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Doctor Who ' s first season received generally positive responses. For An Unearthly Child , Variety felt that the script "suffered from a glibness of characterisations which didn't carry the burden of belief", but praised the "effective camerawork", noting that the show "will impress if it decides to establish a firm base in realism". [ 137 ]
The first series of the 2005 revival of the British science fiction programme Doctor Who began on 26 March 2005 with the episode "Rose".This marked the end of the programme's 16 year absence from episodic television following its cancellation in 1989, and the first new televised Doctor Who story since the broadcast of the television movie starring Paul McGann in 1996.
This series centres on the true identity of River Song (who was introduced in series 4 and recurred in series 5, played by Alex Kingston), and the Doctor's "death". The original transmission of series 6 was split into two parts, with the first seven episodes airing April to June 2011 and the final six from late August to October 2011.
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. Doctor Who ceased broadcasting in 1989, then resumed in 2005.The original series (1963–1989), generally consists of multi-episode serials.
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Carole Ann Ford is also introduced as the Doctor's granddaughter Susan Foreman, who acts as his companion alongside her schoolteachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, portrayed by William Russell and Jacqueline Hill, respectively. Throughout the season, the Doctor and his companions travel throughout history and into the future.
Doctor Who follows the adventures of the title character, a rogue Time Lord with somewhat unknown origins who goes by the name "the Doctor".The Doctor fled Gallifrey, the planet of the Time Lords, in a stolen TARDIS ("Time and Relative Dimension(s) in Space"), a time machine that travels by materialising into, and dematerialising out of, the time vortex.
An Unearthly Child (sometimes referred to as 100,000 BC) [2] is the first serial of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.It was first broadcast on BBC TV in four weekly parts from 23 November to 14 December 1963.