![]() To better fit around the Olympics coverage, the decision was not only made to temporarily move Doctor Who to Wednesdays, but also to re-edit the 23 minute episodes into a 45 minute format instead, showing Part One (formerly Parts One and Two) on the 8th of February, with Part Two (formerly Parts Three and Four) following on the 15th. If you place the DVD in your player, you’ll see four sets of titles, four sets of credits, listed ‘Part One’ to ‘Part Four.’ Yet, back in 1984 it wasn’t broadcast that way.īecause Doctor Who‘s run that year was due to overlap with the Winter Olympics being held in Sarajevo, it was going to be pre-empted for two weeks by that old enemy of science fiction fans’ viewing habits: the sport. And it was certainly commissioned, scripted, produced and filmed as a four-parter. The oddity arises from the Season 21 story ‘Resurrection of the Daleks.’ Most sources will tell you this story (which set the Fifth Doctor against a reborn Davros, and which featured the departure of long serving companion Tegan) has four episodes. And you might think that number indicates the number of times a new episode of Doctor Who has appeared on television, the number of times the opening titles have played, and the number of times the credits have listed the cast and crew. ![]() The standard answer is 870, with the show likely to hit the 900 episodes landmark sometime during the Fourteenth Doctor’s era. Then there is the final run of episodes in Series Nine, which deal with Clara‘s fate… Is it three one part stories, a one part story followed by a two-parter, or a three-parter? The number of Doctor Who episodes broadcast doesn’t match the number of Doctor Who episodes produced, and you can blame the Olympicsīut, surprisingly, even the number of Doctor Who episodes isn’t entirely clear. So whether, for example, Series Ten’s “Monk Trilogy” is supposed to be three episodes linked by a villain, or a three part serial, is anyone’s guess. Things arguably got completely out of control during Steven Moffat’s tenure, with the showrunner noting that he didn’t really think in terms of stories or serials at all. Not even the Paradox Machine from ‘The Sound of Drums’ could fix the numbering crisis Even Davies himself later mused that he wasn’t entirely convinced about the status of ‘Planet of the Dead’ depending on counting ‘Utopia,’ ‘The Sound of Drums,’ and ‘Last of the Time Lords’ as all one story. And with an increased used of recurring elements and subplots threaded throughout a series’ narrative more commonplace, it’s become harder to tell when one story ends and another begins. With a few exceptions, convenient part numbers are no longer used. ![]() Yet, a couple of decades later, Russell T Davies’ team were promoting the 2008 Christmas Special ‘Planet of the Dead’ as the 200th story – a reckoning which depended on counting ‘Trial of a Time Lord’ as one story.Ģ1st century Doctor Who episodes have added their own complications. In part he got to that number by counting the four segments of the epic ‘Trial of a Time Lord’ as individual stories. ![]() In 1988, for a little extra publicity bump, producer John Nathan-Turner declared it not only the show’s 25th anniversary, but also the year of its 150th story. ![]() Partly this is due to the various production teams themselves finessing the number a little for convenience. How many Doctor Who episodes are there anyway?įans are well used to some ambiguity around the question of how many Doctor Who episodes there have been over the years. ![]()
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