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An original Silurian head, as used in Doctor Who and the Silurians.. Drawing on the ideas of the Quatermass serials, producer Peter Bryant and producer and script editor Derrick Sherwin decided that for the series' seventh season, the show's protagonist the Doctor should be restricted to contemporary Earth and work alongside the UNIT organisation, featured prominently in the sixth season's ...
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 popularity of the Daleks ensured the survival of Doctor Who, which was in danger of being cancelled due to low viewing figures from the prior serial, An Unearthly Child (1963). [62] The ownership of the Daleks was a co-production between Nation and the BBC, and as a result, Nation received royalties whenever the Daleks appeared in Doctor ...
Christina asks the Doctor to take her with him, but he refuses right before she is arrested. Carmen, a bus passenger who has low-level psychic abilities, warns the Doctor that his "song" is ending and "he will knock four times". As he departs, the Doctor allows Christina to escape from the police and fly off on the bus before they can stop her.
The Doctor Who website" features a segment called Captain Jack's Monster Files, narrated by John Barrowman, which provides information about alien species. An episode focusing on the Slitheen [ 13 ] shows a family tree that refers to a number of related families, all with the suffix, -een , with the exception of the 'Absorbalovian Rebels ...
Based on this figure, it was the lowest-rated episode since Doctor Who had returned to television in 2005. [9] When final consolidated ratings were calculated, it was shown that the episode was watched by 6.49 million viewers; 6.01 on BBC One and an additional 0.48 million viewers on BBC HD .
However, the Doctor soon wakes up and tries to solve it himself, only to witness the dinosaur spontaneously combust, and Vastra informs the Doctor that there have been similar murders recently. The Doctor vanishes thereafter and Clara becomes a temporary member of the Paternoster Gang, working with them in an effort to locate the Doctor and ...
The Doctor explains that Lazarus' transformation is the result of an evolutionary throwback locked away in dormant genes that the machine accidentally unlocked. Lazarus activates his machine, but the Doctor sets the capsule to reflect energy rather than receive it, and Lazarus is blasted away.