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Doctor Who 's first Christmas special, "The Christmas Invasion", was watched by 9.84 million viewers upon its premiere on 25 December 2005, [2] [3] and, as of 2010, was the ninth-highest figure for an episode of Doctor Who since its 2005 revival. [139]
On 14 August, Baverstock agreed to 13 weeks, with the possibility of an additional 13; [10] on 21 August, he agreed to a full 26 weeks, [11] and in January 1965, he extended it to 35 weeks, with four more episodes added to the second season and the final five held back for the following season. [12]
This season also introduced the character of Harry Sullivan portrayed by Ian Marter as a companion; this character was intended to undertake action scenes, during the period prior to Tom Baker being cast, when it was unclear how old the actor playing the new Doctor would be.
Season / Series Era Doctor Episodes Stories Originally released (UK) Average viewers (millions) Average AI; First released Last released; Season 1: Classic era: First Doctor: 42: 8: 23 November 1963 () 12 September 1964 () 8.08: 59: Season 2: 39: 9: 31 October 1964 () 24 July 1965 () 10.46: 54: Season 3: 45: 10
The Doctor theorises that millions of Cybermen coming through from the parallel Earth to the Earth in the Doctor's universe is beginning the process that will lead to both planets falling into the Void. The Doctor explains that Pete is dead in his universe, [N 3] but Pete's wife Jackie is alive.
The Rescue is the third serial of the second season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Written by outgoing story editor David Whitaker and directed by Christopher Barry, the serial was broadcast on BBC1 in two weekly parts on 2 January and 9 January 1965.
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.
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.