The first episode of Class, a Doctor Who spinoff created by acclaimed young adult author Patrick Ness, and starring Katherine Kelly, premieres on BBC3. Peter Capaldi and Nigel Betts guest star, both reprising their characters from Doctor Who. 
The first episode of Class, a Doctor Who spinoff created by acclaimed young adult author Patrick Ness, and starring Katherine Kelly, premieres on BBC3. Peter Capaldi and Nigel Betts guest star, both reprising their characters from Doctor Who.
The second episode of Class, a Doctor Who spinoff created by acclaimed young adult author Patrick Ness, and starring Katherine Kelly, premieres on BBC3. Nigel Betts guest stars.
BBC3 premieres the third episode of Class, a Doctor Who spinoff created by acclaimed young adult author Patrick Ness, and starring Katherine Kelly.
The 829th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 130th episode since the series’ revival). This Christmas-themed episode closes the ninth season, and reintroduces Nardole (Matt Lucas) as a new regular companion for the Doctor in a story that pastiches American superhero comics (and their media spinoffs). Justin Chatwin and Charity Wakefield guest star.
British actor Sir John Hurt, renowned for memorable roles in everything from I, Claudius to Alien to The Elephant Man to 1984 to Doctor Who, dies at the age of 77 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer (during which he kept actively working). Known to genre fans for the role of unlucky astronaut Kane in Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), though before this he had lent his voice to animated adaptations of Lord Of The Rings and Watership Down. He spoofed his Alien character for Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs in 1987. Other genre fare included the movie adaptation of Carl Sagan’s novel Contact in 1997, V For Vendetta, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, the final two Harry Potter movies, and voiced the dragon in the BBC’s TV series Merlin. In 2013, he joined the pantheon of incarnations of the Doctor for Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary, playing a previously unseen incarnation of the Time Lord, a role he reprised for Big Finish Productions’ Doctor Who audio plays.
The 830th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 131st episode since the series’ revival), beginning the revived series’ tenth season. Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas star in a story introducing new companion Bill Potts.
The 831st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 132nd episode since the series’ revival). Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas star; Mina Anwar (The Sarah Jane Adventures) guest stars.
The 832nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 133rd episode since the series’ revival). Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas star. (This story is unrelated to an audio story of the same name based on a script for the unproduced 1990 television season of Doctor Who.)
The 833rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 134th episode since the series’ revival). Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas star. David Suchet (The Hercule Poirot Mysteries) guest stars.
The 834th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 135th episode since the series’ revival). Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas star.
The 835th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 136th episode since the series’ revival). Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas star. Michelle Gomez guest stars.
The 836th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 137th episode since the series’ revival). Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas star. Nigel Hastings guest stars.
The 837th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 138th episode since the series’ revival). Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas star. Michelle Gomez guest stars.
The 838th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 139th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas. Michelle Gomez guest stars in a story that sees the return of the Ice Warriors and another character not seen since the 1970s.
This entry is forthcoming.
The 839th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 140th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas. This episode is written by playwright Rona Munro, writer of the final story of the original 20th century run of Doctor Who.
This entry is forthcoming.
The 840th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 141st episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas. Michelle Gomez and John Simm guest star in part one of a two-part story.
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British actor Trevor Baxter, best known in genre circles for a one-off appearance in the 1970s Doctor Who story The Talons Of Weng-Chiang as Professor George Litefoot, dies at the age of 84. Though his guest role on Doctor Who lasted six half-hour episodes, his double-act chemistry with fellow guest star Christopher Benjamin was memorable enough that there was brief discussion at the BBC of possibly launching the two Victorian-era characters in their own TV spinoff. That idea was quickly shelved, but Big Finish Productions, the makers of audio Doctor Who, would revive it in the 21st century, leading to the popular audio series Jago & Litefoot, which ran for nearly a decade. Baxter’s list of guest starring roles spans almost the entirety of classic British TV, and he acted on stage on the West End and with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was also a prolific playwright in his own right.
In a specially shot trailer aired after BBC1’s live coverage of the Wimbledon men’s tennis finals, the first female Doctor Who is unveiled in the form of actress Jodie Whittaker (Broadchurch, Black Mirror, Attack The Block). Her first appearance in the role proper will presumably take place at the end of outgoing star Peter Capaldi’s final episode, to be aired on Christmas Day 2017. The transition to a new Doctor also includes the transition to new showrunner Chris Chibnall, whose first season will be broadcast in 2018. 
Actress Deborah Watling, best known for her 1960s stint as Victoria Waterfield, an orphaned girl taken aboard the TARDIS as a companion in Doctor Who, dies at the age of 69 from lung cancer, only six weeks after being diagnosed. Joining the show in the pivotal Evil Of The Daleks serial in 1967, and remaining through the end of the six-part Fury From The Deep in 1968, Watling was technically a series regular for only a year, though that time coincided with a run of stories now widely regarded as classics, pitting the TARDIS team again Cybermen, Ice Warriors and Yeti. She also appeared in Out Of The Unknown and Danger UXB, and reprised the role of Victoria in later Doctor Who projects such as Dimensions In Time (1993) and Downtime (1995).
Composer Dominic Glynn releases, via his No Bones Records label, Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol Remixes, an EP of remixes of Glynn’s score from the 1988 Doctor Who story The Happiness Patrol.
Dudley Simpson, the Australian-born veteran BBC composer whose sound defined Doctor Who in the 1960s and ’70s, as well as such series as Blake’s 7, The Tomorrow People, Moonbase 3, and many others, dies at the age of 95. Simpson scored his first Doctor Who serial, the second season opener Planet Of Giants, in 1964 at a time when the series often relied on stock music. He solidified his position as Doctor Who’s house composer during the Troughton era, scoring pivotal stories such as The Evil Of The Daleks, The Ice Warriors and The War Games, and became the dominant musical sound of the series during the Pertwee and Tom Baker eras, during which he provided all but a handful of original scores and stock music fell by the wayside. It was only when incoming producer John Nathan-Turner took over as Doctor Who’s showrunner in 1980 that Simpson’s Doctor Who tenure ended. He retired to Australia in the 1990s.
The 842nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 143rd episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas. David Bradley and Mark Gatiss (The League OF Gentlemen, Bookish) guest star in the 2017 Christmas special, which is also the final episode for Capaldi and for executive producer Steven Moffat.
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Silva Screen Records releases Don Harper’s soundtrack from the 1968 Doctor Who story The Invasion.
Silva Screen Record releases an expanded edition of Peter Howell’s soundtrack from the 1983 Doctor Who 20th anniversary special The Five Doctors, including music from both the original 1983 broadcast version and the additional material from the extended home video version.
The 843rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 144th episode since the series’ revival), opening the revived series’ 11th season, as well as introducing Jodie Whittaker as the first woman cast as the Doctor and new showrunner Chris Chibnall (Torchwood, Broadchurch). Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill star.
The 844th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 145th episode since the series’ revival). Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill star. Art Malik guest stars.
The 845th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 146th episode since the series’ revival). Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill star. Vinette Robinson, Joshua Bowman, and Morgan Deare guest star. This episode will go on to win the Visionary Arts Organisation Award for Television Show of the Year in 2019.
The 846th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 147th episode since the series’ revival). Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill star. Chris Noth (Law & Order, Sex And The City) guest stars.
The 847th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 148th episode since the series’ revival). Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill star.
The 848th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 149th episode since the series’ revival). Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill star. Amita Suran, Shane Zaza (Will), and Hamza Jeetooa (Being Human) guest star.