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Doctor Who

British science fiction TV series (1963–present)

This article is about the television series. For other uses, see Doctor Who (disambiguation).

Doctor Who

Title card (2024–present)

Genre
Created by
Showrunners
Written byVarious
Starring
Theme music composerRon Grainer
Opening themeDoctor Who theme music
Composers
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons26 (1963–1989)
No. of series14 (2005–present)
No. of episodes(list of episodes)
Executive producers
Camera setup
Running time
Production companiesBBC Studios Productions
Bad Wolf
NetworkBBC1[c]
Release23 November 1963 (1963-11-23) –
6 December 1989 (1989-12-06)
NetworkFox / BBC1[d]
Release14 May 1996 (1996-05-14) / 27 May 1996
NetworkBBC One[e]
Release26 March 2005 (2005-03-26) –
present (present)
NetworkDisney+[f]
Release25 November 2023 (2023-11-25) –
present (pre

History of Doctor Who

Production history British TV sci-fi series (1963–present)

This page is about the production history of the TV series Doctor Who. For a more general overview, see the main Doctor Who page. For more about the main character of the Doctor, see the The Doctor (Doctor Who). Pages regarding individual Doctors and the various series and serials are linked in the List of Doctor Who serials. For information about the Dalek films of the 1960s, see Dr. Who (Dalek films).

Doctor Who is a British television science fiction series, produced and screened by the BBC on the BBC TV channel from 1963 to 1964, and on BBC1 (later BBC One) from 1964 to 1989 and since 2005. A one-off television film, co-produced with Universal Pictures was screened on the Fox Network in the United States in 1996.

Origins

In March 1962, Eric Maschwitz, the Assistant and Adviser to the Controller of Programmes at BBC Television, asked Donald Wilson, the Head of the Script Department, to have his department's Survey Group prepare a study on the feasibility of the BBC produ

A Biography of the Doctor

Whilst many people have written chronologies of the Doctor Who Universe, or placed the stories in apparent internal chronological order, full biographies of the Doctor are few and far between. The biography is in two sections. The Timelines are simple lists of stories, flashbacks, and cameo appearances of the Doctor and his/her current companions in order, along with brief notes on what goes where. The full biography includes details of unrecorded adventures, tells you what happened, and goes into more detail about how it fits in.

We have a rating system to show you how certain we are about where the story goes.

5 The story is part of the ongoing series and there is no in-universe evidence that it was released out of order. The ongoing series could mean the TV Series, the Virgin New Adventures featuring the seventh Doctor, or the three separate ongoing series for the eighth Doctor (the books, comics, and audios could all legitimately claim to be the continuation of the Doctor's adventures).

4 The Doctor/Companion combination, other continuity refe

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