessed by the Doctor and Sam Jones, (PROSE: The People's Temple) although the Monk claimed to have assisted with its construction using anti-gravity lifts? (TV: "The Meddling Monk")
- ... that several different incarnations of the Doctor have all believed they temporarily possessed "the last dodo"? (PROSE: The Last Dodo, PROSE: Echo, COMIC: The Didus Expedition)
- ... that the Thalatth were a species with several radically different developmental stages, and that, when fully mature, they were known as Solarix Prizmatterflies, capable of flying through space? (COMIC: Hook, Line and Sinker)
- 1912 - Actor Gerald Cross was born.[1]
- 1913 - Director Rex Tucker was born.[2]
- 1925 - Actor George Waring was born.[3]
- 1939 - Actor Elroy Josephs was born.
- 1940 - Visual effects designer Ian Scoones was born.[4]
- 1954 - Actor Anthony Stewart Head was born.
- 1958 - Actor James Wilby was born.
- 1968 - Archive collector Philip Morris was born.
- 1978 - Actor Lauren Ambrose was born.
- 1983 - Actor Peter Glaze died.[5]
- 1990 - Actor Anjli Mohindra was born.
- 2007 - Actor Derek Waring died.[6]
- 2016 - Actor Jon Rollason died.[7]
- 1971 - Polystyle tried to appeal to an older audience than the Doctor Who comic strip had hitherto attracted in the pages of TV Comic. Moving to Countdown #1, Doctor Who comic strip production now centred around the narrative needs of older adolescents and teenagers, rather than children.
- 2004 - Recording for Arrangements for War took place at The Moat Studios.
- 2010 - A 3-D trailer for the Matt Smith era of Doctor Who, featuring specially-shot footage, debuted in UK cinemas.
- 2014 - Recording for Revenge of the Swarm took place at The Moat Studios.
- 2018 - Recording for Lady Christina: Series One took place at The Moat Studios.
- 2018 - Rage of the Time Lords was recorded.
