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Doctor Who Classic Series Panel Omnicon March 30, 2019 Cookeville, Tennessee Presented By Christopher L. Augustus Tennessee Technological University Alumni Former Alpha Psi Phi Member http://www.knology.net/~augustus/

Three Distinct Eras of Doctor Who ● Classic Series 1963 to 1989 ✓ ● Wilderness Years 1990 to 2004 ● New Series 2005 to Present

To Prevent Information Overload ● Almost No Spoilers! ● Talk Mostly About Broadcast TV Stories ● Keep Name Dropping to Minimum ● Will Name the Actors Who Played Doctors ● Call Companions by Character Names ● Watch "An Adventure in Space and Time" ● Part of the 50 th anniversary celebration. ● Starred David Bradley as the First Doctor ● He also played the Doctor in Twice Upon a Time ● Not 100% accurate, but a good dramatization.

Doctor Who Season 1 ● Dates: November 23, 1963 to September 12, 1964 ● Episodes Planned: 42 ● Episodes Broadcast: 42 ● Episodes Missing: 9 ● Episodes Existing: 33 Story Title Episodes Missing An Unearthly Child 4 None The Daleks 7 None The Edge of Destruction 2 None Marco Polo 7 All The Keys of Marinus 6 None The Aztecs 4 None The Sensorites 6 None The Reign of Terror 6 2 ● How episodes were made: ● Film: exteriors and Limegrove Studios ● Rehearse a week ● Record on video tape one day. ● Each episode had individual titles. ● The story names: ● Working titles. ● Old publication assumed story names were the first episode ● The topic of the story. ● Talk about missing episodes ● Usually a mix of Science Fiction and Historical stories.

Doctor Who Season 2 ● Dates: October 31, 1964 to July 24, 1965 ● Episodes Planned: 40; Episodes Broadcast: 39 ● Episodes Missing: 2; Episodes Existing: 37 Story Title Episodes Missing Planet of Giants 3* None The Dalek Invasion of Earth 6 None The Rescue 2 None The Romans 4 None The Web Planet 6 None The Crusade 4 2 The Space Museum 4 None The Chase 6 None The Time Meddler 4 None* ● Planet of the Giants 3 and 4 became one episode ● The Urge to Live ● The Chase ● Has Daleks. ● Has the Beatles (but not on US DVD). ● Time Meddler missing 12 seconds.

Doctor Who Season 3 ● Dates: September 11, 1965 to July 16, 1966 ● Episodes Planned: 45; Episodes Broadcast: 45 ● Episodes Missing: 28; Episodes Existing: 17 Story Title Episodes Missing Galaxy Four 4 3 Mission to the Unknown 1 All The Myth Makers 4 All The Dalek Masterplan 12 9 The Massacre 4 All The Ark 4 None The Celestial Toymaker 4 3 The Gunfighters 4 None The Savages 4 All The War Machines 4 None* ● Mention sizable clip existing of Galaxy Four ● Mention what is Mission to the Unknown. ● Why one episode? ● The big Dalek Masterplan. ● The Gunfighters. ● Fan opinion increased after DVD release. ● The Savages ceased having individual episode titles. ● The War Machines missing scenes.

Doctor Who Season 4 ● Dates: September 10, 1966 to July 1, 1967 ● Episodes Planned: 43; Episodes Broadcast: 43 ● Episodes Missing: 33; Episodes Existing: 10 Story Title Episodes Missing The Smugglers 4 All The Tenth Planet 4 1 The Power of the Daleks 6 All The Highlanders 4 All The Underwater Menace 4 2 The Moonbase 4 2 The Macra Terror 4 All The Faceless Ones 6 4 The Evil of the Daleks 7 6 ● The Doctor regenerates at the end of The Tenth Planet. ● Patrick Troughton is the Doctor in Power of the Daleks. ● Jamie is introduced in the Highlanders. ● Evil of the Daleks was supposed to be the final Doctor Who story featuring the Daleks. ● Not one complete story exists from this season!

Doctor Who Season 5 ● Dates: September 2, 1967 to June 1, 1968 ● Episodes Planned: 40 ● Episodes Broadcast: 40 ● Episodes Missing: 18 ● Episodes Existing: 22 Story Title Episodes Missing The Tomb of the Cybermen 4 None The Abominable Snowmen 6 5 The Ice Warriors 6 2 The Enemy of the World 6 None The Web of Fear 6 1 Fury from the Deep 6 All The Wheel in Space 6 4 ● Called the Monster Season as all but one story featured a monster. ● Cybermen twice ● Yeti twice ● Ice Warriors ● Seaweed Creatures ● Tell story about the recovery of Enemy of the World and most of The Web of Fear. ● At the end of The Wheel in Space, the Evil of the Daleks was repeated. ● Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart introduced.

Doctor Who Season 6 ● Dates: August 10, 1968 to June 21, 1969 ● Episodes Planned: 44 ● Episodes Broadcast: 44 ● Episodes Missing: 7 ● Episodes Existing: 37 Story Title Episodes Missing The Dominators 5 None The Mind Robber 5 None The Invasion 8 2 The Krotons 4 None The Seeds of Death 6 None The Space Pirates 6 5 The War Games 10 None ● Final black and white season. ● Very troubled season. ● Patrick Troughton and Jamie were worn out making episodes most of the year. ● Begged to drop the count of episodes by one half a year. ● Both ended up leaving at the end of the season. ● The Dominators was shortened from 6 to 5 episodes. ● The Mind Robber: ● Got an extra episode! ● Was an early story not shot one episode a week. ● The Invasion was an experiment – Birth of UNIT ● The Invasion replaced two problems stories. ● The War Games: ● Replaced two problems stories. ● Introduced the Time Lords. ● Almost the final season of Doctor Who!

Doctor Who Season 7 ● Dates: January 3, 1970 to June 20, 1970 ● Episodes Planned: 25 ● Episodes Broadcast: 25 Story Title Episodes Spearhead From Space 4 Doctor Who and the Silurians 7 The Ambassadors of Death 7 Inferno 7 ● First color season. Shortened to 25 episodes. ● Only reason the season was made was the producer (Barry Letts) and script editor (Terrence Dicks) could not come up with a replacement ● New Doctor, Jon Pertwee. ● All stories were UNIT stories. ● Spearhead from Space – production issues. ● All exteriors were shot on 16mm film. ● Union strike. ● All interiors were shot elsewhere on 16mm film ● Broadcast from color 16mm film. ● Of the other 21 episodes, only one exists on original broadcast video tape. The other are color due to: ● Reverse standards conversion ● Mixing B&W film with off air color tapes. ● Chroma Dot restoration!!!

Doctor Who Season 8 ● Dates: January 2, 1970 to June 19, 1970 ● Episodes Planned: 25 ● Episodes Broadcast: 25 ● The Master Season Story Title Episodes Terror of the Autons 4 The Mind of Evil 6 The Claws of Axos 4 Colony in Space 6 The Dæmons 5 ● Every story features a new reoccurring character: The Master. ● New UNIT: ● Captain Mike Yates. ● Jo Grant ● Colony in Space is not a UNIT story. ● The Dæmons is a cast and fan favorite. ● Only three episodes exist on original video tape.

Doctor Who Season 9 ● Dates: January 1, 1972 to June 24, 1972 ● Episodes Planned: 26 ● Episodes Broadcast: 26 Story Title Episodes The Day of the Daleks 4 The Curse of Peladon 4 The Sea Devils 6 The Mutants 6 The Time Monster 6 ● Triumphant return of the Daleks. ● Earliest story retained on original video tape ● The Mutants is not a UNIT story. ● 11 episodes exist on original video tape.

Doctor Who Season 10 ● Dates: December 30, 1972 to June 23, 1973 ● Episodes Planned: 26 ● Episodes Broadcast: 26 Story Title Episodes The Three Doctors 4 Carnival of Monsters 4 Frontier in Space 6 Planet of the Daleks 6 The Green Death 6 ● The Three Doctors was the tenth anniversary special: ● Primarily features second and third Doctors. ● Due to failing health, William Hartnell briefly appears on film on the TARDIS scanner. ● Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks make 12 part story. ● All but one episode exists on original video tape (or at least a first generation dub)

Doctor Who Season 11 ● Dates: December 15, 1973 to June 8, 1974 ● Episodes Planned: 26 ● Episodes Broadcast: 26 Story Title Episodes The Time Warrior 4 Invasion of the Dinosaurs 6 Death to the Daleks 4 The Monster of Peladon 6 Planet of the Spiders 6 ● Logo changed to famous diamond logo. ● Time Warrior ● Introduces Sarah Jane ● Introduces the Sontarans. ● Names the Doctor's home planet as Gallifrey. ● First episode of Invasion of the Dinosaurs: ● Had a story title of "The Invasion". ● Is the last episode not to be retained on a PAL video tape.

Doctor Who Season 12 ● Dates: December 28, 1974 to May 10, 1975 ● Episodes Planned: 26 ● Episodes Broadcast: 20 ● Blu-ray: Tom Baker Complete Season One Story Title Episodes Robot 4 The Ark in Space 4 The Sontaran Experiment 2 Genesis of the Daleks 6 Revenge of the Cybermen 4 ● New Doctor, Tom Baker ● Robot was first story with exteriors video taped. ● The Sontaran Experiment was made 100% on video tape on location. ● All time classic: Genesis of the Daleks. ● Revenge of the Cybermen was the only Cyberman story broadcast in the 1970's. ● Season ended early due to moving the broadcast time up from Winter/Spring to Fall/Winter.

Doctor Who Season 13 ● Dates: August 30, 1975 to March 6, 1976 ● Episodes Planned: 26 ● Episodes Broadcast: 26 Story Title Episodes Terror of the Zygons 4 Planet of Evil 4 Pyramids of Mars 4 The Android Invasion 4 The Brain of Morbius 4 The Seeds of Doom 6 ● Season famous for Gothic Horror. ● Featured stories about mummies and Frankenstein. ● Terror of the Zygons originally planned opening restored on DVD.