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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.
The Doctor's TARDIS as it looked between 2005 and 2010, on display at BBC Television Centre The Doctor's TARDIS as it looked between 2018 and Present. In the fictional universe of the Doctor Who television show, TARDISes are space- and time-travel vehicles of the Time Lords, an alien species from the planet Gallifrey.
The series stars an extraterrestrial known as The Doctor who is capable of changing their appearance when they die in a process known as regeneration. [4] They travel through time and space [5] in a machine known as the TARDIS. [6] In the process, the Doctor often comes into contact with various alien species. [5]
The title screen of the unaired pilot episode of Doctor Who. After actors Hugh David (later a director on the series) and Geoffrey Bayldon [16] had both turned down approaches to star in the series, Verity Lambert and the first serial's director Waris Hussein managed to persuade 55-year-old character actor William Hartnell to take the part of the Doctor.
The first line of dialogue Whithouse wrote was the Doctor's translation of the Minotaur's words: "An ancient creature, drenched in the blood of the innocent, drifting in space through an endless shifting maze. For such a creature, death would be a gift". [10] The Minotaur then tells the Doctor he was not talking about himself, but rather the ...
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.
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"The Stolen Tardis" (1979), a spin-off comic printed in issue No. 9 of Doctor Who Weekly (the original name of Doctor Who Magazine) also claims that "not everyone on Gallifrey is a Time Lord", [130] while a feature in issue No. 21 instead states that the Doctor is "a member of a race called the Time Lords". [131]