Patrick Troughton
Patrick George Troughton (25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor. He was classically trained for the stage but became most widely known for his roles in television and film. His work included appearances in several fantasy, science fiction and horror films, and playing the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who from 1966 to 1969; he reprised the role in 1972-1973, 1983 and 1985.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2 |
| Birthday | 1920-03-25 |
| Place of Birth | Mill Hill, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Patrick George Troughton, |
1976
The Omen
7.41/2371
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t kno...
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The Omen
1963
Jason and the Argonauts
7.162/682
Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that...
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Jason and the Argonauts
1948
Hamlet
7.436/288
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Sha...
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Hamlet
2021
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
9/2
The Daleks draft the Second Doctor into distilling the Human Factor. Once implanted, it will make the Dalek race invincible. Jamie’s faith in the Doct...
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Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
1967
The Viking Queen
4.738/21
Set in ancient Britain, at a time when much of Europe was ruled with harsh tyranny by Rome, a tribe of Britons led by Selina, set out to defy the inva...
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The Viking Queen
1954
The Black Knight
6.409/11
John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeonilan...
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The Black Knight
2022
Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
7/1
The Doctor revisits the Himalayas because he wants to return an ancient relic he was given many centuries ago. On arriving however, the Doctor is blam...
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Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
2020
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
7/1
The Doctor and his friends Ben, Polly and Jamie arrive at Gatwick airport. They quickly stumble upon an alien plot, centring upon the mysterious ‘Cham...
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Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
1970
Scars of Dracula
5.959/192
The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and Dracu...
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Scars of Dracula
1978
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
10/1
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the p...
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1965
And Did Those Feet ?
10/1
Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
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And Did Those Feet ?
1962
The Phantom of the Opera
6.419/105
A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is inten...
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The Phantom of the Opera
1964
The Black Torment
5.88/25
A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumours that he had already secretly returned and had committed several murders. Has he lost hi...
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The Black Torment
1948
The Red Shoes
7.98/741
A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
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The Red Shoes
1948
Escape
5.676/17
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes and goes on the lam, aided by a local girl.
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Escape
1951
White Corridors
6.833/6
White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a bus...
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White Corridors
1950
The Woman with No Name
8/2
This is a British drama film from 1950 about a young woman in London in WW2 with amnesia.
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The Woman with No Name
2023
Talking Doctor Who
5/3
As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, David Tennant time-travels back through the BBC archives to tell the story of the Doct...
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Talking Doctor Who
2021
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3
0/0
Jamie tries to evade Yeti in the tunnels of the London Underground. Meanwhile, The Doctor and Victoria meet a potential new ally - Colonel Lethbridge-...
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Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3
2019
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
7.5/4
The original 1967 master recordings of ‘The Macra Terror’ were lost soon after the programme’s original transmission. However, audio-only recordings h...
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Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
2023
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
1/1
The Doctor and his friends find themselves in the lost city of Atlantis, where the crazed Professor Zaroff has convinced the people of Atlantis that h...
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Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
1958
The Moonraker
6.9/10
After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future kin...
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The Moonraker
1950
Chance of a Lifetime
6.55/10
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
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Chance of a Lifetime
2015
Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
0/0
In April 1983, Roger Stevens and James Russell were given “Access All Areas” passes to the BBC’s Doctor Who celebrations at Longleat. Armed with a Fer...
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Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
1977
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
6.6/218
Princess Farah refuses to marry Sinbad until Prince Kassim, her brother, is able to give his consent. However, the Prince's wicked stepmother, Queen Z...
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Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
1968
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
7.9/10
On Earth in 2018, the Doctor and his companions are enmeshed in a deadly web of intrigue thanks to his uncanny resemblance to the scientist/politician...
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Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
1964
The Gorgon
6.374/168
In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone. The per...
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The Gorgon
1951
The Franchise Affair
7.25/4
An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
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The Franchise Affair
2013
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
8.19/769
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in spa...
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Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2022
Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen'
10/1
A look at the making of the Doctor Who (1963) story "The Abominable Snowmen" (1967).
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Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen'
2016
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
7.5/4
Following the Doctor's regeneration into a new, younger body, the TARDIS lands at an Earth colony on the planet Vulcan in the far future. Mistaken for...
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Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
1967
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen
8/8
Aided by his two assistants Jamie and Victoria, the Doctor lands the TARDIS on Telos, last resting place of the infamous Cybermen. There he discovers...
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Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen
1970
Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It
0/0
A group of business enjoying a lavish night on expenses at the Atlantis Hotel fear it is the end of the road for their fradulent collaboration when th...
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Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It
1978
A Hitch in Time
6/6
Two children help an eccentric professor test his new time machine.
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A Hitch in Time
1981
John Diamond
8/1
William Jones runs away from home, haunted by the memory of his father. To lay this ghost, he must search the back streets of London for a man called...
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John Diamond
1956
1984
6.553/142
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
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1984
1966
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
8.1/10
Following the Doctor's regeneration into a new, younger body, the TARDIS lands at an Earth colony on the planet Vulcan in the far future. Mistaken for...
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Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
1968
Doctor Who: The Invasion
8.9/10
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe return to Earth and become embroiled in the schemes of Tobias Vaughn. They meet up with an old friend, Colonel (now Brigadie...
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Doctor Who: The Invasion
1969
Doctor Who: The Krotons
6.5/6
The TARDIS arrives on the unnamed planet of the Gonds, who are ruled and taught in a form of self-perpetuating slavery by the alien Krotons — crystall...
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Doctor Who: The Krotons
1969
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death
8/5
The TARDIS lands in a space museum on Earth in the late 21st century, where the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe learn that contact has been lost between...
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Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death
1969
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
5.2/6
The TARDIS materialises in Earth's future on a space beacon just before it is attacked by pirates. The travellers find themselves trapped in a sealed...
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Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
1969
Doctor Who: The War Games
9.7/10
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on an unnamed planet. At first believing themselves in the midst of World War I, they realise it to be one of many Wa...
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Doctor Who: The War Games
1985
Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
7.3/6
Suddenly gripped by a memory of being executed in his second incarnation, the Sixth Doctor travels to Seville to save his past self and ensure his own...
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Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
1967
Doctor Who: The Highlanders
6.3/6
The time travellers arrive in Scotland just after the Battle of Culloden. The Second Doctor gains the trust of a small band of fleeing Jacobites by of...
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Doctor Who: The Highlanders
1967
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
5/8
The TARDIS arrives on an extinct volcanic island. Before long, the travellers are captured and taken into the depths of the Earth, where they find a h...
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Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
1973
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
7.4/12
Time itself is in peril! The Time Lords and UNIT find themselves besieged by a mythic figure from the Time Lords' past hell-bent on destruction. The o...
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Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
1967
Doctor Who: The Moonbase
7.25/8
The TARDIS arrives in 2070 on the Moon, where a weather control station under the command of a man named Hobson is in the grip of a plague epidemic —...
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Doctor Who: The Moonbase
1967
Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
7.5/4
Mysterious forces are at work in 1930s Tibet. The once gentle Yeti have turned savage and besieged a Buddhist monastery. The Second Doctor, Jamie and...
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Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
1967
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
8/5
When the Second Doctor, Polly, Ben and Jamie visit a human colony that appears to be one big holiday camp, they think they have come across a truly ha...
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Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
1967
Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors
7.3/6
The TARDIS arrives on Earth in a new ice age. The travellers make their way into a base where scientists, commanded by Leader Clent, are using an ioni...
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Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors
1967
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
8.3/6
The Daleks draft the Second Doctor into distilling the Human Factor. Once implanted, it will make the Dalek race invincible. Jamie's faith in the Doct...
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Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
1967
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
7.9/7
The TARDIS arrives on Earth in July, 1966, on a runway at Gatwick Airport. Polly witnesses a murder in a nearby hangar and is then kidnapped by the pe...
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Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
1968
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
7.7/7
The TARDIS narrowly avoids becoming engulfed in a cobwebby substance in space. It arrives in the London Underground railway system, the tunnels of whi...
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Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
1968
Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
5.8/5
The Second Doctor and Jamie arrive on what appears to be a space station called the "Wheel in Space" it's here that they meet Zoe Herriot a young par...
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Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
1968
Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep
8.7/6
When the TARDIS lands in the sea off the eastern coast of England, the Second Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria investigate a nearby beach, which seems to h...
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Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep
1968
Doctor Who: The Mind Robber
8.1/8
To escape from the volcanic eruption on Dulkis, the Second Doctor uses an emergency unit. It moves the TARDIS out of normal time and space. The travel...
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Doctor Who: The Mind Robber
1968
Doctor Who: The Dominators
5.3/6
When two belligerent Dominators and their robotic servant Quarks land on the peaceful planet Dulkis planning to drop a radioactive seed into the plane...
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Doctor Who: The Dominators
1950
Treasure Island
6.566/236
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribb...
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Treasure Island
1948
R.U.R.
5.8/3
A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologicall...
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R.U.R.
2017
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
8.015/130
As the Twelfth Doctor nears regeneration, he stumbles on his first incarnation, also refusing to change. It takes a captain, a glass avatar and a fami...
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Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
1975
Nurse Will Make It Better
8/2
A woman is hired to care for a young paraplegic girl at her father's estate. Unbeknownst to them, the woman is a devil-worshiper who sets out to steer...
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Nurse Will Make It Better
1950
Waterfront
6.542/12
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after...
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Waterfront
1983
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
7.762/21
Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There, they must battle...
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Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
1966
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet
7.885/13
The Doctor's TARDIS lands at the Snowcap space tracking station in Antarctica in December 1986. A routine space mission starts going wrong. When the b...
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Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet
2008
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
0/0
Producer Steve Broster takes a look back to 1983 and the celebration of Doctor Who's twentieth anniversary, including the production and transmission...
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Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
2003
Patrick Troughton in America
9/1
This video details the legendary Patrick Troughton's convention appearances in America using rare and unseen footage, plus interviews from fans who me...
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Patrick Troughton in America
2001
Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
7/1
Over Easter weekend the 3rd and 4th of April 1983 the BBC held the biggest Doctor Who event ever to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the programme....
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Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
1974
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
6.2/111
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose...
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
1962
Wuthering Heights
9.5/2
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his...
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Wuthering Heights
1982
Doctor Who: Earthshock
8.1/8
The Doctor and his companions must prevent the Cybermen from bombing the Earth in the 26th century. It is a battle not everyone will survive...
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Doctor Who: Earthshock
1976
Love Letters on Blue Paper
8/1
Why has Sonia taken to writing letters to her husband, posted to him in the letter-box just outside their house – love letters, on blue paper, recalli...
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Love Letters on Blue Paper
1980
No Defence
0/0
Rape is a matter which generates strong emotions. Immediate sympathies go to the victim...
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No Defence
1983
Reluctant Chickens
0/0
Malcolm and Jo are eagerly anticipating a quiet retirement but find that their adult children are in no hurry to leave the family home.
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Reluctant Chickens
1981
P.Q. 17
0/0
"That order to scatter was as good as a death sentence to those merchant ships. And there isn't one officer or rating who doesn't agree with me." A Br...
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P.Q. 17
1955
Richard III
7.196/97
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himse...
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Richard III
1984
Amy
8.333/3
A tale of real-life British aviation pioneer Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly from Britain to Australia, who would later mysteriously disappear.
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Amy
1949
Cardboard Cavalier
6/4
A historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwynn. In Cromwellian England, royalists commission a barrow boy to carry a secret letter. Helped...
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Cardboard Cavalier
1982
The Pigman's Protege
0/0
In 1919 the carnage of the First World War has left the country desperately short of young men. Maud, who runs the farm for her crippled father, decid...
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The Pigman's Protege
1977
The Sinking of the HMS Victoria
0/0
Based on a Court Martial held aboard HMS Hibernia in Malta in 1893. The court endeavours to determine why, during fleet manoeuvres, HMS Victoria is su...
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The Sinking of the HMS Victoria
2024
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
5.8/6
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on an unnamed planet. At first believing themselves in the midst of World War I, they realise it to be one of many Wa...
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Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024
Doctor Who at the Proms
7.2/4
Doctor Who fan favourite Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring soundtracks from the iconic series, a specially sho...
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Doctor Who at the Proms
2009
Devious
0/0
The Second Doctor has been partially regenerated by the Time Lords as punishment for breaking the non-interference policy, but the process is stopped...
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Devious
1993
30 Years in the TARDIS
7.875/4
A documentary celebrating the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who, featuring new interviews, rare archive footage and recently discovered material.
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30 Years in the TARDIS
2008
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
7.38/229
The Doctor arrives in Victorian London. It's Christmas, but snow isn't the only thing descending on the tranquil and jubilant civilization, as familia...
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Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2015
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
8/161
It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon...
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Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
1983
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
7/3
A warp ellipse draws the TARDIS off course. The Fifth Doctor's companions are separated from him not in space, but in time, and he has to deal with a...
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Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
1972
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
7.9/9
Guerillas time-jump back from the 22nd century to assassinate Sir Reginald Styles - a diplomat working for World Peace, The Doctor discovers they are...
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Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
1976
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
8.1/7
Mad scientist Mehendri Solon is building a body from spare parts to house the disembodied brain of the evil Time Lord Morbius. He fancies the Doctor's...
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Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
1984
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
7.9/7
Captured in a time corridor, the Doctor and his companions are forced to land on 20th century Earth, diverted by the Doctor's oldest enemy - the Dalek...
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Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
2008
The Ties That Bind Us
0/0
A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story of The Five Doctors.
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The Ties That Bind Us
2025
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
5.4/9
Belinda Chandra has been kidnapped by robots, faced a terrifying god and a creature of pure evil on her travels with the Doctor. With the TARDIS still...
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Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
1957
Ordeal by Fire
0/0
The biggest wildfire in North American history is brought to life, revealing what it means to us today, when the people of America are still figuring...
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Ordeal by Fire
1981
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
0/0
BBC adaptation of The Arabian Nights
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Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
1961
A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
0/0
Smith and Laye-Parker meet Kuprin and find he is less anxious to leave Russia than they supposed.
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A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
1977
Treasure Island
0/0
Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and embarks on a journey to find the treasure, but pirates led by Long John Silver have plans to take the treasur...
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Treasure Island
2003
Adventures in Time and Spain
0/0
Gary Downie, production manager on The Two Doctors, details what it is a production manager does on programmes like Doctor Who, and offers his insight...
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Adventures in Time and Spain
2020
The Power of the Daleks: Special Edition
7/1
Patrick Troughton stars in this recreation of a lost classic from 1966. The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Polly and Ben to a colony on the swamp planet o...
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The Power of the Daleks: Special Edition
1985
Long Term Memory
0/0
Gerald has been separated from his wife and children for twenty-one years. Now ailing physically and mentally, he contacts them in the hope of a reuni...
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Long Term Memory
1965
Give the Clown His Supper
7/1
Failure to win in a television quiz proves too much for Stuart and Patricia Pendleton.
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Give the Clown His Supper
2008
Five Doctors, One Studio
0/0
Raw video footage of the only studio recording session in which Peter Davison, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton and Richard Hurndall were all together d...
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Five Doctors, One Studio
1949
Badger's Green
10/1
A company plans a massive development in the quiet village of Badger's Green, angering the existing inhabitants. It is eventually agreed that the outc...
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Badger's Green
1971
The Chopper
0/0
The vengeful spirit of a dead motorcyclist is reluctant to leave his wrecked machine and manifests itself to a woman journalist as motorbike noise.
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