How Many Episodes?

Monday, 20 October 2003 - Reported by Shaun Lyon

The newest issue of Doctor Who Magazine suggests that, contrary to earlier reports, the show will have either 8 or 12 episodes of 45-minute length (even at 8, it's more footage than the last four seasons of the original show!)

FILTER: - Production - Series 1/27

This Week in Doctor Who

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The Brain of Morbius: Part Three

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The Brain of Morbius: Part Four

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Sat 11:00pm PDT
The Seeds of Doom: Part One

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On This Day: 19th April

The War Games: Episode One premiered on BBC One in 1969 at 5:14pm BST, watched by 5.50 million viewers.

Revenge of the Cybermen: Part One premiered on BBC One in 1975 at 5:36pm BST, watched by 9.50 million viewers.

Death Comes To Time (pt 1) premiered on BBC Online in 2002 at 12:00pm BST

Planet of the Ood premiered on BBC One in 2008 at 6:19pm BST, watched by 7.50 million viewers.

Oods and Ends premiered on BBC Three in 2008 at 7:05pm BST

Birthdays

Demi Papaminas is 23 today - credited as School Girl in The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar

Mark Greenstreet is 64 today - credited as Ikona in Time and the Rani

John Abbott is 79 today - credited as Vince in Horror of Fang Rock

Bernard Martin (died 1993 aged 66) would be 97 today - credited as Control Room Assistant in The Ambassadors of Death

Marcus Dods (died 1984 aged 66) would be 106 today - credited as Conductor for The Aztecs

Alan Wheatley (died 1991 aged 84) would be 117 today - credited as Temmosus in The Daleks

Deaths

Elisabeth Sladen (died 2011 aged 65) - 80 credits, including Sarah Jane Smith in The Time Warrior

Philip Locke (died 2004 aged 76) - credited as Bigon in Four To Doomsday

Tony Beckley (died 1980 aged 52) - credited as Harrison Chase in The Seeds of Doom

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