Peter Davison

Peter Davison

Birthday: 1951-04-13

Place of Birth: Streatham, London, England, UK

Biography: Peter Davison (born Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett; 13 April 1951) is an English actor with many credits in television dramas and sitcoms. He became famous as Tristan Farnon in the BBC's television adaptation of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small stories. His subsequent starring roles included the sitcoms Holding the Fort and Sink or Swim, the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, Dr. Stephen Daker in A Very Peculiar Practice, and Albert Campion in Campion. He also played David Braithwaite in At Home with the Braithwaites, "Dangerous" Davies in The Last Detective, and Henry Sharpe in Law & Order: UK. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Davison, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up

Actors from BBV productions discuss their process preparing for performance....

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Dangerous Liaisons
Dangerous Liaisons

When detectives investigate a seemingly natural death of an old man, they discover a disturbing tape...

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An Audience with Billy Connolly
An Audience with Billy Connolly

Billy Connolly delivers his special brand of stand-up comedy and abrasive humour in front of a celeb...

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Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

Zoe Ball and Rick Edwards get the party started for the celebration of 50 years of Doctor Who, with ...

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The Destinations of Doctor Who
The Destinations of Doctor Who

Leave the beach towel at home and take a trip to the end of the earth - literally. From the Starship...

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The Timey-Wimey of Doctor Who
The Timey-Wimey of Doctor Who

When the Doctor's around, tomorrow is yesterday, yesterday is tomorrow and 18th century France is in...

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Black Beauty
Black Beauty

The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates ...

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The Women of Doctor Who
The Women of Doctor Who

Behind every great time lord there's a great woman. Whether they're busting Daleks or the Doctor's e...

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Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison

Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor, meets the talented people and stars who have helped create the show...

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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

Gipsy boy Heathcliffe is adopted by a god-fearing landowner in northern England and grows up as the ...

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Too Good to Be True
Too Good to Be True

A divorced father objects to his former wife's new partner....

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Dear Nobody
Dear Nobody

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PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne

When P.R.O.B.E. is summoned to investigate the savage murder of a retired headmaster, Liz Shaw is di...

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The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure acros...

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The Airzone Solution
The Airzone Solution

The Airzone Solution takes place in a future Britain where pollution has reached a point where the p...

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End of Term
End of Term

A group of students are tormented by the lingering menace of Garth Stroman, an artist who had a dist...

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Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

All of the Doctor's incarnations are in crisis when The Rani creates a time-loop in the East-end of ...

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The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Ba...

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Talking Doctor Who
Talking Doctor Who

As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, David Tennant time-travels back thro...

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Who's Who
Who's Who

Produced for American Public Television, this documentary on the long-running Doctor Who television ...

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The Home Whovian
The Home Whovian

In the 1980’s US public television station New Jersey Network produced some groundbreaking documenta...

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Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
Longleat '83: The Lost Footage

In April 1983, Roger Stevens and James Russell were given “Access All Areas” passes to the BBC’s Doc...

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Doctor Who at the Proms
Doctor Who at the Proms

Doctor Who returns to the Proms to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the popular BBC series. As well...

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Happy Mills: The Search for Agent Thorny
Happy Mills: The Search for Agent Thorny

Abandoned. Ashamed. Alone. Mills struggles with everyday life without Agent Thorny. Will he move on ...

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Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is ...

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Doctor Who: Jovanka Airlines
Doctor Who: Jovanka Airlines

Jovanka Airlines was a short webcast made to coincide with the release of Doctor Who: The Collection...

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Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery

It's Christmas and Gemma has hired a lovely cottage in a quaint village. Terry spots that the villag...

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The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event
The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event

1. The Main Event - What are PanoptiCons like to organise? What do the fans think of them? What do ...

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The PanoptiCon Tapes II
The PanoptiCon Tapes II

2. The Early Years - The stars and production team give a unique insight into Doctor Who from its b...

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The PanoptiCon Tapes III
The PanoptiCon Tapes III

3. The Pertwee Years - We take an in-depth look at the Jon Pertwee era, which has been featured mor...

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The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
The PanoptiCon Tapes IV

4. The JNT Years - Peter Davison and Colin Baker’s portrayals of the Doctor conceded with one of th...

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The PanoptiCon Tapes V
The PanoptiCon Tapes V

5. Dragonfire - How is a Doctor Who story made? Cast and crew from the Doctor Who story Dragonfire ...

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The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
The PanoptiCon Tapes VI

6. Panopticon VII - 1986 was the 10th Anniversary of the DWAS and for the first time professional c...

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PROBE: The Zero Imperative
PROBE: The Zero Imperative

Former UNIT luminary Liz Shaw and her assistant Bayliss are investigating a series of bizarre murder...

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Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
Doctor Who: Planet of Fire

A strange signal from Earth draws the TARDIS to the island of Lanzarote, where Turlough rescues a yo...

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PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne
PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne

The Devil of Winterborne has only recently been exorcised by PROBE. But when the body of its last v...

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A Very Polish Practice
A Very Polish Practice

Screen One movie that is a continuation of Andrew Davies' brilliant series A Very Peculiar Practice....

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Peter Davison: Uncut!
Peter Davison: Uncut!

Unedited interviews from in front and behind the camera with the fifth Doctor, Peter Davison and Mar...

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The Doctors: The Peter Davison Years
The Doctors: The Peter Davison Years

This is the definitive set of interviews with the team who brought the Peter Davison era of Doctor W...

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Tales of Television Centre
Tales of Television Centre

Various actors, presenters, directors and other staff who have worked at the iconic BBC Television C...

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Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani

Arriving on the barren world of Androzani Minor, the Doctor and Peri find themselves embroiled in a ...

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Micro Men
Micro Men

In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home in...

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Harnessing Peacocks
Harnessing Peacocks

Sir John Mills, Peter Davison and Serena Scott Thomas star in this warm, funny and romantic story of...

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Gypsy
Gypsy

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge b...

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Doctor Who: Daleks - The Early Years
Doctor Who: Daleks - The Early Years

A documentary which, as the name suggests, is about the early years of the Daleks. Presented by Pete...

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Mole's Christmas
Mole's Christmas

Rat and Mole must get to Mole's home through a snowy Christmas Eve while eluding weasel pickpockets....

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Doctor Who: A New Dimension
Doctor Who: A New Dimension

Documentary lead-in to the premiere episode of the 2005 revival of Doctor Who. Features cast intervi...

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Doctor Who: Time Crash
Doctor Who: Time Crash

After Martha Jones parts company with the Doctor, his TARDIS collides with another, and he comes fac...

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The Stalker's Apprentice
The Stalker's Apprentice

When an absorbing new manuscript finds its way across his desk, Marcus Walwyn (Gideon Turner), an im...

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Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

Captured in a time corridor, the Doctor and his companions are forced to land on 20th century Earth,...

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Doctor Who: Castrovalva
Doctor Who: Castrovalva

The Doctor needs somewhere peaceful to recover from his traumatic regeneration. But the sanctuary of...

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Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday
Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday

The Doctor and his companions arrive on a spaceship headed for Earth, populated by natives of Earth ...

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Doctor Who: Kinda
Doctor Who: Kinda

The TARDIS lands on the idyllic jungle world of Deva Loka, which is being surveyed for possible Eart...

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Doctor Who: The Visitation
Doctor Who: The Visitation

In 17th century England, the Doctor and itinerant thespian Richard Mace uncover a plot by a crew of ...

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Doctor Who: Black Orchid
Doctor Who: Black Orchid

The TARDIS arrives in 1925 England where the Doctor ends up playing in a local cricket match due to ...

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Doctor Who: Time-Flight
Doctor Who: Time-Flight

While investigating a vanishing Concorde at Heathrow Airport, the Doctor and his companions are thro...

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Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity

Omega, an ancient Time Lord made of pure anti-matter, once defeated by the Doctor, is plotting to cr...

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Doctor Who: Snakedance
Doctor Who: Snakedance

Tegan falls once more under the influence of the Mara and directs the TARDIS to the planet Manussa. ...

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Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

A warp ellipse draws the TARDIS off course. The Fifth Doctor's companions are separated from him not...

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Doctor Who: Terminus
Doctor Who: Terminus

The TARDIS attaches itself to a space liner after Turlough, still under the Black Guardian's influen...

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Doctor Who: Enlightenment
Doctor Who: Enlightenment

An Edwardian yacht in deep space races around the planets. There is a double agent in the TARDIS cre...

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Doctor Who: The King's Demons
Doctor Who: The King's Demons

The Doctor and his companions arrive at a medieval joust and are surprised to be greeted warmly by K...

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Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep
Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep

The Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough arrive on Sea Base 4, a nuclear warhead station under the sea t...

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Doctor Who: The Awakening
Doctor Who: The Awakening

The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough arrive in Little Hodcombe, where the townspeople's re-enactments of E...

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Doctor Who: Frontios
Doctor Who: Frontios

"Frontios buries its own dead", or so the saying goes. The Doctor, Turlough and Tegan are forced int...

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Parting Shots
Parting Shots

Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is given a diagnosis of cancer and told that he has only thr...

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Doctor Who: Earthshock
Doctor Who: Earthshock

The Doctor and his companions must prevent the Cybermen from bombing the Earth in the 26th century. ...

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Doctor Who: Logopolis
Doctor Who: Logopolis

After an encounter with the Master, an airline stewardess named Tegan Jovanka becomes an unwitting s...

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Stranger than Fiction
Stranger than Fiction

Gary Russell of Marvel Comics' Doctor Who Magazine investigates the world of BBV. In a relatively s...

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The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond

More than 30 years have now passed since a certain time traveling police box first materialized on o...

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Patrick
Patrick

A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog....

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Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time

Go behind the scenes of Dr Who as never before - and discover the 'lost tales' of the show! Doctors ...

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You, Me and Him
You, Me and Him

Despite their age difference, Lesbian couple Olivia and Alex are very much in love. But as the quest...

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Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in the...

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The Adventures of Mole
The Adventures of Mole

Mole decides it's time for an adventure! It isn't long before he discovers all the fun and thrills o...

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Dream Horse
Dream Horse

The inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan...

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Peter Davison: In Conversation
Peter Davison: In Conversation

A newly-shot one-hour interview ‘Peter Davison In Conversation with Matthew Sweet...

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Adventures in Space and Time
Adventures in Space and Time

A documentary on the history of Doctor Who (1963) featuring new interviews with cast and crew, trans...

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Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

Producer Steve Broster takes a look back to 1983 and the celebration of Doctor Who's twentieth anniv...

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Doctor Who: The Television Centre of the Universe
Doctor Who: The Television Centre of the Universe

Blue Peter presenter Yvette Fielding takes Peter Davison, Mark Strickson and Janet Fielding on a tri...

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The Story of Doctor Who
The Story of Doctor Who

Documentary to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of this popular cult sci-fi television series....

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Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion

Peter Davison is on a new journey to discover everything he can about the Doctor's Companion. What e...

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Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

Over Easter weekend the 3rd and 4th of April 1983 the BBC held the biggest Doctor Who event ever to ...

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Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner
Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner

This well researched and insightful documentary about producer John Nathan-Turner looks at his caree...

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Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor

Zoe Ball hosts a live celebration in which the next actor to land Doctor Who's lead role is revealed...

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The Muppets Take The O2
The Muppets Take The O2

The Muppets Take the O2 is a live stage show starring the Muppets performed at the O2 Arena in Londo...

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Trials and Tribulations
Trials and Tribulations

A retrospective of Colin Baker's turbulent three-years as the Sixth Doctor in Doctor Who (1963), cov...

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A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day

It's the mid-nineties in London and a couple meet through a lonely hearts column. She is an middle c...

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The Kidnappers
The Kidnappers

Doctor Who spoof by Mark Gatiss and David Walliams....

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The Adventures of Toad
The Adventures of Toad

Toad's life is just one big adventure! His latest and greatest hobby is racing around the countrysid...

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Say My Name
Say My Name

Mary and Statton's one-night stand at a hotel gets interrupted by a robbery, and the complete strang...

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Tricia
Tricia

Davies discovers a link between three separate investigations - an armed robbery at a job centre, th...

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Christine
Christine

Dangerous investigates the arson murder of a former lotto winner who is burned to death while drunk ...

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The Long Bank Holiday
The Long Bank Holiday

A spate of computer thefts from government offices, a possible suicide under the wheels of a high-sp...

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Kiss Me, Kate
Kiss Me, Kate

Recorded from the West End, Kiss Me Kate follows a pair of divorced actors brought together to parti...

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Doctor Who at the Proms
Doctor Who at the Proms

Doctor Who fan favourite Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring s...

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Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

The Doctor arrives in Victorian London. It's Christmas, but snow isn't the only thing descending on ...

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Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comed...

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A New Body at Last
A New Body at Last

The cast and crew discussing the transition from Tom Baker to Peter Davison, including exclusive beh...

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Come in Number Five
Come in Number Five

A special retrospective of Peter Davison's tenure as the Fifth Doctor....

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The Ties That Bind Us
The Ties That Bind Us

A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the s...

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The Crowded TARDIS
The Crowded TARDIS

By the end of Tom Baker's tenure, the TARDIS crew had grown from the usual one companion to three. T...

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Earthshocked
Earthshocked

Featuring cast and crew interviews, recreated sets, and newly shot 16mm film inserts starring the Cy...

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Chain Reaction
Chain Reaction

The cast and crew of The Caves of Androzani look back on the making of a legendary story....

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Driven to Distractation
Driven to Distractation

The cast and crew of Frontios reflect on the making of this story....

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Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS
Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS

Behind-the-scenes stories from the cast and crew across 50 years of Doctor Who....

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Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

Belinda Chandra has been kidnapped by robots, faced a terrifying god and a creature of pure evil on ...

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The Last Detective
The Last Detective

A disrespected but decent detective unravels a cold case about a missing seventeen year old girl whi...

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Benefit to Mankind
Benefit to Mankind

With a history of depression, a bloodstream full of booze, and a high-pressure job in medical resear...

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Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts
Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts

Brought to the station after nicking some sweets, a waifish Eastern European girl refuses to give ev...

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Friends Reunited
Friends Reunited

Two decades after they graduate, dark secrets, jealousies, and long-buried issues of resentment aris...

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Towpaths of Glory
Towpaths of Glory

A decorated war hero with a history of domestic violence is found in a garbage pile shot in the head...

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Three Steps to Hendon
Three Steps to Hendon

The lead singer of a defunct 70s rock band is found murdered with a whisky bottle stuffed down his t...

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Willesden Confidential
Willesden Confidential

Dangerous Davies investigates the death of Geoff Fallon, a stock car driver who was killed during a ...

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Once Upon a Time on the Westway
Once Upon a Time on the Westway

On the same day a notorious crime kingpin Jimmy Vincent is released from prison, there is a daring a...

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden

The funny side of a veteran nightclub comedy team with a long list of females conquests is poisoned ...

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The Man from Montevideo
The Man from Montevideo

DC Davies investigates the murder of a limousine driver who is found in his limo, his neck was slash...

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The Dead Peasants Society
The Dead Peasants Society

A semi-secret fraternal organization modeled loosely on the Masons apparently appears to be running ...

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Now, Get Out of That
Now, Get Out of That

A trio of professional writers examine the art and impact of structuring Doctor Who's narrative arou...

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Print-Out
Print-Out

Corrupt builder Ballard is approached by Bernie Fermor, a young computer engineer with a roll of nam...

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Frank and Percy
Frank and Percy

During their dog walks on Hampstead Heath, two older gentlemen find their conversations about everyd...

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Snake Charmer: The Making of 'Snakedance'
Snake Charmer: The Making of 'Snakedance'

Cast and crew look back at the making of Snakedance. With actors Peter Davison and Janet Fielding, d...

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Five Doctors, One Studio
Five Doctors, One Studio

Raw video footage of the only studio recording session in which Peter Davison, Jon Pertwee, Patrick ...

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Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor vs. The Daleks
Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor vs. The Daleks

The Doctor and Tegan arrive in Butler's Wharf, London... where they have some unfinished business wi...

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Destination: Daleks
Destination: Daleks

The Doctor and Tegan arrive in Butler's Wharf, London… where they have some unfinished business with...

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