Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963. The programme depicts the adventures of a Time Lord, an extraterrestrial being, who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. In 2017 Jodie Whittaker became the first woman to play the role of the Doctor, in the series that ran from 1963 to 1989.
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Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963. The programme depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called \”the Doctor\”, an extraterrestrial being, who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, works to save civilisations and helps people in need. The show is a significant part of British popular culture, and elsewhere it has gained a cult following. Doctor Who has also spawned numerous spin-offs, including comic books, films, novels, audio dramas, and the television series Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, K-9, and Class. In 2017 Jodie Whittaker became the first woman to play the role of the Doctor, in the series that ran from 1963 to 1989. There was an unsuccessful attempt to revive regular production in 1996 with a backdoor pilot. The series was relaunched in 2005, and since then has been produced in-house by BBC Wales in Cardiff. Each actor’s portrayal is unique, but all represent stages in the life of the same character, and together, they form a single lifetime with a single narrative. The Doctor’s many incarnations often find events that pique their curiosity, and try to prevent evil forces from harming innocent people or changing history, using only ingenuity and minimal resources, such as the versatile sonic screwdriver. The Time Lord is centuries old and has the ability to regenerate in case of mortal damage to the body, taking on a new appearance, personality and gender identity.
He has gained numerous recurring enemies during their travels, including the Daleks, their creator Davros, the Cybermen, and the Master, another renegade Time Lord. The TARDIS has a vast interior but appears smaller on the outside, and is equipped with a chameleon circuit to make the machine take on the appearance of local objects as a disguise. Due to a malfunction, the doctor’s TARDIS remains fixed as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. It was originally intended to appeal to a family audience as an educational programme using time travel as a means to explore scientific ideas and history. On 31 July 1963, Terry Nation commissioned Terry Whitaker to write a story under the title The Mutants; it was not permitted to contain any ‘bug-eyed monsters’ The Daleks and Thals were the victims of an alien neutron bomb attack but later dropped the aliens and made the aliens the aggressors. When the script was presented to the script department, it was immediately rejected as the programme was not allowed to contain a lot of monsters. The first episode of Doctor Who first appeared on BBC TV at 17: 16: 20 GMT on Saturday, 23 November 1963; this was eighty seconds later than the scheduled programme time, because of the assassination of John F. Kennedy the previous day. It was to be a regular weekly programme, each episode 25 minutes of transmission length.
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