Coleman departed from the show in the series finale "Hell Bent", broadcast 5 December 2015. With Jodie Whittaker, Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Smith. No te pierdas ningún episodio de Doctor Who con FormulaTV. Cuando Sydney Newman encargó la serie, especificó que no quería perpetuar el cliché del monstruo de ojos de insecto de la ciencia ficción. "My name is William Hartnell, and as Doctor Who, I make my debut on Saturday 23rd November at 5.15." The seventh season, at twenty-five episodes, was shorter than any before, and established a pattern of Another innovation of theirs from the eighth season onwards was the introduction of the character of However, before this story could be written, Delgado was killed in a car accident in Although Letts and Dicks were both planning on leaving at the end of the same season, it was they who worked closely on re-casting the role of the Doctor, in preparation to hand over to their successors, producer Letts had intended to cast an older actor as the Fourth Doctor, to hark back to Hartnell's portrayal in the 1960s, but after a long search he eventually selected Under the control of Hinchcliffe and Holmes, who took over from the beginning of the twelfth season, After staying on during the fifteenth season under Williams for a brief handover period, Holmes also left the programme, and his replacement, Season 17 saw the show garner its highest-ever viewing figures during the Williams and Adams both departed at the end of the season, Williams because he had had enough of the programme after three seasons in charge, and Adams to concentrate on his increasingly successful As Nathan-Turner was a new producer and a restructure of the Drama Department meant that MacDonald would not be able to offer the direct support that had been available to previous producers, the latter appointed These changes arrived with season eighteen in the autumn of 1980, when the audience for Davison made his first appearance at the end of the season eighteen closer, This experiment in seeing the viability of running a twice-weekly drama serial would later lead to the launching of the massively popular soap opera During production of the nineteenth season, Bidmead decided to move on and was replaced as script editor, first on a temporary basis by Davison left the part after three seasons in 1984. 157–230 ("Production Diary")Newman es, a menudo, señalado como el único creador de la serie. The 2005 TV Choice/TV Quick Award went to Eccleston for Best Actor, and Due to an initial lack of interest by networks in the United States, Although the new series clearly continues the storyline of the original – with Eccleston identified in publicity materials as the Ninth Doctor, and the appearance of original series elements such as UNIT and Concurrent with the new series, BBC Books revamped its line of Fan reaction to the news ranged from disappointment to sadness to irritation to outright anger.Speculation arose as to how long the production team had been aware of Eccleston's decision. El anciano, únicamente conocido como El departamento de dramáticos de la división de series produjo el programa durante 26 temporadas, emitidas por Aunque la producción interna había cesado, la BBC comenzó a buscar una compañía de producción independiente para relanzar la serie.
Some fans criticised the new logo and perceived changes to the TARDIS model. En 2005, en los Premios Nacionales de Televisión, Como parte de la serie "Millennium 1999", el Servicio Postal Real de Reino Unido emitió una estampilla titulada "Dr. Who", ilustrada con un Dalek. Creada en 1963 por Sydney Newman, responsable también de la serie "Los vengadores" (The Avengers, 1961), las tramas giraban en torno al misterioso doctor Who, de 750 años y originariamente del planeta Gallifrey, que con forma humana viajaba a través del tiempo y el espacio a bordo de una cabina de policía llamada Tardis (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space), luchando contra alienígenas y demás … Otros actores también han interpretado al Doctor (o versiones alternativas como A lo largo de la serie, se han hecho revelaciones controvertidas sobre el Doctor: en el serial Para la historia del doctor se ha establecido que el Doctor solo se puede regenerar 12 veces de sus 13 encarnaciones. But when the Daleks were introduced, the attitude of the program was forever changed.
La serie no utiliza el término consistentemente y a menudo se presentan como amigos del Doctor. Playing the role would be the 26-year-old actor On 29 October 2008, during his acceptance speech via live feed at the The new series was accompanied by a new logo, unveiled on 6 October 2009,The Eleventh Doctor's first series concluded on 26 June 2010 with transmission of the series finale "A second full series of 13 episodes was commissioned for 2011, with Smith and Gillan both returning as the Doctor and Amy respectively (making it the first time since the show's relaunch in 2005 that both the Doctor and main companion had remained the same from one series to the next). Although the episode length had reverted to 25 minutes, the number of episodes was reduced to fourteen, just over half the length of most previous seasons. The series was still up against Nathan-Turner had thought that he too would finally be leaving the series, but with no other producer available or willing to take on the series, he was instructed to remain.