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The further adventures in time and space of the alien adventurer known as the Doctor and their companions from planet Earth.

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Sydney Newman
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Series cast summary:
Matt Smith ...  The Doctor 46 episodes, 2010-2020
David Tennant ...  The Doctor / ... 51 episodes, 2005-2020
Peter Capaldi ...  The Doctor / ... 42 episodes, 2008-2020
Nicholas Briggs ...  Daleks / ... 39 episodes, 2005-2021
Jon Davey Jon Davey ...  Cyberman / ... 1 episode, 2006-2020
Jenna Coleman ...  Clara / ... 38 episodes, 2012-2020
Paul Kasey ...  Ood Sigma / ... 36 episodes, 2005-2020
Karen Gillan ...  Amy Pond / ... 35 episodes, 2008-2020
Billie Piper ...  Rose Tyler / ... 35 episodes, 2005-2020
Jodie Whittaker ...  The Doctor 32 episodes, 2017-2021
Mandip Gill ...  Yasmin Khan 30 episodes, 2018-2021
Arthur Darvill ...  Rory / ... 27 episodes, 2010-2020
Simon Carew Simon Carew ...  Cyberman / ... 3 episodes, 2012-2020
Bradley Walsh ...  Graham O'Brien 22 episodes, 2018-2021
Tosin Cole ...  Ryan Sinclair 22 episodes, 2018-2021
Ruari Mears Ruari Mears ...  Cyberman / ... 7 episodes, 2006-2013
Freema Agyeman ...  Martha Jones / ... 20 episodes, 2006-2017
Barnaby Edwards Barnaby Edwards ...  Dalek Operator / ... 19 episodes, 2005-2021
Matthew Rohman Matthew Rohman ...  Cyberman / ... 3 episodes, 2008-2020
Catherine Tate ...  Donna Noble / ... 17 episodes, 2006-2020
Alex Kingston ...  River Song 15 episodes, 2008-2020
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The Doctor, a Time Lord/Lady from the race whose home planet is Gallifrey, travels through time and space in their ship the T.A.R.D.I.S. (an acronym for Time and Relative Dimension In Space) with numerous companions. From time to time The Doctor regenerates into a new form (which is how the series has been running since the departure of the original actor, William Hartnell, in 1966). Written by Chris Wright

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Fifth Doctor Peter Davison has said he considers this series an improvement on the original, not only because of its budget and digital effects, but also because the series is produced by a writer, unlike the original series, which was always produced by a BBC staff producer who was assisted by a script editor. Davison has said that Rose, played by Billie Piper, was the first properly developed companion in the history of the series, and he expressed admiration for the sexual "frisson" and "tension" which was previously disallowed between the Doctor and his companions. He said he was "rather envious" of the French kissing the new Doctors got to do because his producer, John Nathan-Turner, had considered it inappropriate for the Fifth Doctor to even put his arms around his female companions in case viewers thought there was something sexual going on. Davison has also said he prefers the orchestral musical compositions by Murray Gold to the electronic incidental music produced by the Radiophonic Workshop during his time on the series. See more »

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[series 1 trailer]
The Ninth Doctor: Do you wanna come with me? 'Cause if you do then I should warn you, you're gonna see all sorts of things. Ghosts from the past; Aliens from the future; the day the Earth died in a ball of flame; It won't be quiet, it won't be safe, and it won't be calm. But I'll tell you what it will be: the trip of a lifetime.
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Crazy Credits

Each episode has a pre-credits sequence, and a trailer for the following episode at the end. Episode one has no pre-credits sequence(except for 5.1 " The Eleventh Hour", and episode thirteen has no trailer. See more »

Alternate Versions

Season 8 in Australia is PG on television, and M on DVD. Science fiction themes and violence being the reason. See more »

Connections

Referenced in Wiedzmin 3: Dziki Gon (2015) See more »

Soundtracks

Doctor Who Theme
Written by Ron Grainer
Performed by BBC National Orchestra of Wales
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Blew the mind of an uninitiated, long time sci-fi lover
9 July 2010 | by niktemadurSee all my reviews

For as long as I can remember, I've heard about the good Doctor, references, inside jokes and the like. Such as "Real Daleks don't climb stairs, they flatten the building".

The quandary was this: Where do I begin, with thousands of episodes aired? I was afraid of getting myself into something deep, dense, voluminous and possibly repetitive, impossible to get back out of.

The very simple yet belated answer was, of course, by accident.

On one of those sleepless nights, flipping channels, I saw astronauts in a Victorian library, and was immediately intrigued by the weird homage to Kubrick. Before the commercial break, I was treated to electronic ghosts and invisible floating piranhas.

Then this absolute beauty comes up, I paraphrase - "You've been living in a computer simulation, your physical body is elsewhere" - "But I've been dieting"

Bleak, subtle and sophisticated humor? Check, and count me in.

As it turned out, I had stumbled into the middle of a Sy-Fy Channel short marathon of Doctor Who. I resisted going to sleep until the damn thing ended five or six episodes later, at ten in the morning.

What wildly imaginative premises, what a high-quality level of writing, what a gem this is! There is serious brain-power at work here, courtesy of the BBC yet again, on a continuing heroic mission to sacrifice short-term profit for long-term legacy. As evidence, I present "Monty Python's Flying Circus", "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", "The Singing Detective", "Brideshead Revisited".

From what little I've seen in half of a short marathon, Doctor Who deserves a ten out of ten.


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Language:

English

Release Date:

5 April 2005 (Canada) See more »

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Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$228,615, 5 January 2020

Gross USA:

$76,205

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$76,205
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Technical Specs

Runtime:

| (48 episodes) | (3 episodes) | (2 Episodes) | (Entire series)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital (Dolby 5.1)

Aspect Ratio:

2.00 : 1
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