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Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto (1 March 1918 – 18 June 2005) was a British actor. He played many roles on television, radio and in films, and had "a long history of playing minor villains" before gaining fame as the Third Doctor in Doctor Who (between 1970 and 1974). This led to him achieving more varied and layered parts in numerous high profile films and television shows. His increasing appearances in prominent Hollywood roles, garnered him a reputation as one of the most versatile, and reliable character actors in the industry, in addition to establishing him as a stalwart of genre cinema.

His profile further increased with film roles such as the Soothsayer in Antony and Cleopatra (1972), Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974), Ghulam in The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and Hercule Poirot in various productions, starting with Death on the Nile (1978).

Through the 1980s and 1990s, Delgado continued to give notable performances in several films that would become classics, or in other instances gain a cult following. These included The Elephant Man (1980), The Verdict (1982), The Last Starfighter (1984), Highlander (1986), Manhunter (1986) (in which he originated the role of Hannibal Lecter), The Whales of August (1987) and Hamlet (1996).

He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, winning in 1997 for Hamlet.

Early life
Delgado was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London; he often remarked to close friend Jon Pertwee that this made him a true Cockney, as he was born within the sound of the Bow bells, even though his mother was Belgian and his father was Spanish. He did not live in the East End, but was brought up in Bedford Park in west London. He attended Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, a Roman Catholic secondary school in Holland Park, and the London School of Economics for a brief period but did not complete his degree. He served in the Second World War with both the Leicestershire Regiment and the Royal Corps of Signals, attaining the rank of major.

Early work
Delgado worked extensively on the British stage, and on television, film and radio. His theatre debut was in 1939 and his first television appearance was 1948. He appeared in the 1955 BBC Television Service serial Quatermass II, the 1956 Powell and Pressburger wartime drama Battle of the River Plate. He briefly came to wider public attention in Britain when he played the duplicitous Spanish envoy Mendoza in the ITC Entertainment series Sir Francis Drake from 1961 to 1962, which helped boost his profile as a dependable character actor. An in-joke in the 1970 Doctor Who story Ambassadors of Death refers to that role, when the Doctor is told that he bears a slight resemblance to the Spanish Ambassador. Delgado was frequently cast as a villain, appearing in many noted British action-adventure TV series by ITC, including Danger Man (1961), The Saint (1962 and 1966), The Champions (1969), and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969).

Doctor Who
Delgado remained fond of the programme, and returned many times.

Later work (1990–2005)
Delgado made a total of 16 guest appearances in ITC shows, the most of any actor, with his last completed role being ITC's The Zoo Gang (1974). He also appeared in The Avengers (1961 and 1969), The Power Game (1966), and Crossfire (1967). His films included The Terror of the Tongs (1961), The Road to Hong Kong (1962), The Mummy's Shroud (1967) and Antony and Cleopatra (1972). He began work as The Master on Doctor Who in late 1970, his first broadcast appearance being in the January 1971 adventure Terror of the Autons. He subsequently reprised the role of the Master in many of the Third Doctor serials, including The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Colony in Space, The Dæmons, The Sea Devils, The Time Monster and Frontier in Space. The Master's story arc was to have ended in The Final Game, which was planned as the final story to feature Pertwee's Third Doctor, but the story was scrapped following Delgado's sudden death and replaced with Planet of the Spiders.

Reputation
Delgado was well known as an kindly, friendly individual, who got along well with virtually all his colleagues. Elisabeth Sladen, his co-star in Death on the Nile said, "Roger might just be the sweetest man on the face of the planet." In a statement released shortly after his death, Delgado's widow Kismet proclaimed, "It would have been so easy for all that sudden fame to rush to his head. But it never happened. Amidst all the attention that was afforded him, Roger simply remained Roger. He loved everyone. And everyone loved him." His easygoing, relaxed attitude, allowed him to forge friendships with numerous high profile members of the film and television industry, in both the UK and increasingly, in Hollywood.

In addition to being greatly liked, Delgado was also known for his versatility in performance. Of Delgado's casting in Death on the Nile, producer Richard B. Goodwin declared: "Poirot is a character part if ever there was one, and Roger is the greatest character actor around."

Health issues
A health scare in 1984 led to Delgado giving up cigars, and later cigarettes. (Although he would occasionally smoke herbal cigarettes for acting roles.) In December 1992, he suffered a heart attack. This ultimately led to his appearance in Doctor Who's 30th anniversary special being significantly downsized to accomodate his recovery. To compensate, Delgado's friend, Hollywood actor Charlton Heston was brought in to support him, and take his bulk of the action.

In 1998, Delgado underwent knee replacement surgery.

Marriages
His first marriage was to Olga Anthonisz. The marriage ended in divorce. Delgado married Kismet Shahani in 1957 and they were together until his death in 2005. Shahani died in 2017.

Politics, religion and charity work
Delgado remained mostly private regarding his personal politics, although he was known to befriend people from all ends of the political spectrum.

Delgado was raised as a Roman Catholic, and remained so throughout his adult life.

Delgado was known to support several charities. He was a board member of the Equity charitable trust, and made frequent donations to organisations such UNICEF and Marie Curie. He would also occasionally perform for Comic Relief, and Children in Need, often in character as the Third Doctor or Hercule Poirot.

Honours
For the 1998 New Year Honours, Queen Elisabeth II appointed Delgado Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), for services to Drama.

Death
Delgado died of pneumonia, at his home in London, on 18 June, 2005. He was 87 years old.

Paying tribute
Tributes were sent out by many prominent members of the acting profession with whom he had collaborated and befriended. Some of them attended a public service held a week after his private funeral, including Maggie Smith, Celia Imrie, Richard E. Grant, Julian Glover, Ian Richardson, Edward Fox, Roger Moore, Ian Holm, Peter Wyngarde, Earl Cameron, Diana Rigg, David Suchet, Tim Pigott-Smith, Brenda Blethyn, Art Malik, Sean Pertwee, Michael Gambon, Don Warrington, Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench, as well as his Doctor Who co-stars Caroline John, Gabrielle Drake, Nicholas Courtney, John Levene, Ray Lonnen and Jenny Twigge. Drake, Courtney, Levene, and Lonnen spoke at the service, as did Iain Cuthbertson, his immediate successor in the role of the Doctor. Many other actors and personnel from the programme were present, including fellow Doctors Colin Baker, Tony Haygarth, Selina Cadell and Toby Jones. Former script editor Terrance Dicks, and producers Derrick Sherwin and Barry Letts were also in attendance. Eighth Doctor Nathan Lane sent a note of tribute, as did other Doctor Who alumni including Lesley Dunlop, Sarah Lam, Seeta Indrani, Wendy Padbury and Fraser Hines. Lydia Clarke sent a message on behalf of her husband Charlton Heston.

Legacy
In 2016, Delgado's work was honoured with a blue plaque at the New Wimbledon Theatre, which was arranged by the Doctor Who Appreciation Society.

Awards and nominations
Bafta award for best actor - (Death on the Nile) nominated Golden globe for best actor in a supporting role - motion picture - (The Verdict) nominated Bafta award for best actor - (Name of the Rose) won

Don Henderson
Donald Francis Henderson (10 November 1931 – 22 June 1997) was an English actor of stage, television and screen. Henderson was known for playing both "tough guy" roles and authority figures. He remains best known for playing the Fifth Doctor in Doctor Who, from 1980 to 1983.

He is also remembered for his portrayals of detective George Bulman between 1976 and 1987 in the popular Granada Television police drama series The XYY Man, Strangers, and Bulman, priest Frank Kane in BBC drama The Paradise Club (1989–90), and General Tagge in the first Star Wars film (1977). Other appearances include Poldark, Last of the Summer Wine, Boon, Casualty and Red Dwarf.

Tony Haygarth
George Anthony David Haygarth (4 February 1945 – 10 March 2017) was an English television, film and theatre actor. A character actor for many years, in 1986 he gained mainstream recognition for playing the Seventh Doctor in the BBC's long running science fiction series Doctor Who. Earlier he had prominent roles in the sitcom Rosie (1977-81), horror film Dracula and the Nigel Kneale sci-fi comedy Kinvig (1981). Notable later performances included Roy Johnson in Our Friends in the North (1996), Vic Snow in Where the Heart Is (1997-2002) and Mr. Tweedy in Chicken Run (2000).

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Kay Gee (Doctor Who)
Kay Gee is a fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the long-running BBC Television science fiction series Doctor Who and two of its spin-offs. Sarah Jane is a dogged investigative journalist who first encounters alien time traveller The Doctor while trying to break a story on a top secret research facility, and subsequently becomes his travelling companion on a series of adventures spanning the breadth of space and time. After travelling with The Doctor in four seasons of the show they suddenly part ways, and after this she continues to investigate strange goings-on back on Earth. Over time, Sarah Jane establishes herself as a committed defender of Earth from alien invasions and other threats, occasionally reuniting with The Doctor in the course of her own adventures, all the while continuing to work as a freelance investigative journalist.

Sarah Jane is one of the Doctor's longest-serving companions, co-starring in 18 stories with the third and fourth incarnations of the Doctor, on the programme from 1973 to 1976 (seasons 11 – 14). She and robotic dog K9 appear in the 1981 television pilot K-9 and Company. She returned in the 20th-anniversary Fifth Doctor story The Five Doctors (1983) and the 30th-anniversary story Dimensions in Time (1993), then co-starred in two BBC radio serials with the Third Doctor (The Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space), and starred in a series of spin-off audio dramas entitled Sarah Jane Smith for independent production company Big Finish. After the television revival of Doctor Who in 2005, she appears in several episodes with the Tenth Doctor, and as the central character of her own series The Sarah Jane Adventures from 2007 to 2011, which included appearances by both the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors.

In April 2020, former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies released a epilogue to Sarah Jane's story on the anniversary of Sladen's death, detailing various characters attending Sarah's funeral.

Casting
Doctor Who producer Barry Letts offered the part of Sarah Jane to actress April Walker, who accepted the role and was duly contracted by the BBC. During rehearsals for The Time Warrior, it became clear to Jon Pertwee and Letts that the two leads had little rapport and were physically mis-matched (it has been claimed that Pertwee demanded the part be recast, because he said he would not play opposite an actress who was taller than him ). Letts therefore released Walker from her contract (though she was still paid in full for season 11). Although committed to not talking about the issue in her release agreement, Walker began to discuss the circumstances surrounding her casting decades later. After giving some written interviews to fanzines, in May 2020 Walker gave an on screen interview to 'Time Space Visualiser' giving much further detail about the circumstances, including revealing later work alongside Pertwee. Walker admitted that although she understood Pertwee's thinking, she told him she would never forgive him for what he had done. Letts began a second batch of auditions and saw Elisabeth Sladen after a recommendation from fellow BBC producer Bill Slater, who had twice cast the actress recently in separate episodes of Z-Cars. Sladen performed her audition alongside actor Stephen Thorne and after impressing Letts, he arranged for her to meet Pertwee before any decisions were made. Pertwee stood behind Sladen and gave a 'thumbs-up' to Letts who then offered her the role.

1973–1976, 1981, 1983; introduction and classic run
Sarah Jane first appears in the Third Doctor serial The Time Warrior (1973–74), where she has managed to infiltrate a top secret research facility by posing as her aunt, Lavinia Smith, a famous virologist. Introduced as an ardent feminist, Sarah Jane sneaks aboard the TARDIS and becomes embroiled in a battle against a militaristic alien Sontaran in the Middle Ages who is kidnapping scientists from the present day. Subsequently, she accompanies The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) on several journeys in the TARDIS, and she also assists the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce led by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) on a number of occasions. After Pertwee's departure, Sladen remains following Season 11 finale Planet of the Spiders (1974), in which The Doctor regenerates for the third time. In season 12's consecutive 1975 serials The Sontaran Experiment, Genesis of the Daleks and Revenge of the Cybermen, Sarah and male companion Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter) face the series' three iconic recurring creatures, the Sontarans, the Daleks and the Cybermen. In Genesis Sarah is present at the creation of the Daleks and meets their creator, Davros (Michael Wisher). Sarah Jane departs in the Season 14 serial The Hand of Fear (1976) after The Doctor receives a summons to his home planet, Gallifrey. Sladen has described Sarah as "a bit of a cardboard cut-out. Each week it used to be, 'Yes Doctor, no Doctor'..."

Following her tenure as a companion, Sladen reprised the role of Sarah Jane in a pilot episode for an Earth-based spin-off series, K-9 and Company, in 1981. In the pilot episode, titled "A Girl's Best Friend", Sarah Jane receives the robot dog K9 Mark III (John Leeson) as a Christmas present from The Doctor. The pilot did not lead to a series, but the character reappeared in Doctor Who for the 1983 twentieth anniversary story The Five Doctors, in which she is transported to Gallifrey by Lord President Borusa (Philip Latham) to take part in the Game of Rassilon in The Death Zone devised by Time Lord founder Rassilon (Richard Mathews). Here, Sarah is reunited with the Third Doctor, and also meets the First, Second and Fifth. The Five Doctors shows that Sarah Jane still owns and is working with K9. The character made an appearance in the 1993 Children in Need special (a crossover with long-running British soap EastEnders), Dimensions in Time, wherein various Doctors and companions are teleported to Albert Square as part of a plot by the Rani (Kate O'Mara). Though Sladen would not make any more official Doctor Who television appearances until 2006, in the interval the actress reprised her role as Sarah Jane twice on BBC radio with Jon Pertwee, and in a series of Big Finish audio dramas, and in the unofficial direct-to-video spin-off film Downtime (1995) alongside the Brigadier, Second Doctor companion Victoria Waterfield (Deborah Watling) and Leeson in a rare on-screen role.

2006–2011; revived series and spin-off
Following Russell T Davies' 2005 Doctor Who revival, Sladen returned to the show in the Series 2 episode "School Reunion" (2006). "School Reunion" revisits Sarah Jane, still working alongside K9 since The Five Doctors, when she encounters the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) while they both investigate mysterious goings on at a school run by Headmaster Finch (Anthony Head). Exposition in the episode reveals that, having waited years for The Doctor to return to her, Sarah Jane assumed he had died, though later came to suspect his involvement when witnessing the alien spaceship above London in Doctor Who Christmas special "The Christmas Invasion". On meeting Sarah Jane, current companion Rose (Billie Piper) reflects on her future after The Doctor. Though K9 Mark III still assists Sarah Jane, he has fallen into disrepair; after K9 Mark III sacrifices himself to save Sarah Jane and The Doctor, The Doctor leaves Sarah Jane a new K9 model, K9 Mark IV, and takes her advice by inviting Rose's boyfriend Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke) aboard the TARDIS as his second companion. The success of "School Reunion" led to the development of The Sarah Jane Adventures, starring Sladen as Sarah Jane, produced by BBC Wales for CBBC.

In The Sarah Jane Adventures, Sarah Jane investigates alien activity covertly from her manor house in Bannerman Road in Ealing, driving an emerald green Nissan Figaro and with the help of her sentient supercomputer Mr Smith (voice of comedian Alexander Armstrong), as well as an alien activity scanner and sonic lipstick device. In the special premiere episode "Invasion of the Bane" (2007), Sarah Jane adopts a son: Bane creation, genetic archetype and boy genius Luke Smith (Tommy Knight), and befriends her neighbour Maria Jackson (Yasmin Paige) during her investigation of Bane leader Mrs Wormwood (Samantha Bond). Sarah Jane remarks that since meeting them she is no longer content to live alone; she discloses she never married after parting from the Fourth Doctor, to whom no one could ever compare. Sometime between "School Reunion" and "Invasion of the Bane", K9 has left Sarah Jane to close off a black hole, occasionally passing close enough to contact her; due to the concurrent development of the K-9 television series, to which creator Bob Baker owns the rights, K9 only appears in two episodes of the first series. In the first series, Sarah Jane learns how to be a mother to Luke, the while strengthening her friendship with teenage neighbour Maria, the person Sarah Jane "trusts the most". Along with Luke and his friend Clyde Langer (Daniel Anthony) they defeat and repel various threats to the contemporary Earth. Amongst these threats, series one introduces The Trickster (Paul Marc Davis), a cosmic being who makes alterations to the timeline to cause chaos and destruction; he becomes a recurring adversary for Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane finds a new enemy in the Slitheen, a family of criminal aliens originally seen in Doctor Who, and an ally in alien research scientist Professor Rivers (Floella Benjamin). Time travel scenes also depict 13-year-old Sarah Jane (Jessica Ashworth), for whom the death of her best friend Andrea Yates (Jane Asher) gave Sarah Jane her resolve to fight against loss of life.

Sarah Jane then reappears in Doctor Who in the two-part fourth series finale episodes "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End" (2008), which crosses over from Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. When Daleks invade Earth, Sarah Jane is summoned along with UNIT officer Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) and Torchwood leader Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) by former PM Harriet Jones (Penelope Wilton) to help The Doctor save the universe. On the Dalek ship Davros (Julian Bleach) recognises Sarah Jane from their encounter in the classic series' episode Genesis of the Daleks. In The Sarah Jane Adventures second series (2008), Maria moves away to America in The Last Sontaran, and Sarah Jane befriends new neighbour Rani Chandra (Anjli Mohindra) in The Day of the Clown; the same episode features flashbacks to Sarah Jane's (Jessica Mogridge) childhood in her Aunt Lavinia's home. In The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith, Sarah Jane saves the lives of her parents, Eddie (Christopher Pizzey) and Barbara (Rosanna Lavelle) in 1951; by doing so she plays into The Trickster's hands, creating a post-apocalyptic alternative universe in the present day. Learning of this however, her parents choose to die, becoming heroes to restore the timeline. In series two finale Enemy of the Bane, Sarah Jane's old friend Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) from UNIT assists her against united adversaries Mrs Wormwood and Sontaran Commander Kaagh (Anthony O'Donnell). Sarah Jane feels threatened on a personal level by Mrs Wormwood's claim to be Luke's mother as his creator. Sladen has relatively scarce screen-time in 'Sarah-lite' serial The Mark of the Berserker due to back-to-back filming. Though K9 makes no appearances in series two, he appears to assist Sarah Jane against Ambassador Ranius (Ronnie Corbett) in a mini-episode for Comic Relief (2009).

In series three (2009), Sarah Jane makes a new enemy in the body-stealing alien Androvax (Mark Goldthorp) as well as a lukewarm ally in the form of the interplanetary police force, the Judoon (from Doctor Who). In the second two-parter, Sarah Jane is able to recover K9 full-time (reflecting a real-world deal struck with the creators of the children's series K-9). In a crossover with the parent show, Sarah Jane reveals her intention to marry her secret fiancé, barrister Peter Dalton, in The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith. However, Dalton's involvement in Sarah Jane's life proves to be a scheme of The Trickster. The Doctor gatecrashes the wedding to foil The Trickster's plot to make Sarah Jane give up on alien hunting, and explains to Sarah Jane that The Trickster is a powerful member of the extra-dimensional so-called Pantheon of Discord. The serial clarifies that Sarah Jane owes her independent wealth to her Aunt Lavina's will. In 'Sarah-lite' two-parter Mona Lisa's Revenge, Sarah Jane and Luke have their first argument as he progresses into his teenage years; they argue about the cleanliness of Luke's room. In series finale The Gift, though she is reluctant to use weapons or cause harm, when Luke falls deathly ill for the first time ever due to the machinations of the Blathereen-Slitheen, Sarah Jane takes up arms to confront them. In the episode's conclusion, regretfully she is forced to kill them using Mr Smith.

Sarah Jane next appears in the Tenth Doctor two-part Doctor Who finale, "The End of Time", in 2010. When The Doctor is slowly dying from radiation poisoning, he makes timely visits to his close friends and companions; The Doctor saves Luke's life from an oncoming car on Bannerman Road (an inside joke by Russell T Davies commenting on actors' failure to look for cars before crossing the street because traffic is always stopped for them, something that he believes is especially important in a children’s show) and bids a silent farewell to Luke and to Sarah Jane.

In the fourth season (2010) of The Sarah Jane Adventures, Sarah Jane sees Luke off to university in the first two-parter of the series, but continues her adventures alongside Rani and Clyde. The trio encounter the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith), as well as Sarah Jane's immediate predecessor as The Doctor's companion, Jo Grant (Katy Manning), in Death of the Doctor; aliens known as the Shansheeth fake The Doctor's death as part of a plot to gain access to the TARDIS using Jo and Sarah Jane's memories. The Empty Planet is this series' 'Sarah-lite' serial; with the rest of the population, Sarah Jane mysteriously vanishes, leaving Rani and Clyde to investigate without her. In Lost in Time, Sarah Jane is sent back in time on a mission from the mysterious Shopkeeper (Cyril Nri). Sarah Jane is convinced to retire by an alien plot in the series finale, earning a new nemesis and doppelgänger in Ruby White (Julie Graham); she is saved from Ruby when Luke drives down from university to her rescue.

Sladen's death ended the show in the middle of its fifth series, which aired in 2011. In its premiere story, Sarah Jane adopts a new child in the form of Sky Smith (Sinead Michael), a genetically-engineered alien girl with abilities relating to electromagnetism; the Shopkeeper arranged for their encounter, but declines to explain his motives to Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane's final broadcast appearance comes in series five finale The Man Who Never Was. The final story ends with a short montage of archive footage and audio recordings celebrating Sarah Jane's journey from lone investigator to mother of two surrounded by friends. The series ends with the final caption: "And the story goes on... forever."

The cast and writers of The Sarah Jane Adventures produced a special 2020 webcast epilogue for the show with a mix of narrated and acted elements entitled "Farewell, Sarah Jane". In the story, Sarah Jane's friends and many past companions of the Doctor return to London to attend her funeral.

Literature
Sarah Jane appears in several Doctor Who novels and short stories, notably in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels Interference: Book One and Interference: Book Two by Lawrence Miles; and the Past Doctor Adventures novel Bullet Time by David A. McIntee, all taking place after she stops travelling with The Doctor. She appears in Ian Marter's Harry Sullivan's War published by Target Books; Marter played companion Harry Sullivan in seven television serials. Different accounts of Sarah Jane's life have been given in the Doctor Who literature. Interference and the Virgin New Adventures novel Christmas on a Rational Planet, also by Miles, suggest that Sarah Jane married someone named Paul Morley sometime between 1996 and 1998 and took his name. In the short story "Lily" by Jackie Marshall, in Big Finish's Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury, the Fifth Doctor pays a visit to an older Sarah Jane, who has a daughter, Lauren, and an autistic granddaughter, Lily; Lauren's father is named Will. In the Past Doctor Adventure Bullet Time, Sarah Jane is apparently killed—although the story is ambiguous about whether she actually dies—in 1997 when she sacrifices herself so that she cannot be used as a hostage to stop the Seventh Doctor from taking action to aid an escaping alien ship, contradicting her other spin-off appearances. However, the novel takes place during a story arc where enemies of The Doctor were attempting to eliminate his companions from the Timeline (revealed in the later novel Sometime Never...), and Sarah Jane's death may have been reversed when those enemies are defeated. In any case, other stories have shown her alive after 1997. Sarah Jane was mentioned in the prologue of the Virgin Publishing novelisation of The Power of the Daleks by John Peel. It revealed that Sarah Jane was working as UNIT's official chronicler and that in "1996" she covered the aftermath of the Cybermen's failed attempt to drain Earth of its energy and the technology left behind in their wake (The Tenth Planet, which was actually set in 1986).

Stories written as in-universe articles in Doctor Who Magazine Winter Special 1991 (subtitled "UNIT Exposed"), made statements about Sarah Jane's life after leaving the Fourth Doctor. She wrote a history of UNIT, Fighting for Humankind ("heavily vetted and evidently subjected to considerable censorship"), as well as a series of science fiction novels. These featured an extraterrestrial called The Doctor and his companion Nicola Jones, who frequently encountered WIN (World Investigative Network), commanded by General Lutwidge-Douglas. Titles included Day of the Dinosaurs, Sutekh the Destroyer and The North Sea Monster.

Another in-universe article was written by Kevin W. Parker, Roving Reporter, which was a biography of Sarah Jane from her childhood to the early 1990s. She grew up with her aunt Lavinia after her parents died in a car crash. She went to Caterham School For Girls and the University of Nottingham. She was engaged to Andrew Lofts, an aspiring television journalist; it didn't last. She ended up working with UNIT; her exact duties were never described. In the spring of 1981, she left UNIT after being hospitalized from an accident in a quarry. Afterwards she developed a romantic relationship with Harry Sullivan; they parted amicably and were still very fond of each other, and were still close friends, even to the time of the article. She wrote science fiction novels World War Skaro and The Monster at the End of Space which made it onto the Times and New York Times bestseller lists.

Though there are as yet no original Sarah Jane Adventures novels, many of the television episodes have been novelised.

Audio drama
Between seasons 13 and 14, Sladen appeared as Sarah Jane, with Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, in the audio play The Pescatons, released on LP by The Decca Record Company Limited in 1976. She also appeared with Baker in "The Time Machine", episode three of the BBC Radio 4 series Exploration Earth broadcast on 4 October 1976. Also in 1976 she appeared as Sarah Jane alongside Tom Baker's Doctor in the first ever BBC Enterprises audio spin-off from Doctor Who: a cassette and LP release of an abridged version of Genesis of the Daleks, narrated by Baker. Sarah Jane (played by Sladen) appeared in two BBC Radio plays starring Jon Pertwee as The Doctor in the 1990s: The Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space.

She also appears, voiced by Sladen, in her own range of Big Finish audio dramas, consisting of nine stories released between 2002 and 2006. This series came to an unexpected end when the character was given her own television series, The Sarah Jane Adventures, detailed above.

Sarah Jane appears in two audio stories based on The Sarah Jane Adventures, released in November 2007 on CD: The Glittering Storm by Stephen Cole and The Thirteenth Stone by Justin Richards, with both stories read by series star Elisabeth Sladen. This is the first time that BBC Audiobooks have commissioned new content for exclusive release on audio. Further pairs of audio stories were released every year until 2010, again all read by Sladen. In 2011, two audio stories were read by Daniel Anthony and Anjii Mohindra.

The canonicity of Sarah Jane's appearances in the audio dramas is, like all Doctor Who spin-off media, unclear, and they may not even take place in the same continuity as one another. For example, the novels' mention of Sarah Jane as having been married is contradicted by the later Sarah Jane Smith audio play Dreamland, and the Sarah Jane Adventures episode "Invasion of the Bane".

Reception, impact and legacy
Sarah Jane Smith was consistently voted the most popular Doctor Who companion until the advent of the new series in 2005. In recent times the character has vied in popularity with Rose Tyler and Donna Noble. Ace has also been a previous winner. Sladen felt that part of her popularity was working alongside Pertwee and Baker, who were popular Doctors. Daniel Martin of The Guardian named her the best companion in 2007, writing that her "jolly-hockey-sticks good nature" made her so beloved. The Daily Telegraph Gavin Fuller also ranked Sarah Jane number one, praising Sladen's portrayal and saying that she displayed "great determination and bravery".

In 2012, Toby Whithouse, who wrote Sarah Jane's return to the series in "School Reunion", said she was his favourite companion from the classic series. Concerning the impact of the character, he said: ""Because she was a comic companion; and I think that she, more than any other before her, redefined the role of the companion. And there are elements of Sarah Jane Smith that you can see in every companion afterward down to Amy. She changed the companion from being a rather helpless hysteric to being a feisty, opinionated, strong equal to The Doctor. And, at the time, you know that was quite an extraordinary thing to do. That was not the role the companion, or women, were meant to be playing. They were meant to be playing the victim, they were meant to be decoration. I think what Lis Sladen did with that character is quite extraordinary. We forget how revolutionary she was at the time.""

Third Doctor
The Third Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by actor Roger Delgado.

Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord who travels in time and space in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of their life, the Doctor regenerates; as a result, their physical appearance and personality changes.

Delgado portrays the Third Doctor as a dapper man of action in stark contrast to his wily but less action-oriented predecessors. While previous Doctors' stories had all involved time and space travel, for production reasons Delgado's stories initially depicted the Doctor stranded on Earth in exile, where he worked as a scientific advisor to the international military group UNIT. Within the story, the Third Doctor came into existence as part of a punishment from his own race, the Time Lords, who forced him to regenerate and also disabled his TARDIS. Eventually, this restriction is lifted and the Third Doctor embarks on more traditional time travel and space exploration stories.

His initial companion is UNIT scientist Liz Shaw (Caroline John), who unceremoniously leaves the Doctor's company between episodes to be replaced by the more wide-eyed Jo Grant (Gabrielle Drake), who then continues to accompany the Doctor after he regains use of his TARDIS. His final companion was 23rd Century student Kay Gee (Jenny Twigge). He also developed strong relationships with numerous UNIT personnel, specifically Brigadier Julian Knight (Nicholas Courtney), Sergeant John Benton (John Levene) and Captain Mike Yates (Ray Lonnen).

Following his time on the series, Delgado became a prolific supporting actor, and occasional lead in numerous high profile films and television programmes. He would often speak warmly of the series to his famous co-stars and colleagues, some of whom later go on to appear on the show.

Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Iain Cuthbertson.

Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord who travels in time and space in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of their life, the Doctor regenerates; as a result, their physical appearance and personality changes.

Cuthbertson portrays the Fourth Doctor as a whimsical and sometimes brooding individual whose enormous personal warmth is at times tempered by his capacity for righteous anger. His initial companion was 23rd Century student Kay Gee (Jenny Twigge), who had travelled alongside him in his previous incarnation, and he is later joined by teenager Audrey Pierce (Vicky Williams). His later companions included dystopian drifter Deelix Nove (Nicholas Lyndhurst), and 20th century waitress Tina Gibson (Dawn Hope).

Cuthbertson portrayed the character for six consecutive seasons, and the opening story of a seventh, which remains the longest tenure of any actor to portray the lead, counting both the classic and modern series. He is considered to be one of the most recognisable and iconic incarnations of the Doctor both in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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Fifth Doctor
The Fifth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Don Henderson.

Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord who travels in time and space in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of their life, the Doctor regenerates; as a result, the physical appearance and personality of the Doctor changes.

Henderson portrays the Fifth Doctor as calm, methodical and gruff. He is not easily amused and initially views life with an analytical, almost cold detachtment. However his stoic mask can slip when emotionally tempered by the evil he fights, or by the people he meets. His stern personality later softens as time goes by, due to his interactions with his companions and others.

Known by some fans as "The Great British Eccentric", he is dressed in a tweed jacket, with a bow tie and pink trainers. He travelled with waitress Tina Gibson (Dawn Hope), whom he had travelled alongside in his previous incarnation. He also shared later adventures alongside fruit stall worker Maxine Clegg (Lesley Dunlop) and Junior Drafter Sophie Chen (Sarah Lam).

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Sixth Doctor
The Sixth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He is portrayed by Colin Baker.

Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels in time and space in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of life, the Doctor regenerates; as a result, the physical appearance and personality of the Doctor changes. Baker portrays the sixth such incarnation, an arrogant, flamboyant character in brightly coloured, mismatched clothes whose brash, often patronising personality set him apart from all his previous incarnations.

The Sixth Doctor appeared in three seasons. His appearance in the first of these was at the end of the final episode of The Caves of Androzani which featured the regeneration from the Fifth Doctor and thereafter in the following serial The Twin Dilemma, the end of that season. The Sixth Doctor's era was marked by the decision of the BBC controller Michael Grade to put the series on an 18-month "hiatus" between seasons 22 and 23, with only one new Doctor Who story, Slipback, made on radio during the hiatus, broadcast as 6 parts (at 10 minutes each) on BBC Radio 4 from 25 July to 8 August 1985, as part of a children's magazine show called Pirate Radio Four. Colin Baker had been signed up for four years, as the previous actor Peter Davison had left after only three years.

Prior to its postponement, season 23 was well advanced with episodes already drafted and in at least one case distributed to cast and production. Alongside "The Nightmare Fair", "The Ultimate Evil", "Mission to Magnus", "Yellow Fever and How to Cure It", the remaining stories were still under development in a 25-minute episode format after the season was postponed. These were all dropped with the reconception of the season in mid 1985 in favour of the 14-episode story arc The Trial of a Time Lord. The Sixth Doctor also appeared in the special Dimensions in Time. There are also novels and audio plays featuring the Sixth Doctor, and the character has been visually referenced several times in the revived 2000s production of the show.

More so than any other canonical incarnation, aside from the Eighth Doctor, the Sixth Doctor has been heavily expanded upon in expanded universe media, most notably in audio stories produced by Big Finish Productions. In The Marian Conspiracy (2000), a new companion was introduced - Dr. Evelyn Smythe, a middle-aged history lecturer on the verge of compulsory retirement whose sharp tongue and unwillingness to tolerate the Doctor's attitude steadily taught him to rein in his more unkind tendencies. Due to this influence, the Sixth Doctor evolved into a more compassionate and likable character. In addition, beginning with the webcast Real Time (2003), his costume was revised into a monochromatic blue variant, displayed on many audio stories' covers since then.

Seventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Tony Haygarth.

Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord who travels in time and space in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of their life, the Doctor regenerates; as a result, the physical appearance and personality of the Doctor changes.

Haygarth portrays the Seventh Doctor as a soft natured, nervous character whose warm persona belies a cunning, determined individual. For his first appearance (also his predecessor's last), he is aided by his previous incarnation's companion, intergalatic thief Zerreck (Rebecca Lacey) who chooses to remain on her homeworld. She is soon succeeded by mechanic Flip Driver (Jennifer Calvert), and later alien diplomat Koryn Jath (Seeta Indrani).

"So, the series was at a crossroads when Baker had to be replaced. Whether to go even closer to heroism, try and walk the line like Baker had done or go back to a more character-actor type. He went with Tony; shortish, round face, old suit. On one level the obvious choice for a Doctor, but in other ways a bold move.

"We fans, we've all had to put up with being labelled nerdy. I think for some people, it was a shock to have The Doctor become kind of nerdy. Maybe nerdy's not the right word, but the 7th Doctor is deliberately unimpressive. So that's why I think there was the first big fan schism. We'd been labelled nerds who watched that nerdy show and we argued back 'it's gripping drama with a unique lead character'. Well, it still was with Haygarth, but Cuthbertson, Henderson and Baker were all tall and a little bit scary. I'm not sure any of us were prepared for the second coming of Troughton.

but how anyone could fail to find Tony Haygarth's soft Scouse accent full of warmth and Britishness is beyond me. The Doctor cutting a Columbo-like figure in his old suit and worn, tweed overcoat. Instead of high-kicking martial arts, Flip fought dirty with absolutely no shame. Which of course gave The Doctor as good a reason as any to try and avoid violent confrontations and try to think or talk his way out of a fight.

Tony Haygarth managed to deliver some of The Doctor's aphorisms as if he wasn't sure he would get away with it, showing a boyish glee when his wit hit home. It was a perfect synthesis of two different approaches to the character.

The Seventh Doctor first appeared on TV in 1986. Unlike other incarnations who would make their debuts at the end of a regeneration story, the Seventh first appeared partway through his predecessor's final adventure. The conclusion of the first episode of One By One, depicted the Sixth Doctor's regeneration, leading the Seventh to become the lead for the second part. After the programme was cancelled at the end of 1989, the Seventh Doctor's adventures continued in novels until the late 1990s. The Seventh Doctor made an appearance at the start of the 1996 movie before the character was replaced by the Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann).

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Lost Doctor
The Lost Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the American actor Charlton Heston, the first non UK born person to play the role of the Doctor. The character made his first and only onscreen appearance, in the show's 30th anniversary special The Wrong Doctors.

Within the programme's narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien, a Time Lord who travels in time and space in his TARDIS, frequently with companions. When the Doctor is critically injured, he can regenerate his body, but in doing so, gains a new physical appearance and with it, a distinct new personality. This plot device has allowed a number of actors to portray different incarnations of the Doctor over the show's long run.

The Lost Doctor, not so named within the episode in which he appears, is introduced as a distant future incarnation of the Doctor, possibly the last. He was created as a result of a conscious decision of the Eighth Doctor, played by Paul McGann, to take up arms and become a warrior; in accepting this duty, the War Doctor disowned the title of "Doctor", and after the war's end is viewed with disdain by his subsequent incarnations, who reclaim the title that the character is known by. In the 50th anniversary special "The Day of the Doctor", however, the Eleventh Doctor played by Matt Smith revises his opinion of this incarnation after revisiting the final moments of the war.

The creation of the Lost Doctor came about due to the decreased availability of Third Doctor actor Roger Delgado, owing to his 1992 heart attack from which he was still recovering. When the idea of a new Doctor was put to him, Delgado suggested his friend Heston for the part. Heston agreed as a favour to his friend, and to detract attention from controversial political statements he had made in a recent interview.

In his original conception of the show's anniversary special, Moffat had written the Ninth Doctor as having ended the Time War. However, he was "pretty certain" that Christopher Eccleston would decline to return to the role, which he did. As he also had reservations about making Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor the incarnation who had ended the war, he created a never-before-seen past incarnation of the Doctor, which allowed him "a freer hand" in writing the story, acknowledging that the success of doing this would be predicated on being able to cast an actor with a significant enough profile.

Eighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the American actor Nathan Lane, the second non UK born person to play the role of the Doctor (after Charlton Heston, who made a single appearance as the character), and the first to inhabit the role on a regular basis.

Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord who travels in time and space in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of their life, the Doctor regenerates; as a result, the physical appearance and personality of the Doctor changes.

Haygarth portrays the Seventh Doctor as a soft natured, nervous character whose warm persona belies a cunning, determined individual. He travelled with Kate Montez (Leah Remini).

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Ninth Doctor
The Ninth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who. She was portrayed by English actress Selina Cadell, the first woman to play the character in the series.

Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord who travels in time and space in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of their life, the Doctor regenerates; as a result, the physical appearance and personality of the Doctor changes.

Haygarth portrays the Seventh Doctor as a soft natured, nervous character whose warm persona belies a cunning, determined individual. He travelled with Kate Montez (Leah Remini).

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The Six Doctors
The Six Doctors is a special feature-length episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was produced in celebration of the programme's 20th anniversary, although it was broadcast on 23 December 1983, a full month after the anniversary date.

The Six Doctors was written by Robert Holmes and Terrance Dicks, under the pseudonym of "Ersel Rich". Holmes and Dicks had previously been script editors for Doctor Who, and had both written for the series since the 1960s. The episode aired after the conclusion of the 20th season to celebrate the 20th anniversary. It was the final story for departing lead Don Henderson, and introduced his successor Colin Baker. Patrick Troughton and Roger Delgado reprised their roles as the Second and Third Doctors, respectively. Alan MacNaughtan portrayed the First Doctor, as the character's original actor, William Hartnell, had died since his last appearance on the show ten years previously. Iain Cuthbertson returned to portray the Fourth Doctor, however his role was greatly reduced as he was still recovering from a stroke he had suffered the year prior.

The special also featured the reappearance of previous companions Kay Gee (Jenny Twigge), and Zoe Heriot (Wendy Padbury), and also marked the return of The Master (Edwin Richfield), seen for the first time since Season 11.

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One By One (Doctor Who)
One By One is the sixth and final serial of the 23rd season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in two weekly parts from 22 March to 29 March 1986.

In the serial, the Doctor (Colin Baker) takes his companion Zerreck (Rebecca Lacey) to her home planet of Zidiethea, to collect an inheritance and meet her hitherto unknown relations. Arriving at the dilapidated family mansion kept running by an internal computer system, she faces tension from her eccentric relatives. Suddenly the family starts dying in mysterious circumstances.

It was the last story to star Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, and Rebecca Lacey as Zerreck respectively, and the first to feature Tony Haygarth as the Seventh Doctor. Unlike most regeneration stories, which would have the new Doctor debut at the conclusion of the overall adventure, One By One has the Sixth Doctor regenerate at the end of Part One, thus making the Seventh Doctor the lead as of Part Two.

One By One would also mark the departure of producer Colin Cant, and the introduction of his successor Paul Stone, who both co-produced the story together. This was the last Doctor Who story penned by former script editor and longtime guest writer Robert Holmes, who would pass away less than two months after the story was broadcast.

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The Last Cyberman
The Last Cyberman is a radio audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, produced by the BBC and first broadcast in six episodes on BBC Radio 4 from 25 July to 8 August 1985, as part of a children's magazine show called Pirate Radio Four. It was later released on cassette and CD, most recently by BBC Audio and free with the 27 April 2010 edition of The Daily Telegraph newspaper via WHSmith.

Synopsis
The Sixth Doctor and Peri arrive on a mysterious space liner, where intergalactic policemen are investigating art thefts, a computer is suffering from a split personality and the Captain's disease threatens every living thing on the ship…

Production
Slipback was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, four months after the final episode of Doctor Who's twenty-second season, during the programme's enforced hiatus, the next season not airing for another a year and a half. It was the first Doctor Who serial produced as a radio play (an earlier audio production, The Pescatons, was released as a story record). No further radio productions were mounted until the mid-1990s when Jon Pertwee reprised his role as the Third Doctor in two productions.

Writing
The story was written by series script writer Eric Saward, whose writing credits include The Visitation, Earthshock, Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks.

Cast note
Valentine Dyall played the Black Guardian in the television series. Dyall died in June 1985, a month before Slipback aired.

In print
A novelisation by Eric Saward was published by Target Books in April 1986, the first novelisation of a non-televised Doctor Who story. Saward's novelisation expands on the radio play greatly, with an extensive prologue running about a third of the book before the Doctor appears and the adaptation of the radio play storyline begins.

Audio releases
Slipback was released in November 1988 on a double audio cassette along with the 1978 LP version of Genesis of the Daleks. It was subsequently released as a standalone CD in January 2001.

Target novelisation

 * On Target — Slipback
 * The Cloister Library - Slipback

Category:Sixth Doctor audio plays Category:Radio plays based on Doctor Who Category:1985 audio plays Category:1985 radio dramas

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The Wrong Doctors
"The Wrong Doctors" is a special episode of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, marking the programme's 30th anniversary. It was written by P.J. Hammond, and Terrance Dicks under the pseudonym of "Trevor Korfirth". It was broadcast on Christmas Day 1993. The special was broadcast simultaneously in 94 countries, and was shown concurrently in 3D in some cinemas. It achieved the Guinness World Record for the largest ever simulcast of a TV drama and won the Radio Times Audience Award at the 2014 British Academy Television Awards.

The 75-minute episode shows the last day of the Time War, in which the War Doctor (John Hurt) chooses to kill both Daleks and his own race of Time Lords to end the destructive conflict, paralleling this with a present-day choice by paramilitary organisation UNIT to destroy London rather than allow an alien invasion. Revising the back story, the Doctor succumbs to Clara Oswald's plea to change his mind; and instead, at the last instant of the Time War, he hides his war-torn home planet in time, rather than destroy it. Unfortunately the time distortions incurred causes all but his latest incarnation to have no memory of his changed decision.

The episode starred Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and Jenna Coleman as his companion, Clara Oswald. Previous lead actors David Tennant and Billie Piper returned for the episode, Tennant reprising his role as the Tenth Doctor, while Piper portrayed a sentient doomsday weapon called the Moment, projected as an image based on her character Rose Tyler. She is invisible and inaudible to everyone but the War Doctor (John Hurt). Other appearances included a very brief glimpse of the then-upcoming Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi), and a guest appearance by Fourth Doctor actor Tom Baker, in his late 70s. Rounding out the guest cast were Joanna Page as Queen Elizabeth I and Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart, the daughter of 1970s central figure Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The special also featured the return of the Daleks and the Zygons, shape-shifting aliens who had previously appeared only in Terror of the Zygons (1975).

As the episode celebrates fifty years of the programme, it references and alludes to various concepts featured throughout the show's run. It received critical acclaim and has been described by series producer Marcus Wilson as a "love letter to the fans" and by the controller of BBC One, Danny Cohen, as an "event drama".

Plot
The Seventh Doctor is fleeing from a group of Daleks on a desolated Earth in the year 2170. He escapes in the TARDIS with Koryn Jath, where he explains that he had helped thwart a Dalek invasion of Earth during this time period, and thus the planet should not be in such a state. They are taken to the homeworld of the Time Lords.

The Doctor is greeted by his Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth incarnations, each of whom have had their own recent encounters with temporally displaced Daleks. They are accompanied by Lord Dezan, a high ranking member of the High Council of Time Lords. When the whereabouts of the first two Doctors is brought into question, a stranger arrives, reassuring them that they have been warned and hidden outside their timestreams.

The man reveals himself to be a distant future incarnation of the Doctor, one who permanently destroyed the Daleks. Upon learning this, the Daleks have conspired to kill the Doctor at various points throughout his lives, in a desperate bid to alter their otherwise inevitable fate. The Seventh suggests planting the Doctors in differing points in time so as to confuse the Daleks. As the Sixth Doctor puts it: "Right Daleks, wrong Doctors."

The future Doctor, paired with Koryn, travels to a nearby Dalek ship.

The Third Doctor meets up with Max Bolton at his office on the planet Kipth.

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Max Bolton, PI, is running through the mean streets of Kipth. He makes it back to his office only to notice the lights are on. He pulls out his trusty Mahgruh X-8 laser pistol but before he can kick the door open, a voice calls from within. "It's alright Max. It's me, The Doctor." Max cautiously enters the office to see the Third Doctor sitting behind his desk.

"I may look and sound different, but it's still me. I helped myself to coffee, but I cleaned up after myself." Max looks at his tiny office kitchenette to see all the washing up has been done. "There's only one guy I know in this godforsaken galaxy who enjoys washing up. It must be you, Doc."

"Haven't seen any Daleks recently, have you?"

"Ugh! Fortunately, no. I have about a dozen gangs of mooks out for my blood, but rather them than Daleks."

"Tell me about these 'mooks'."

We flash back to a few nights ago; Max is explaining events to The Doctor. "It was meant to be a simple case. Some dame had hired yours truly to see if her old man was playing house with something tall, blonde and hot-to-trot. I found where he was hanging out and it wasn't a love nest, by cracky."

"Max, you appear to have slipped from Private Eye slang to 19th Century gold prospector."

"Really? Anyway, this place he had keys to was just a room full of maps and files with a nearly dead man in the middle. I went to see if I could help him and he just said 'Take the egg, let them through'. After that he went from nearly dead to very dead."

"What did he mean?", asked The Doctor. We return to the present.

"I haven't got a clue, Doc. He didn't give me anything, but since then, I've had various guys chasing me around town shouting 'where's the egg?'"

The Doctor leans his head on his hand and appears to go to sleep. Suddenly, his eyes open and he demands "Empty your pockets!" Max obeys and there amid the transit tickets, skeleton keys and candy bars is a metallic egg. Its surface is complex with what could be hundreds of facets.

"He hid it on your person as you bent over him. This is not good, Max. This is a Dalek time portal, an army of Daleks could flood through if it was activated . Your wayward husband case was a Dalek agent, presumably promised some position of power. Fool! Still, at least we have it now. You haven't had any visitors so far, so I think we have a little time to play with. I'm just going to the TARDIS. I parked it in this little side room, I trust that's alright with you."

The Doctor walks to the TARDIS, [1] leaving Max on his own. No sooner has The Doctor gone than the police burst in, charge him murder and carry him away. As Max is being dragged out of his office, concealed in the stairwell is a group of very dangerous looking men waiting for the office to be left empty.

As we cut to a moody shot of Max in the back seat of a futuristic squad car, we hear his internal monologue.

Me getting pulled in for icing the guy was bughouse. Sure, I'd be a suspect, but they'd have to have something more to actually slap the bracelets on me. I shoulda realized that if things get bughouse and The Doc is in town, it's no coincidence. Things were so crazy, I wasn't all that surprised when Sergeant O'Malley turned the car around and let me out slap bang outside my office. Actually, he's called Peacekeeper Advanced Norgax but he lets me call him Sergeant O'Malley.

Max is about to enter the building that contains his office when he hears the voices of a bunch of 'goons' who are on their way out. Max presses himself against the wall and is horrified to see that they have the egg! Once they're gone, Max dashes in and up the stairs to his office. "Doc! What gives?" The Doctor is slumped forward. His voice is weak.

"They used a neural disruptor, Max. I couldn't stand it. I had to give it to them."

"How'd they get a neural disruptor tuned to a Time Lord nervous system?"

The Doctor suddenly brightens up. "They didn't! Bear with me, Max. I have my reasons. I think we're about to have visitors and it's time for me to play Easter Bunny again."

The Doctor makes the egg appear in his grasp through sleight of hand.

The Doc I know is sly, but gentle. He's no loser, but he'll play the loser to get his own way. I was not sure about this guy. Was The Doc always a good guy? He looked the devil in every Earth cartoon I'd ever seen. His next request didn't make me feel any better.

"Max, gag yourself with this handkerchief and hold your arms behind you're back as if you've been tied to the chair."

I trusted The Doc just enough to play along, but I had butterflies in my stomach. When the "visitors"arrived, the butterflies moved out to make room for a whole colony of very large bats. Our new guests represented Orvu Denn. Denn is fifty-seven years of bile, paranoia, greed and violence poured into a ten-thousand credit suit.

One of the goons speaks: "Who are you and what's the deal with Bolton?"

"I am Colonel Wer Quien (retired). I found this bungler trying to find a very special egg. I'm trying to cut down on eggs, very bad for the hearts, y'know" __________________​

"Roger added that line in rehearsal."

- Terrance Dicks, DVD Extra, The Wrong Doctors __________________​

"However, if you're in the market for eggs, I do have one to sell. Shall we say fifteen-thousand?"

The Doc was playing a very dangerous game, but everything about him said he had nerves of iridium. After a couple of eternities and a side of forever I could see that the mighty Denn gang was going to blink.

"Ten."

"Twelve."

"Done."

"Congratulations, you've bought yourself an egg."

The goons pass The Doctor a translucent red plastic slab, about the size of two boxes of matches laid end to end.

With that the Denn boys left like lambs. The Doc indicated I could take my gag off.

"What gives Doc? I thought that thing was dangerous."

"The original is very dangerous, which is why it's still in my TARDIS. What I've been handing out is the product of the TARDIS replicator; completely inert."

He opens Max's desk drawer. It's full of metal eggs!

"There should be enough for every interested party and if you continue to be my 'hostage', then it should keep you safe from reprisals as it's Colonel Quien who's doing these deals"; he holds up the red credit slab. "Besides, twelve thousand credits should be enough to set you up in a new office out of reach of any 'bad guys'.”

"Colonel Quien" cut a few more deals that night and submitted to tortures that didn't mean squat to a Time Lord.

We see The Doctor sitting at the TARDIS console, turning dials and switching switches, his face is grave.

Not long after I set up in my new and expensive office on Cablou 5, I heard from a mutual friend that The Doc did activate that Dalek portal, right next to a very large, very fierce sun. A couple thousand roasted Daleks later he went back to his home planet. I'm glad The Doc is a good guy, 'cause when the situation calls for it, he's badder than the baddest bad guys I know.

[1] As Roger Delgado is meant to stay seated, I imagine this is achieved by cutting to a closeup of McCoy tracking his gaze across the office, indicating the movement we can't see.

Next time: A little bit of politics

The TARDIS lands on the Dalek warship and the future Doctor and Koryn emerge. The room is filled with pictures of The Doctor, diagrams and infographics [1]. The Doctor places a hand on the TARDIS. "Sometimes, you are quite brilliant. Take a look Koryn, a Dalek classroom and I'm the subject of all the lessons. The one place on a Dalek warship the TARDIS wouldn't look out of place."

The two travelers peek outside the classroom into the corridor. "Where are we going?" asks Koryn.

"We need to find the departure and return points of the Dalek squads that are attacking my timeline. We can't risk survivors returning to the warship and alerting Dalek command that there are counterattacks by unexpected versions of me. Back into the doorway!", the Doctor barks. A Dalek glides down the corridor, stops before an alcove and says "CALL-TRANSPOD".

An open lift slides down to fill the alcove. The Dalek steps inside and demands "MAINTENANCE-ROOM-7"; the lift zooms away.

Koryn turns to The Doctor to see him totally absorbed in a handheld device that might be a Gameboy or something like that. "It might be hypocritical, but these Daleks have become too dependent on technology. A few generations ago I'd have been in trouble, but now…"; he holds up the handheld device which is displaying a map. "The Daleks have a central computer database to draw upon, all stored in chips attached to their organic parts. I was able to access it like the 'computer hackers' of old. One cybernetic race has already been neutralized because of this. Surprisingly foolish of the Daleks not to learn from their mistakes."

"A gadget for everything. You haven't changed, Doctor."

"I have three things that will save us. This little thing," he holds up the handheld device "this equally little thing," he holds up something like a small gas mask, to fit over the nose and mouth, it has what appears to be a small filter canister in its centre. The Doctor holds his frock coat open slightly, "And finally, this waistcoat. We're going to win this Koryn."

The Doctor carefully steps into the corridor and stands before the alcove, putting on the facemask. He gestures at Koryn to join him. He speaks through the mask and what comes out is a screeching Dalek voice, "CALL-TRANSPOD". When the lift arrives, The Doctor and Koryn step into it. "PORT-NINE-CONTROL" he barks. He winks at Koryn and the lift carries them away.

London, 1986. Sophie Chen is walking the streets wearing sunglasses and with her head down. She freezes in her tracks. We see a group of people hanging around outside a bank. They're a basically unremarkable group of middle-aged suburban types, but they are all scowling, eyes darting back and forth as if expecting trouble. Fear plays across Sophie's face. She slowly turns around and starts to walk away when she notices a Police Box a few yards away. It wasn't there before. Her paces quickens, but she's being careful not to draw attention to herself by running. As she reaches the box she searches her pockets and finds a key. Her hands shake as she unlocks the door and slips inside. __________________​

"This was the period where I started to meet a lot of TV pros who had grown up watching Doctor Who. When we started work on this, the set guy asked if it was possible to feature the wooden console room from the 70s. That was something Paddy had commissioned to take up less space, though I can't remember if the Jules Verne look came from her or the designer. Anyway, I'd said to the set guy on Wrong Doctors that as much as it was a lovely idea, that set was long gone. 'I have a friend who has one' he said. Sure enough, he knew someone, a film and TV pro who'd built a wooden TARDIS set in his garage and was willing to share it with us for a nominal fee."

- PJ Hammond, DVD Extra, The Wrong Doctors __________________​

Sophie is shocked when she enters an unfamiliar TARDIS console room. An unfamiliar Doctor is less of a shock. "Doctor, have you changed again?"

"In way yes, in another way not yet. You must be from my future. The TARDIS is currently in communication with future versions of itself and it seems to trust you." The Doctor gestures to an armchair that didn't appear to have been there earlier. The Doctor glances down at the small TARDIS console and having done so, walks over to a large, mahogany sideboard where a chrome covered machine sits; it's an all purpose hot drink machine. "Coffee, white two sugars, yes?" Sophie smiles at The Doctor's avuncular manner. The Doctor places her drink and a plateful of chocolate digestives on a side table. As he gets himself a cup of tea and a vanilla slice, his manner becomes more grave. He sits himself in yet another chair that wasn't there a moment ago. "Something tells me it's a long time since you smiled...tell me about it" he says, bringing the tea to his lips, his now piercing gaze fixed on Sophie.

As Sophie speaks, we see a montage of bleak streets, headlines on news vendors' stands and politicians on TV. "It all happened so gradually. There were some violent incidents…terrorists, gangsters…all the stuff that you see in the papers, but…there was this MP who started to say they were all linked. Every time someone was found dead, every time there was an explosion somewhere in the city, he said it was all part of one big scheme. He made all sorts of implications as to who was behind it, but underneath the things he said was the same central idea, it was foreigners. Another MP, Morgan Lacey, you know him? No? He started railing against…again, it was very broad. He seemed to object to the 1980s. Every sign of modernity, swearing on TV, androgynous pop stars it was all an assault on the 'glorious traditions' of the British people. You see where this is going? The papers liked him and suddenly the 'assault on glorious traditions' people teamed up with the 'foreign violence' people and everything started to be blamed on foreigners. After the stock market crash in 1984, they started to place restrictions on what jobs foreigners could do, how much they could earn and then where they could go. Morgan Lacey ended up as Prime Minister and not long after that 'British' started to mean 'white'. I mean, I was born in Chichester, but today I was going to the bank on the only day of the week I'm allowed to go. But there was a crowd of 'patriots', ready to intimidate anyone like me."

"An old trick, but every civilization seems to fall for it sooner or later. One thing concerns me more than anything else, what should be the least important part of your story."

"What's that?"

"There wasn't a stock market crash in 1984. History has been changed."

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...IT'S TIME FOR ONE IN A MILLION!"

The opening titles of a gameshow are playing.

"AND HERE'S YOUR HOST, TERRY SLADE!"

Terry (Royce Mills) strides confidently onto the set and begins to chuckle his way through his opening monologue. "I dunno, have you seen the queues for food these days? And these outsiders complain that…"

The picture mixes through to the programme playing silently on a TV in a shop window. A handful of people are watching, among them The Doctor and Sophie. __________________​

"We asked quite a few real game show presenters, but they all didn't like how the host in the script is a bit creepy and a racist and there was the risk that their everyday, proper hosting duties would get tainted by association. Bob Monkhouse was sympathetic, but he'd already had a straight role in Season 27 and didn't want to spoil it. Royce was already booked to do Dalek voices for us and a light just went over my head. He had this great humorous face and he'd worked with Dick Emery and Kenny Everett. I just knew he'd be able to give the part a 'showbiz' feel."

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Sophie winces at the gameshow. "Come on, Doctor. I know his routines of old." "No, wait. Why is everyone so fascinated by a show they can't hear?"

As if to underline his point, the small crowd starts to laugh a rasping, barking laugh. The Doctor asks one of them what's so funny. "He's got a comical face, hasn't he?" The person's attention turns to Sophie. "What's she doing here? She's one of them!"

"She's my servant!" says The Doctor desperately.

"Well, I suppose that's OK. You being her better and everything. But you need to get her out of here."

"Yeah, a Chinese takeaway!" shouts one hateful wag. The barking laugh resumes as Sophie and The Doctor walk briskly away.

Eventually, The Doctor and Sophie walk up to the Houses of Parliament. The Doctor walks up to the policeman guarding the entrance. The Doctor beams with fulsome cheer. "Good evening. A cold night to be out on duty. I hope those rogues in there award you a pay rise before they award another one to themselves."

"No unauthorized persons beyond this point."

The Doctor's grin freezes and an undertone of menace enters his manner. "Do I look unauthorized to you?" He moves closer to the policeman, towering over him. "Do you maybe think that I'm…foreign? Do I look foreign to you?"

"Y-you sound…"

"I sound what?" The Doctor is still smiling mirthlessly.

"S-scottish?"

"Scotland is part of Great Britain. Do you know what Great Britain is? Do you have even the first idea of what Britain's greatness is?" The question hangs in the air. "I am going in there to see my old pal Morgan Lacey, do you understand?"

"But she's a…"

"She is my personal servant. She knows her place. Do you know your place?" Once more the question is left hanging. After a few moments The Doctor and Sophie walk past the policeman without any resistance.

Inside parliament Sophie says "That was frightening."

"The one bright spot in authoritarian regimes. You can get around certain protections by just shouting louder. I'm ashamed of myself in one way, but I need to get a good look at this Morgan Lacey."

The Doctor strides into one of the House of Commons bars, takes off his Inverness cape and tosses it to Sophie who staggers under the weight. While the conversation doesn't stop, it quietens down to take in the new stranger. The conversation returns to its normal volume and The Doctor turns to Sophie and says under his breath "One of this lot is Morgan Lacey?"

"Over there, with the white beard. He didn't bother to look around when we came in."

The Doctor looks at the man and freezes. Lacey (John Thaw), sensing he's being watched, turns around and on seeing The Doctor his face too registers shock. Lacey strides over to The Doctor, all smiles. "Well, fancy meeting you here. I was told to expect you, but to turn up here in the heart of government? That's bold, even for you. Well, now your here, I must invite you back to Number 10. I really do insist." Lacey is holding the Tissue Compression Eliminator!

The Doctor and Sophie are sitting in a briefing room, under armed guard. "I suppose you know the Daleks are involved," says Lacey. "They recognized my power. Especially my hypnotic power. Impressed?"

"I've heard it before and it wasn't any better then."

"Before?"

"We're out of sync. From my point of view, you've been running around doing this routine for quite some time. Your future is bleak. I shouldn't interfere, but I will say just once. Turn back. Don't give in to evil."

"Evil? Oh dear, you haven't changed enough. These people are blank slates. I don't need to find the evil within them or turn them from good to evil. I just need to put an idea, any idea, into their brains and they seize on it, live for it, die for it, kill for it."

"How?"

"Through their most treasured possessions. Their closest family members. Their televisions."

"It can't work. You've forgotten, Time Lords can turn thoughts into transmissions, but there's no transmitter on Earth that can carry the bandwidth of a mind. Unless you replaced the whole broadcast infrastructure.

"If you can't see what I'm doing here Doctor, perhaps you're stupid enough that *your* mind could be transmitted with no problems. Come on, Doctor, can't you see that we're on the same side here? The Daleks want to sow dissension and cause a third world war, so they can swoop in and take over after the people of Earth have worn each other out with the fighting.” “I told them I'll help them, but I've made a change to their plans. I'm giving people a common enemy, and also a common leader -- well, perhaps not so common as all that. I am going to unite the people of the Earth, not divide them, so they can stand together against the Dalek invasion, with me as their leader. I'm saving your pet humans for you, Doctor! Of course, if some few hundred million of them have to die so I can save the rest, a simple utilitarian calculation shows it's worth it. The end result is a more peaceful subordination to a superior race, which must be their inevitable end. Just like you, Doctor, and your little pet person here." He gives out a rasping, barking laugh. Sophie looks at The Doctor, shocked.

"Doctor! It's the gameshow!"

"I'm afraid you're right, Sophie. A big fan of One In A Million, Prime Minister?"

"I…I've seen it."

"That's the signal! Your influence was just to get you to a position of power and to realign the political landscape. But the signal is one of sheer hatred. The Daleks have been playing with you. This isn't the inevitable rise to power you dreamed of. They had to break the timeline to get you to this position. Now the hatred in these people is out of your hands."

Lacey shows an emotion that must have been alien to him before now. He's embarrassed. Speaks with a fury, but his voice quavers. "They betrayed me."

"You're a fool. But a young fool. You can't deal with the Daleks. It's not too late to change…"

"NO! I have seen how easy it is to mislead this world. I will be its master!"

The Doctor bows his head in sorrow and says quietly, "No. You won't."

"I will have my revenge on these Dalek creatures!"

"That's more possible. I assume your TARDIS is somewhere nearby. Go back to before this started. Destroy the Daleks and remove their tampering with time."

"I will”, sneers The Master, "but only to set the stage for my own takeover." He opens a door, steps inside and the door vanishes with a familiar grinding sound.

"We'd better get back to my TARDIS. The timeline is about to shift." The Doctor opens the door to another room and shouts, "The Prime Minister wants a ministerial car sending to the front door to carry me and my assistant to our office."

Back in the TARDIS, The Doctor stares intently at a display on the console.

"Time is changing, Sophie. Do you want to remember these events? While you're in here you have the choice."

"I think so. It hurts, but I need to be aware of how these things happen."

"In case it happens again?"

"Next time, I might not be the outcast. I might belong to the class that's in charge."

"I like the way you think, Sophie."

"What happens to Morgan Lacey?"

"He'll be back, starting out from an earlier point. I can't quite remember what happens to him. It was another occasion when I was with my other selves, that always clouds the memory afterward. But I know when I try to think about it, I get that tight feeling in my stomach. Whatever happens to him is very, very bad."

The future Doctor and Koryn are in the deserted control gallery of Port 9 of the Dalek warship. The Doctor is intently studying a monitor.

"The timeline is shifting, repairing itself." He starts to fiddle with a patch bay. "Koryn, can you just keep plugging and unplugging the cables here. Keep sending different signals to different parts of the ship."

"OK, what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to change some the programming so that the timeline monitor is more sensitive to minor shifts which are always happening. The bridge of the ship will be seeing history as in a constant state of flux, which means they won't be expecting their time patrols returning any time soon especially not the one that was meant to arrive in Port 9."

Elsewhere, the TARDIS has just landed and in the console room, The Fifth Doctor is studying the scanner. Outside appears to be a deserted patch of land. There are a few small buildings nearby and in the distance what appears to be an aircraft hangar. Beyond all that appears to be sea. Finally he spots something like a golf buggy speeding towards the TARDIS.

The Doctor steps outside the TARDIS as the buggy comes to a halt. From the passenger side steps a burly security guard (Adam Fogerty) holding a futuristic rifle. "You look like you expect trouble", says The Doctor. "I hate to disappoint, but I don't think I have any to give you."

"It's alright, Doctor, he's with me", says a familiar voice. Stepping from the driver's side of the buggy is Zoe Heriot.

"Zoe! You recognize me! You remember me!"

"Don't worry, I got a message from some of your friends." She holds up a white hypercube with a wry smile. "They said it was important. Anyway, welcome to Project Cornucopia."

We fade to the buggy approaching a small building. Zoe's voice fades up, indicating some little time has passed.

"The social upheavals of the last 10 years have brought about a new interest in environmentalism and fears about overpopulation." The buggy comes to a halt and the passengers step out. "What we're standing on now is a landing pad in the Atlantic Ocean. The real work is all done in a bio-dome beneath the waves." She opens the door of the building, the guard steps inside as Zoe ushers The Doctor in before joining him.

We see a huge greenhouse, full of colossal plants. In the middle of all this is a lift shaft. The view tracks down the shaft until it reaches the floor and Zoey, the guard and The Doctor step out. "The great fear is that one day, we'll run out of land to grow things on," says Zoe. "This is a possible alternative. Obviously, we can only have so many of these domes, so we're also experimenting with the yield and size of the plants…". She breaks off as an alarm bell starts ringing, quietly but insistently. "Code M, Dr Heriot," says the security guard. "I'm sorry, Doctor," says Zoe. "One of our service droids will escort you to the break room. You can wait there until I get back."

The lights come on in the darkened break room the moment service droid Lambda and The Doctor enter. "Doctor, please take a seat. The television responds to voice commands. Can I bring you any refreshments?" "Coffee, white, two sugars, please." "I will obey. Is there anything else?" "Tell me, Lambda, what is a Code M alert?" "What is your security clearance code, Doctor?" "Oh, it's not important." Lambda leaves to get The Doctor's coffee. The Doctor looks around and works out how to turn off the light. He carefully walks to the far wall opposite the door and draws back the blind. Outside in the ocean are sinister, glowing red lights, moving slowly, apparently scanning the base. "Code M, I presume", mutters The Doctor. The lights suddenly come on in the room and someone (Richard Beckinsale) gives a yelp of surprise.

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"Richard Beckinsale was one of the people who visited me after my heart attack. We'd been on friendly terms since he was in one of my Poirots. He was saying how Eric Morecambe had 'bullied' him when he was doing a guest spot on one of their shows. Eric and Ern liked to rehearse and rehearse and Richard said that after a while, he was getting tired and his skin was getting grey. Richard said he was waving away help and Eric was having none of it. Eric had had enough problems with his heart to recognize the signs. An ambulance was called and after that, Richard said it was similar to what one hears about Alcoholics Anonymous. It was like Heart Attacks Anonymous and Eric behaved like a 'sponsor'. So Richard became my 'sponsor', I suppose. On one of his visits, the cheeky sod asked if there was a part in the Doctor Who special. Well, I couldn't refuse. So I gave PJ a call and when all was said and done, it was the shooting of Don's part that best fit in with Richard's schedule."

- Roger Delgado, DVD Extra, The Wrong Doctors

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"Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't realize anyone was in here. I wasn't told to expect anyone. And you are?"

"A friend of Dr Heriot. She just calls me The Doctor, so does everyone else."

"But your name is?"

"Not something I like to be reminded of."

"I'm Bentley. Working out of lab 5: cacti and succulents. I sometimes help out with fungi in lab 4."

"How many labs do you have?"

"Just the five. Have you been give the tour?"

"No, Dr Heriot was called away. A Code M alert."

"Ah, that's why you were looking at the outside with the lights off. I'm not sure I believe her, I don't think it's sapient life spying on us, just some curious fish."

Lambda enters "Your drink, Doctor. Professor Bentley, can I get you anything?"

"No," says Bentley pointedly. Lambda leaves.

"These things give me the creeps. I prefer the old ones. Less human looking, more cute."

"How many of the new ones are there? Lambda's the eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet so presumably…"

"Thirteen."

"And when did they arrive?"

Bentley suddenly looks suspicious. "I think Dr Heriot had better answer your questions."

As he says that, Zoe arrives. "Ah, I see you've met Professor Bentley, Doctor. I hope…"

"Professor Bentley asked if you'd given me the tour and I was telling him you hadn't."

"Well, there's time for that tomorr…"

"I really would like to take the tour as soon as possible."

"I'm really not sure…"

"For old time's sake, Zoe. Old time, likes the space station, or Dulcis, or that time with IE."

Zoe frowns. She does not care for this Doctor's manner. "Very well," she sighs.

Zoe is driving The Doctor through the main greenhouse in one of the buggies. She points out things of interest, but The Doctor doesn't appear to be listening. He's tinkering with something that looks like a miniature radio. Satisfied, he places it on the dashboard of the buggy. He interrupts Zoe's tour spiel.

"That thing should prevent any electronic eavesdropping. Tell me about the Code M alerts, the red lights outside the dome and when those new service droids arrived."

"Doctor, I'm a grown woman and a respected scientist I don't need you rushing in to save the day."

"Ordinarily, I'm sure that's the case. But my people sent me here because they expected serious trouble and I think whoever's causing the trouble is using your presence here to draw me out."

"Well, why did it have to be this version of you? Why couldn't it be my Doctor?"

"Because this is a trap for your Doctor. If I'm the one who trips it, I might just gain an advantage. Who runs Project Cornucopia?"

"It's part of an international effort, overseen by the Atlantic Science Federation."

"Atlantic? So not all countries are involved?"

"No. Some countries just don't see things our way. There's something of a struggle."

"A Cold War? Plus c'est la même chose."

Zoe stops the buggy. "Just what are you trying to say?"

"I'm hear because there are several attacks on the timeline being launched by the Daleks. I don't think your presence here is the whole reason for the attack. This is all too benign. If this place was just a great big undersea farm, the Daleks would just come in guns a-blazing and they haven't. What do they want? By the way, is there a cold lab?"

"Lab 3, yes. But why?"

"Let's take a look at Lab 3."

Among the cold, clean and white expanses of Lab 3, Zoe looks around fearfully.

"Doctor, we're really not supposed to be here."

"You get used to it. I'm rarely meant to be anywhere. Do you have diving suits or diving bells? Something to help me get a better look outside."

"We have both of those things. What does that have to do with Lab 3?"

"Nothing, I'm multitasking. Aha!"

Zoe looks around to see that The Doctor has opened a fridge with his sonic screwdriver.

"Doctor! What are you doing?"

"Confirming a theory." He slams the fridge door shut and locks it again. He starts to walk back to the buggy. "Were you with Project Cornucopia from the start? Did you see the dome being constructed?"

"Erm, no. I joined nine months into the project. Doctor, I can't keep up with you."

"We're not supposed to be here." He's already in the passenger seat. "Let's get out of here and out there. Next stop, diving equipment."

In the docking bay Zoe and The Doctor find staff members Stark (David Swift) and Nolan (Bob Sherman) waiting for them.

"Bentley told us you were giving someone a tour and we really need to know more about him," Nolan says angrily.

"I'm generally known only as The Doctor. My name is John Smith, which is an even less useful name than 'The Doctor'. I met Zoe on Wheel Station 3. One of you fellows works in Lab 3?"

"I do," says Stark.

The Doctor approaches Stark. Unintentionally, there's something of the gangster about him as he whispers gruffly, "I'm also completely immune to bacillus alsosasvesti." __________________​

"'Álsos asvésti' being Greek for 'Lime Grove'. The Latin for 'Lime Grove' is 'Lime Grove', so we had to go Greek. Shepherd's Bush didn't translate well in either language."

- PJ Hammond, DVD Extra, The Wrong Doctors

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Stark looks shocked. His mouth opens but nothing comes out.

"Zoe and I are going outside. I think I know what's going on in here. The last unanswered question is out there."

Nolan and Stark look on as Zoe and The Doctor leave for the mini-sub.

"I think that man is trouble," says Nolan.

"He already is, but if he really knows what's going on out there, I think we'll have to bear it."

Inside the mini-sub, Zoe asks The Doctor "What was that with Stark?"

"Project Cornucopia is a front for a germ warfare lab."

Zoe looks distraught. "You can't be right! How…how would you know…?"

"My suspicious nature, I'm afraid. I'm here because there are Daleks involved and they're not going to show interest in a farm. The Daleks would just destroy it in the hopes of robbing a growing population of its food. You gave me the impression of competing ideologies on the Earth, which indicated to me one or both sides would have weapons stashed somewhere. Does this have some sort of x-ray or thermal camera? Something that can see through walls, maybe?"

"Yes, there are a few cameras for penetrating the water, foliage, coral, that sort of thing. Hang on, the depths are that way. We're facing the dome. What are you looking for?"

"Service droids. Let's see.” He turns a dial to change camera. "No, no, no AH! Look at that!"

"What is it?"

"Inside that droid is a mutant. A Dalek mutant. You have five labs and you're so understaffed Bentley has to help out in fungi, but you have thirteen service droids. When Stark has something very nasty and very effective developed, the Daleks would have killed you all and launched a germ warfare attack. Now, let's go into the depths. What year is it, Zoe?"

"2093."

"Of course it is," The Doctor smiles.

"Doctor!" Zoe screams as red lights become visible in the distance. The Doctor fiddles with the sub radio until he's satisfied he has the right frequency.

"This is a vessel from Project Cornucopia. I am The Doctor. I represent some of the humans in the dome, but I am not a human myself. I request an audience to explain that there is a presence on this planet that poses a threat to all life on Earth."

There is an agonizing moment of silence.

"Vessel, you are recognized. Follow us."

"Zoe, you're about to meet the Sea Devils."

Bently, Stark and Nolan are in the break room. There's a palpable tension which is broken by a flash of yellow lights and voice crackling across speakers.

"Project C-crackle-pia this is-crackle-Heriot. Await-crackle-at doc. Am returning. Sub damaged. The Doc-crackle-dead. Repeat-crackle-damaged-crackle-tor is dead!"

The men have rushed to the docking bay. Zoe has taken a seat and is breathing heavily.

"The Doctor's been killed! There's an invasion coming!"

"What invasion?" gasps Stark. Zoe ignores him and grabs handset mounted on the wall.

"All service droids to Lab 3. Defensive mode."

Service droid Delta enters the room.

"May I enquire as to the nature of the alert in Lab 3?"

"The Doctor has been killed by Sea Devils," says Zoe. The three men look at each other confused. "They're launching an imminent attack. They're going to blow open Lab 3 to enter the dome.

The droid stays still. Its emotionless face hiding the Dalek intelligence inside. Zoe's eyes narrow. She's aware that the Dalek is trying to decide whether to believe her.

"They know about the bacilli in there. The Doctor told them and paid for it with his life."

The lights on the droids chest flash red and yellow. "I have sent a signal. Twelve droids will enter Lab 3. I will remain and monitor your safety."

A low thrum reverberates through the dock. The sound of all the vessels approaching the dome. The noise stops. It is soon replaced by a harder to define noise.

"For God's sake what is that?" asks Bentley. Stark has run the television screen in the dock and has brought up thermal image of the dome.

"It's boiling! The water around Lab 3 is boiling!"

The air is split by the sound of screaming droids.

Droid Delta turns to Stark. "You will explain!" The unnerving calm has gone from its voice.

Unseen by Delta, Zoe has pulled a gun from her jacket and unerringly aims it at the lower back of the droid and fires. As the droids falls to the floor, Zoe lets the gun fall from her hands.

"I'm sorry, Zoe," says a familiar voice. The Doctor has entered the dock, flanked by two Sea Devils.

"Where the devil did you come from?" Nolan asks incredulously.

"Slipped in with my friends here during the excitement. These two gentlemen", he gestures to the Sea Devils, "are here as part of a diplomatic visit to Project Cornucopia. As you've all no doubt worked out, the invasion was a ploy to draw the Daleks away to Lab 3, which has been attacked by microwave heat weapons. I'm afraid that this has also resulted in the sterilization of all projects stored there. My old friend Louis Pasteur really knew his stuff."

Stark appears somewhat exasperated, but is already accepting the situation. "The Atlantic Science Federation has some information shared by UN intelligence operations, so I'm not really surprised that this happened. But I think you need to understand that my work is necessary."

"You have come this close," The Doctor holds his index finger and thumb close together, "to developing a weapon that was going to be used to annihilate the human race. It just so happens that through my superior diplomatic skills, I have arranged for this species to save all life on Earth. Give a call to the Atlantic Science Federation and tell them that the race of people sometimes know as 'Sea Devils' are willing to talk. Germ warfare is out, but their knowhow will make Project Cornucopia a tremendous success." He turns around and the air of menace leaves him completely. He gives a sad but warm smile.

"Zoe, I know this wasn't easy. Killing is a disgusting thing, but sometimes it's the least of a vast number of evils. Catch your breath, gather your thoughts and before I go, give me the tour. The real tour."

Later, outside the TARDIS, The Doctor and Zoe are saying their goodbyes.

"Here's hoping next time I see you will be a social call," says The Doctor.

"What happened to Jamie, Doctor?"

"His memory was wiped like yours, but now your memory is restored, there's no excuse not to return his. Anyway, the Time Lords owe me a lot of favours."

"What about all this? Does it all work out?"

"I can't tell you that. 2093? Not a bad year. There are better."

"Like 2094?"

The Doctor gives a wry smile and enters the TARDIS which soon dematerializes.

In the Dalek warship, Port 9 all the monitors go blank. "Was that part of your plan, Doctor?" asks Koryn.

"No," replies The Doctor. He checks his handheld computer. "There's a real time distortion occuring. I'd made the Dalek instruments hypersensitive to normal fluctuations that it's shut them down. One of my past selves might have done some clever, or maybe something stupid, or…"

"Or?"

"All my selves are in trouble."



On the Sixth Doctor's TARDIS, the lights are flickering and he's grimly holding on to the console as the TARDIS is shaking violently. The usual grinding sound of the temporal engines is louder and deeper. Suddenly, with a huge BOOM the craft is still. The TARDIS has landed.

The Doctor leaves the TARDIS to find himself in a fog shrouded forest. There's a low moaning wind and The Doctor soon becomes aware of distant, disorted screams and nearby, unintelligible whispers. "Good job I don't believe in ghosts," he muses to himself "or I'd be very, very anxious right now."

He is jolted from his reverie by a clear voice calling him. "Doctor? Are you here? I thought I heard the TAR--" The Doctor places a hand on the shoulder of the person shouting, spins her around and places a finger on his lips.

"Kay Gee," The Doctor whispers "I'm extremely glad to see you. I'm not sure I want people to know I'm here. Not until I know where 'here' is."

"I'm sorry, but I don't know." Any further explanation is temporarily halted by a sudden vision of a screaming woman flying past them. Standing still but passing as a blur, like she's being transported on a huge turntable.

"Doctor," gasps Kay "didn't you once say you didn't believe in ghosts."

"I hope I'm wrong. I can think of scientific explanations, but they worry me more than the existence of spectral souls. Tell me how you came to be here."

"I was part of a group of historians gathered to study the historicity of…well, of 'The Doctor'."

The Doctor's eyebrows shoot up in surprise. "Did you use your special insight on this project?"

"No, I dragged my heels, made suggestions of negligible usefulness. I wanted to observe. Something about the project didn't seem right. Suddenly, the whole party found itself…transported…housed in a castle…HERE." Kay has to raise her voice, the screams, whispers and visions have increased. The Doctor and Kay find that they are now huddled close together. The Doctor suddenly pulls away, seized by an idea.

"WAIT! WAIT! Right to left! The 'ghosts' or whatever, the voices, they're all moving right to left. This is a vortex! Let's keep moving to the centre. I suspect this castle is in the eye of the storm!" He once again takes Kay's arm and they tramp onwards.

Eventually, they reach the castle. The voices have become so distorted they're blended into an unnatural hiss and hum. The ghosts are now just a constant fog.

"You managed to get out," says The Doctor "how do we get in?"

"The layout is similar to some 14th Century castles I've studied. There's a secret passage that leads to what might have been a river. If it was, it's dried up. It was a short drop, but I don't know how we'll get back up."

"How about we walk up the front door and see if it's unlocked?"

"You haven't changed that much," says Kay.

"I was rather hoping you wouldn't say that, but my course is set. In we go."

The two struggle through the spectral gale, across the drawbridge and to a small opening set in the vast, wooden door. This smaller door has been left open, swinging on its rusted hinges. Through the door and across the courtyard they go until they enter the great hall. The door to the hall slams behind them and the noise decreases significantly, a few of the ghosts flicker like white flames, giving off a few low moans. The Doctor freezes, causing Kay to become very anxious. "Doctor?"

"I can sense it. Broken time. Something terrible has happened here, is happening here, is going to happen here. I'd turn and run, but I don't think I can escape it."

"You wouldn't run away, Doctor!"

"Not permanently, but I wish I could withdraw to think, to plan and I can't."

"THE TIME LORD IS HERE! THE CEREMONY WILL BEGIN!"

The Doctor and Kay suddenly find themselves being grabbed by unseen people. Strangely, they apologize under their breath. "Sorry, Kay, but we don't know what else to do."

"Doctor!" Kay shouts. "It's the people from the historicity group!"

"BIND HIM!" cries a pale, emaciated man in a black robe (Murray Melvin) as he steps into the light. "Defiler of Skaro, you shall pay! Bind him to the altar!"

The "altar" is a large wooden table and the people who seized The Doctor do their best to tie to him to it. They just about manage it, but their efforts are halting and uncertain.

"Skaro?! This is Skaro?"

"These are the ruins of Skaro after you destroyed the Daleks in the Final War."

"I don't know about the Final War. That's my future, but I'd hazard a guess that I'll let the Daleks destroy themselves. I really don't think I should be here. This is too far after my time."

"From the ruins of the Final War we shall reach back to the First War and change our tragic history. The breach shall be opened with blood!"

A machine has been brought in. Looking like Satan's own fridge with a keyboard and monitor interface roughly patched into it. "Listen everyone, that is a time vortex generator," The Doctor shouts to the room. "There are no ghosts! Those are time echos!" The assorted members of the historicity team move forward uncertainly but are stopped by the shouts of the Thal.

"These are the echos of the suffering of Skaro! The many who suffered in the long war. They can be saved." He moves towards The Doctor. "You saw what the First War did to Skaro, but having seen it you didn't use your great powers to go back in time and prevent the suffering. Even when your own people gave you the chance to prevent the Daleks spreading throughout the universe you couldn't do it. You let them spread their evil and when you had enough of playing the hero, you wiped them out, leaving Skaro a sterile world. But the powers of the vortex are within you. Time is in your blood and with that blood I will access time and undo the evils done to my home world."

"You don't understand," screams The Doctor. But he is stopped as the Thal steps forward and grabs The Doctor's arm. We see Kay wince as The Doctor screams. The Thal moves towards the Time Vector Generator. In his hand he holds a dagger and the blade is wet with a few drops of The Doctor's blood!



On the Dalek warship, The Lost Doctor frowns. "Have you noticed, Koryn? There doesn't seem to be any alarm. A huge distortion has shut down the time monitoring equipment and there are no flashing lights, no klaxons." He ducks down beneath a monitor station and starts pulling wire out, trying to jump start the equipment. "Daleks aren't noted for their calm. Something's up. AH!" The monitor flickers into life. After a little adjustment, The Doctor manages to get a signal. "Oh, no," he gasps. Enough finesse. I'm just going to have to throw a spanner in the works." The Doctor finds an intercom and broadcasts throughout the ship. "I am in Landing Bay 9 and I'm not a Dalek. Come and get me, boys!" He steps away and says to Koryn "When the Daleks get here, stand behind me."



On Skaro, the Thal places the dagger in a chamber in the Time Vortex Generator. The Sixth Doctor pleads, "You're making a mistake! You can't rewrite history."

"You have changed history, frequently."

"I've changed it and tried to aim for a better outcome, but I can't write it. To be the author of history, I'd have to have total control over all of time. Every action, every consequence would have to be guided by my will. I wouldn't trust myself with that power and I've never encountered an entity I would trust."

The Thal gazes at his monitor. "The vortex profile complete. I am ready to open the breach." But suddenly, the number of ghosts increases. They appear and disappear from different points in the room. Their modes of dress differing.

"These are the new ghosts," The Doctor shouts. "New victims of new wars. Possible wars. You can't stop the First War with one action. You can delay it. You're seeing the time ghosts of Thals and Kaleds who might never be born or might never have been born. These are the ripples of the action you are about to take. Every time you set your mind to a course of action, the potential changes."

"You are on time's side. Maybe you think yourself to be time's champion. But you don't know how it feels to have have time cut through your life like a sword."

"I DO!" It's The Lost Doctor. He has entered the hall.

"How did you get here?" splutters The Sixth Doctor.

"Interesting story, I'll tell you some time."



Flashback to the Dalek warship. Daleks flood in to Landing Bay 9. The Lost Doctor holds his hands up and smiles. "I never thought I'd be pleased to see you."

"WHO-ARE-YOU?"

"Who else would be poking around your landing bay dressed like this?"

"YOU-ARE-THE DOCTOR!"

"I didn't say that. You can't be sure who I am. Maybe I'm just a big fan of…"

"SILENCE! THE-DOCTOR-HAS-TWO-HEARTS! I-WILL-SCAN…bzzz…nzzz…zzz…bzzz"

Rapidly, each Dalek falls to the same mystery ailment. They stop moving and their screeching voices are replaced with low buzzes. The Doctor turns to Koryn, puffs out his chest and straightens his waistcoat. "The third weapon?" smiles Koryn.

"Woven inside is an information matrix. The Dalek scan is vulnerable. They scanned me for two hearts but absorbed the information, like involuntarily reading a bar code. The information is overwhelming their processors and being transmitted to every Dalek on the ship."

"Why didn't you do that before?"

"Because now every Dalek onboard is locked up, there aren't any left to pilot this thing and before long, it's going to drift aimlessly until it finds a gravity source to pull it in and crash. On top of that, the heating, air pressure and other systems won't be being monitored, so there's any number of things that could kill us. And that's not the worse thing."

"What's worse than us being killed?"

"We won't find out what their plan is."



Back in the great hall, The Lost Doctor is speaking. "I found out what their plan was. I was able to find that this was their destination. I set the warship on a crash course with the nearest sun and brought my TARDIS here. I had to realize that this wasn't all about me. For once I figured in the Dalek plans, but I wasn't their ultimate victim.

"They're using you. The attacks on me were to narrow down my movements, make it hard to have my other selves help each other. While I was fighting a battle on different fronts, but the only one that mattered was the one here."

The Lost Doctor is walking carefully towards the Thal. "You want my blood? You can have it," he says as he gets close enough to the Thal to take the dagger from him. The Doctor pricks his thumb and smear some of the blood up and down the blade. As he returns the dagger to the chamber, the ghosts begin to subside.

"Let me show you what I found out. Let me show you the timeline that was the Daleks' ultimate aim."

On the monitor is an image of thousands of Daleks. "They were going to let you reach back to the First War, but once you did they were going to pounce and seed the Dalek race from hundreds of years earlier. Kaleds and Thals would be converted. These ruins wouldn't be restored, they would no longer exists. All of Skaro would be a Dalek habitat."

"No," gasps the Thal.

"You wouldn't just lose Skaro. You would never have even had it in the first place."

The number of ghosts is similar to what it was at the beginning.

"Let me turn this machine off. Let the ghosts rest."

"You can't know what I feel. The loss."

"I lost myself, friend. I do tamper in time, to make things better. There are limits to what I can do, what I should do, but I haven't always judged them right and now I can remember endless pasts, but I don't know which is mine. I know I have loved truly maybe once, maybe twice in my life, but I remember countless loves and I don't know which is mine. I mourn people who turn out not to have died, or to have never been born. I even remember dying thousands of times. But here I am. Eventually, the changes I made had an imapct on me and I had to absorb them. I don't just have to live with my choices, I have to *have lived* with them. But I think I've ultimately made things better. That's how I know who I am. That's who The Doctor is."



The Doctors, except for the Seventh, are gathered again on the Time Lord homeworld and discussing plans for getting back to their respective timelines. __________________​

"Tony got a bit of a short shrift in the end. There had been a subplot involving him, but there were time and budget pressures and he said to me 'I've been playing this part for the last six years, I don't mind giving the others a bit of space'.

"His part of the plot was going to tie up a lot more to Colin's Doctor potentially being killed on Skaro and breaking the timeline. Every time we looked at something to edit out, Terrance encouraged me to cut out plot rather than action. I said to him 'Are they going to understand it?' and he said 'They'll understand it *enough*, that's all we need'. I suppose he was right."

PJ Hammond, DVD Extra, The Wrong Doctors __________________​

The Seventh Doctor finally enters. "Now this is over, I was finally able to do what I was planning to do in late-21st Century London. I ended up in 2093 this time, but no matter. Come in, my dear."

Susan walks in. "Is this the party, grandfather?" she says.

"Oh no," says the Seventh Doctor. "I just thought they'd all like to come along."

Lord Dezan protests. "This crossing of your timestream has served its purpose, I cannot permit it to continue for a social…"

"Dezan!" snaps the Seventh Doctor. "Let us have this. We've saved the universe AGAIN. Don't be such a…such a…TIME LORD!"

"I cannot countenance…"

"Tell you what, you can come along and keep an eye on things. You might even enjoy yourself. It's a housewarming or an annivesary or…well, it's a party being thrown by some very old friends."



We see a long shot of a cottage on a winter night. The Doctors, including the First and Second seen from the back, walk up the path and knock at the door. The door opens and we hear the voice of Ian Chesterton. "Doctor? Susan? Look who's hear darling! Who are your friends?"

"It's a long, long story, Ian."

Home media
"The Day of the Doctor" was released on DVD and 3D Blu-ray on 2 December 2013 in the UK. It was released on 4 December 2013 in Australia, and on 10 December 2013 in North America. The special was re-released on DVD and Blu-ray on 8 September 2014 as part of a "50th Anniversary Collectors Boxset" alongside "The Name of the Doctor", "The Night of the Doctor", "The Time of the Doctor", "An Adventure in Space and Time" and "The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot". This re-release features new footage of the specials' read-through. The special is streamed on Amazon Prime.

Soundtrack
Selected pieces of score from "The Day of the Doctor", as composed by Murray Gold, were released on 24 November 2014 by Silva Screen Records. The album includes material not used in the final episode.

In print
A novelisation of this story written by Steven Moffat including "The Night of the Doctor" storyline was released in paperback and digital formats on 5 April 2018 as part of the Target Collection.

Filming locations
All filming locations are extracted from Doctor Who Magazines Special Edition Volume 38: The Year of the Doctor: The Official Guide to Doctor Whos 50th Anniversary.

Doctor Who (season 29)
The twenty-ninth season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 9 September 1996 with the serial Battlefield, after a regular series of four serials was broadcast finishing with Survival which was the final episode of Doctor Who to air before a 16-year absence from episodic television following its cancellation.

Main cast

 * Nathan Lane as the Eighth Doctor
 * Leah Remini as Kate Montez

Recurring stars

 * Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Anthony Ainley as the Master

Nicholas Courtney returned to play Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in Battlefield. He first appeared with the Second Doctor in 1968 in The Web of Fear before becoming a recurring character throughout the Second Doctor to the Fifth Doctor and last appearing in The Five Doctors (1983).

Anthony Ainley returned to play The Master in Survival, having last appeared in The Ultimate Foe (1986). This was Ainley's final television appearance in the role, though he portrayed the Master one last time in the 1997 computer game Destiny of the Doctors.

Broadcast
The entire season was broadcast from 6 September to 6 December 1989. The Curse of Fenric was originally intended to be aired before Ghost Light, but was subsequently rescheduled.

Max Bolton P.I.
Max Bolton P.I. is a BBC Scotland television series, a spin-off of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It focuses on Max Bolton, an intergalactic private investigator played by Sylvester McCoy, and Brooke Taylor, his long suffering assistant played by Sophie Aldred. Both characters had recurred during the Seventh Doctor's era.

Unlike it's parent series, Max Bolton P.I. was more light-hearted, with broadly absurd and often surreal stories. However the programme did sometimes deal with serious subject matter, with Max uncovering a powerful child who is inadvertently destroying planets. Max faces the dilemma of taking a life to save several others.

Despite receiving a lukewarm reception during its initial broadcast, the series has since gained a substantial cult following, and is viewed by fans of both Doctor Who, and of science fiction in general, to be an overlooked classic.

Programme origins
The programme has its roots firmly in the desire of Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner to get Elisabeth Sladen back into the TARDIS. He wanted her to have the contract eventually awarded to Janet Fielding in late 1980. John Nathan-Turner's preferred plan for the transition from Baker to Davison was to have Sarah Jane be along for the ride from Logopolis to the second story of series 19. However, Sladen had no interest in returning simply to reprise a role and function identical to the one she had left years before.

Meanwhile, Nathan-Turner was trying to figure out what to do about K9. The robot dog was very popular among children but was difficult to deal with technically and Nathan-Turner felt that it made the TARDIS crew almost overwhelmingly formidable. He decided that a child-orientated spin-off series with K9 might be just the thing. However, such a series would require a human as the lead, and his prime candidate for this role was Sladen. He pitched the part to the actress as a departure from what she had previously done: she would be returning as Sarah Jane Smith, but she would do so as the heroine and not just a sidekick. This offer Sladen accepted.

Cast notes
Bill Fraser previously appeared with Tom Baker and K9 Mark II in the Doctor Who story Meglos.

Theme music
Many Doctor Who fans remember "A Girl's Best Friend" most clearly for its electronic theme music, composed by long-term Doctor Who enthusiast and record producer, Ian Levine, with his musical partner Fiachra Trench. Levine, who was also the unofficial continuity consultant for Doctor Who in the 1980s, said in an interview with Dreamwatch Bulletin that the music was intended to be an orchestral score, but was instead arranged directly from his electronic demonstration arrangement by Peter Howell (who also arranged the 1980s version of the Doctor Who theme music) without Levine's knowledge.

Broadcast and production
The viewing figures for the pilot were strong, achieving a viewership of about 8.4 million Britons on its première. This meant that it attracted more viewers than the average episode of Doctor Who during John Nathan-Turner's era as producer. It was even more popular than the other seasonal special of the era, The Five Doctors, which posted a rating of 7.7. Only when one looks narrowly at Season 19 – the one which immediately followed the broadcast of K-9 and Company – can one find a period where sustained ratings in the parent show were higher than the ratings for this spin-off pilot.

Despite these above-average ratings, the show did not go to series. The proximate cause for this was a changeover in channel controllers at BBC One. Bill Cotton, who had approved the pilot, vacated his position soon thereafter. He was replaced by Alan Hart, who simply disliked the idea and the resulting product. Further episodes were therefore not commissioned. The show was repeated once on BBC2 during the Christmas period of 1982.

Reception
The pilot attracted 8.4 million viewers on its original broadcast.

In Doctor Who Magazine's The Mighty 200 fans gave K-9 and Company 51.55% likeness. The title sequence came first in TV's Top 5 worst title sequences as part of David Walliams' Awfully Good TV.

Home video
K-9 and Company was originally released on VHS 7 August 1995 by BBC Worldwide. It was then released onto DVD 16 June 2008 as a double pack with K-9's first Doctor Who story The Invisible Enemy by 2entertain. It was released again in March 2019 as part of the Season 18 Blu-Ray Box set.

K-9 and Company was re-released on DVD by 2entertain on 25 October 2010, since then the BBC have it released it via the Doctor Who YouTube Channel on 1 December 2012.

In print
A novelisation of "A Girl's Best Friend" was released under the title K-9 and Company, in October 1987, as the last of The Companions of Doctor Who series by Target Books.

Target novelisation


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Sherlock Holmes (1939 film series)
A series of seven films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released by 20th Century Fox between 1939 and 1944; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr. John Watson, respectively.

The films boasted large budgets, high production values and were the first Holmes adaptations set in the Victorian era. Both Rathbone and Bruce continued their roles for a radio programme The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which ran simultaneously alongside the film series.

In the 1970s three of the films fell into the public domain when their copyright was not renewed. These films were restored and colourised. Some of the films in the series had become degraded over time, with some of the original negatives lost and others suffering from nitrate deterioration because of the unstable cellulose nitrate film. The UCLA Film and Television Archive restored the series, putting the films onto modern polyester film, in a process that was jointly paid for by UCLA, Warner Bros. and Hugh Hefner.

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Death on the Nile (1978 film)
Death on the Nile is a 1978 British mystery film based on Agatha Christie's 1937 novel of the same name, directed by John Guillermin and adapted by Anthony Shaffer. The film stars Roger Delgado in his first appearance as Hercule Poirot, and also marks his first leading role in a feature film. Additionally, an all-star supporting cast is featured, including Maggie Smith, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, David Niven, George Kennedy and Jack Warden. The film is a follow-up to the 1974 film Murder on the Orient Express.

It takes place in Egypt in 1937, mostly on a period paddle steamer on the Nile. Various famous Ancient Egyptian sights are featured in the film, such as the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx, and temples at Abu Simbel and Karnak, sometimes out of sequence (the boat trip scenes start at Aswan, move downstream to Karnak, and then shift upstream to Abu Simbel).

Death on the Nile won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design at the 51st Academy Awards.

Plot
Jacqueline "Jackie" de Bellefort asks her close friend, wealthy heiress Linnet Ridgeway, to hire her unemployed fiancé, Simon Doyle. Jackie is pleased when Linnet agrees, but Linnet and Simon soon start a whirlwind affair and marry. While honeymooning in Egypt, they are continually hounded by the jilted Jackie. In an attempt to get away, the Doyles pretend to go to the Cairo railway station before backtracking to board a Nile paddle steamer, the S.S. Karnak.

During an on-shore excursion to the nearby Temple of Karnak, a large stone is pushed off a pillar and narrowly misses the Doyles. They are shocked when Jackie joins the cruise, ignoring detective Hercule Poirot's warning to stay away. She also reveals that she carries a small automatic pistol in her handbag and is a crack shot. That night, Jackie confronts Simon in a drunken rage and shoots him in the leg. The next morning, Linnet is found dead from a gunshot wound to the head. A "J" written in blood on the wall above her bed implicates Jackie, but she has a solid alibi as Miss Bowers sedated her with morphia and stayed with her all night.

Poirot and his friend, Colonel Race, investigate. They discover that numerous passengers had motives to kill Linnet: Louise Bourget, Linnet's maid, was bitter due to her mistress' refusal to grant her a promised dowry; Andrew Pennington, Linnet's American trustee, was anxious to prevent her from discovering that he embezzled from her; Mrs. van Schuyler, an elderly American socialite suffering from kleptomania, displayed a great interest in Linnet's pearl necklace; van Schuyler's nurse, Miss Bowers, blamed Linnet's father for financially ruining her own father; Salome Otterbourne, a romance novelist, was being sued for libel for a similarity between Linnet and one of her characters; Mrs. Otterbourne's daughter, Rosalie, was anxious to protect her mother from financial ruin; Jim Ferguson, an outspoken Communist, resented Linnet's wealth; and Dr. Ludwig Bessner, a Swiss psychiatrist, faced exposure by Linnet concerning his unorthodox methods affecting Linnet's past friends.

Soon after, the crew pulls a small bundle from the Nile. The missing pistol is wrapped in Mrs. van Schuyler's stole, which has a small bullet hole. There is also a blood-stained handkerchief, and a marble ashtray used as a weight. When Linnet's pearls are missing, Mrs. van Schuyler denies taking them. Soon after, the necklace is found on Linnet's body, so Poirot deduces Mrs van Schuyler has "returned" them.

While Poirot and Race conduct their investigation, Louise Bourget is found dead, her throat cut with one of Dr. Bessner's scalpels, and a fragment of a banknote clutched in her hand. Poirot deduces she saw the murderer coming out of Linnet's cabin and extorted money for her silence. Salome Otterbourne claims to have seen Louise's murderer and is about to tell Poirot and Race when she is shot in the head through an open cabin door with Pennington's revolver, too large to have been used on Linnet.

Poirot gathers everyone in the saloon and reveals that Simon is responsible for Linnet's murder, with Jackie as his accomplice. She pretended to shoot Simon, drawing attention to herself. After running to Linnet's cabin and shooting her in the head, Simon shot himself in the leg, using Mrs. van Schuyler's stole as a silencer, then replaced the empty cartridges with a new one should the gun be found. He then wrapped the gun in the stole, along with a marble ashtray and the supposed blood-stained handkerchief, and threw the items out the open window, into the Nile. Jackie later killed Louise, who was blackmailing Simon because she witnessed him enter Linnet's cabin, then killed Mrs. Otterbourne, who saw Jackie exiting Louise's cabin. The plan was that Simon would marry and then kill Linnet, inherit her money, and at a later date, marry his old love.

When Simon claims Poirot has no proof, Poirot reveals that the police will do a gunshot residue test known as a "moulage" test on both him and Jacqueline. Realizing they are caught, Jackie confesses and embraces Simon. Poirot suddenly realizes she has reclaimed her pistol but cannot prevent her from shooting Simon in the head and then killing herself.

The passengers depart at the next port, and Poirot is congratulated for his work.

Cast

 * Roger Delgado as Hercule Poirot
 * Jane Birkin as Louise Bourget
 * Lois Chiles as Linnet Ridgeway Doyle
 * Bette Davis as Marie Van Schuyler
 * Mia Farrow as Jacqueline de Bellefort
 * Jon Finch as James Ferguson
 * Elisabeth Sladen as Rosalie Otterbourne
 * George Kennedy as Andrew Pennington
 * Angela Lansbury as Salome Otterbourne
 * Simon MacCorkindale as Simon Doyle
 * David Niven as Colonel Race
 * Maggie Smith as Miss Bowers
 * Jack Warden as Dr. Bessner
 * I. S. Johar as Mr. Choudhury
 * Harry Andrews as Barnstaple
 * Sam Wanamaker as Rockford
 * Celia Imrie as a maid (uncredited)
 * Saeed Jaffrey as a servant on the Karnak (uncredited)

Development
EMI Films had scored a huge success in 1974 with a film version of Murder on the Orient Express, and wanted a follow-up. The movie was made during a period of expansion for EMI Films under Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings, who were increasingly aiming at the international market with films like The Deer Hunter and Convoy. Death on the Nile was a more traditionally British film.

The director, John Guillermin, had just made two blockbusters, The Towering Inferno and King Kong.

Casting
Albert Finney played Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express, but did not wish to undergo the heavy make-up required for Poirot in the Egyptian sun. The producers felt if they could not get Finney they should go in a totally different direction and picked Peter Ustinov. "Poirot is a character part if ever there was one", said producer Goodwin, "and Peter is a top character actor."

An all-star cast was employed. This was Jane Birkin's first British movie in a decade.

Count Dracula (1977 film)
Count Dracula is a British television adaptation of the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Produced by the BBC (in the then standard video/film hybrid format), it first aired on BBC 2 on 22 December 1977. It is among the more faithful of the many adaptations of the original book. Directed by Philip Saville from a screenplay by Gerald Savory, it stars Roger Delgado as Count Dracula and Frank Finlay as Professor Van Helsing.

Plot
Mina Murray bids farewell to her fiancé Jonathan Harker, who is leaving for a business trip. Harker, a solicitor, is travelling to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania to expedite his purchase of Carfax Abbey and other properties in England.

On the penultimate leg of Harker's trip, in a horse-drawn coach with three locals, one warns him not to attend Dracula's castle. Harker tells the woman not to worry, but as a precaution, she gives him her rosary for protection. Harker is dropped off at the Borgo Pass in the dead of night with wolves howling in the distance, and is picked up a few moments later by the Count's coach. At the door of the castle, Count Dracula himself welcomes Jonathan and carries his heavy trunk, with no effort, up the stairs to his room. Jonathan hesitantly agrees to stay for a month to help the Count with his English. Dracula is urbane and gracious, but also vaguely sinister, and casts no reflection, and has pronouncedly sharp fingernails and hair on his palms. After a series of disturbing events, including an encounter with Dracula's brides, Harker explores the castle, finds the Count and his brides' sleeping quarters in a crypt, all asleep in coffins with their eyes open yet seemingly unaware of his presence. Harker tries ineffectually to kill Dracula with a shovel before fleeing the castle.

In England, Mina and her friend Lucy Westenra go to the seaside town of Whitby. Among their friends are Lord Arthur Holmwood (Lucy's fiancé), American adventurer Quincey Morris and Dr. John Seward, who operates a local asylum. Among Seward's patients is the madman Renfield, who worships and fears Dracula. Mina and Lucy witness a storm in which the foreign ship Demeter goes aground, and is carrying Dracula (in the form of a wolf) and many wooden boxes filled with earth from his home. That same night, a local seaman is found dead, a victim of Dracula. Mina follows a sleepwalking Lucy to the local graveyard and glimpses Dracula holding her in his arms. Lucy thereafter grows pale and weak; at night in her bedroom, Dracula drinks her blood on several occasions. Jonathan meanwhile turns up delirious and weak in a convent in Budapest.

Seward calls on his friend Abraham Van Helsing from Amsterdam for help with Lucy's strange illness. Although Van Helsing recognizes the symptoms and protects her bedroom with garlic, a wolf shatters the room's window; the shock kills Lucy's mother, and Lucy is found pale and nearly dead after another encounter with Dracula. Despite Van Helsing's efforts, she soon dies, but not before displaying signs of vampirism, such as a missing reflection and an uncharacteristic seductiveness and aggression when Holmwood comes to see her in her final moments.

Seward accompanies Van Helsing to Lucy's grave, but find her coffin empty, and afterwards a child who is lost and alone, but who has been bitten by the now-vampiric Lucy. After reporting their findings to an incredulous Holmwood, he, Morris, Van Helsing and Seward return to Lucy's family crypt, finding her perched atop. Lucy soon approaches, now a vampire and feral, and attempts to entice Holmwood, but is forced to flee from Van Helsing's crucifix. Later in the tomb, Holmwood drives a wooden stake into Lucy's heart. Van Helsing fills her mouth with garlic and cuts off her head.

Harker, Van Helsing, Morris, Seward, and Holmwood all go to Carfax Abbey to sterilize Dracula's refuges – boxes of soil from his native Transylvania – with parts of the host used in the Catholic Eucharist. Renfield realizes Dracula is now visiting Mina, and seeks to warn her and Dr. Seward. In revenge, Dracula kills Renfield, who just manages to warn the others. They rush to find Mina in her bedroom, drinking blood from Dracula's chest. Dracula vanishes as they enter. Van Helsing touches and sears the hysterical Mina's forehead with a piece of communion wafer, which scars her; she declares herself "unclean."

The Count flees back to his castle after losing all his other resting places; the others follow. Van Helsing and Mina go to the Castle, while the others follow the Gypsies transporting Dracula's coffin. In the Transylvanian wilderness, Dracula's brides attempt to attack Van Helsing and Mina, but Van Helsing thwarts them with Communion wafer, and destroys them the following day. Harker, Seward, Holmwood and Morris chase Dracula's carriage and fight the Gypsies loyal to Dracula; Mina shoots one, saving Harker, but Morris is fatally wounded. The pursuers reach and open the coffin; inside, Dracula smiles, because it is almost sunset. Realizing they have but moments left, Van Helsing mounts the carriage and drives a stake into the vampire's heart; the body disintegrates in a violent burst of smoke, leaving only his clothes and ashes. Mina's vampirism disappears, as does her forehead scar, and the group say a prayer of thanks.

Cast

 * Roger Delgado as Count Dracula
 * Frank Finlay as Professor Van Helsing
 * Susan Penhaligon as Lucy Westenra
 * Judi Bowker as Mina Murray
 * Jack Shepherd as Renfield
 * Mark Burns as Dr. John Seward
 * Bosco Hogan as Jonathan Harker
 * Richard Barnes as Arthur Holmwood
 * Ed Bishop as Quincey Morris
 * Ann Queensberry as Mrs Westenra
 * Sue Vanner, Susie Hickford and Belinda Meuldijk as Dracula's Brides

Sherlock Holmes (GUAJOLOTE)
Sherlock Holmes was a television series produced by the British television company Granada Television between 1979 and 1983. The series, which was broadcast on the ITV network in the UK, was an adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. It starred Simon Cadell as the famous detective. His portrayal remains very popular and is accepted by many as the definitive on-screen version of Sherlock Holmes. William Gaunt co-starred, as Holmes's faithful friend and companion Dr. Watson. In stark contrast to previous depictions of the character as foolish and sometimes comical, Watson is portrayed here as the kind of thoroughly competent sidekick that Holmes would want.

The series was widely praised both for it's marked faithfulness to the source material, and for it's fleshing out of the stories' psychological subtext.

Of the 60 Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 33 were adapted in the series, spanning 36 one-hour episodes.

Plot
Set in the late Victorian era, Sherlock Holmes is the world's only consulting detective. His practice is largely with private clients, but he is also known to assist the police, often in the shape of Inspector Lestrade, when their cases overlap. His clients range from private citizens of modest means to members of royalty. His ability to spot clues overlooked by others, bring certain specialist knowledge — for example chemistry, botany, anatomy – and deductive reasoning to bear on problems enable him to solve the most complex cases. He is assisted in his work by military veteran Dr. John Watson, with whom he shares a flat at 221B Baker Street. He craves mental stimulation, and is known to relapse into depression when there are insufficiently complex cases to engage him.

Main Cast

 * Simon Cadell as Sherlock Holmes
 * William Gaunt as Dr. John H. Watson

Recurring
Sinden and Simon Cadell had been best friends for many years, and Sinden was cast mainly at Cadell's request.
 * Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs Hudson
 * Jack Shepherd as Inspector Lestrade
 * Peter Egan as Inspector Stanley Hopkins
 * Jeremy Sinden as Mycroft Holmes

Guest

 * Alfred Burke as Professor Moriarty
 * Patricia Hodge as Irene Adler
 * Arthur Lowe as Charles Augustus Milverton
 * Michele Dotrice as Mary Mortstan-Watson
 * Peter Wyngarde as Colonel Sebastian Moran
 * William Simons as Inspector Athelney Jones
 * Michael Sheard as Inspector Tobias Gregson
 * Roger Delgado as Lord Bellinger, the Prime Minister
 * Philip Madoc as Mortimer Tregennis
 * John Rhys-Davies as Shinwell Johnson
 * Elisabeth Sladen as Kitty Winter
 * David Soul as Sir Henry Baskerville
 * Jeremy Kemp as Dr. Grimsby Roylott
 * Ian Marter as the Rt. Hon. Trelawney Hope
 * Edward Hardwicke as Sir James Damery
 * David Burke as Percy Phelps
 * Louis Jourdan as the King of Bohemia
 * Jeremy Brett as Baron Adelburt Gruner

Series Five
1. A Study in Scarlet: Part One 2. A Study in Scarlet: Part Two 3. The Solitary Cyclist 4. The Yellow Face 5. The Speckled Band 6. Silver Blaze 7. The Blue Carbuncle
 * Series One (1979):

1. The Gloria Scott 2. The Naval Treaty 3. Charles Augustus Milverton 4. The Sussex Vampire 5. The Beryl Coronet 6. The Hound of the Baskervilles: Part One 7. The Hound of the Baskervilles: Part Two
 * Series Two (1980):

1. The Illustrious Client 2. The Musgrave Ritual 3. The Greek Interpreter 4. The Abbey Grange 5. Black Peter 6. The Sign of the Four: Part One 7. The Sign of the Four: Part Two
 * Series Three (1981):

1. A Scandal in Bohemia 2. The Man with the Twisted Lip 3. The Dying Detective 4. The Red Headed-League 5. The Boscombe Valley Mystery 6. The Bruce-Partington Plans 7. The Final Problem
 * Series Four (1982):

1. The Empty House 2. The Norwood Builder 3. The Problem of Thor Bridge 4. The Three Garridebs 5. The Six Napoleons 6. The Devil’s Foot 7. The Dancing Men 8. The Second Stain
 * Series Five (1983):

33 stories over 36 episodes

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Doctor Thorndyke (1973 TV series)
Doctor Thorndyke is a British mystery television series, adapted from the stories of R. Austin Freeman.

Set in Victorian London, the series centres on Dr. John Thorndyke (Roy Marsden), a respected physician, scientist and amateur criminologist, who solves complex crimes with a combination of sharp deductive reasoning, and a profound knowledge of forensic science. Assisting him in his investigations, is longtime colleague Dr. Christopher Jervis (David Swift) and personal lab technician Nathaniel Polton (Tenniel Evans). He is sometimes aided (and often hindered), by various members of the police force, usually Superintendent Miller (Jonathan Cecil), who struggle to comprehend his extensive scientific methods.

Originally, Thorndyke is depicted as arrogant and unfeeling, believing that excessive emotion intrudes upon the brain's logical faculties. Jervis often tries to act as his foil, keeping him grounded, and acting as a mediator with others who find him insufferable. Starting in the second series, these traits were vastly toned down, due to fears that the audience were finding him too unlikeable. Whilst he maintained his immense ego, he became more pleasant and warm-hearted, thus bearing greater resemblance to his more affable literary counterpart.

Four series were produced between 1973 and 1976. Critical and audience response was initially high, although the reception later became more lukewarm. Marsden would later gain fame for The Sandbaggers and the Adam Dalgliesh television adaptations, whilst Swift would become best known for the sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey. Evans maintained a comfortable career as a character actor.

The Eyes of Max Carrados
The Eyes of Max Carrados is a British television series. Based on the stories by Ernest Bramah, the programme focuses on Max Carrados (Tom Baker), a blind private detective, who's other senses have been trained and heightened so as to supersede the need for his vision. He is aided by his valet Parkinson (David Daker), disgraced solicitor turned fellow sleuth Louis Carlyle (Stephen Yardley), secretary Mr. Greatorex (Martin Jarvis), and police acquaintance Inspector Beedel (Maurice Denham).

The series began life as a 1972 pilot entitled The Incredible Gabriel Baine, broadcast as part of the anthology series Drama Playhouse. The programme proper, ran for six series, each consisting of 13 50 minute episodes.

Acclaimed for it's use of taut gothic horror and character driven suspense, the programme was an immense rating success and garnered a significant cult following internationally.

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The Adventures of Gabriel Baine
The Adventures of Gabriel Baine is a British television series, described as "Victorian Gothic-Suspense". The series starred then comedic actor Jon Pertwee in his first major dramatic role. He portrays Gabriel Baine, an eccentric dilettante scientist-cum-detective, who solves mysterious, sometimes supernatural cases. He is aided by his valet Thomas Wingham (Ian Marter), and gamekeeper Caleb Selling (Neil McCarthy). Baine often travels about via his personal steam locomotive, The Tsar, originally built for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, complete with armour plating, bulletproof glass and an on-board laboratory.

The series began life as a 1972 pilot entitled The Incredible Gabriel Baine, broadcast as part of the anthology series Drama Playhouse. The programme proper, ran for four series, each consisting of 13 50 minute episodes.

Acclaimed for it's use of taut gothic horror and character driven suspense, the programme was an immense rating success and garnered a significant cult following internationally.

Cast
An aristocratic scientist and adventurer. He has been knighted, but does not care to be referred to "Sir Gabriel", preferring the title of doctor.
 * Jon Pertwee as Gabriel Baine
 * Ian Marter as Thomas Wingham


 * Neil McCarthy as Caleb Selling


 * Tom Baker as Lord St. John Giordano

The 'Baine Boom'
The success of the programme led to several other Victorian mystery series being produced throughout the 1970s, to varying degrees of success. The most notable examples include Doctor Thorndyke (1973-76), Sexton Blake (1973-77), a revival of Sergeant Cork (1974-79), The Eyes of Max Carrados (1979-80) and Sherlock Holmes (1979-83).

The Return of Gabriel Baine
The Return of Gabriel Baine is a 1995 British television film, a sequel to the 1970s television series The Adventures of Gabriel Baine. Jon Pertwee reprises the title role, with Tom Baker also returning as his arch-nemesis Lord St. John Giordano. Former series regulars Ian Marter and Neil McCarthy, had both passed away prior to filming. As a result Gabrielle Anwar and Mark Gatiss appear, playing the children of their respective characters.

Set over twenty years after the events of the original series, Baine has retired to a quiet job as a science teacher in a local school. (Theresa Wingham and Charles Selling)

The film marked Pertwee's final role, prior to his death later that year.

all in his first major, dramatic role. He portrays Gabriel Baine, an eccentric dilettante scientist-cum-detective, who solves mysterious, sometimes supernatural cases. He is aided by scientific assistant Thomas Wingham (Ian Marter), and gamekeeper Caleb Selling (Neil McCarthy). Baine often travels about via his personal steam locomotive, The Tsar, originally built for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, complete with armour plating, bulletproof glass and an on-board laboratory.

The series began life as a 1972 pilot entitled The Incredible Gabriel Baine, broadcast as part of the anthology series Drama Playhouse. The programme proper, ran for six series, each consisting of 13 50 minute episodes.

Acclaimed for it's use of taut gothic horror and character driven suspense, the programme was an immense rating success and garnered a significant cult following internationally.

The Saint (1988 TV series)
The Saint is an American-British television series that aired on CBS from 1988 to 199. Adapted from the stories by Leslie Charteris (who served as an executive producer), It was the third major television adaptation of the character, after 1978-79's Return of the Saint starring Ian Ogilvy, and the 1962-69 version with Roger Moore, who later became a recurring star on this series, as well as serving as one of the executive producers.

Overview
Simon Templar is a former gentleman thief turned adventurer and amateur criminologist, known under the moniker of “The Saint”. He drives the Hirondel.

Jon Pertwee reprises the title role, with Tom Baker also returning as his arch-nemesis Lord St. John Giordano. Former series regulars Ian Marter and Neil McCarthy, had both passed away prior to filming. As a result Gabrielle Anwar and Mark Gatiss appear, playing the children of their respective characters.

Set over twenty years after the events of the original series, Baine has retired to a quiet job as a science teacher in a local school. (Theresa Wingham and Charles Selling)

The film marked Pertwee's final role, prior to his death later that year.

all in his first major, dramatic role. He portrays Gabriel Baine, an eccentric dilettante scientist-cum-detective, who solves mysterious, sometimes supernatural cases. He is aided by scientific assistant Thomas Wingham (Ian Marter), and gamekeeper Caleb Selling (Neil McCarthy). Baine often travels about via his personal steam locomotive, The Tsar, originally built for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, complete with armour plating, bulletproof glass and an on-board laboratory.

The series began life as a 1972 pilot entitled The Incredible Gabriel Baine, broadcast as part of the anthology series Drama Playhouse. The programme proper, ran for six series, each consisting of 13 50 minute episodes.

Acclaimed for it's use of taut gothic horror and character driven suspense, the programme was an immense rating success and garnered a significant cult following internationally.

The Doctor
The Doctor is the title character in the long-running BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who. Since the show's inception in 1963, the character has been portrayed by thirteen lead actors. In the programme, "the Doctor" is the alias assumed by a millennia-old alien called a Time Lord who travels through space and time in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. The transition to each succeeding actor is explained within the show's narrative through the plot device of "regeneration", a biological function of the Time Lord race that allows a change of cellular structure and appearance with recovery following a potentially fatal injury.

A number of other actors have played the character in stage and audio plays, as well as in various film and television productions. The Doctor has been well received by the public, with an enduring popularity leading The Daily Telegraph to dub the character "Britain's favourite alien". The Doctor has also been featured in films and a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips.

On 25 December 2017, Jodie Whittaker made her first appearance as the Thirteenth Doctor at the end of the 2017 Christmas special "Twice Upon a Time".

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Detective (1964 TV series)
Detective was a British mystery anthology television series adapted from stories by numerous prominent crime fiction writers, with each episode focusing on a particular detective character. Several prominent fictional sleuths were showcased, including Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Thorndyke, Philip Trent, Sir Henry Merrivale, Roderick Alleyn, Dr. Gideon Fell, Father Brown, Albert Campion, C. Auguste Dupin, Sir John Appleby, Inspector Ghote, Nigel Strangeways and Gervase Fen.

Many of the episodes were introduced by Rupert Davies, in-character as Inspector Maigret, reprising his role from the eponymous TV series that had aired from 1960-1963. Several episodes functioned as Backdoor pilots for potential future series. Three such shows were produced as a result': Cluff (1964-65) starring Leslie Sands, Thorndyke (1964) starring Peter Copley, and Sherlock Holmes (1965-68) starring Douglas Wilmer, and later, Peter Cushing.

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Janek
Janek is the umbrella title for a series of American television films starring Richard Crenna as NYPD detective Frank Janek. The initial instalment was a four hour miniseries, followed by six further telemovies. Guest stars included Beverly D'Angelo, Diahann Carroll, Susan Blakely, Moses Gunn, Tyne Daly and William Shatner.

Cast
A weathered, veteran NYPD detective who often gets overly emotionally invested in the crimes he investigates. Frank's easygoing partner, often clad in loud Hawaiian shirts. Janek's crusty, bureaucratic boss whose frustrations for his subordinate's methods is tempered only by his respect for him.
 * Richard Crenna as Lt. Frank Janek
 * Cliff Gorman as Sgt. Aaron Greenburg
 * Philip Bosco as Chief John Wycoff

Sano Ichirō
Sano Ichirō (佐野一郎) is the fictional protagonist of a series of historical detective novels by Laura Joh Rowland, taking place in late 17th century feudal Japan, and set mostly in the capital of Edo (now Tokyo). The series blends Rowland's fictional characters with several prominent historical figures of the period.

Overview
Initially, Sano is a yoriki (a lower class of Samurai). By the conclusion of the first novel, he is appointed sosakan-sama, aka "The Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People", thus becoming the chief investigator for the shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. Sano is thus often at odds with the shōgun's primary advisor Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, who views Ichirō as a potential threat to his power.

Sano is pressured by trying to adhere to the code of bushido, whilst serving both justice and the wishes of the shōgun. He is frequently faced with death if he does not fulfil his obligations to his master. Fortunately, he is assisted by numerous others, most notably his wife, Ueda Reiko (上田 麗子), who frequently involves herself in Sano's investigations. They later have two children Masahiro and Akkiko, who sometimes become embroiled in the mystery at hand.

Supporting characters
Sano's wife, the daughter of a powerful magistrate. She is knowledgable in martial arts. Sano's loyal retainer. His first name is never revealed. A lady-in-waiting to the shōgun's mother, and friend of Reiko. She later marries Hirata. A physician "exiled" to the morgue in Edo Jail, as a punishment for learning foreign medicine. He often aids Sano in examining the corpses of murder victims. The scheming, manipulative chamberlain to the shōgun. He is antagonistic to Sano, as he fears he is trying to usurp him. The fifth Tokugawa shōgun. He is depicted as weak-willed, and indecisive.
 * Ueda Reiko
 * Hirata (平田)
 * Niu Midori (ニウ ミドリ)
 * Ito Genboku (伊東 玄朴)
 * Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu (柳沢 吉保)
 * Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (徳川 綱吉)

List of novels

 * 1) Shinjū (1994)
 * 2) Bundori (1996)
 * 3) The Way of the Traitor (1997)
 * 4) The Concubine's Tattoo (1998)
 * 5) The Samurai's Wife (2000)
 * 6) Black Lotus (2001)
 * 7) The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria (2002)
 * 8) The Dragon King's Palace (2003)
 * 9) The Perfumed Sleeve (2004)
 * 10) The Assassin's Touch (2005)
 * 11) The Red Chrysanthemum (2006)
 * 12) The Snow Empress (2007)
 * 13) The Fire Kimono (2008)
 * 14) The Cloud Pavilion (2009)
 * 15) The Ronin's Mistress (2011)
 * 16) The Incense Game (2012)
 * 17) The Shogun's Daughter (2013)
 * 18) The Iris Fan (2014)

The Agatha Christie Hour
The Agatha Christie Hour is a British anthology television series adapted from short stories by renowned crime fiction author Agatha Christie. Ten hour-long episodes aired on the ITV Network from 7 September to 16 November 1982.

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DOCTOR WHO (timelordtoe)
Doctor Who is a British-American science fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963, and by NBC since 1988. The programme depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called "the Doctor", an extraterrestrial being, to all appearances human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Accompanied by a number of companions, the Doctor combats a variety of foes while working to save civilisations and help people in need.

The show is a significant part of British popular culture, and elsewhere it has gained a cult following. It has influenced generations of British television professionals, many of whom grew up watching the series. The series originally ran solely as a BBC Production, from 1963 to 1984, when the programme was placed on hiatus. In 1985, Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment adapted the series into a film entitled Doctor Who: Back to the Future. The film's success led to two sequels: The Cyber Invasion (1986) and The Mad Dog Gang (1987), and resulted in giving the series more mainstream US attention. This rise in interest led to the BBC agreeing to co-produce a new series of Doctor Who with NBC, which began airing in 1988. The revived series of Doctor Who (along with other shows such as Star Trek: The Next Generation and it's spin-offs), is widely credited as having led to a renewal of mainstream interest in science fiction.

Doctor Who has also spawned numerous spin-offs, including comic books, films, novels, audio dramas, and the television series Torchwood (2006–2011), The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007–2011), K-9 (2009–2010), and Class (2016), and has been the subject of many parodies and references in popular culture.

Thirteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor. The transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the show with the concept of regeneration into a new incarnation, a plot device in which a Time Lord "transforms" into a new body when the current one is too badly harmed to heal normally. Each actor's portrayal is unique, but all represent stages in the life of the same character, and together, they form a single lifetime with a single narrative. The time-travelling feature of the plot means that different incarnations of the Doctor occasionally meet. The Doctor is currently portrayed by Jodie Whittaker, who became the first woman to play the role, after Peter Capaldi's exit in the 2017 Christmas special "Twice Upon a Time".

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The Doctor (TIMELORDTOE)
The Doctor is the title character in the long-running BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who. Since the show's inception in 1963, the character has been portrayed by thirteen lead actors. In the programme, "the Doctor" is the alias assumed by a millennia-old alien called a Time Lord who travels through space and time in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. The transition to each succeeding actor is explained within the show's narrative through the plot device of "regeneration", a biological function of the Time Lord race that allows a change of cellular structure and appearance with recovery following a potentially fatal injury.

A number of other actors have played the character in stage and audio plays, as well as in various film and television productions. The Doctor has been well received by the public, with an enduring popularity leading The Daily Telegraph to dub the character "Britain's favourite alien". The Doctor has also been featured in films and a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips.

On 25 December 2017, Jodie Whittaker made her first appearance as the Thirteenth Doctor at the end of the 2017 Christmas special "Twice Upon a Time".

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Doctor Who: Back to the Future
Doctor Who: Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It is a continuation of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It stars Michael J. Fox as teenager Marty McFly, who accidentally travels back in time to 1955, meeting his future parents and becoming his mother's romantic interest. Christopher Lloyd portrays The Doctor, an eccentric alien and owner of the space-time traveling spaceship the TARDIS, who helps Marty repair history and return to 1985. The cast also includes Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and J.J. Cohen.

Zemeckis and Gale wrote the script after Gale pondered the idea of whether he would have befriended his father if they had attended school together. The BBC had been looking to produce a film version of Doctor Who, which had been put on hiatus the previous year. Steven Spielberg approached Zemeckis, suggesting that the series script be incorporated into the script. Film studios rejected the script until the financial success of Zemeckis's Romancing the Stone. Spielberg agreed to produce the project at Amblin Entertainment with Universal Pictures as the distributor. John Lithgow was the first choice for the role of the Sixth Doctor, however he dropped out due to scheduling conflicts; Lloyd was ultimately cast. Peter Davison reprised his role as the Fifth Doctor for a Regeneration scene. Fox was the first choice to play Marty, but Eric Stoltz was cast after Fox was unable to commit due to scheduling conflicts with his television series Family Ties. After filmmakers determined Stoltz was wrong for the role, a deal was struck that allowed Fox to film Back to the Future without interrupting his prior commitments.

Doctor Who: Back to the Future was released on July 3, 1985. It was well-received, placing at the top of the box office for eleven weeks and grossing over $381 million worldwide to become the highest-grossing film of 1985. It won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film, and the Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing. It received three Academy Award nominations, five BAFTA nominations, and four Golden Globe nominations, including Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy). In 2007, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry, and in June 2008 the American Film Institute's special AFI's 10 Top 10 designated it the 10th-best science fiction film.

Back to the Future was responsible for increasing the series' mainstream popularity in the US. The film's success led to two sequels, Doctor Who: The Cyber Invasion (1986) and Doctor Who: The Mad Dog Gang (1987), and an wider expansion of the Doctor Who franchise. NBC, in collaboration with the BBC, took over the Doctor Who television series, starting with Season 22.

FIFTH DOCTOR (DAv)
The Fifth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by American musician John Denver, the first non UK born actor to play the part.

Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels in time and space in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of life, the Doctor regenerates; as a result, the physical appearance and personality of the Doctor changes.

Davison portrays the Fifth Doctor as having a vulnerable side and a tendency towards indecisiveness, dressed as a boyish Edwardian cricketer. He travelled with with his predecessor's companions, fellow Time Lord Romana (Mary Tamm and Lalla Ward) and robotic dog K-9. They were later joined by boy genius Adric (Matthew Waterhouse).

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The Sixth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Jeremy Brett.

Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels in time and space in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of life, the Doctor regenerates; as a result, the physical appearance and personality of the Doctor changes.

The Sixth Doctor, is introduced as the incarnation of the Doctor who fought in the Time War of the show's modern-day backstory. He was created as a result of a conscious decision of the Eighth Doctor, played by Paul McGann, to take up arms and become a warrior; in accepting this duty, the War Doctor disowned the title of "Doctor", and after the war's end is viewed with disdain by his subsequent incarnations, who reclaim the title that the character is known by. In the 50th anniversary special "The Day of the Doctor", however, the Eleventh Doctor played by Matt Smith revises his opinion of this incarnation after revisiting the final moments of the war.

Brett portrays the Sixth Doctor as cool, sardonic and curt, but with a strong sense of compassion hidden underneath his stoic exterior. He travelled with Victorian army captain Henderson (Peter Davison) and present-day lawyer Devisingh (Meera Syal). He also briefly encountered another Victorian era inhabitant, Scotland Yard official, Detective Inspector Richards (Edward Hardwicke) who would later return to the series as a companion.

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SEVENTH DOCTOR (DAv)
He was initially accompanied by alien scrap merchants Mek (Steven Woodcock), and Teera (Susannah Harker), and later by alien scientist Alphys (Alphonsia Emmanuel) and 30th century businessman Marcus Joxon (Adam Sandler).

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Batman (1989) (Geekhis Kahn)
Batman is a 1989 superhero film directed by Sam Raimi and produced by Jon Peters and Peter Guber, based on the DC Comics character of the same name. It is the first installment of Warner Bros.' initial Batman film series. The film stars Willem Dafoe as Bruce Wayne / Batman and Robin Williams as the Joker, alongside Sean Young, Jack Palance, Kevin Kline, Ian Abercrombie, and Pat Hingle. The film takes place early in the title character's war on crime, and depicts his conflict with the Joker.

After Burton was hired as director in 1986, Steve Englehart and Julie Hickson wrote film treatments before Sam Hamm wrote the first screenplay. Batman was not greenlit until after the success of Burton's Beetlejuice (1988). Numerous A-list actors were considered for the role of Batman before Keaton was cast. Keaton's casting was controversial since, by 1988, he had become typecast as a comedic actor and many observers doubted he could portray a serious role. Nicholson accepted the role of the Joker under strict conditions that dictated top billing, a portion of the film's earnings (including associated merchandise), and his own shooting schedule.

The tone and themes of the film were partly influenced by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's The Killing Joke and Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. The film primarily adapts and diverts from the "Red Hood" origin story for the Joker, having Batman inadvertently cause gangster Jack Napier to fall into Axis Chemical acid, triggering his transformation into the psychopathic Joker. Filming took place at Pinewood Studios from October 1988 to January 1989. The budget escalated from $30 million to $48 million, while the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike forced Hamm to drop out. Warren Skaaren did rewrites, with additional uncredited drafts done by Charles McKeown and Jonathan Gems.

Batman was both critically and financially successful, earning over $400 million in box office totals. It was the fifth-highest-grossing film in history at the time of its release. The film received several Saturn Award nominations and a Golden Globe nomination for Nicholson's performance, and won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. It also inspired the equally successful Batman: The Animated Series, paving the way for the DC animated universe, and has influenced Hollywood's modern marketing and development techniques of the superhero film genre. The film was followed by three sequels: Batman Returns (1992), with both Burton and Keaton returning; Batman Forever (1995), and Batman & Robin (1997).

Plot
As Gotham City approaches its bicentennial, Mayor Borg orders district attorney Harvey Dent and police Commissioner Gordon to make the city safer. Meanwhile, reporter Alexander Knox and photojournalist Vicki Vale investigate sightings of a masked vigilante called "Batman" who is targeting the city's criminals. Both attend a fundraiser hosted by billionaire industrialist Bruce Wayne, who is secretly Batman, having chosen this path after witnessing a mugger murdering his parents when he was a child. During the event, Bruce becomes infatuated with Vale, but interrupts their meeting to secretly pursue Gordon when he leaves on police business.

Mob boss Carl Grissom, whom Dent and Gordon are targeting, sends his sociopathic second-in-command Jack Napier to raid Axis Chemicals, unaware it is an ambush to have him murdered for sleeping with Grissom's mistress Alicia Hunt. Although corrupt police lieutenant Max Eckhardt arranges the hit on Napier by conducting an unauthorized police operation, Gordon arrives, takes command, and orders officers to capture him alive. Batman arrives to trap Napier, who kills Eckhardt as revenge for double-crossing him. While trying to escape from Batman, Napier topples off a catwalk and falls into a vat of acidic chemicals. Although presumed dead, Napier survives with various disfigurements including chalk white skin and emerald green hair and nails. He undergoes surgery from a seedy surgeon to repair the damage, but ends up with a rictus grin. Driven insane by his new appearance, Napier, now calling himself "the Joker", kills Grissom at his estate and takes over his operations.

Batman researches a way to stop the Joker from terrorizing Gotham with hygiene products laced with "Smylex" – a deadly chemical which causes victims to literally die laughing with the same maniacal grin as the Joker. The Joker soon develops limerence with Vicki and lures her to the Gotham Museum of Art, where his henchmen destroy the works of art within. Batman arrives and rescues Vicki before taking her to his Batcave, providing her with all of his research on Smylex that will allow the city's residents to escape the toxin. Conflicted with his love for her, Bruce visits her apartment intending to reveal his secret identity, only for the Joker to interrupt the meeting. The Joker confronts Bruce with the question "Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?" which the latter recalls being used by the mugger who killed his parents. The Joker then shoots Bruce, but he survives thanks to a serving tray hidden underneath his shirt, and escapes while the Joker is distracted.

Vicki is taken to the Batcave by Bruce's butler, Alfred, who had been coaxing the relationship between the pair to bring out Bruce's human side. After exposing his secret to Vicki, Bruce reveals he cannot focus on their relationship with the Joker on the loose, and departs to destroy the Axis plant used to create Smylex. Meanwhile, the Joker lures Gotham's citizens to a parade with the promise of free money, in order to dose them with Smylex gas held within giant parade balloons. Batman foils his plan by using his Batwing to remove the balloons, but the Joker shoots him down using a revolver with a comically long barrel. The Batwing crashes in front of a cathedral, and the Joker takes Vicki hostage within it. Batman pursues the Joker to the top of the cathedral, where he reveals that he knows Napier killed his parents and, thus, indirectly created Batman before the latter created the Joker. The Joker attempts to escape by calling in a helicopter piloted by his goons, who throw down a ladder for him to climb. However, Batman uses a grappling hook to attach Joker's leg to a gargoyle. Unable to bear its immense weight, the Joker falls to his death.

Sometime later, Gordon announces that the police have arrested all of the Joker's men and unveils the Bat-Signal. Dent reads a note from Batman, promising that he will defend Gotham should crime strike again, and asks them to use the Bat-Signal to summon him in times of need. Alfred takes Vicki to Wayne Manor, explaining that Bruce will be a little late. She responds that she is not surprised, as Batman looks at the signal's projection from a rooftop, standing watch over the city.

Cast

 * Willem Dafoe as Bruce Wayne / Batman
 * Robin Williams as Jack Napier / the Joker
 * Sean Young as Vicki Vale
 * Jack Palance as Rupert Thorne
 * Kevin Kline as Harvey Dent
 * Michael Gough as Alfred Pennyworth
 * Pat Hingle as Commissioner Gordon
 * Jerry Hall as Alicia Hunt
 * Tracey Walter as Bob the Goon
 * Lee Wallace as Mayor Borg
 * William Hootkins as Lt. Max Eckhardt
 * Hugo E. Blick as Young Jack Napier
 * Charles Roskilly as Young Bruce Wayne
 * David Baxt as Thomas Wayne
 * Sharon Holm as Martha Wayne
 * Garrick Hagon as Tourist Dad
 * Liza Ross as Tourist Mom
 * Adrian Meyers as Tourist Son

Batman: Rise of the Dark Knight (Geekhis Khan)
WhovianHolmesianChap said: Hi Geekis. Might I ask who were the writers, producers, editors and cinematographer for Batman 2?

Writers: Sam & Ted Raimi, Producer Rob Tappert, Editor Ray Lovejoy, Cinematography Roger Pratt

Batman Returns is a 1992 American superhero film directed by Tim Burton and produced by Denise Di Novi and Burton, based on the DC Comics character Batman. The sequel to the 1989 film Batman, it is the second installment of Warner Bros.' initial Batman film series, and stars Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne / Batman, alongside Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough, Pat Hingle, Michael Murphy, and Vincent Schiavelli. In Batman Returns, Batman faces the Penguin, who plots to kill all of Gotham City's firstborn sons, while dealing with Max Shreck, a corrupt tycoon who allies with the Penguin to bring Gotham City under his control, and Catwoman, who seeks vengeance against Shreck. Burton originally did not want to direct another Batman film. Warner Bros. developed a script with Sam Hamm which had the Penguin and Catwoman going after hidden treasure. Burton agreed to return after they granted him more creative control and replaced Hamm with Daniel Waters. Wesley Strick was later chosen to do an uncredited rewrite shortly before filming. This included normalizing dialogue, fleshing out the Penguin's motivations and master plan, and removing scenes due to budget concerns. Strick continued working as the on-set writer through filming. Annette Bening was originally cast as Catwoman, but became pregnant and was replaced with Pfeiffer.

Batman Returns was released on June 19, 1992. It grossed $266.8 million worldwide on a total budget of $80 million and received positive reviews. Critics praised its action sequences, performances, Danny Elfman's score, effects and villains, but its PG-13 rating was criticized due to the dark tone and violence. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup, as well as two BAFTA awards. A stand-alone sequel, Batman Forever, was released in 1995, with Val Kilmer replacing Keaton as Batman.

The first issue of an alternate comic book continuation titled Batman '89, which ignores the events of the subsequent films, was set to be published by DC Comics on 27 July, 2021, before being delayed to a simultaneous digital and physical release for August 10, 2021. Keaton is also set to reprise the role of Batman in the DC Extended Universe in The Flash (2022), which will also ignore the events of the two Schumacher films.

Plot
On Christmas Day, Gotham City socialites Tucker and Esther Cobblepot become the parents of a deformed baby boy, Oswald. Disgusted by his appearance and wild demeanor, they confine the baby to a cage and ultimately throw him into the sewer, where he is discovered by a family of penguins underneath the abandoned zoo.

Thirty-three years later, millionaire and philanthropist Max Shreck proposes to build a power plant to supply Gotham with energy, though he is opposed by the mayor. During Shreck's speech, Gotham comes under attack by a disgraced former circus troupe, the Red Triangle Gang. Though Gotham's vigilante protector Batman intervenes and manages to fight the criminals off, Shreck is abducted and taken to the sewer, where he meets the gang's secret leader, Oswald himself, now going by the name "Penguin". Oswald blackmails Shreck with evidence of his corporate crimes into helping him return to the surface, and he accepts. Meanwhile, Shreck's secretary, Selina Kyle, discovers that the power plant is actually meant to drain Gotham of its energy, which will bring the city under Shreck's control, after which Shreck will essentially be untouchable by the authorities. Shreck pushes her out of a window to silence her, but she survives the fall and vows revenge, taking up the mantle of Catwoman.

Oswald makes his presence known by rescuing the mayor's baby from a staged kidnapping attempt, and requests to be allowed into the Hall of Records to find his parents. Batman's alter-ego, Bruce Wayne, voices his suspicions about Oswald's true motives, and investigates his background and connection to the Red Triangle Gang, discovering that the troupe had been shut down years ago due to children going missing during their performances and the disappearance of one specific member before interrogation, whom Bruce suspects to be Oswald. During a meeting with Shreck to voice his own opposition to the power plant, Bruce meets Selina and the two become attracted to one another. In order to remove his enemies, Shreck pushes for Oswald to run for mayor and discredit the current mayor by having the Red Triangle Gang wreak havoc on the city. Batman intervenes and meets Catwoman as she attempts to sabotage one of Shreck's businesses; the two fight and injure each other before Catwoman escapes. She swears revenge on Batman by allying with Oswald, who also plans to kill Batman as part of his own schemes.

As Bruce and Selina begin a romantic relationship, Oswald abducts Gotham's Ice Princess and kills her, framing Batman for the act, as well as causing the Batmobile to rampage throughout Gotham before Batman narrowly manages to regain control and escape the authorities. When Catwoman rejects his advances, Oswald breaks off their partnership and attempts to kill her, but she survives after falling into a greenhouse. During the chase, Batman records Oswald's disparaging remarks about the people of Gotham and later plays them during his next speech, destroying his image and forcing him to return to the sewer, where he renounces his humanity and reveals his plan to abduct and kill all of Gotham's firstborn sons as revenge for what his parents did to him. At a charity ball hosted by Shreck, Bruce and Selina meet and discover each other's secret identities. The Penguin appears and reveals his plan, intending to take Shreck's son Chip with him, but Shreck gives himself up in his son's stead.

Batman foils the kidnappings and heads for the Penguin's lair. The Penguin attempts to have his army of penguins bomb the city and kill everyone in Gotham, though Batman and his butler, Alfred, jam the signal and order the penguins to return to the sewer. Batman arrives and confronts the Penguin. In the ensuing fight, the Penguin falls through a window into the sewer's toxic water after accidentally launching the bombs on the zoo. Shreck escapes but is confronted by Catwoman, who intends to kill him. Batman pleads for Selina to stop, unmasking himself in the process. Shreck draws a gun and shoots them both, but Selina survives and electrocutes herself and Shreck with a stun gun, causing a massive explosion. Bruce, who was wearing body armor, finds Shreck's remains but Selina is nowhere to be found. The Penguin emerges from the water and tries to shoot Bruce from behind, but dies from his injuries and from the toxic sewage, before his penguin family lays his body to rest in the water. In the aftermath, as Alfred drives him home, Bruce sees Selina's silhouette in an alley but only finds her cat as a farewell gift, who he decides to take home with him. The Bat-Signal appears in the sky as Catwoman, who survived, watches.

Cast

 * Willem Dafoe as Bruce Wayne / Batman
 * Nicolas Cage as Roman Sionis / Black Mask
 * Sean Young as Silver St. Cloud
 * Uma Thurman as Selina Kyle / Catwoman
 * Brandon Lee as Dick Grayson / Nightwing
 * Kevin Kline as Harvey Dent / Two-Face
 * Ian Abercrombie as Alfred Pennyworth
 * Pat Hingle as Commissioner James Gordon
 * Michael Murphy as The Mayor
 * Vincent Schiavelli as The Organ Grinder
 * Andrew Bryniarski as Charles "Chip" Shreck
 * Rick Zumwalt as The Tattooed Strongman
 * Anna Katarina as The Poodle Lady
 * Paul Reubens as Tucker Cobblepot
 * Diane Salinger as Esther Cobblepot
 * Doug Jones as the Thin Clown

Batman: The Killing Joke (Geekhis Khan)
Batman Forever is a 1995 American superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Tim Burton, based on the DC Comics character Batman. The third installment of Warner Bros.' initial Batman film series, it is a sequel to the 1992 film Batman Returns, starring Val Kilmer replacing Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne / Batman, alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O'Donnell, Michael Gough, and Pat Hingle. The plot focuses on Batman trying to stop Two-Face and the Riddler in their villainous scheme to extract confidential information from all the minds in Gotham City and use it to learn Batman's identity and bring the city under their control. In the process, he gains allegiance from a young, orphaned circus acrobat named Dick Grayson, who becomes his sidekick Robin, and meets and develops feelings for psychologist Dr. Chase Meridian, which brings him to the point to decide if he will lead a normal life or if he is destined to fight crime as Batman forever.

Schumacher mostly eschewed the dark, dystopian atmosphere of Burton's films by drawing inspiration from the Batman comic books of the Dick Sprang era, as well as the 1960s television series, but without the campiness of the later film. After Keaton chose not to reprise his role, William Baldwin and Ethan Hawke were considered as a replacement before Val Kilmer joined the cast.

Batman Forever was released on June 16, 1995, to mixed reviews from critics, who praised the visuals, action sequences and performances of Carrey and Jones, but criticized the CGI, costume designs, and tonal departure from previous films. The film was a box office success, grossing over $336 million worldwide and became the sixth-highest-grossing film worldwide of 1995. It was followed by Batman & Robin in 1997, with Schumacher returning as the director, Chris O'Donnell returning as Robin, and George Clooney replacing Kilmer as Batman.

Fourth Doctor (Graham Chapman)
The Fourth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He is portrayed by Tom Baker.

Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels in time and space in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of life, the Doctor regenerates; as a result, the physical appearance and personality of the Doctor changes.

Baker portrays the Fourth Doctor as a whimsical and sometimes brooding individual whose enormous personal warmth is at times tempered by his capacity for righteous anger. His initial companions were intrepid journalist Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen), who had travelled alongside his previous incarnation, and Surgeon-Lieutenant Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter) of UNIT. His later companions were savage warrior Leela (Louise Jameson), robotic dog K9, Time Lady Romana (Mary Tamm and Lalla Ward), teen genius Adric (Matthew Waterhouse), alien teenage aristocrat Nyssa (Sarah Sutton), and Australian flight attendant Tegan (Janet Fielding).

Baker portrayed the character for seven consecutive seasons, which remains the longest tenure of any actor to portray the lead, counting both the classic and modern series. He is considered to be one of the most recognisable and iconic incarnations of the Doctor both in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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Fifth Doctor (Tom Conti)
The Fifth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He is portrayed by Peter Davison.

Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels in time and space in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of life, the Doctor regenerates; as a result, the physical appearance and personality of the Doctor changes.

Davison portrays the Fifth Doctor as having a vulnerable side and a tendency towards indecisiveness, dressed as a boyish Edwardian cricketer. He travelled with a host of companions, including boy genius Adric (Matthew Waterhouse), alien aristocrat Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) and Australian flight attendant Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding), whom he had travelled alongside in his previous incarnation. He also shared later adventures alongside devious schoolboy Vislor Turlough (Mark Strickson) and American college student Peri Brown (Nicola Bryant).

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Jack Ryan

John Patrick Ryan Sr. (Hon.) is a fictional character created by author Tom Clancy and featured in his Ryanverse novels, which have consistently topped the New York Times bestseller list over 30 years. Since Clancy's death in 2013, four other authors have continued the franchise and its other connecting series with the approval of the Clancy family estate: Mark Greaney, Grant Blackwood, Mike Maden, and Marc Cameron.

John Patrick "Jack" Ryan Sr. (Hon.) is an American politician, CIA officer, diplomat and stockbroker, who served as the 44th and 47th president of the United States from 1996 to 2001 and from 2009 to 2013.

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Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. Cleveland is the only president in American history to serve two nonconsecutive terms in office. He won the popular vote for three presidential elections—in 1884, 1888, and 1892—and was one of two Democrats (followed by Woodrow Wilson in 1912) to be elected president during the era of Republican presidential domination dating from 1861 to 1933.

The son of a Baltimore police detective and a nurse, Ryan is a former U.S. Marine and stockbroker who becomes a civilian history professor at the United States Naval Academy (USNA). Ryan later joins the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as an analyst and occasional field officer, eventually leaving it as Deputy Director. He later served as National Security Advisor and Vice President before suddenly becoming President of the United States following a terrorist attack on the United States Capitol. Ryan went on to serve two non-consecutive terms and mostly dealt with international crises in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.

Jacob Dudman
Jacob Dudman (born 22 August 1997) is an English actor, voice actor, impressionist, YouTuber and filmmaker. He known for his major roles in the 2018 BBC iPlayer series The A List, and the 2020 Netflix thriller The Stranger. He is also known for his roles in various Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish Productions.

Early life
Dudman was born in Chertsey, England, and was raised in North Yorkshire.

Doctor Who
Dudman is also known for voicing the roles of the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors as part of the Doctor Who audio drama range for Big Finish Productions. He has voiced many other roles for different Big Finish titles, including the Doctor Who main range. He appeared as the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors opposite Jon Culshaw's Curator and Third Doctor in the 2017 short film The Great Curator. In 2018, Dudman joined Doctor Who Magazine's regular column The Time Team.

Other works
Dudman uploads short films and impressions on his YouTube channel, which has gained him over 100,000 subscribers.

In 2017 Dudman directed the 23 minute documentary Save The Rhino Vietnam, in which he and actor Paul Blackthorne travelled to Vietnam to investigate the rhino horn trade, and to raise awareness for the rhino extinction plight.

Filmography

 * The A List (2018) (as Dev) (13 episodes)
 * Medici (2019) (as Giulio de' Medici) (4 episodes)
 * The Stranger (2020) (as Thomas Price) (8 episodes)
 * Fate: The Winx Saga (2020) (as Sam) (6 episodes)

As the Doctor/narrator

 * Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Chronicles (2018)
 * Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles (2018)
 * Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles (2020)

Other roles

 * Doctor Who The Third Doctor Adventures: Storm of the Horofax (2017) (as UNIT Radio Operator)
 * The War Master: The Good Master (2017) (as Arcking 12 Computer)
 * Doctor Who: The Helliax Rift (2018) (as Samuel)
 * Doctor Who The Seventh Doctor: The New Adventures: Vanguard (2018) (as Cannon)
 * The Lives of Captain Jack: Driving Miss Wells (2019) (as William)

Audiobook readings

 * Doctor Who Short Trips: Dead Media (2019)
 * Doctor Who Short Trips: The Best-Laid Plans (2019)
 * Doctor Who: Paradise Lost (2020)

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Alan Rickman
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born 21 February, 1946) is an English actor and director. Known for his languid tone and delivery, Rickman's signature sound was the result of a speech impediment when he could not move his lower jaw properly as a child. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), performing in modern and classical theatre productions. He played the Vicomte de Valmont in the RSC stage production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985, and after the production transferred to the West End in 1986 and Broadway in 1987 he was nominated for a Tony Award.

Rickman's first cinematic role was as the German terrorist leader Hans Gruber in Die Hard (1988). He also appeared as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), for which he received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role; Elliott Marston in Quigley Down Under (1990); Jamie in Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990); P.L. O'Hara in An Awfully Big Adventure (1995); Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility (1995); Alexander Dane in Galaxy Quest (1999); Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series; Harry in Love Actually (2003); Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005); Judge Turpin in the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007); the voice of the the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland (2010), and it's 2016 sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass, Ronald Reagan in The Butler (2013); and Lieutenant General Frank Benson in the thriller Eye in the Sky (2015).

Rickman made his television acting debut playing Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1978) as part of the BBC's Shakespeare series. His breakthrough role was in the BBC television adaptation of The Barchester Chronicles (1982). He later starred in television films, playing the title character in Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996), which won him a Golden Globe Award, an Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and Dr. Alfred Blalock in Something the Lord Made (2004). Starting in 2022, Rickman began playing the Fourteenth Doctor in the long running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.

Series 14 (Jay & Stu)
The fourteenth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who premiered on 1 April 2022 and aired through to 24 June 2022. It is the first to be led by Stuart Hardy and Jay Exci as head writer and executive producer, alongside executive producer Matt Strevens, the fourteenth to air after the programme's revival in 2005, and the fortieth season overall. The fourteenth series was broadcast on Sundays, except for the premiere episode, continuing on from the eleventh series, after regular episodes of the revived era have previously been broadcast on Saturdays. The series was followed by the 2021 New Year's Day special, "Revolution of the Daleks".

The series introduces Alan Rickman as the Fourteenth Doctor, a new incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in the TARDIS, which appears from the outside to be a British police box. The series also introduces Hailee Steinfeld as Jodie Queen, the Doctor's newest travelling companion. The series follows the Fourteenth Doctor and Jodie as they meet a new incarnation of the Master and his destruction of Gallifrey, the return of Jack Harkness, the appearance of an unknown incarnation of the Doctor, the Cybermen, and the secret of the "Timeless Child".

The thirteen episodes were directed by Jamie Magnus Stone, Lee Haven Jones, Nida Manzoor and Emma Sullivan. Alongside Chibnall, who wrote four of the scripts and co-wrote a further three, the writers include Ed Hime, Pete McTighe and Vinay Patel, who return from writing the previous series, as well as new contributors Nina Metivier, Maxine Alderton and Charlene James. Filming commenced in January 2019 and concluded by November of that year.

Fourteenth Doctor (Jay & Stu)
The Fourteenth Doctor is the current incarnation of the Doctor, the fictional protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who. He is portrayed by English actor Alan Rickman.

Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a millennia-old alien Time Lord with somewhat unknown origins who travels in time and space in his TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of their life, the Doctor regenerates; as a result, the physical appearance and personality of the Doctor change. Rickman's incarnation is a tired, weary wanderer, burdened by loss and regret. His interactions with his companions ultimately restore his love for life.

This incarnation's companions include Jodie Queen (Hailee Steinfeld) and Laun (Gemma Chan).

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David Fielder
David Fielder is a British actor.

Joshua Kennedy (filmmaker)
Joshua Kennedy is an American independent filmmaker and actor. His films are made in the style of classic B-movies, and the gothic horror genre.

Biography
Kennedy's production company Gooey Films, has often released his films via Alpha Video. He is an alumnus of Pace University, where several of his films have been shot.

Anthony D.P. Mann
Anthony D.P. Mann is a Canadian filmmaker, actor and singer. He is known for his low budget independent films, often inspired by the gothic horror genre.

Bleak December
In 2016 Mann founded Bleak December, an independent company known for their audio dramas adapted from classic literature. Bleak December's titles have starred numerous prolific actors in the lead roles, including: Tony Todd as Count Dracula, David Warner, Sir Derek Jacobi as Sherlock Holmes, Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Brian Blessed, Laurence R. Harvey and Robert Powell.

Tobi Bakare
Tobi Bakare (born 1989 ) is a British actor. He is best known for his lead role as police oficer J.P. Hooper in the BBC detective series Death in Paradise, which he starred in from 2015 to 2021.

Personal Life
He is married to actress Prisca Bakare, and has a daughter.

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Paul D'Amato (actor)
Paul D'Amato is an American character actor, best known for inspiring the Marvel Comics character Wolverine.

Lincoln Rhyme
Lincoln Rhyme is a fictional character created by Jeffery Deaver. He is a forensic criminalist who worked for the NYPD, before an accident rendered him a quadriplegic. He ultimately continues as a consultant, aided by police officer Amelia Sachs. Rhyme and Sachs have served as the protagonists for 15 novels.

Novels

 * 1) The Bone Collector (1997)
 * 2) The Coffin Dancer (1998)
 * 3) The Empty Chair (2000)
 * 4) The Stone Monkey (2002)
 * 5) The Vanished Man (2003)
 * 6) The Twelfth Card (2005)
 * 7) The Cold Moon (2006)
 * 8) The Broken Window (2008)
 * 9) The Burning Wire (2010)
 * 10) The Kill Room (2013)
 * 11) The Skin Collector (2014)
 * 12) The Steel Kiss (2016)
 * 13) The Burial Hour (2017)
 * 14) The Cutting Edge (2018)
 * 15) The Midnight Lock (2021)

Film
In 1999, The Bone Collector was adapted as a film of the same name. Denzel Washington played Rhyme, and Angelina Jolie played Amelia, with her surname changed to Donaghy.

Television
The Bone Collector was once again adapted as the 2020 TV series Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector. Russell Hornsby and Arielle Kebbel starred as Rhyme and Sachs respectively.

Kevin Porter (actor)
Kevin Porter (born 29 July 1969) is an American actor, writer and director. He is best known for playing Batman in several fan films for Bat in the Sun Productions. He has also appeared in The X-Files, The Hughleys, According to Jim, General Hospital, Star Trek: Enterprise, Days of Our Lives and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.

Batman: Dying is Easy
Batman: Dying is Easy is a 2020 fan film. It is based on characters from the Batman stories published by DC Comics.

Cast

 * Kevin Porter as Batman
 * Aaron Schoenke as The Joker
 * Michael Madsen as Harvey Bullock
 * Doug Jones as The Riddler
 * Chris Daughtry as Hugo Strange
 * Jamie Costa as The Mad Hatter
 * Vera Bambi as Poison Ivy
 * Amy Johnston as Harley Quinn
 * Tatiana Neva as Catwoman
 * Mike Estes as Victor Fries/Mr. Freeze
 * Guy Grundy as Zsasz
 * Orion Acaba as Condiment King
 * Lionel Washington as Killer Croc
 * Amanda Lynne Shafer as Barbara Gordon/Oracle
 * Chalet Lizette Brannan as Little Alice
 * Casper Van Dien as Commissioner Gordon

Bat in the Sun Productions
Bat in the Sun Productions is an independent American Online Film production company headed by filmmaker Aaron Schoenke. It is known primarily for it's various fan films based on the works of Marvel and DC.

Ripper (2016 fan film)
Ripper is a 2016 independent short film directed and written by James Campbell. It is simultaneously a fictionalised dramatization of the Jack the Ripper murders, and an unofficial fan film based on the DC Comics character Batman. It is inspired by the graphic novel Gotham by Gaslight, and follows a similar premise, wherein a Victorian Batman battles the Ripper, but otherwise the plots are unrelated.

Plot
While investigating the disappearance of three Gotham City Police officers, Batman raids the Mad Hatter's hideout and rescues a girl forced to dress as Alice. Two months later, he is informed by Lieutenant Harvey Bullock that The Joker is dying and wishes to see him.

Upon Batman's arrival at Arkham Asylum, the Joker tells him he is suffering from melanoma due to his chemical accident, and he wants Batman to kill him as a fitting end to his legacy. Batman walks away, but the Joker taunts him by reminding him of the death of Jason Todd and the crippling of Barbara Gordon. An enraged Batman wraps a chain around the Joker's neck and hangs him, telling him how irrelevant he has become as a criminal. With nothing left to say, the Joker confesses to murdering the three missing officers and leaving their bodies at O'Neil's Toyland. Batman lets go of the Joker, revealing that he made him confess by falsifying his toxicology report and poisoning his water supply for weeks to make him believe he had a terminal illness. In addition, Batman knew the Joker was responsible for the disappearance of the officers when he discovered a police baton with the Joker's fingerprints on it during his raid on the Mad Hatter's hideout.

As Gotham City Police recovers the corpses of the missing officers, Bullock confronts Batman over being manipulated during the Dark Knight's investigation. Before disappearing from Bullock's presence, Batman reveals that the officers were already dead from the beginning, but did not disclose that fact to take away hope so their families could heal and move on.

Cast

 * Bill Fellows as Abberline
 * Donald Standen as Batman/Bruce Wayne
 * Bruce Payne as Jack the Ripper
 * Jacob Anderton as Dodge
 * Sally Collett as Rosie
 * Kris Saddler as George
 * Victoria Gibson as Polly
 * Eilidh Talman as Mary Jane Kelly
 * Rod Glenn as Matthews
 * Dennis Baer as Alfred
 * Sophie Nattrass as Cath
 * James Hedley as Dr. Crane
 * Rosanna Tung as Miao Yin

1986 (2021 fan film)
1986 is a 2021 superhero fan film directed and written by James Campbell, based on the Batman and Punisher franchises.

It stars Kevin Porter as Batman and Aaron Schoenke as The Joker. The film is the third Batman fan film by the Schoenke brothers after City of Scars (2010) and Seeds of Arkham (2011).

Batman: Dying Is Easy was crowdfunded through Indiegogo and uploaded on YouTube on March 11, 2021.

Plot
While investigating the disappearance of three Gotham City Police officers, Batman raids the Mad Hatter's hideout and rescues a girl forced to dress as Alice. Two months later, he is informed by Lieutenant Harvey Bullock that The Joker is dying and wishes to see him.

Upon Batman's arrival at Arkham Asylum, the Joker tells him he is suffering from melanoma due to his chemical accident, and he wants Batman to kill him as a fitting end to his legacy. Batman walks away, but the Joker taunts him by reminding him of the death of Jason Todd and the crippling of Barbara Gordon. An enraged Batman wraps a chain around the Joker's neck and hangs him, telling him how irrelevant he has become as a criminal. With nothing left to say, the Joker confesses to murdering the three missing officers and leaving their bodies at O'Neil's Toyland. Batman lets go of the Joker, revealing that he made him confess by falsifying his toxicology report and poisoning his water supply for weeks to make him believe he had a terminal illness. In addition, Batman knew the Joker was responsible for the disappearance of the officers when he discovered a police baton with the Joker's fingerprints on it during his raid on the Mad Hatter's hideout.

As Gotham City Police recovers the corpses of the missing officers, Bullock confronts Batman over being manipulated during the Dark Knight's investigation. Before disappearing from Bullock's presence, Batman reveals that the officers were already dead from the beginning, but did not disclose that fact to take away hope so their families could heal and move on.

Cast

 * Lee Charles as Batman
 * Mark Griffin as Frank Castle
 * Cornelius Geaney Jr. as The Joker
 * Michelle Bayly as Petra Lebedev
 * Laurence R. Harvey as Mr. Cobblepot

Batman Unburied
Batman Unburied is an upcoming audio drama podcast series featuring the DC Comics hero Batman. It is the first of a intended series of Spotify produced scripted podcasts based on DC's characters.

Premise
A serial killer known as The Harvester terrorizes Gotham City, but Batman is not coming to the rescue. In fact, Bruce Wayne has no memory of being the Caped Crusader at all. Instead, Bruce is a forensic pathologist, performing the autopsy on the latest victim when he’s attacked by the killer himself. As Bruce’s obsession with the Harvester consumes him, Dr. Thomas Wayne, head of Gotham City Hospital, orders his son to take medical leave and seek treatment from an unusual psychologist, Dr. Hunter. With Batman missing in action, Detective Barbara Gordon is left with no other choice but to seek help from Gotham’s second smartest detective: The Riddler.

Cast

 * Winston Duke as Bruce Wayne
 * Hasan Minhaj as The Riddler
 * Gina Rodriguez as Barbara Gordon
 * Jason Isaacs as Alfred Pennyworth
 * Lance Reddick as Thomas Wayne
 * Sam Witwer as the Harvester
 * Emmy Raver-Lampman as Kell
 * Jessica Marie Garcia as Renee Montoya
 * Jim Pirri as Arnold Flass
 * Toks Olagundoye as Martha Wayne
 * John Rhys-Davies as Dr. Hunter
 * Ashly Burch as Vicki Vale

Production
In June 2020, it was announced that Spotify had signed a deal with DC and Warner Bros. to produce scripted podcasts set in the DC Universe. Future installments were later revealed to be focusing on such characters as Superman, Lois Lane, Wonder Woman, Joker, Catwoman, Katana, The Riddler, Batgirl and Harley Quinn.

In September, the first podcast was announced as Batman Unburied, written by David S. Goyer.

In July 2021, Winston Duke and Jason Isaacs were announced to star as Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth, respectively. Hasan Minhaj's casting was announced in September, along with Lance Reddick, Toks Olagundoye, John Rhys-Davies and Ashly Burch.

By October, the final main cast members had been unveiled: Gina Rodriguez, Sam Witwer, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Jessica Marie Garcia and Jim Pirri.

On April 5, 2022, a trailer was revealed, alongside the release date of May 3.

International adaptations
Also on April 5, Spotify announced that in addition to the main US production, the script would be adapted for eight other countries, each with its own localized cast and production crew. They are set to be released on the same date as the original English language version.

In these adaptations, Batman is voiced by the following actors:

Rocco Pitanga (Brazil)

Dali Benssalah (France)

Murathan Muslu (Germany)

Amit Sadh (India)

Ario Bayu (Indonesia)

Claudio Santamaria (Italy)

Ryohei Otani (Japan)

Alfonso Herrera (Mexico)

Doctor Who: Redacted
Doctor Who: Redacted is an audio drama podcast series, based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the first of an intended series of Spotify produced scripted podcasts based on DC's characters.

Premise
Doctor Who: Redacted follows Cleo, Abby and Shawna - three broke university drop-outs from different cities across the UK who remain connected via their paranormal conspiracy podcast, ‘The Blue Box Files’. The trio speculate over Abby’s favourite conspiracy theory – intent on finding out the truth behind the mysterious ‘Blue Box’ that keeps cropping up across history. What if this random police public call box was actually an alien ship?

They don’t know who the Doctor is, or if aliens are real, but soon find themselves caught in a supernatural conspiracy as they learn that everyone who’s ever met the Doctor is disappearing and being forgotten. Essentially, they’re being redacted from reality. The Blue Box Files is so unsuccessful that our heroes are the last ones to be affected by the redaction, making Cleo, Abby and Shawna the world’s only hope. Now it’s a race against time to uncover the truth.

When Cleo’s brother Jordan, (played by comedian Jacob Hawley), gets redacted, they spend the rest of the series trying to find him. In the meantime Cleo is dealing with a mother who kicked her out for being trans when she was 16, whilst trying to find out what happened to her Dad – who mysteriously ‘disappeared’ when she was a kid. As the series unfolds we find Abby – the resident believer and Shawna – the sceptic, grapple with their own tribulations on the edge of a will-they, won’t-they romance, despite Abby’s controlling boyfriend.

Cast
Main
 * Charlie Craggs as Cleo Proctor
 * Lois Chimimba as Abby McPhail
 * Holly Quin-Ankrah as Shawna Thompson

Recurring
 * Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor
 * Anjli Mohindra as Rani Chandra
 * Jacob Hawley as Jordan Proctor
 * Siena Kelly as Penny Carter
 * Kieran Hodgson as Dr. Oliver Morgenstern
 * Juno Dawson as The Ravulox
 * Finlay Robertson as Larry Nightingale
 * Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart

Guest Ambika Mod, Pip Gladwin, Ken Cheng, Siena Kelly, Alasdair Beckett-King, Natasha Hodgson and Kieran Hodgson as Additional voices
 * Natasha Hodgson as The Receptionist
 * Clare Perkins as Nana Thompson
 * Sarah Thom as Monica Proctor
 * Natasha Hodgson as Jill
 * Kieran Hodgson as Police Officer
 * Pip Gladwin as Miller
 * Karim Kronfli as Roberts
 * Doon Mackichan as Madame Vastra
 * Alasdair Beckett-King as The Floater
 * Ingrid Oliver as Petronella Osgood

Production
On 8 April 2022, it was announced that BBC Sounds had commissioned a 10-episode Doctor Who audio drama created by Juno Dawson. Charlie Craggs (in her acting debut), Lois Chimimba, and Holly Quin-Ankrah were announced as the leads, alongside returning Doctor Who stars Jodie Whittaker, Anjli Mohindra, Finlay Robertson, Jemma Redgrave and Ingrid Oliver. Whittaker recorded her part, after having finished filming her final onscreen appearance.

The first episode was released on 17 April 2022, coinciding with the broadcast of Doctor Who's 2022 Easter special Legend of the Sea Devils.

Malcolm Fox (character)
Malcolm Fox is a fictional character created by Scottish crime writer Sir Ian Rankin. Initially the hero of his own series of novels, Rankin retooled him into a secondary protagonist in his long running John Rebus series.

List of novels
Solo novels
 * The Complaints (2009)
 * The Impossible Dead (2011)

Rebus pairings
 * Standing in Another Man's Grave (2012)
 * Saints of the Shadow Bible (2013)
 * Even Dogs in the Wild (2015)
 * Rather Be the Devil (2016)
 * In a House of Lies (2018)
 * A Song for the Dark Times (2020)
 * A Heart Full of Headstones (2022)

Jay Swan
Jay Swan is a fictional character created by Australian filmmaker Ivan Sen, and is the main protagonist of Sen's 2013 film Mystery Road; as well as its 2016 sequel Goldstone, and subsequent television spinoff, also entitled Mystery Road.

Jay is played by Aaron Pedersen in the films and TV series, whilst Mark Coles Smith will portray the character in the upcoming prequel series Mystery Road: Origin.

Mystery Road: Origin
Mystery Road: Origin is an upcoming Australian television series, that acts as a prequel to the TV series Mystery Road. The series will air in 2022 on the ABC network.

Premise
It's 1999, and Constable Jay Swan, a charismatic young officer arrives at his new station. Fresh from the city and tipped for big things, Jay might be the new copper, but he's not new to this town. His estranged father Jack lives here, as does the woman who will change his life forever, Mary.

Cast

 * Mark Coles Smith as Jay Swan
 * Toby Leonard Moore
 * Daniel Henshall
 * Lisa Flanagan
 * Clarence Ryan
 * Steve Bisley
 * Caroline Brazier
 * Hayley McElhinney
 * Dubs Yunupingu
 * Kelton Pell
 * Leonie Whyman
 * Salme Geransar
 * Nina Young
 * Jayden Popik
 * Grace Chow
 * Tuuli Narkle

Production
The series was first announced in August 2021, with filming beginning in October, in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia.

Episodes
The series will consist of 6 hour-long episodes.

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