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While in-house production concluded, the BBC explored an independent production company to relaunch the series. Philip Segal, a British expatriate who worked for Columbia Pictures' television arm in the United States, had approached the BBC as early as July 1989, while the 26th season was still in production. [18] Segal's negotiations eventually led to a Doctor Who television film as a pilot for an American series, broadcast on the Fox Network in 1996, as an international co-production between Fox, Universal Pictures, the BBC and BBC Worldwide. Starring Paul McGann as the Doctor, the film was successful in the UK (with 9.1million viewers), but was less so in the United States and did not lead to a series. [18] See also: List of Doctor Who audio releases, List of Doctor Who audiobooks, and List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish

It has won the Short Form of the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, the oldest science fiction/fantasy award for films and series, six times since 2006. The winning episodes were " The Empty Child"/" The Doctor Dances" (2006), " The Girl in the Fireplace" (2007), " Blink" (2008), " The Waters of Mars" (2010), " The Pandorica Opens"/" The Big Bang" (2011), and " The Doctor's Wife" (2012). [266] [267] [268] [269] The 2016 Christmas special " The Return of Doctor Mysterio" was also a finalist for the 2017 Hugo Awards. [270] Doctor Who star Matt Smith won Best Actor in the 2012 National Television awards alongside Karen Gillan, who won Best Actress. Doctor Who has been nominated for over 200 awards and has won over a hundred of them. a b "Doctor Who Episode List". BBC. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012 . Retrieved 26 October 2013. Since 1999, Big Finish Productions has released several different series of Doctor Who audios on CD. The earliest of these featured the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors, with Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor joining the line in 2001. Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor began appearing for Big Finish in 2012. Along with the main range, adventures of the First, Second and Third Doctors have been produced in both limited cast and full cast formats, as well as audiobooks. The 2013 series Destiny of the Doctor, produced as part of the series' 50th-anniversary celebrations, marked the first time Big Finish created stories (in this case audiobooks) featuring the Doctors from the revived show. Along with this, in May 2016, the Tenth Doctor, David Tennant, appeared alongside Catherine Tate in a collection of three audio adventures. In August 2020, Big Finish announced a new series of audios beginning release in May 2021, featuring Christopher Eccleston reprising his role as the Ninth Doctor. [237]So that means they need to make sure the patient has had all the right tests and scans done before the operation so that they’re fully prepped to go under the knife. We had to rely on the story because there was little we could do with the effects. Star Wars in a way was the turning point. Once Star Wars had happened, Doctor Who effectively was out of date from that moment on really, judged by that level of technological expertise. Writer Terry Nation, Director Derek Martinus, Producer Verity Lambert (9 October 1965). " Mission to the Unknown". Doctor Who. London. BBC. BBC One. Howe, David J.; Walker, Stephen James (2004). The Television Companion: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who (2nded.). Canterbury: Telos Publishing. ISBN 1-903889-51-0. Following the series revival in 2005, Derek Jacobi provided the character's reintroduction in the 2007 episode " Utopia". During that story, the role was then assumed by John Simm, who returned to the role multiple times throughout the Tenth Doctor's tenure. [135] As of the 2014 episode " Dark Water", it was revealed that the Master had become a female incarnation or "Time Lady", going by the name of "Missy" (short for Mistress, the feminine equivalent of "Master"). This incarnation is played by Michelle Gomez. Simm returned to his role as the Master alongside Gomez in the tenth series. [136] The Master returned for the 2020 twelfth series with Sacha Dhawan in the role. [137] The character had dubbed himself the "Spy Master" referencing a role he had taken with MI6.

Doctor Who is one of the five top-grossing titles for BBC Worldwide, the BBC's commercial arm. [167] BBC Worldwide CEO John Smith has said that Doctor Who is one of a small number of "Superbrands" which Worldwide will promote heavily. [168] I try to do that in all of my work. Put those little tidbits in. Like getting a taxi: even now, in London, I will ask my wife to go out and get the taxi. Those little details about how we interact with the world are important. And my experience working on Doctor Who is that they will listen to him, because they’re a really good bunch over there.Ley, Shaun (29 May 2013). "Was Doctor Who rubbish in the 1980s?". BBC News. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020 . Retrieved 9 May 2020. BBC– Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide– The Deadly Assassin". BBC. Archived from the original on 30 March 2014 . Retrieved 25 October 2013. It’s at this point that junior doctors are broadly committing themselves to either a medical or surgical specialty.

A BBC audience research survey conducted in 1972 found that, by their own definition of violence ("any act[s] which may cause physical and/or psychological injury, hurt or death to persons, animals or property, whether intentional or accidental") Doctor Who was the most violent of the drama programmes the corporation produced at the time. [36] The same report found that 3% of the surveyed audience believed the series was "very unsuitable" for family viewing. [37] Responding to the findings of the survey in The Times newspaper, journalist Philip Howard maintained that, "to compare the violence of Dr Who, sired by a horse-laugh out of a nightmare, with the more realistic violence of other television series, where actors who look like human beings bleed paint that looks like blood, is like comparing Monopoly with the property market in London: both are fantasies, but one is meant to be taken seriously." [36] One of the most sought-after lost episodes is part four of the last William Hartnell serial, The Tenth Planet (1966), which ends with the First Doctor transforming into the Second. The only portion of this in existence, barring a few poor-quality silent 8mm clips, is the few seconds of the regeneration scene, as it was shown on the children's magazine show Blue Peter. [89] With the approval of the BBC, efforts are now underway to restore as many of the episodes as possible from the extant material. Nguyen, Jessie (28 September 2022). " 'Doctor Who': 16 Iconic Celebrities You May Forget Starred on the Show". Collider . Retrieved 27 September 2023.Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide– The Brain of Morbius". BBC. Archived from the original on 19 January 2013 . Retrieved 25 October 2013. BBC– Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide– Season 8". BBC. Archived from the original on 1 April 2014 . Retrieved 25 October 2013. McEwan, Cameron K. (3 December 2018). "Doctor Who star Peter Davison thinks he 'dodged a bullet' by quitting when he did". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020 . Retrieved 9 May 2020. The programme's first serial, An Unearthly Child, shows that the Doctor has a granddaughter, Susan Foreman. In the 1967 serial, The Tomb of the Cybermen, when Victoria Waterfield doubts the Doctor can remember his family because of "being so ancient", the Doctor says that he can when he really wants to—"The rest of the time they sleep in my mind". The 2005 series reveals that the Ninth Doctor thought he was the last surviving Time Lord and that his home planet had been destroyed; in " The Empty Child" (2005), Dr. Constantine states, "Before the war even began, I was a father and a grandfather. Now I am neither." The Doctor remarks in response, "Yeah, I know the feeling." In " Smith and Jones" (2007), when asked if he had a brother, he replied, "No, not any more." In both " Fear Her" (2006) and " The Doctor's Daughter" (2008), he states that he had, in the past, been a father. Doctor Who is Saturday night hit". BBC. Archived from the original on 19 December 2019 . Retrieved 24 October 2013.

This could be patients who’ve been referred in by GPs because they think they might need an operation, or the longer-term follow-up for patients who had an operation and then were subsequently discharged from hospital.

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ICONS. A Portrait of England". Archived from the original on 3 November 2007 . Retrieved 10 November 2007. The show has received recognition as one of Britain's finest television programmes, winning the 2006 British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series and five consecutive (2005–2010) awards at the National Television Awards during Russell T Davies' tenure as executive producer. [252] [253] In 2011, Matt Smith became the first Doctor to be nominated for a BAFTA Television Award for Best Actor, and in 2016, Michelle Gomez became the first female to receive a BAFTA nomination for the series, getting a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her work as Missy. If someone comes into hospital with a chest infection, and then goes on to develop appendicitis, they’re going to need an operation to take their appendix out.