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 ".

Following the production, Brauner was ready to proceed with his remake of Das Testament des Doctor Mabuse when Lang approached him with the idea of adding another original film to the series.

The sixth production, Theatre of Fear, included De Lorde's famous adaptation of Poe's The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether ( Le Systéme du Dr Goudron et Pr Plume ) as well as two original plays, Double Crossed and The Good Death alongside The Tell Tale Heart.

He also said that he was " usually happy for old and new fans to invent the Complete History of the Doctor in their heads, completely free of the production team's hot and heavy hands ".

Frankenheimer's 1996 film The Island of Doctor Moreau, which he took over a few weeks into production from Richard Stanley, was the cause of countless stories of production woes and personality clashes and received scathing reviews.

The role of Rost in the Doctor Who serial " Attack of the Cybermen " was meant for her but she allegedly had a disagreement with the production team over her fee and was replaced by Sarah Greene.

* The Romans ( Doctor Who ), an episode of the BBC production, Doctor Who

In 1963, the BBC began production of the longest-running science-fiction television series ever, Doctor Who, about a time travelling alien called the Doctor.

A common misconception is that the Doctor Who production team at BBC Wales were so impressed by how much more resilient the toy sonic screwdriver was than the real prop, that they obtained moulds of the original prototype of the toy to use in the 2006 series, in fact, this was not the case.

When Doctor Who was being developed in 1963, the production staff discussed what the Doctor's time machine would look like.

( 1968 ), and the Burton-directed Doctor Faustus ( 1967 ) ( which had its genesis from a theatre production he staged and starred in at the Oxford University Dramatic Society ) were critical and commercial failures.

Shada, which never aired due to a production strike terminating its filming, was later released on VHS with Tom Baker narrating the unfilmed segments, and later completed as a webcast with Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and John Leeson as K9.

It was the first Doctor Who serial to film on location outside of the United Kingdom ; the production team filmed in Paris in April and May 1979.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

However, most UK series predominantly made using videoptape, such as Doctor Who ( 1963 – 89 ; 2005 – present ) did not begin color production until later, with the first color Doctor Who episodes not airing until 1970.

In 1970, Le Mesurier appeared in Ralph Thomas's Doctor in Trouble as the Purser ; he also made an appearance in Vincente Minnelli's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, a romantic fantasy musical with a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner adapted from his book for the 1965 stage production of the same name, featuring Barbra Streisand in the main role.

Nicola Bryant and Colin Baker in a scene from the 1993 BBV release The Airzone Solution, a standalone production that featured a number of former Doctor Who actors.

BBV was a video and audio production company specialising in science fiction drama, known for its links with the British science fiction television series Doctor Who ( founder Bill Baggs is a fan, and BBV productions often feature characters and / or actors from the series ).

Auton was also the first BBV production to have no Doctor Who guest stars at all, after Nicholas Courtney ( who would have reprised his Doctor Who role as UNIT commander Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart ) was forced by ill health to withdraw from the project.

At the Caretaker control centre, the Doctor meets the Chief Caretaker, who greets him as the Great Architect, designer of Paradise Towers, and then promptly calls for him to be killed.

Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov (; January 2, 1880, Tula – January 16, 1949, Moscow ) was a Russian weapons designer, Major General of the Engineering and Artillery Service, Doctor of Technical Sciences ( 1940 ), and Hero of Socialist Labor ( 1940 ; he received the second such award in its history just two weeks after Joseph Stalin himself ).

* Doctor Who Appreciation Society interview with Jeremy Bear, designer of The Mutants

However, in late 2006 veteran game journalist / designer Bill " The Game Doctor " Kunkel was hired as a consultant meant to help revitalize the magazine, and served as Editor in Chief for the last nine issues.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev () ( September 28, 1902, Yefremov – October 14, 1978, Moscow ) was a Soviet aircraft designer, Major General of Engineering ( 1944 ), Hero of Socialist Labor ( 1957 ), Doctor of Technical Sciences ( 1959 ), Honored Science Worker of the RSFSR ( 1972 ).

* Edward Thomas ( designer ), BAFTA-nominated production designer for Doctor Who

This prop is sometimes referred to as ‘ The Wilkie Dalek ’ after Bernard Wilkie, the BBC technical designer who became primarily responsible for the Doctor Who programme ’ s visual effects after Shawcraft ’ s involvement ceased during 1967.

The updated appearance was the result of input from Doctor Who executive producer Russell T Davies, artist Bryan Hitch and production designer Edward Thomas, with the design being realised by art department assistant designer Matthew Savage.

The Supreme Dalek was designed by Doctor Who production designer Edward Thomas, realised by design assistant Peter McKinstry and created by ' propmaker. co. uk '.

Their design is the result of input from Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat, production designer Edward Thomas, " Victory of the Daleks " writer Mark Gatiss and concept artist Peter McKinstry.

Cusick then joined the BBC as a staff designer responsible for set design on a large number of Doctor Who stories, designing not just futuristic settings but also historical sets and diorama.

He was married to Anne Margaret Payne Cooke and they had two sons, including Michael Pickwoad who in 2010 became the production designer on Doctor Who.

She later served as the main costumer designer on Joss Whedon's Firefly, Angel, Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and Dollhouse, as well as Marti Noxon's Point Pleasant.