Doctor Who: The Keys Of Marinus
The 26th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part six of the story now collectively known as The Keys Of Marinus. Geroge Colouris guest stars.
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Doctor Who: Sentence Of Death
The 25th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part five of the story now collectively known as The Keys Of Marinus. Geroge Colouris guest stars.
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Doctor Who: The Snows Of Terror
The 24th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part four of the story now collectively known as The Keys Of Marinus. Geroge Colouris guest stars.
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Doctor Who: The Screaming Jungle
The 23rd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part three of the story now collectively known as The Keys Of Marinus. Geroge Colouris guest stars.
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Doctor Who: The Velvet Web
The 22nd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as The Keys Of Marinus. Geroge Colouris guest stars.
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Doctor Who: The Sea Of Death
The 21st episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part one of the story now collectively known as The Keys Of Marinus. Geroge Colouris guest stars.
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Doctor Who: Assassin At Peking
The 20th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part seven of the story now collectively known as Marco Polo. The entirety of this story has since been lost by the BBC archives.
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Doctor Who: Mighty Kublai Khan
The 19th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part six of the story now collectively known as Marco Polo. The entirety of this story has since been lost by the BBC archives.
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Doctor Who: Rider From Shang-Tu
The 18th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part five of the story now collectively known as Marco Polo. The entirety of this story has since been lost by the BBC archives.
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Doctor Who: The Wall Of Lies
The 17th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part four of the story now collectively known as Marco Polo. The entirety of this story has since been lost by the BBC archives.
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Doctor Who: Five Hundred Eyes
The 16th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part three of the story now collectively known as Marco Polo. The entirety of this story has since been lost by the BBC archives.
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Doctor Who: The Singing Sands
The 15th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as Marco Polo. The entirety of this story has since been lost by the BBC archives.
This episode aired on February 29th of a leap year, and its anniversary therefore only occurs every four years!
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Doctor Who: The Roof Of The World
The 14th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part one of the story now collectively known as Marco Polo. The entirety of this story has since been lost by the BBC archives.
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Doctor Who: The Brink Of Disaster
The 13th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. The Brink Of Disaster is part two of the story now collectively known as The Edge Of Destruction, the first story – and one of very few in the series’ entire history – to take place entirely within the TARDIS. This episode completes the BBC’s initial commitment to produce 13 episodes of the series, and the ratings – partcularly where the Dalek episodes are concerned – have proven promising enough for the go-ahead to be given to continue production on the remainder of the first season.
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Doctor Who: The Edge Of Destruction
The 12th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the first part of the story now collectively known as The Edge Of Destruction, the first story – and one of very few in the series’ entire history – to take place entirely within the TARDIS.
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Doctor Who: The Rescue
The 11th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. The Rescue (not to be confused with the second-season story of the same name) is part seven of the story now collectively known as The Daleks, the first story to feature the Doctor’s future arch-rivals. In this story, paradoxically, the Doctor and his companions witness the extinction of the Daleks, as neither the BBC nor Terry Nation had anticipated the creatures’ popularity. Plans are already afoot to hire Nation to write a sequel featuring the Daleks; presumably all future stories featuring the Daleks take place before this one.
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Doctor Who: The Ordeal
The tenth episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. The Ordeal is part six of the story now collectively known as The Daleks, the first story to feature the Doctor’s future arch-rivals.
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Doctor Who: The Expedition
The ninth episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. The Expedition is part five of the story now collectively known as The Daleks, the first story to feature the Doctor’s future arch-rivals.
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Doctor Who: The Ambush
The eighth episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. The Ambush is part four of the story now collectively known as The Daleks, the first story to feature the Doctor’s future arch-rivals.
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Doctor Who: The Escape
The seventh episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. The Escape is part three of the story now collectively known as The Daleks, the first story to feature the Doctor’s future arch-rivals. The Daleks’ rivals on the planet Skaro, the Thals, are encountered for the first time.
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Doctor Who: The Survivors
The sixth episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. The Survivors is part two of the story now collectively known as The Daleks, the first story to feature the Doctor’s future arch-rivals. The Daleks are revealed in full, and their distinctive voices are heard, for the first time here, and schoolchildren begin imitating Daleks on playgrounds. Unexpected by anyone at the BBC, Doctor Who is suddenly a bona fide smash hit.
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Doctor Who: The Dead Planet
The fifth episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. The Dead Planet is part one of the story now collectively known as The Daleks, the first story to feature the Doctor’s future arch-rivals, in a script written by Terry Nation (who had only taken the job writing for Doctor Who when his steady gig writing material for comedian Tony Hancock came to an abrupt end). In this episode, only the “sucker cup” of a Dalek is seen in the closing seconds.
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Doctor Who: The Firemaker
The fourth episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. The Firemaker is part four of An Unearthly Child, taking the time travelers back to the struggle surrounding the discovery of fire.
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Doctor Who: The Forest Of Fear
The third episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. The Forest Of Fear is part three of An Unearthly Child, taking the time travelers back to the struggle surrounding the discovery of fire.
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Doctor Who: The Cave Of Skulls
The second episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. The Cave Of Skulls is part two of An Unearthly Child, taking the time travelers back to the struggle surrounding the discovery of fire.
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Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child
The first-ever episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. William Hartnell, Carole Ann Ford, William Russell and Jacqueline Hill star in An Unearthly Child, the first episode of a four-part story which launches the series. Though it’s a major television milestone in retrospect, much of the viewing audience is still reeling from the previous day’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and the series premiere goes unnoticed by many.
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Doctor Who: the original pilot
The original pilot episode of Doctor Who – version 1.0 of An Unearthly Child – is filmed at the BBC’s Lime Grove Studios. Though it’s substantially the same script as the televised version – barring a line claiming that the Doctor and Susan are from Earth in the 49th century (!) – problems with the sets and props necessitate a complete reshoot on October 18th.
Nothing at the end of the lane
Meetings commence at the BBC to hash out ideas for a new children’s science fiction series to be produced in-house, possibly involving a time machine, an aloof old man, a younger “man of action” character, a female scientist, and a younger woman. As the creative lightning rod of this series development, Sydney Newman begins to weed out ideas he considers unsuitable – such as giving these characters the roles of “science troubleshooters” working for the government – and homes in on the time travel idea, as well as the old man character, who emerges as a man of mystery. These are the first creative meetings from which the BBC’s Doctor Who will emerge.