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The Doctor Who Production Diary: 1986
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Colin Baker is contracted for Season
Twenty-Three, with an option for one additional year |
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The United Kingdom and France announce
plans to construct a rail tunnel under the English Channel |
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Bonnie Langford is announced as new
companion Melanie Bush |
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On its tenth mission, the space shuttle
Challenger disintegrates seventy-three seconds after lift-off,
killing all seven astronauts on board including schoolteacher Christa
McAuliffe |
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Recording for The Trial Of A Time Lord (Segment
Four) takes place in Longton, Staffordshire |
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Recording for The Trial Of A Time Lord (Segment
Four) takes place in Longton, Staffordshire |
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Recording for The Trial Of A Time Lord (Segment
Four) takes place in Longton, Staffordshire |
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Recording for The Trial Of A Time Lord (Segment
Three) takes place at BBC Television Centre Studio 1 in White City,
London |
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Recording for The Trial Of A Time Lord (Segment
Four) takes place at BBC Television Centre Studio 1 in White City,
London |
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Recording for The Trial Of A Time Lord (Segment
Four) takes place at BBC Television Centre Studio 1 in White City,
London |
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Nicola Bryant's forthcoming departure
from Doctor Who is reported in the press |
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Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, marries
Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey |
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Recording for The Trial Of A Time Lord (Segment
Three) takes place at BBC Television Centre Studio 3 in White City,
London |
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Recording for The Trial Of A Time Lord (Segment
Three) takes place at BBC Television Centre Studio 3 in White City,
London |
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Recording for The Trial Of A Time Lord (Segment
Three) takes place at BBC Television Centre Studio 3 in White City,
London |
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Recording for The Trial Of A Time Lord (Segment
Three) takes place at BBC Television Centre Studio 3 in White City,
London |
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In an interview published in
Starburst magazine, Eric Saward publicly reveals his reasons for
quitting as script editor of Doctor Who and harshly criticises
John Nathan-Turner |
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Recording for The Trial Of A Time Lord (Segment
Three) takes place at BBC Television Centre Studio 3 in White City,
London |
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Recording for The Trial Of A Time Lord (Segment
Three) takes place at BBC Television Centre Studio 3 in White City,
London |
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The BBC announces that Doctor Who
will return for Season Twenty-Four |
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The murder of fourteen coworkers by post
office employee Patrick Sherrill in Edmond, Oklahoma inspires the phrase
“going postal” |
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Debut broadcast of The Trial Of A Time Lord episode
five on BBC One |
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At the invitation of the Controller of
Programmes for BBC One, Michael Grade, Sydney Newman submits a proposal
to revamp Doctor Who; no further action is taken after a meeting
between Newman and Head of Drama Jonathan Powell goes badly |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The
Phantom Of The Opera debuts in the West End; it will later become
the longest-running Broadway show of all time |
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Death of John Crockett (bio), director |
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Debut broadcast of The Trial Of A Time Lord episode
six on BBC One |
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Debut broadcast of The Trial Of A Time Lord episode
seven on BBC One |
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Michael Grade, BBC One's Controller of
Programmes, and Jonathan Powell, the Head of Drama, offer to move John
Nathan-Turner off of Doctor Who on the condition that he agree to
inform Colin Baker that he has been fired from his role as the
Doctor |
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Debut broadcast of The Trial Of A Time Lord episode
eight on BBC One |
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Death of Ian Marter (bio), who played Harry Sullivan |
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Colin Baker learns that the option on
his contract for Season Twenty-Four will not be taken up |
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Debut broadcast of The Trial Of A Time Lord episode
nine on BBC One |
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Jonathan Powell, the BBC's Head of
Drama, offers Colin Baker a contract for a final four-part serial, to
culminate in the Doctor's regeneration |
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Debut broadcast of The Trial Of A Time Lord episode
ten on BBC One |
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Bonnie Langford is contracted for Season
Twenty-Four |
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Debut broadcast of The Trial Of A Time Lord episode
eleven on BBC One |
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Debut broadcast of The Trial Of A Time Lord episode
twelve on BBC One |
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Reneging on an earlier promise, BBC Head
of Drama Jonathan Powell informs John Nathan-Turner that he will remain
producer of Doctor Who for Season Twenty-Four |
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The first press reports emerge that Colin
Baker has been fired from Doctor Who |
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Debut broadcast of The Trial Of A Time Lord episode
thirteen on BBC One |
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Debut broadcast of The Trial Of A Time Lord episode
fourteen on BBC One |
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Colin Baker confirms that he will not be
returning to Doctor Who for Season Twenty-Four |
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Colin Baker rejects the BBC's offer to
return to Doctor Who for a final four-part story at the start of
Season Twenty-Four |
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Pip and Jane Baker are commissioned to
write Time And The Rani |
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Birth of Chanya Button (bio), director |
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