Doctor Who: The Satan Pit
The 721st episode of Doctor Who (the 23rd since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Danny Webb, Shaun Parks and Will Thorp guest star; this is the conclusion of a two-part story.
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Doctor Who: The Impossible Planet
The 720th episode of Doctor Who (the 22nd since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Danny Webb, Shaun Parks and Will Thorp guest star; this is the first part of a two-part story, and is the first appearance of the Ood.
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Doctor Who: The Idiot’s Lantern
The 719th episode of Doctor Who (the 21st since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1.
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Doctor Who: The Age Of Steel
The 718th episode of Doctor Who (the 20th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Roger Lloyd Pack and Shaun Dingwall guest star. This is the second part of the story begun in Rise Of The Cybermen.
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Doctor Who: Rise Of The Cybermen
The 717th episode of Doctor Who (the 19th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Roger Lloyd Pack and Don Warrington guest star. The Cybermen become the second classic series enemy to appear in the current series.
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Doctor Who: The Girl In The Fireplace
The 716th episode of Doctor Who (the 18th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Sophia Myles guest stars.
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Doctor Who: School Reunion
The 715th episode of Doctor Who (the 17th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Elisabeth Sladen reprises her classic series role of Sarah Jane Smith, the first non-enemy character from the original series to appear in the current series. John Leeson guest stars as the voice of K-9; Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy: The Vampire Slayer) also appears.
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Doctor Who: Tooth And Claw
The 714th episode of Doctor Who (the 16th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Pauline Collins and Derek Riddell guest star.
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Doctor Who: New Earth
The 713th episode of Doctor Who (the 15th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Zoe Wanamaker guest stars, and the Face of Boe speaks!
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Doctor Who action figures, wave 1
British toymaker Character Options releases the first wave of 5-inch action figures based on characters from the new Doctor Who series, including the ninth and tenth Doctors, Rose and K-9. The figures are identical to those included in Character’s Dalek infrared battle set.
Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion
The 712th episode of Doctor Who (the 14th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. David Tennant spends much of his first episode portraying an unconscious tenth Doctor, recovering from his regeneration; Penelope Wilton guest stars as Harriet Jones. This is the first episode of Doctor Who intended to be a Christmas special since 1965.
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Doctor Who: Children In Need Special
David Tennant and Billie Piper star in a “special scene” written and filmed for the BBC’s Children In Need telethon. Not a spoof sketch, the short “mini-episode” bridges the gap between The Parting Of The Ways and the upcoming Christmas special, The Christmas Invasion. Though it can be considered an official part of the storyline, this is not considered a standalone episode of Doctor Who.
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Doctor Who: The Parting Of The Ways
The 711th episode of Doctor Who (the 13th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. The ninth Doctor regenerates, making him the second shortest-lived incarnation of the Time Lord (after Paul McGann); even Colin Baker outlasted Eccleston in the role. John Barrowman and Paterson Joseph guest star; David Tennant makes his first brief appearance as the tenth Doctor.
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Doctor Who: Bad Wolf
The 710th episode of Doctor Who (the 12th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. John Barrowman and Paterson Joseph guest star.
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Doctor Who: Boom Town
The 709th episode of Doctor Who (the 11th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. John Barrowman and Annette Badland guest star.
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Doctor Who: The Doctor Dances
The 708th episode of Doctor Who (the tenth since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. John Barrowman guest stars in the conclusion of a two-part story written by future showrunner Steven Moffat. The episode goes on to win a Hugo Award.
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Doctor Who: The Empty Child
The 707th episode of Doctor Who (the ninth since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. John Barrowman guest stars in the first appearance of Captain Jack Harkness (a character who will later led the spinoff series Torchwood); this is the first episode of a two-part story and is the first non-parody Doctor Who episode written by future showrunner Steven Moffat. The episode goes on to win a Hugo Award.
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Doctor Who: Father’s Day
The 706th episode of Doctor Who (the eighth since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Shaun Dingwall guest stars.
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Doctor Who: The Long Game
The 705th episode of Doctor Who (the seventh since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Simon Pegg guest stars.
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Doctor Who: Dalek
The 704th episode of Doctor Who (the sixth since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Corey Johnson guest stars. This is the first appearance of the Daleks since the series relaunch, and the first episode to establish that the Doctor destroyed both the Daleks and the Time Lords at the end of the Time War.
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Doctor Who: World War Three
The 703rd episode of Doctor Who (the fifth since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Annette Badland guest stars. This is the conclusion of the new series’ first two-part story.
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Doctor Who: Aliens Of London
The 702nd episode of Doctor Who (the fourth since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Annette Badland and Naoko Mori (Torchwood) guest star. This is the first half of the new series’ first two-part story.
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Doctor Who: The Unquiet Dead
The 701st episode of Doctor Who (the third since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Simon Callow guest stars as Charles Dickens; future Torchwood star Eve Myles also guest stars.
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Doctor Who: The End Of The World
Just a week after the series’ revival, the 700th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Zoe Wanamaker and Yasmin Bannerman guest star.
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Doctor Who: Rose
After considerable fanfare and build-up, Doctor Who returns to BBC1 with its 699th episode. Rose opens the first season of the revived show and introduced the ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and his companion Rose (Billie Piper), along with a host of supporting characters who reappear throughout the first two seasons. Thanks to a carefully managed publicity campaign, the new Doctor Who is a genuine hit with viewers and discussions of a Christmas special and a second season begin almost immediately at the BBC.
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Doctor Who returns… a bit too early
Weeks before its intended premiere date, the first episode of the revived Doctor Who arrives early, via a rough edit leaked to internet filesharing services. Eventually traced to a real preview copy in the hands of a Canadian broadcaster, the episode is missing the new version of the theme music, but is otherwise mostly complete. The BBC tracks down the source of the leak, all while realizing that fandom is now capable of acquiring more than just advance episode titles and photos early.
New Doctor Who filming begins
Filming begins on the new series of Doctor Who on location in Cardiff, Wales. Christopher Eccleston, the ninth Doctor, has yet to film his first scenes, however – the first week’s scenes focus on Billie Piper as the Doctor’s companion Rose Tyler, as well as an enemy that will be familiar to fans of the classic series in the Jon Pertwee era.Eccleston is expected to report to the set during the second week of shooting. The new series will debut in 2005 on the BBC.
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Daleks to be absent from new Who
The Daleks are out of the running for the ninth Doctor’s adventures, according to the BBC and Doctor Who‘s new producer, Russell T. Davies. Apparently it’s not just a matter of money either – the estate of Terry Nation (the late creator of the Daleks, Blake’s 7 and other classics of British SF TV) wants editorial input into the Daleks’ use in any new stories. But fear, not, Davies says: “We’re disappointed the Daleks won’t be included but we have a number of new and exciting monsters. And I can confirm we have created a new enemy for the Doctor which will keep viewers on the edge of their seats.”
Long-lost Doctor Who episode recovered
The BBC announces that a private collector has returned part two of the mostly-missing twelve-part Doctor Who story, The Daleks’ Master Plan, to its archives. Last seen in late 1965, the episode has been in the possession of the former chief engineer of the competing Yorkshire Television network ever since the early ’70s – when he snatched it from the BBC archives (where he was a trainee at the time) rather than destroying it as ordered. The 25-minute episode, subtitled Day Of Armageddon, is handed over to the Doctor Who Restoration Team, which oversees the preservation and restoration of past episodes for DVD release.
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Doctor Who returns
With its hand forced by a scoop in the London Daily Telegraph, the BBC confirms that plans are afoot to relaunch Doctor Who as a full television series for the first time since 1989. As the series has only just been commissioned, no casting decisions have been made yet, but the series is to be overseen by writer and producer Russell T. Davies, whose most high-profile project at the time is the gay-themed drama series Queer As Folk (though Davies also contributed a novel to the Doctor Who New Adventures book series in the late ’90s, and has been approached several times by Big Finish Productions to write a script for a Doctor Who audio story). Production won’t begin until sometime in 2004, with the series set to premiere in 2005. The BBC had planned to sit on the news until November 23rd, 2003 – the 40th anniversary of Doctor Who’s first broadcast.