00:00Halt! Stay where you are!
00:03Daleks!
00:04You will watch The Take!
00:06I will not tolerate this continual interference in my life!
00:09There will be humour!
00:11There will be classic episodes!
00:14Dr. Who comes in!
00:17That's feasible.
00:18An evening of programmes to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Doctor Who.
00:22You will be abused!
00:24The Take on Doctor Who, next Sunday from 7, BBC Choice.
00:28Exterminate!
00:30This is BBC Choice, where we're about to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow
00:35and connect the Gravitic Anomaliser to the Dimensional Stabiliser.
00:38Sci-fi, this type's my forte.
01:00Quomp!
01:01Hi-fi!
01:03Slap!
01:05Drunk!
01:07There will not exist.
01:09It's a trifle.
01:11Tell us!
01:12Fl ļæ½!
01:13It isvelģ ģ“!
01:17Hello. I'm Sylvester McCoy.
01:34Although you may remember me better as the strange traveller in time and space, known only as the Doctor.
01:41Tonight, I'm here to celebrate a very special anniversary on BBC Choice.
01:46Measured in Earth time, Doctor Who, the TV programme, has just turned 35.
01:50Although Doctor Who, the character, is over 900 years old and has had eight different faces.
01:56And what better place to celebrate such an auspicious birthday than the annual convention of Doctor Who fans, Panopticon.
02:03That's Gallifreyne for Time Lord's meeting chamber, by the way.
02:06So, tonight, the take offer you the chance to revisit some glorious moments from the Doctor's 35 years on this planet's terrestrial television.
02:16See the Doctor take on the evil scientist Davros and his monstrous creation in the fans' favourite Who serial, Genesis of the Daleks.
02:28Look out for the latest regeneration of the Doctor in the 1996 TV movie, The Master Never Gave Up.
02:35We'll also be taking a good look at what's happening throughout the day here at the Doctor Who convention, Panopticon.
02:41But first, we travel back through time to an episode that was produced as a pilot programme for the original series of Doctor Who, way back in 1963.
02:50It stars William Hartnell as the first Doctor and Carol Anford as Susan.
02:56At this stage, the Doctor's character hadn't been fully fleshed out and no one knew that he was a Time Lord or that he came from the planet Gallifrey.
03:05Susan, who the Doctor calls his granddaughter, attracts more attention than the average teenager at a local school for her precautious scientific ability and for her strange otherworldliness.
03:17And here it is, an unearthly child.
03:20Great stuff.
03:46Signs of the Doctor Who magic starting to weave its spell.
03:49But it wasn't good enough for the big bosses at the Beeb, who canned the episode and completely re-filmed it for the first ever four-part Doctor Who serial,
03:58where Susan and the Doctor go back to the Stone Age and get involved in a tribal power struggle over the secret of fire.
04:05It was also the first time we heard about the TARDIS, standing for Time and Relative Dimension in Space,
04:11the time machine that was bigger on the inside than the out.
04:14But why on earth did it look like a police box?
04:26Well, Doctor Who was created by BBC drama head honcho Sidney Newman in 1963.
04:32He'd already blazed a trail with the Avengers and various other space sagas over on ITV.
04:40Newman's big thing about Doctor Who was that it should be really educational as well as entertaining.
04:45His plan was to alternate historical time travel stories with space sagas, and they had to have a grounding in fact.
04:52And the one thing he put a total ban on was B.E.M.s, or bug-eyed monsters.
04:58Although immediately, producer Verity Lambert and script editor David Whittaker turned up with Tony Hancock's recently sacked script writer Terry Nation.
05:09Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
05:10And the diabolical creation he gave birth to, the Daleks.
05:15But weirdly, the first Dalek adventure from 1963 is not the fan's favourite.
05:20According to Doctor Who magazine, that accolade is held by Genesis of the Daleks from 1975,
05:26starring the one and only Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor.
05:31And here's part one.
05:32The Time Lords send the Doctor to Scarrow, where the war between the Thals and the Cullids is in its final stage.
05:40His mission? To prevent the birth of the Daleks, created by the evil Khaled genius, Davros.
05:58And that was just the first of six thrilling episodes.
06:01A classic indeed.
06:03In an hour's time, the Doctor's eighth reincarnation, Paul McGann, stars in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
06:10But before that, it's time to find out a bit more about what's going on here at Panopticon,
06:15the annual Doctor Who fans convention.
06:18Panopticon, the Gallifreyan word for a Time Lords meeting room,
06:37has been running as an event since 1976, when the Doctor Who Appreciation Society was first formed.
06:53Fans from all over the country have come together this year at a hotel in Coventry
06:57to celebrate 35 years of their favourite time log.
07:00The Master's coming in with the Nineteen, the PANOP from the Festival of the Icon 20th Devil toŃŠ°Ń in Coventry.
07:06They're still so proud of what's going on here at a hotel, and they're still so proud of what's going on here at the time.
07:10We're definitely going through this year at a hotel in Coventry.
07:11We're still there at a hotel in Coventry, there's a hotel in Coventry.
07:11We're still looking in the house where the panopticon is still and I think they're going on here at a hotel in Coventry.
07:13The convention is made up of panel events on stage here in the main hall, and all sorts
07:40of other things going on around the hotel. There's a large dealing room with Doctor
07:46Who memorabilia, merchandise, fanzines and photographs. An autograph room where I spend
07:53a lot of my time, and a place where fans can have their photograph taken with their favourite
07:58star. The series may have ended in 1989, but the convention is still very much alive.
08:04Two of the Doctors are attending this year. I also made an appearance on stage
08:09later on with the delightful Miss Sylvie Aldred, who played the part of my companion Ace.
08:15One fan asked me how different it was working on the TV movie from working on the TV series.
08:21Yes, it was very different because it was produced by Hollywood people, not by the BBC, so rather
08:29than having to change in a toilet, which happens when you work for the BBC, I had the most enormous
08:37dressing room. It was huge. It was really huge. It had a kitchen, it had a shower, it had lighting
08:43for every mood. I mean, you could change the lighting, and I suppose it was something to do
08:47with if you were acting in a certain, you know, and the scene was a certain mood, you could do
08:50your own lighting. Oh, it was luxurious. I had a sound system that you could put on, the whole
08:54thing would rock. And I had my own big lorry driver, you know, the front of a Pantechnican. He just, he never
09:02moved anywhere. But anyway, I had it. It was there if I wanted to go somewhere, I presume. So that was a great luxury. They treated me like this.
09:07Like, you know, I was, yeah, a mega movie star. And they kept calling me Sir. All I had to do was lie
09:13down and go, ooh, every now and again. I just thought of, I just lay there and thought, what it'd be like
09:19if one day Sophie Aldrin did an impersonation of me? And I go, ooh.
09:29Well, there'll be more for the convention later on tonight. But first, a programme produced in 1993
09:35to mark the first 30 years of Doctor Who. A televisual romp through seven doctors, assistants
09:40ranging from screamers to independent feminists, and a whole host of villains and monsters that have
09:46regularly sent viewers scuttling behind their sofas over the past 30 years in the TARDIS.
09:51We understand that you're in negotiations with Steven Spielberg for the future of Doctor Who.
10:06You may well think that, but I couldn't possibly comment. You know what these things are like. You
10:11know, there's endless discussions, negotiations. You know what the American networks are like. You know
10:16what Hollywood is like. You know what the BBC is like. You can't trust anyone, believe me. You know,
10:20these things take a while. So there are no promises.
10:23We shall return. We shall return. We shall return.
10:35Well, Alan Yentob wasn't giving much away about the future of Doctor Who back in 1993.
10:40Soon after that, though, the BBC did enter negotiations with Universal Studios in Hollywood
10:45to produce a pilot for a new TV series, which we'll be showing you in a couple of minutes.
10:51Join us again after the break.
