33 Facts About Dr Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme broadcast by the BBC since 1963.

Doctor Dr Who has spawned numerous spin-offs, including comic books, films, novels, audio dramas, and the television series Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, K9, and Class.

Doctor Dr Who follows the adventures of the title character, a rogue Time Lord with somewhat unknown origins who goes by the name "the Doctor".

Doctor Who first appeared on the BBC Television Service at 17:16:20 GMT on Saturday, 23 November 1963; this was eighty seconds later than the scheduled programme time, because of announcements concerning the previous day's assassination of John F Kennedy.

Once Star Wars had happened, Doctor Dr Who effectively was out of date from that moment on really, judged by that level of technological expertise.

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Dr Who had Colin Baker removed from the starring role in 1986.

BBC audience research survey conducted in 1972 found that, by their own definition of violence Doctor Dr Who was the most violent of the drama programmes the corporation produced at the time.

Doctor Dr Who originally ran for 26 seasons on BBC One, from 23 November 1963 until 6 December 1989.

Dr Who is shown in mini-episode "The Night of the Doctor" retroactively inserted into the show's fictional chronology between McGann and Eccleston's Doctors, although his introduction was written so as not to disturb the established numerical naming of the Doctors.

Dr Who was responsible for a new version of the theme which was reported to have had a hostile reception from some viewers.

Versions of the "Doctor Dr Who Theme" have been released as pop music over the years.

Many of the stories of the William Hartnell period were scored by electronic music pioneer Tristram Cary, whose Doctor Dr Who credits include The Daleks, Marco Polo, The Daleks' Master Plan, The Gunfighters and The Mutants.

Dr Who made a cameo appearance in The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

Dr Who pressed 1,000 copies of the set on "Metallic Silver" vinyl, dubbed the "Cyberman Edition".

Premiering the day after the assassination of John F Kennedy, the first episode of Doctor Who was repeated with the second episode the following week.

Doctor Dr Who has always appeared initially on the BBC's mainstream BBC One channel, where it is regarded as a family show, drawing audiences of many millions of viewers; episodes were repeated on BBC Three, before its transition to an online-only channel.

Doctor Dr Who has been broadcast internationally outside of the United Kingdom since 1964, a year after the show first aired.

Doctor Dr Who is one of the five top-grossing titles for BBC Worldwide, the BBC's commercial arm.

BBC Worldwide CEO John Smith has said that Doctor Dr Who is one of a small number of "Superbrands" which Worldwide will promote heavily.

Series 1 through 3 of Doctor Dr Who were broadcast on various NHK channels from 2006 to 2008 with Japanese subtitles.

Concept art for an animated Doctor Dr Who series was produced by animation company Nelvana in the 1980s, but the series was not produced.

Doctor Dr Who has been satirised and spoofed on many occasions by comedians including Spike Milligan and Lenny Henry.

References to Doctor Dr Who have appeared in the young adult fantasy novels Brisingr and High Wizardry, the video game Rock Band, the Adult Swim comedy show Robot Chicken, the Family Guy episodes "Blue Harvest" and "420", and the game RuneScape.

Doctor Dr Who has been a reference in several political cartoons, from a 1964 cartoon in the Daily Mail depicting Charles de Gaulle as a Dalek to a 2008 edition of This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow in which the Tenth Doctor informs an incredulous character from 2003 that the Democratic Party will nominate an African-American as its presidential candidate.

Since its beginnings, Doctor Dr Who has generated hundreds of products related to the show, from toys and games to collectible picture cards and postage stamps.

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Ten years later, the first original Doctor Dr Who audio was released on LP record; Doctor Dr Who and the Pescatons featuring the Fourth Doctor.

In 2022, BBC Sounds began airing Doctor Dr Who: Redacted, a 10-episode podcast written by Juno Dawson and starring Charlie Craggs and Jodie Whittaker.

Doctor Dr Who books have been published from the mid-sixties through to the present day.

Doctor Dr Who: Battle of Time was a digital collectible card game developed by Bandai Namco Entertainment and released for iOS and Android.

In 2000, Doctor Dr Who was ranked third in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century, produced by the British Film Institute and voted on by industry professionals.

In 2004 and 2007, Doctor Dr Who was ranked number 18 and number 22 on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever.

In 2009, Doctor Dr Who was voted the 3rd greatest show of the 2000s by Channel 4, behind Top Gear and The Apprentice.

Doctor Dr Who has been nominated for over 200 awards and has won over a hundred of them.