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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.
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.
Title Channel First broadcast Notes Doctor Who: One 23 November 1963 – 6 December 1989 27 May 1996 (film): Co-production with Fox: 26 March 2005 – present (revival): Co-production with Disney+ (series 14–present)
British television science fiction refers to programmes in the genre that have been produced by both the BBC and Britain's largest commercial channel, ITV.BBC's Doctor Who is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running science fiction television show in the world, [1] and has been called the "most successful" science fiction series of all time.
The Whoniverse is a British media franchise and shared universe consisting of the BBC television series Doctor Who, its spin-offs, [1] and other associated media. [2] [3] The shared universe nature was established by crossing over common plot elements, settings, cast, and characters, usually deriving from the main programme.
Torchwood is a British-American science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies.A spin-off of the 2005 revival of Doctor Who, it aired from 2006 to 2011.The show shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from BBC Three to BBC Two to BBC One, and acquiring American financing in its fourth series when it became a co-production of BBC One ...
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC.Having ceased broadcasting in 1989, it resumed in 2005.The 2005 revival traded the earlier multi-episode serial format of the original series for a run of self-contained episodes, interspersed with occasional multi-part stories and structured into loose story arcs.
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.