Some of these have explored and offered accounts of Christie's disappearance in 1926, including the 1979 film Agatha ( with Vanessa Redgrave, where she sneaks away to plan revenge against her husband ) and the Doctor Who episode " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ( with Fenella Woolgar, her disappearance being the result of her suffering a temporary breakdown due to a brief psychic link being formed between her and an alien ).

* The tapes for the revival of BBC show Doctor Who were labeled with the anagram Torchwood, which later went on to be used as the name for a spin-off show.

* The Ark ( Doctor Who ), a 1966 Doctor Who serial

The 2012 Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play The Wrath of the Iceni starring Tom Baker takes place during Boudica's uprising against the Romans.

In September 2010, MIT students attempted to put a TARDIS, the time machine from the BBC's Doctor Who, onto a roof.

The Fifth incarnation of Doctor Who, Peter Davison, was noted for wearing a stalk of celery on his lapel, claiming it at one point to be an excellent restorative, though the human olfactory sense was comparatively weak.

" He, too, has become a noted writer of his own high-profile television drama programmes, including Queer as Folk and the 2005 revival of Doctor Who.

In 1966, Kit Pedler, a medical scientist, created the Cybermen for the TV program Doctor Who, based on his concerns about science changing and threatening humanity.

* The Daleks, Cybermen and Toclafane from Doctor Who.

* The Doctor Who serial State of Decay features a vampire named Camilla who in a brief but explicit moment finds much to ' admire ' in the Doctor's female travelling companion Romana who finds she has to turn away from the vampire's intense gaze.

* " Conspiracy ", third episode of the 1965 Doctor Who serial The Romans

* The episode " The Stones of Blood ", of the 16th season of Doctor Who, the Fourth Doctor encounters the Ogri, a silicon-based life form, and in the same sub-plot, the Megara, who are made entirely out of an unknown substance, possibly energy, and they uphold the word of the law, and execute all who break the law with a beam of energy.

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* Deimos ( Doctor Who audio ), an audio drama

Davros is a character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Cast in the role of Davros was Michael Wisher, who had previously appeared in several different roles on Doctor Who and had provided Dalek voices in the serials Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks and Death to the Daleks.

During Doctor Who Confidential Russell T Davies explained how he believes Davros to have survived the Crucible's destruction in some way, not specifically showing his death for this reason.

Doctor Who Magazine printed several comics stories involving Davros.

Speaking with the Emperor, the Doctor addresses him as Davros, but the Emperor responds " Who is Davros?

Paul Cornell's dark vignette in the Doctor Who Magazine Brief Encounters series, " An Incident Concerning the Bombardment of the Phobos Colony " occurs sometime between " Resurrection of the Daleks " and his assumption of the role of Emperor.

In 2008, Julian Bleach appeared live as Davros at the Doctor Who Prom, announcing that the Royal Albert Hall would become his new palace, and the audience his " obedient slaves ".

* In the 2005 episodes " The Empty Child " and " The Doctor Dances ", Jack Harkness uses a " sonic blaster ", referred to by Rose Tyler as a " squareness gun ", capable of " digitising " structures by disintegrating them and then reversing the process, among other functions.

In " The Empty Child " ( 2005 ), the Doctor stated that the telephone is not connected to a telephone line, and in Logopolis ( 1981 ), the Master materialised his TARDIS around a normal police box while a police officer was using the telephone, causing the line to go dead.

In " The Empty Child " ( 2005 ), the Ninth Doctor claimed that he has had " 900 years of phone box travel ", while " The Doctor's Wife " says they've been travelling together for only 700 years.

Coming to prominence in the 1970s, Browne has written and recorded several notable songs throughout his career including " These Days ", " The Pretender ", " Running On Empty ", " Lawyers in Love ", " Doctor My Eyes ", " Take It Easy ", " For a Rocker ", and " Somebody's Baby ".

In 2005, the British television show Doctor Who created a Biggles-based character called Captain Jack, for the episode " The Empty Child ".

Although Susan is not mentioned by name, the Doctor says in " Father's Day " that his " whole family " died, and in " The Empty Child " a character remarks he has been a father and grandfather, but no more, and the Ninth Doctor replies " I know the feeling.

The Doctor revisits the hospital in 1941 during the episodes " The Empty Child " and " The Doctor Dances ".

The episode was nominated for the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form along with other Doctor Who episodes " Father's Day " and " The Empty Child "/" The Doctor Dances ".

The episode was nominated for the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form ; the episodes " The Empty Child " and " The Doctor Dances " won.

" The Empty Child " is the ninth episode of the first series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on 21 May 2005.

" The Empty Child " is the first of a two-part story, which concluded with " The Doctor Dances ", on 28 May.

He later called " The Empty Child " and " The Doctor Dances " the best episodes of the series.

In 2011 before the second half of the sixth series, The Huffington Post labelled " The Empty Child " and " The Doctor Dances " as one of five essential episodes for new viewers to watch.

" The Empty Child ", along with its conclusion " The Doctor Dances ", won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation ( Short Form ).

Continuing from the cliffhanger of " The Empty Child ", the Doctor treats the beings like children, and faking a parent's anger, orders them to " go to their room " – thus causing them to return to their beds and, unbeknownst to him, saving Nancy from her brother Jamie.

In 2011 before the second half of the sixth series, The Huffington Post labelled " The Empty Child " and " The Doctor Dances " as one of the five essential episodes for new viewers to watch.

" The Empty Child " and " The Doctor Dances " won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation ( Short Form ).

In the 2005 episode of Doctor Who, " The Empty Child ", Jack Harkness, from the 51st century, is posing as a volunteer in the squadron during 1941.

Since then she has starred in a number of film and television productions, including the 2005 Doctor Who episodes " The Empty Child " and " The Doctor Dances ".

The console room from the first episode of Doctor Who, " An Unearthly Child " ( 1963 )

Although a TARDIS is supposed to blend inconspicuously into whatever environment it turns up in, the Doctor's TARDIS retains the shape of a police box because of a systems fault which occurred in the first Doctor Who episode, " An Unearthly Child ," when the TARDIS landed in London in 1963.

From " An Unearthly Child " ( 1963 ) to " The War Machines " ( 1966 ), the TARDIS also had a St. John Ambulance badge on the main doors, as did real police boxes ; this has been reinstated and the window frame colour has returned to white for Matt Smith's first season as the Doctor, shown in 2010.

William Hartnell stars in the very first episode of Doctor Who: " An Unearthly Child ".

It is set in 1963, around the same time as the very first Doctor Who episode, An Unearthly Child.

* The serial is apparently set in November 1963 ( see the Chronology for details ), shortly after " An Unearthly Child ", the first episode of the very first Doctor Who serial.

* The Doctor Who serial Remembrance of the Daleks also alludes to hidden fictional history, establishing that during the events of the serial An Unearthly Child, the First Doctor had in his possession a super-weapon, the Hand of Omega stolen from his own people, the Time Lords.

An Unearthly Child ( also referred to as 100, 000 BC ) is the first serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

The serial that became An Unearthly Child was originally commissioned from writer Anthony Coburn in June 1963, when it was intended to run as the second Doctor Who serial.

* An Unearthly Child ( or variants thereof ): The title of the first episode, used by the 1973 Radio Times Tenth Anniversary Special and subsequently by the 1976 edition of The Making of Doctor Who, with much subsequent commercial use, including the novelization, VHS and DVD releases of the story.

Writer David Whitaker omitted the An Unearthly Child adventure from the first spin-off novelization, Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks ( later retitled Doctor Who and the Daleks and Doctor Who-The Daleks ), with Ian and Barbara's entrance into the TARDIS leading directly into an adaptation of the second televised serial, The Daleks.

Terrance Dicks wrote the Target Books novelisation of this story, initially published as Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child in October 1981.

The German title was Doctor Who und das Kind von den Sternen ( Doctor Who and the Child from the Stars ).

* On Target — Doctor Who and An Unearthly Child

* Nathan-Turner's first choice of director for the story was Waris Hussein, who had directed the first ever Doctor Who serial, An Unearthly Child, in 1963.

The Doctor explains in " An Unearthly Child " ( the very first episode of Doctor Who and a title often used for the first four-part serial ) that he and Susan are exiles from their own people.