The 693rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Dinsdale Landen, Alfred Lynch and game show host Nicholas Parsons (in a rare dramatic role) guest star.
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The 694th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Dinsdale Landen, Alfred Lynch and game show host Nicholas Parsons (in a rare dramatic role) guest star.
This is the final Doctor Who television story to use the show’s traditional format of four 25-minute episodes.
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The 695th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Julian Holloway guest stars; Anthony Ainley makes his final appearance as the Master in the original series. 
The 696th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Julian Holloway guest stars; Anthony Ainley makes his final appearance as the Master in the original series.
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The 697th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Julian Holloway guest stars; Anthony Ainley makes his final appearance as the Master in the original series. This is the final episode of the original Doctor Who series, as the BBC quietly keeps the show off the schedule without making an announcement of the series’ cancellation. Doctor Who returns – with Sylvester McCoy briefly reprising his role – as a one-off TV movie in 1996, and then goes dormant again until revived in 2005.
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The Doctor Who adventure Dimensions In Time airs in two parts as part of the BBC’s Red Nose Day telethon, introduced by Noel Edmonds and featuring all five living Doctors and many of the surviving companions. Bizarrely, this story is also a crossover with the BBC’s primetime soap EastEnders, so many of that show’s cast appear as well, and it’s the closest the BBC gets to celebrating Doctor Who’s 30th anniversary.
After a seven-year gap since the BBC cancelled the original series, Fox premieres Doctor Who: The Movie as its Tuesday Night Movie (and, if ratings prove to be a success story, a backdoor pilot for a series). Depicting the seventh Doctor’s regeneration into the eighth (Paul McGann), this is effectively the 698th episode of Doctor Who, and guest stars Yee Jee Tso and Eric Roberts as the Master. US ratings ultimately prove to be a disappointment, and this remains the only televised adventure of the eighth Doctor (though this incarnation of the Time Lord is carried forward in novels, comics and audio stories). Doctor Who does not make a full return to TV until 2005.
The Doctor Who satire The Curse Of Fatal Death airs in two parts as part of the BBC’s Red Nose Day telethon, starring Rowan Atkinson (Blackadder, Mr. Bean), Julia Sawalha (Absolutely Fabulous), Hugh Grant, and, as the first female Doctor in the history of the series (but not the last), Joanna Lumley. Future 21st century Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat provides the scripts.
The Doctor Who parody sketch The Web of Caves airs as part of BBC2’s Doctor Who Night, starring Mark Gatiss as the Doctor.
A new animated Doctor Who adventure, Scream Of The Shalka, premieres on BBCi, the BBC’s web site, starring Richard E. Grant as the ninth Doctor, Sophie Okonedo, and Sir Derek Jacobi. Written by popular Doctor Who novelist Paul Cornell, this story is heavily promoted well in advance with the announcement that Richard E. Grant is the official ninth incarnation of the Doctor; BBCi is unaware of the behind-the-scenes negotiations elsewhere in the BBC with Russell T. Davies. (The BBC’s unexpected announcement of Doctor Who’s imminent return as a live action series invalidates Shalka before its premiere.)
After considerable fanfare and build-up, Doctor Who returns to BBC1 with its 699th episode. Rose opens the first season of the revived show and introduced the ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and his companion Rose (Billie Piper), along with a host of supporting characters who reappear throughout the first two seasons. Thanks to a carefully managed publicity campaign, the new Doctor Who is a genuine hit with viewers and discussions of a Christmas special and a second season begin almost immediately at the BBC. 
Just a week after the series’ revival, the 700th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Zoe Wanamaker and Yasmin Bannerman guest star.
The 701st episode of Doctor Who (the third since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Simon Callow guest stars as Charles Dickens; future Torchwood star Eve Myles also guest stars.
The 702nd episode of Doctor Who (the fourth since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Annette Badland and Naoko Mori (Torchwood) guest star. This is the first half of the new series’ first two-part story.
The 703rd episode of Doctor Who (the fifth since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Annette Badland guest stars. This is the conclusion of the new series’ first two-part story.
The 704th episode of Doctor Who (the sixth since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Corey Johnson guest stars. This is the first appearance of the Daleks since the series relaunch, and the first episode to establish that the Doctor destroyed both the Daleks and the Time Lords at the end of the Time War.
The 705th episode of Doctor Who (the seventh since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Simon Pegg guest stars.
The 706th episode of Doctor Who (the eighth since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Shaun Dingwall guest stars.
The 707th episode of Doctor Who (the ninth since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. John Barrowman guest stars in the first appearance of Captain Jack Harkness (a character who will later led the spinoff series Torchwood); this is the first episode of a two-part story and is the first non-parody Doctor Who episode written by future showrunner Steven Moffat. The episode goes on to win a Hugo Award.
The 708th episode of Doctor Who (the tenth since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. John Barrowman guest stars in the conclusion of a two-part story written by future showrunner Steven Moffat. The episode goes on to win a Hugo Award.
The 709th episode of Doctor Who (the 11th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. John Barrowman and Annette Badland guest star.
The 710th episode of Doctor Who (the 12th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. John Barrowman and Paterson Joseph guest star.
The 711th episode of Doctor Who (the 13th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. The ninth Doctor regenerates, making him the second shortest-lived incarnation of the Time Lord (after Paul McGann); even Colin Baker outlasted Eccleston in the role. John Barrowman and Paterson Joseph guest star; David Tennant makes his first brief appearance as the tenth Doctor.
David Tennant and Billie Piper star in a “special scene” written and filmed for the BBC’s Children In Need telethon. Not a spoof sketch, the short “mini-episode” bridges the gap between The Parting Of The Ways and the upcoming Christmas special, The Christmas Invasion. Though it can be considered an official part of the storyline, this is not considered a standalone episode of Doctor Who.
The 712th episode of Doctor Who (the 14th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. David Tennant spends much of his first episode portraying an unconscious tenth Doctor, recovering from his regeneration; Penelope Wilton guest stars as Harriet Jones. This is the first episode of Doctor Who intended to be a Christmas special since 1965.
The 713th episode of Doctor Who (the 15th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Zoe Wanamaker guest stars, and the Face of Boe speaks!
The 714th episode of Doctor Who (the 16th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Pauline Collins and Derek Riddell guest star.
The 715th episode of Doctor Who (the 17th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Elisabeth Sladen reprises her classic series role of Sarah Jane Smith, the first non-enemy character from the original series to appear in the current series. John Leeson guest stars as the voice of K-9; Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy: The Vampire Slayer) also appears.
The 716th episode of Doctor Who (the 18th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Sophia Myles guest stars.
The 717th episode of Doctor Who (the 19th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Roger Lloyd Pack and Don Warrington guest star. The Cybermen become the second classic series enemy to appear in the modern series.