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DOCTOR WHO TIMELINE (1963 – 2013). BY MIKE WICKHAM. HISTORY OF DOCTOR WHO. DOCTOR WHO WAS FIRST SEEN ON SATURDAY 23RD NOVEMBER 1963. DURING WHICH THE TIME LORDS, GALLIFREY (THE DOCTORS HOME WORLD) AND THE DOCTORS ENEMIES (DALEKS, CYBERMEN, THE MASTER etc.) WERE INTRODUCED FOR THE FIRST TIME.
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DOCTOR WHOTIMELINE (1963 – 2013) BY MIKE WICKHAM
HISTORY OF DOCTOR WHO DOCTOR WHO WAS FIRST SEEN ON SATURDAY 23RD NOVEMBER 1963. DURING WHICH THE TIME LORDS, GALLIFREY (THE DOCTORS HOME WORLD) AND THE DOCTORS ENEMIES (DALEKS, CYBERMEN, THE MASTER etc.) WERE INTRODUCED FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE POWER OF THE TIME LORDS (A.K.A – REGENERATION) WAS INTRODUCED IN 1966, BY HARTNELLS DOCTOR WHEN HE CHANGED INTO PARTICK TROUGHTON (THE SECOND DOCTOR). THE POWER OF REGENERATION CONTINUED ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO MATT SMITH’S DOCTOR (THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR) REGENERATING INTO PETER CAPALDI’S DOCTOR (THE TWELFTH DOCTOR).
ROLE OF GRAPHIC DESIGN • SPECIALLY DESIGNED GRAPHICS SEQUENCE USED FOR THE OPENING TITLES AND CREDITS • THE TITLES BEGAN IN BLACK AND WHITE CHANGING TO COLOUR IN 1970 • GRAPHIC DESIGNERS WERE IMPORTANT TO MAKE THE SHOW INSTANTLY RECOGNIZABLE ANYWHERE • DESIGNS ARE CREATED USING LASTEST TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE AT THE TIME
20TH CENTURY GRAPHIC DESIGNERS BERNARD LODGE – 1966 - SEASON 4 (THE TENTH PLANET) “HOWL ROUND” – HE DESIGNED THE FIRST 4 SERIES LOGOS & DESIGNED ENGINERED 5 TITLE SERIES SEQUENCE SID SUTTON – 1981 – 1986 (THE LEISURE HIVE & THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD) ALSO DESIGNED THE COVERS FOR THE VIDEO BBC DOCTOR WHO “THE SEEDS OF DEATH” & “DAY OF THE DALEKS” OLIVER ELMES – 1987 – 1989 DESIGNED THE LOGO & TITLE SEQUENCE “TIME AND THE RANI” UNTIL “SURVIVAL” SEVENTH DOCTOR WHO LOGO
21ST CENTURY GRAPHIC DESIGNERS JENNY BOWERS – 2005 – SERIES 1 STARTED WITH THE EPISODE “ROSE” AND FINISHED WITH “THE PARTING OF THE WAYS”, WHICH WAS HOW LONG CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON PLAYED THE DOCTOR. CHRISTINA TOM – 2007 – 2013 – SERIES 3 – SERIES 7 CYFLE TRAINEE FROM “HUMAN NATURE” UP TO “THE FAMILY OF BLOOD”. THEN TURNED INTO PROPS BUYER FROM “PLANET OF THE OOD” TO “THE UNICORN AND THE WASP”. LASTLY, AS A GRAPHIC ARTIST FROM “TURN LEFT” UP TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW “THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR” JACKSON POPE – 2008 – 2011 – SERIES 4 – SERIES 6 GRAPHIC ARTIST FROM “THE ELVENTH HOUR” TO “THE BIG BANG”. THEN BECAME ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR FROM “THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT” UP TO “THE WEDDING OF RIVER SONG”. CHRIS LEE – 2013 – SERIES 7 GRAPHIC ARTIST FROM THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL “THE TIME OF THE DOCTOR”TO PRESENT DAY.
SUMMARY OF DOCTOR WHO TITLES THE OPENING TITLES HAD CHANGED THROUGH OUT THE YEARS FROM 1963 – 2013 BECAUSE OF THE GRAPHICS AND THE ARTISTS. THE TILES ALSO MATCHED THE PEOPLE WHO HAD PLAYED THE DOCTOR THROUGH OUT THE YEARS, FROM WILLIAM HARTNELL TO MATT SMITH. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzY-vEpUNac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QGbsNIZ-uo
2005 THE DOCTORS REGENERATIONS 1963 – 1966 1984 – 1986 1974 – 1981 1996 2005 - 2010 1966 – 1969 1987 – 1989 1996 2010 - 2013 1981 – 1984 1970 – 1974 2013 2013 - ????
FIRST DOCTOR REGENERATING FRAIL AND STEADILY GROWING WEAKER THROUGHTOUT ‘THE TENTH PLANET’, THE DOCTOR COLLAPSES INSIDE THE TARDIS AT THE SERIAL’S END.
SECOND DOCTOR REGENERATING A FORCED “CHANGE IN APPEARANCE” AND EXILE TO EARTH BY THE TIME LORDS IN THE CLOSING MOMENTS OF ‘THE WAR GAMES’.
THIRD DOCTOR REGENERATING RADIATION POISONING FROM THE GREAT ONE’S CAVE OF CRYSTALS ON THE PLANET METABILIS 3 AT THE END OF ‘PLANET OF THE SPIDERS’.
FOURTH DOCTOR REGENERATING FELL FROM THE PHAROS PROJECT RADIO TELESCOPE IN ‘LOGOPOLIS’.
FIFTH DOCTOR REGENERATING SPECTROX TOXAEMIA POISONING CONTRACTED NEAR THE START OF ‘THE CAVES OF ANDROZANI’.
SIXTH DOCTOR REGENERATING UNSPECIFIED INJURIES WHEN THE RONI ATTACKED THE TARDIS AND CAUSED IT TO CRASH AT THE START OF ‘TIME AND THE RANI’.
SEVENTH DOCTOR REGENERATING EXPLORATORY HEART SURGERY IN SAN FRANCISCO BY A DOCTOR UNFAMILIAR WITH TIME LORD PHYSIOLOGY IN ‘DOCTOR WHO – TV MOVIE’.
EIGHTH DOCTOR REGENERATING KILLED IN A SPACESHIP CRASH ON THE PLANET KARN IN THE MINI EPISODE ‘THE NIGHT OF THE DOCTOR’. TEMPORARILY RESURRECTED PRE-REGENERATION BY THE SISTERHOOD OF KARN, HE PURPOSEFULLY CHOOSES TO ADOPT A FORM MORE CAPABLE OF FIGHTING THE TIME WAR USING A POTION DEVELOPED BY THEM.
WAR DOCTOR REGENERATING REGERATED FROM OLD AGE/EXHAUSTION AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF THE TIME WAR, AS SHOWN IN ‘THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR’.
NINTH DOCTOR REGENERATING CELLULAR DEGENERATION CAUSED BY ABSORBING THE TIME VORTEX FROM ROSE TYLER IN ‘THE PARTING OF THE WAYS’.
TENTH DOCTOR REGENERATING SHOT BY A DALEK IN ‘THE STOLEN EARTH’. RELUCTANT TO CHANGE HIS APPERANCE, THE DOCTOR WAS ABLE TO HEAL HIS INJURIES USING SOME OF THE REGENERATION ENERGY BEFORE DIRECTING THE REMAINDER INTO HIS “SPARE HAND”.
TENTH DOCTOR REGENERATING ABSORBED 500,000 RADS TO SAVE THE LIFE OF WILFRED MOTT IN ‘THE END OF TIME – PART 2’.
ELEVENTH DOCTOR REGENERATING AT THE POINT OF DEATH FROM OLD AGE, THE TIME LORDS REMOTELY GAVE THE DOCTOT A NEW CYCLE OF REGENERATIONS, ALLOWING HIM TO DESTROY THE DALEKS ON TRENZALORE AND REGENERATE IN HIS TARDIS IN ‘TIME OF THE DOCTOR’.