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Steven Taylor (Doctor Who)
Steven Taylor is a fictional character played by Peter Purves in the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. A space pilot from Earth in the future, he was a companion of the First Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1965 to 1966. Steven appeared in 10 stories (45 episodes). Only three of the serials in which Steven appeared as a regular are complete in the BBC archive (''The Time Meddler'', '' The Ark'' and ''The Gunfighters''). Appearances Television Steven first appears in the serial '' The Chase'', when the Doctor and his companions, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki, find him on the planet Mechanus where he crash-landed two years before. He joins the Doctor and Vicki as a companion in the following serial, ''The Time Meddler'', when they discover that he stowed-away in the TARDIS after having escaped the burning Mechanoid City. Steven is a strong-willed individual, who is more capable when there is something physical to do than when there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. The TARDIS exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, works to save civilisations, and helps people in need. Beginning with William Hartnell, thirteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; in 2017, Jodie Whittaker became the first woman to officially play the role on television. The transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the series 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. Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TARDIS
The TARDIS (; acronym for "Time And Relative Dimension In Space") is a fictional hybrid of the time machine and spacecraft that appears in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and its various spin-offs. Its exterior appearance mimics a police box, an obsolete type of telephone kiosk that was once commonly seen on streets in Britain. Paradoxically, its interior is shown as being much larger than its exterior, commonly described as being "bigger on the inside". Due to the significance of ''Doctor Who'' in popular British culture, the shape of the police box is now more strongly associated with the TARDIS than its real-world inspiration. The name and design of the TARDIS is a registered trademark of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), despite the fact that the design was originally created by the Metropolitan Police Service. Name TARDIS is an acronym of "Time And Relative Dimension(s) in Space". The word "Dimension" is alternatively rendered in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Five Companions
The Five Companions is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. It is free to subscribers and released with '' Army of Death''. Plot Five of the Doctor's former companions find themselves suddenly scooped up out of their quiet lives and brought to a mysterious realm. And joining them in their confused frustration are a herd of dinosaurs, some Sontaran soldiers and a squadron of Daleks. Cast *Fifth Doctor – Peter Davison *Ian Chesterton – William Russell * Steven Taylor – Peter Purves * Sara Kingdom – Jean Marsh *Polly – Anneke Wills * Nyssa – Sarah Sutton *Daleks – Nicholas Briggs * Sontarans – Dan Starkey Continuity *For the Doctor, this story takes place during the events of '' The Five Doctors'', on his home world of Gallifrey. In that twentieth anniversary television story, Borusa, President of the Time Lords, is seen scooping up various friends, enemies and incarnation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to compact disc and for download in MP3 and m4b format) based, primarily, on cult science fiction properties. These include '' Doctor Who'', the characters Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog from '' 2000 AD'', '' Blake's 7'', ''Dark Shadows'', '' Dracula'', ''Terrahawks'', '' Sapphire & Steel'', ''Sherlock Holmes'', ''Stargate'', '' The Avengers'', '' The Prisoner'', ''Timeslip'' and '' Torchwood''. History Founded in 1996, Big Finish in late 1998 began releasing audio plays adapted from the New Adventures, a series of novels from Virgin Books which had originally been licensed ''Doctor Who'' stories, but by then had become officially independent from the show and were based around the character of Bernice "Benny" Summerfield. In 1999, Big Finish obtained a non-exclusive licence to produce official ''Doctor Who'' plays, beginning with the multi-Doctor story ''The Sirens of Time''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Past Doctor Adventures
The ''Past Doctor Adventures'' (sometimes known by the abbreviation ''PDA'' or ''PDAs'') were a series of spin-off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'' and published under the BBC Books imprint. For most of their existence, they were published side-by-side with the ''Eighth Doctor Adventures''. The novels regularly featured the First through Seventh Doctors. '' The Infinity Doctors'' had an ambiguous place in continuity and featured an unidentified incarnation of the Doctor. The Eighth Doctor co-starred with the Fourth Doctor in one novel ('' Wolfsbane'') and, after the Eighth Doctor Adventures had ceased publication, a novel ('' Fear Itself'') featuring the Eighth Doctor and set between two earlier Eighth Doctor Adventures (''EarthWorld'' and ''Vanishing Point'') was published within the Past Doctor series. Publication history Between 1991 and 1997, Virgin Publishing produced successful spin-off novels under the New Adven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunker Soldiers
''Bunker Soldiers'' is a BBC Books original novel written by Martin Day and based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. It features the First Doctor, Steven and Dodo. Synopsis The first Doctor and his companions are trapped in Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyi ... in the year 1240 as a murderous army sweeps in ever closer. To complicate matters, something alien is awakening beneath the innocent defenders. References 2001 British novels 2001 science fiction novels Past Doctor Adventures First Doctor novels Novels by Martin Day BBC Books books {{2000s-DoctorWho-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvation (Doctor Who)
''Salvation'' is a BBC Books original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. It features the First Doctor, Dodo, and Steven. Key points The novel expands and elaborates on the circumstances under which Dodo first begins to travel with the Doctor. The "gods" of this story are created in the same way as the inhabitants of '' The Crooked World'', another ''Doctor Who'' novel by Steve Lyons. Reference is made to a film called ''Pray for a Miracle'' filmed a couple of years after the events in the novel based on the campaign to defeat the Gods, with the role of the Doctor being played by Peter Cushing Peter Wilton Cushing (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994) was an English actor. His acting career spanned over six decades and included appearances in more than 100 films, as well as many television, stage, and radio roles. He achieved recognition .... References External links *The Cloister Library ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin Missing Adventures
The ''Virgin Missing Adventures'' were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which had been cancelled in 1989, featuring stories set between televised episodes of the programme. The novels were published from 1994 to 1997, and featured the First through Sixth Doctors. (The Seventh Doctor also appeared in one novel.) The ''Missing Adventures'' complemented the ''Virgin New Adventures'' range, which had proved successful. Publication history Virgin had purchased the successful children's imprint Target Books in 1989, with Virgin's new fiction editor Peter Darvill-Evans taking over the range. Target's major output was novelisations of televised ''Doctor Who'' stories, and Darvill-Evans realised that there were few stories left to be novelised. He approached the BBC for permission to commission original stories written directly for print, but such a licence was initially refused. However, after the televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Empire Of Glass
''The Empire of Glass'' is a Virgin Missing Adventures original novel written by Andy Lane based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. It features the First Doctor, Steven Taylor, Vicki and Irving Braxiatel. Plot The Doctor, Steven, and Vicki land in what seems to be Venice in 1609, where they meet a host of major historical figures including Galileo Galilei and William Shakespeare. However, with the arrival of old acquaintance Irving Braxiatel, Vicki's abduction and the framing of Steven for murder, the Doctor soon finds himself embroiled in the sinister machinations of an alien invasion. Source materials In the acknowledgements, Lane notes that this was his own version of Tim Powers Timothy Thomas Powers (born February 29, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels '' Last Call'' and ''Declare''. His 1987 novel ''On Stranger Tide ...' ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodo Chaplet
Dorothea "Dodo" Chaplet is a fictional character played by Jackie Lane in the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. An Earth teenager from the year 1966, she was a companion of the First Doctor and a regular in the programme in its third season, from February to July 1966. Only three of the serials in which Dodo appeared as a regular are complete in the BBC archive (''The Ark'', ''The Gunfighters'' and ''The War Machines''). Dodo's personality was an unsophisticated, bright and happy one. Lane's contract was not extended beyond episode two of ''The War Machines''. To replace her, two new characters, Polly (Anneke Wills) and Ben ( Michael Craze), the new faces of ''Doctor Who'' in the "swinging" mid-1960s, became companions. Dodo appeared in six stories (19 episodes, of which 11 currently exist in the BBC Archives). Dodo has appeared in several spin-off productions, including Big Finish audio dramas and novels, all without the involvement of Lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Massacre Of St Bartholomew's Eve
''The Massacre'' (also known as ''The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'') is the completely missing fourth serial of the third season in the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 to 26 February 1966. In this serial, the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his travelling companion Steven (Peter Purves) arrive in France in 1572, during the events leading up to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. The two of them become separated, leaving the Doctor's journey largely unaccounted for while Steven is caught up in a Huguenots plot to assassinate the Catholic Queen Mother Catherine de' Medici (Joan Young). This serial marks the first appearance of Jackie Lane as companion-to-be Dodo Chaplet. It is also notable for being the first time the lead actor (Hartnell) played a dual role as the Doctor and the villain (the First Doctor and the Abbot of Amboise), although unlike future instances, they never met on-screen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarina (Doctor Who)
Katarina is a fictional character played by Adrienne Hill in the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. She is a companion of the First Doctor. Katarina appeared in the programme from November to December 1965, in five episodes over two stories. For 35 years, none of the episodes to feature her existed in the BBC archives until January 2004 when the second episode of the 12-part serial The Daleks' Master Plan was found. An inhabitant of ancient Troy, Katarina was very unused to modern concepts: she didn't even know what a key was. Katarina was conceived as a permanent companion but this was quickly re-evaluated by the writers, including producer John Wiles, as they realised the writing challenges that came with such an unworldly character. Unable to remove the character from upcoming scripts at short notice, they decided to write out Katarina by killing her early in '' The Daleks' Master Plan'', her second story, making her the first compani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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