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Doctor Who (1963 - 1989)
Country of Origin: UK
Dates of Original Broadcast: 23 November 1963 - 6 December
1989
Number of Seasons: 26
Total Number of Episodes: 695
Average Episode Running Times:
Format: video/16mm
Colour Format: black and white/colour
Sound: mono/stereo
PLOT SUMMARY
A renegade Time Lord uses his police box shaped craft, the TARDIS,
to roam time and space with a constantly changing team of assistants
and helpers. Along the way, he repeatedly battles enemies like the power-crazed
Daleks, the half-man / half-machine Cybermen and fellow Time Lord renegade
The Master.
CAPSULE REVIEW
The British television institution that refuses to die, Doctor
Who is a sprawling epic of a show, taking in eight leading
men and spinning off its own TV specials and two movies and retaining
a hardcore fan base long after the BBC tried to kill it off. There are
even fans now who were too young to see the show when it was originally
broadcast - it's longevity is due to many factors but above all it's
down to the show's consistent high quality, its ability to rise above
the limitations of its budget with stories that appealed to both adult
and child alike. There has, quite simply, been nothing else like it
in television history and there probably never will.
EPISODES
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video
LINKS
SEQUELS
Doctor
Who (1996)
Doctor Who (2005 - )
SEE ALSO
Daleks: Invasion
Earth 2150 AD (1966)
Dr Who and the Daleks
(1965)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Doctor Who Confidential
(2005 - )
The Doctor Who Zone
KEYWORDS
aliens, monsters, time travel
Last Updated:
8 March, 2009
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