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Principal photography for the series began on 18 July on location in Cardiff for "Rose". The new logo was revealed on the BBC website on 18 October Television trailers started showing up on 5 March and radio advertisements started two weeks before the series premier and ran till the second episode aired. The official Doctor Who website was launched with exclusive content such as games and new Ninth Doctor information.

A rough cut of the premiere was leaked onto the Internet three weeks before the scheduled series premiere. That's all I can say at this point because we don't know exactly what happened. It certainly wasn't done intentionally. Both the BBC and CBC denied any involvement, but Bailey believes that to be disingenuous, saying that it is "the best viral advert they could have done".

The employee responsible was fired by the company. Both the series and documentary aired for 13 consecutive weeks, with the finale episode, "The Parting of the Ways", airing on 18 June along with its documentary counterpart. Davies had requested that the two first episodes were broadcast back-to-back, but the request was given to the BBC just two weeks before transmission, at which point everything was already set.

In the United States, the Sci Fi Channel originally passed on the new series as it found it lacking and believed it did not fit in its schedule, [64] but the network later changed its mind. After it was announced that the first series would start in March , Sci Fi Channel Executive Vice President Thomas Vitale called Doctor Who "a true sci-fi classic", with creative storytelling and colorful history, and was excited to add it to its line up. The network also took an option on the second series. The series was first released in volumes; the first volume, containing the first three episodes, was released in Region 2 on 16 May The entire series was then released in a boxset on 21 November in Region 2.

Aside from the 13 episodes it included commentaries on every episode, a video diary from Davies during the first week of filming, as well as other featurettes. The final figure for the episode, including video recordings watched within a week of transmission, was The opening episode was the highest rated episode of the first series. In April , Michael Grade returned to the BBC, this time as the Chairman of the Board of Governors , although this position does not involve any commissioning or editorial responsibilities.

He also declared, "[I] never dreamed I would ever write this. I must be going soft! His only criticism was about the new TARDIS interior, though he did comment that he was "also a bit dismayed that more wasn't made of the show's incidental music, which seemed fairly anonymous in the background". Robin Oliver of The Sydney Morning Herald praised Davies for taking "an adult approach to one of television's most famous characters" that children would appreciate, and that he reinvented it in a way that would be "competitive in a high-tech market".

Oliver also wrote that older viewers would find Eccleston "easily the best time lord since Tom Baker ". However, he was critical of Davies' "annoying tendency to play to the lowest common denominator with toilet humor", but felt that from "Dalek" on the series was more dramatic and sophisticated.

DVD Talk 's John Sinnott rated the first series four and a half out of five stars, writing that it "keeps a lot of the charm and excitement of the original as well as the premise , while making the series easily accessible for new viewers". Sinnott praised the faster pace and the design changes that made it feel "fresh", as well as Eccleston's Doctor. However, he felt that Piper only did a "credible" job as Eccleston eclipsed her, and said that the writing was "uneven" with many of the episodes "just slightly flawed".

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However, not everyone was pleased with the new production. According to various news sources, members of the production team even received hate mail and death threats. Selected pieces of score from this series, alongside material from the second series and " The Runaway Bride ", as composed by Murray Gold , were released on 4 December by Silva Screen Records. Murray Gold 's arrangement of the main theme featured samples from the original with further elements added: Included on the album are two versions of the theme: Gold has said that his interpretation was driven by the title visual sequence he was given to work around.

Often erroneously cited as being the same as the end credits version, this second version is in fact a new arrangement and recording. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the series. For the —64 season, see Doctor Who season 1. Christopher Eccleston Billie Piper. List of Doctor Who cast members. List of Doctor Who home video releases. List of Doctor Who novelisations. List of awards and nominations received by Doctor Who.

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After more than 60 actresses had been auditioned, the first choice to play the role was Elizabeth Shepherd. Her on-screen personality was deemed less interesting than that of Blackman's Gale and it was decided she was not right for the role. Another 20 actresses were auditioned before the show's casting director, Dodo Watts , suggested that producers Brian Clemens and Albert Fennell check out a televised drama featuring the relatively unknown Rigg she had earlier guested in an episode of The Sentimental Agent that Clemens had written.

Her screen test with Macnee showed that the two immediately worked well together. A prologue was added to the beginning of all the fourth-series episodes for the American transmissions. This was to clarify some initial confusion audiences had regarding the characters and their mission. In the opener, a waiter holding a champagne bottle falls dead onto a human-sized chessboard; a dagger protruding from a target on his back. Peel dressed in her trademark leather catsuit walk up to the body as the voice-over explains: Two such people are John Steed, top professional, and his partner Emma Peel, talented amateur.

Otherwise known as The Avengers. They clink glasses and depart together. Fade to black and then the opening titles proper begin. In contrast to the Gale episodes, there is a lighter, comic touch in Steed and Peel's interactions with each other and their reactions to other characters and situations. Earlier series had a harder tone, with the Gale era including some quite serious espionage dramas.

This almost completely disappeared as Steed and Peel visibly enjoy topping each other's witticisms. The layer of conflict with Gale—who on occasion openly resented being used by Steed, often without her permission—is absent from Steed's interaction with Peel.

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Also the sexual tension between Steed and Gale is quite different from the tension between Steed and Peel. In both cases, the exact relationship between the partners is left ambiguous, although they seemed to have carte blanche to visit each other's homes whenever they please, and it is not uncommon for scenes to suggest Steed had spent the night at Gale's or Peel's home, or vice versa. Although nothing "improper" is displayed, the obviously much closer chemistry between Steed and Peel constantly suggests intimacy between the two.

Science fiction and fantasy elements a style later known as spy-fi also begin to emerge in stories. In her fourth episode, "Death at Bargain Prices", Mrs Peel takes an undercover job at a department store. Her uniform for promoting space-age toys is an elaborate leather catsuit plus silver boots, sash and welder's gloves.

The suit minus the silver accessories becomes her signature outfit which she wore primarily for fight scenes in early episodes and in the titles. Some episodes contain a fetishistic undercurrent. In " A Touch of Brimstone " Mrs Peel dresses in a dominatrix outfit of corset, laced boots and spiked collar, to become the "Queen of Sin". Peel's avant-garde fashions, featuring bold accents and high-contrast geometric patterns, emphasise her youthful, contemporary personality.

For the season, some of her most memorable outfits were designed by John Bates , including graphic black and white Op art mini-coats and accessories, and a silver ensemble comprising a bra bodice, low-slung trousers, and jacket. According to Macnee in his book The Avengers and Me , Rigg disliked wearing leather and insisted on a new line of fabric athletic wear for the fifth series. Alun Hughes, who had designed clothing for Diana Rigg's personal wardrobe, was suggested by the actress to design Emma Peel's "softer" new wardrobe.

Pierre Cardin was brought in to design a new wardrobe for Macnee. Eight tight-fitting jumpsuits in a variety of bright colours were created using the stretch fabric crimplene. After one filmed series of 26 episodes in black and white, The Avengers began filming in colour for the fifth series in It was three years before Britain's ITV network began full colour broadcasting.

The first 16 episodes of this series were broadcast concurrently in the U. Eight further episodes were broadcast in the UK beginning in late September, while these episodes were withheld in the U. The American prologue of the fourth series was rejigged for the colour episodes. This was followed by Steed unwrapping the foil from a champagne bottle and Peel shooting the cork away. Unlike the "chessboard" opening of the previous series, this new prologue had no narrative voice-over, and the scene was also included in UK broadcasts of the series.

The first 16 episodes of the fifth series begin with Peel receiving a call-to-duty message from Steed: The messages were delivered by Steed in increasingly bizarre ways as the series progressed: On one occasion Steed appeared on her television set, interrupting an old science-fiction movie actually clips from the series four episode "The Cybernauts" to call her to work. Another way Steed contacted her was in the beginning of episode 13, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station", when she enters her flat and sees a Meccano Percy the Small Engine going around a circular track with a note on one of the train cars that says "Mrs.

Peel" in bold letters, she then walks over to Steed who says, "You're needed. She turns to see Steed in the apartment removing another strip of wallpaper, revealing "We're needed" painted underneath on another wall. In another instance Emma enters Steed's flat to find he has just fallen down the stairs, and he painfully gasps, "Mrs Peel, you're needed. In "The Superlative Seven" the call to duty and the tag both involve a duck shooting situation where unexpected items fall from the sky after shots are fired. The series also introduced a comic tag line caption to the episode title, using the format of "Steed [does this], Emma [does that].

Three other colour Emma Peel episodes were re-writes of Cathy Gale episodes as well. The "Mrs Peel, we're needed" scenes and the alternate tag lines were dropped after the first 16 episodes, after a break in production, for financial reasons. They were deemed by the U. Stories were increasingly characterised by a futuristic, science-fiction bent, with mad scientists and their creations wreaking havoc. The duo dealt with being shrunk to doll size "Mission Highly Improbable" , pet cats being electrically altered into ferocious and lethal "miniature tigers" "The Hidden Tiger" , killer automata "Return of The Cybernauts" , mind-transferring machines "Who's Who???

Impossible and Batman , respectively. The show still carried the basic format: Steed and his associate were charged with solving the problem in the space of a minute episode, thus preserving the safety of s Britain. Humour was evident in the names and acronyms of the organisations. For example, in "The Living Dead", two rival groups examine reported ghost sightings: The series also occasionally adopted a metafictional tone, coming close to breaking the fourth wall.

In the series 5 episode "Something Nasty in the Nursery" Peel directly references the series' storytelling convention of having potentially helpful sources of information killed off just before she or Steed arrive. This then occurs a few minutes later. In the tag scene for the same episode, Steed and Peel tell viewers—indirectly—to tune in next week. Rigg was initially unhappy with the way she was treated by the show's producers. During her first series she learned she was being paid less than the cameraman.

She demanded a raise, to put her more on a par with her co-star, or she would leave the show. The producers gave in, thanks to the show's great popularity in the US. On 25 October , to mark 50 years of Emma Peel, the BFI British Film Institute screened an episode of The Avengers followed by an onstage interview with Rigg, during which she discussed her reasons for leaving the show and Patrick Macnee's reaction to her departure.

When Diana Rigg left the series in October , the British network executives decided that the current series formula, despite resulting in popular success, could not be pursued further. Thus, they decided that a "return to realism" was appropriate for the sixth series — Bryce had a difficult situation in hand. He had to find a replacement for Diana Rigg and shoot the first seven episodes of the new series, which were supposed to be shipped to America together with the last eight Emma Peel colour episodes.

Bryce signed his then-girlfriend, year-old newcomer Linda Thorson, as the new female co-star and chose the name "Tara King" for her character. Thorson played the role with more innocence in mind and at heart; and unlike the previous partnerships with Cathy and Emma, the writers allowed subtle hints of romance to blossom between Steed and King. King also differed from Steed's previous partners in that she was a fully fledged albeit initially inexperienced agent working for Steed's organisation; his previous partners had all been in the words of the prologue used for American broadcasts of the first Rigg series talented amateurs.

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Bryce wanted Tara to be blonde, so Thorson's brown hair was bleached. However, the process badly damaged Thorson's hair, so she had to wear wigs for the first third of her episodes, until her own hair grew back. Her natural brown hair was not seen until the episode "All Done with Mirrors". Production of the first seven episodes of the sixth series began. However, financial problems and internal difficulties undermined Bryce's effort. He only managed to complete three episodes: After a rough cut screening of these episodes to studio executives, Bryce was fired and Clemens and Fennel were summoned back.

At their return, a fourth episode called "The Murderous Connection" was in its second day of production. After revising the script, it was renamed as "The Curious Case of the Countless Clues" and production was resumed. Production of the episode "Split! Two completely new episodes were also shot: Brian left The Avengers for about three episodes, someone took over, and when Brian came back, it was in a terrible state. He was faced with doing a rewrite on a film they'd already shot. It was fixed by having a character ask Steed 'What took you so long?

It was just my favourite show to work on. Clemens and Fennel decided to film a new episode to introduce Tara King. This, the third episode filmed for the sixth series, was titled "The Forget-Me-Knot" and bade farewell to Emma Peel and introduced her successor, a trained but inexperienced agent named Tara King. It would be broadcast as the first episode of the sixth series. Tara debuts in dynamic style: No farewell scenes for Emma Peel had been shot when Diana Rigg left the series.

Rigg also filmed a farewell scene for Emma which appeared as the tag scene of the episode. It was explained that Emma's husband, Peter Peel, was found alive and rescued, and she left the British secret service to be with him. Emma visits Steed to say goodbye, and while leaving she passes Tara on the stairway giving the advice that "He likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise. Bryce's original episode introducing Tara, "Invitation to a Killing", was revised as a regular minute episode named "Have Guns Will Haggle". These episodes, together with "Invasion of the Earthmen" and the last eight Peel colour episodes, were shipped to America in February For this series the government official who gave Steed his orders was depicted on screen.

Mother , introduced in "The Forget-Me-Knot", is a man in a wheelchair. The role was taken by Patrick Newell who had played different roles in two earlier episodes, most recently in series five. Mother's headquarters would shift from place to place, including one episode where his complete office was on the top level of a double-decker bus. Several James Bond films of the s would make use of a similar gimmick for Bond's briefings. Added later as a regular was Mother's mute Amazonian assistant, Rhonda, played by uncredited actress Rhonda Parker.

There was one appearance by an agency official code-named "Father" , a blind older woman played by Iris Russell. Russell had appeared in the series several times previously in other roles. Scriptwriter Dennis Spooner later reflected on this series. They were going to make no more, so in that series we went right over the top; we went really weird, because they knew there weren't going to be any more. Spooner said the series "worked because it became a parody on itself, almost.

Bullen embellished the scripts with events from his own personal life. The directors and producers made additional contributions, with the intent to keep the fiction in the programme as true to life as possible. The series was filmed in Greater Manchester in the first half of , using Granada Television 's studios, and exterior locations. Critical reaction to the first episodes was negative, with many reviewers not liking the characters and finding the comedy drama format unusual. As the series progressed, critics' opinions became more positive; the production values rated highly and the fantasy scenes, which became a hallmark of Cold Feet , were well received.

An average of eight million viewers watched the series each week. Cold Feet' s pilot episode was intended by Andy Harries , the executive producer and Granada Television 's controller of comedy, to lead to a series commission from the ITV network. Poor ratings on its night of broadcast in March stalled a commission; Harries told writer and creator Mike Bullen and producer Christine Langan to "forget it".

This included six new episodes of Cold Feet , which were announced that August. All six main cast members from the pilot returned for the series; James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale play Adam Williams and Rachel Bradley, a couple in a fledgling relationship; John Thomson and Fay Ripley play Pete and Jenny Gifford, a married couple whose first child is born in the first episode; Robert Bathurst and Hermione Norris play David and Karen Marsden, an upper-middle-class couple who are considering having a second child. Each had mixed feelings about whether there would be a series commission after the poor reception of the pilot; Ripley did not stop thinking about it, in contrast to Bathurst, who viewed it as just another failed pilot he had done.

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Following the resolution of Karen and David's storyline in the pilot, in which David concedes that the couple need to hire a nanny, [15] Jacey Salles was cast as Ramona Ramirez. Salles was a bit-part actress in BBC sitcoms and had previously appeared in the Granada film The Misadventures of Margaret , which was co-produced by Harries. In her Cold Feet audition she was required to have a loud argument with her boyfriend over the telephone.

She embellished this with "a bit of comic bastardisation of the English language" and won the part. Initially contracted for only two episodes, Salles assumed the Marsdens would employ a new nanny every few episodes, though she made two more appearances in the first series and eventually appeared in every series.

James was keen to find out the resolution to the "who's the father? John Thomson was pleased to work with Kelly, as he was a big fan of 'Allo 'Allo! Storylines for a potential series had been drafted by writer Mike Bullen during production of the pilot. Many of the plots were drawn from his own life; Pete and Jenny bringing up their new baby paralleled Bullen and his wife, whose first child was born in late For Karen and David's marriage guidance scenes in Episode 5, Bullen consulted the relationship support charity Relate.

Actors and directors also had input into the scripts; Bullen's original script for the marriage therapy scenes ended with David shouting and apparently using a fire extinguisher as an offensive weapon. Bathurst was not convinced that was something that his character would do, as David is "too much of a coward to do anything overtly" and would not leave himself so "exposed": The door is suddenly flung open and two male colleagues of the counsellor's burst open into the room. In a second they take a look at the scene, and we see what they see—the counsellor looking lost, Karen looking shocked, and most significantly, David standing over the counsellor, brandishing a fire extinguisher in an apparently threatening manner.

Presuming their colleague to be in danger, the two men hurl themselves at David, knocking him to the ground. He squeals as he goes down, and complains loudly as he's pinned to the floor. Robert Bathurst believed that the scene left his cowardly character "exposed", so Mike Bullen rewrote it.

When storylining the six episodes, Bullen and Langan planned to split up Adam and Rachel at the series' climax, as "If [they] had just left them all living happily in their homes in Didsbury , there would be a less compelling reason to revisit them [in the second series]". She would have followed him and proven her love to him by singing to him over the PA system of the train—similar to the pilot's conclusion.

Bullen thought that this idea was "atrocious", so spent the Easter weekend drafting an end to the series. Langan suggested to Bullen that they return to Rachel's marriage later in the series, using an adage she had learned from working on a soap opera that if the "seeds" of a storyline are sown early on it can pay off later. Bullen had not seen the film so had to rent it on video before writing the scene. The directors had twelve days to film two episodes each, equating to approximately five minutes of screen-time per day.

Lowney declined in order to shoot a film in Ireland with Terence Stamp ; production on it was scheduled to begin in October and would have overrun into Cold Feet ' s production calendar. Funding for Lowney's film fell through and he took the two episodes of Cold Feet after Langan offered them to him a second time. Sets were constructed at Granada's Blue Shed studios in Salford for interior filming, which ran over 14 weeks from March to May. Filming on Episode 1 came close to overrunning, so Lowney filmed most of Jenny's birth scene in one uninterrupted take, encouraging the actors to ad-lib.

Ripley wore a prosthetic abdomen to simulate the appearance of pregnancy throughout the episode and had a pubic wig applied for the birth scene. The uncredited baby who played Baby Adam in that scene was a two-week-old child who had been born two weeks premature, giving it the appearance of a new-born baby. Lowney did not like the scene, so made thirty minutes available at the very end of production and directed Nesbitt and Thomson to just "talk".

The scene was used by Bullen and Langan as the basis for an attraction between Adam and Jenny, implied in the sixth episode and developed in the second series. The scenes of Adam and Rachel having sex in a shop window in the third episode, inspired by one of Bullen's ex-girlfriends, was filmed in an empty shop unit near Piccadilly station. The unit was dressed to look like a charity shop, with various items and the bed added. Mylod and the stunt co-ordinator storyboarded the sequence where the car comes through the shop window before setting it up on location. Nesbitt and Baxendale were switched with stunt doubles and the car was propelled up a ramp through the window.

Explosive charges were placed on the glass to achieve a shatter effect. As only one take could be done, Mylod trailed five cameras on the window. The location was near several clubs and many passers-by inquired what was being filmed. To avoid giving away the plot they were told that Baxendale was filming a bed advertisement, capitalising on her exposure from appearing in Friends. Another stunt scene was filmed for Episode 6; the charity ball scene was filmed over two days at a Masonic Lodge and concluded with a fight between Jenny and Natalie played by Lorelei King.

The shots of Jenny spraying Natalie with a fire extinguisher were limited to two takes because it took so long to re-apply King's make up. The table that Ripley and King's stunt doubles fall through had its legs weakened, and the glasses on the table were replaced with sugar glass. Nigel Cole used the scene as an opportunity to make his mark as a television director. Establishing shots were filmed by Langan and the second unit , due to time constraints.

The lighting and focus of the fantasy station was intended to be a direct contrast to the harsh modernity of Piccadilly, which appeared in the "real life" scenes.