Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Happy 48th Birthday, Doctor Who!

Today marks the 48th anniversary of the first ever broadcast of Doctor Who on what was then simply called BBC tv - considering the show is still on the air and arguably more popular than ever that is a heck of an achievement!

It also means I have exactly two years to finish my challenge to watch every episode of Doctor Who (including all of the DVD extras) by the 50th anniversary. I had been going through the process of posting a picture on Facebook of each thing I watched, listened to (in the case of some of the lost episodes) or read (as I'm easily distracted and am doing extra stuff other than the episodes when the mood takes me) for my challenge but after my PC blew up a little while back that drew to a halt. I have been carrying on my challenge though and as of today I have crossed the 40% mark - so here is a list of what has been crossed off the list so far:

DVDs/BLU-RAYS

Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child (1963)
Doctor Who - The Daleks (1963-1964)
Doctor Who - The Edge of Destruction (1964)
Doctor Who - The Rescue (1965)
Doctor Who - The Romans (1965)
Doctor Who - The War Machines (1966)
Doctor Who - The Dominators (1968)
Doctor Who - The Invasion (1968)
Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)
Doctor Who - The Sea Devils (1972)
Doctor Who - The Three Doctors (1972-1973)
Doctor Who - The Green Death (1973)
Doctor Who - The Time Warrior (1973-1974)
Doctor Who - The Sontaran Experiment (1975)
Doctor Who - Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)
Doctor Who - The Talons of Weng-Chiang (Special Edition) (1977)
Doctor Who - The Invisible Enemy (1977)
Doctor Who - The Invasion of Time (1978)
Doctor Who - The Ribos Operation (1978)
Doctor Who - The Pirate Planet (1978)
Doctor Who - The Stones of Blood (1978)
Doctor Who - The Androids of Tara (1978)
Doctor Who - The Power of Kroll (1978-1979)
Doctor Who - The Armageddon Factor (1979)
Doctor Who - City of Death (1979)
Doctor Who - Full Circle (1980)
Doctor Who - State of Decay (1980)
Doctor Who - Warriors' Gate (1981)
Doctor Who - The Keeper of Traken (1981)
Doctor Who - Logopolis (1981)
Doctor Who - Castrovalva (1982)
Doctor Who - Time-Flight (1982)
Doctor Who - Arc of Infinity (1983)
Doctor Who - The Five Doctors (25th Anniversary Edition) (1983)
Doctor Who - The Caves of Androzani (Special Edition) (1984)
Doctor Who - The Mark of the Rani (1985)
Doctor Who - The Two Doctors (1985)
Doctor Who - The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet (1986)
Doctor Who - The Trial of a Time Lord: Mindwarp (1986)
Doctor Who - The Trial of a Time Lord: Terror of the Vervoids (1986)
Doctor Who - The Trial of a Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe (1986)
Doctor Who - Time and the Rani (1987)
Doctor Who - The Movie (Special Edition) (1996)
Doctor Who - The Complete First Series (2005)
Doctor Who - The Complete Second Series (2005-2006)
Doctor Who - The Complete Third Series (2006-2007)
Doctor Who - The Complete Fourth Series (2007-2008)
Doctor Who - The Complete Specials (2008-2010)
Doctor Who - The Complete Fifth Series (2010)


SPIN-OFF DVDs/BLU-RAYS

K9 and Company - A Girl's Best Friend (1981)
Torchwood - The Complete First Series (2006-2007)
The Sarah Jane Adventures - The Complete First Series (2007)
The Sarah Jane Adventures - The Complete Second Series (2008)
The Sarah Jane Adventures - The Complete Third Series (2009)


LOST EPISODE CDs

Doctor Who - Marco Polo (1964)
Doctor Who - The Reign of Terror (1964)
Doctor Who - The Crusade (1965)
Doctor Who - Galaxy 4 (1965)
Doctor Who - The Myth Makers (1965)


AUDIO DRAMAS (BIG FINISH)

Doctor Who - The Sirens of Time (1999)
Doctor Who - Phantasmagoria (1999)
Doctor Who - Whispers of Terror (1999)
Doctor Who - The Land of the Dead (2000)
Doctor Who - The Fearmonger (2000)
Doctor Who - The Marian Conspiracy (2000)
Doctor Who - The Genocide Machine (2000)
Doctor Who - Red Dawn (2000)
Doctor Who - The Spectre of Lanyon Moor (2000)
Doctor Who - Winter for the Adept (2000)
Doctor Who - The Apocalypse Element (2000)
Doctor Who - The Fires of Vulcan (2000)
Doctor Who - The Shadow of the Scourge (2000)
Doctor Who - The Holy Terror (2000)
Doctor Who - The Mutant Phase (2000)
Doctor Who - Last of the Titans (2001)
Doctor Who - Storm Warning (2001)
Doctor Who - Sword of Orion (2001)
Doctor Who - Shada (2003)


SPIN-OFF AUDIO DRAMAS (BIG FINISH)

Jago & Litefoot - Series One (2010)


NOVELS

Doctor Who - Winner Takes All (2005)
Doctor Who - Only Human (2005)
Doctor Who - The Eyeless (2008)
Doctor Who - The Coming of the Terraphiles (2010)


GRAPHIC NOVELS (PANINI PUBLISHING)

Doctor Who - The Iron Legion (1979-1980)
Doctor Who - Dragon's Claw (1980-1982)
Doctor Who - The Tides of Time (1982-1984)
Doctor Who - End Game (1996-1998)


GRAPHIC NOVELS (IDW PUBLISHING)
Doctor Who - Agent Provocateur (2008)
Doctor Who - The Forgotten (2008-2009)
Doctor Who - Through Time and Space (2009)
Doctor Who - Fugitive (2009)
Doctor Who - Tesseract (2010)
Doctor Who - Final Sacrifice (2010)
Doctor Who - The Ripper (2011)



GRAPHIC NOVELS (BBC BOOKS)


Doctor Who - The Only Good Dalek (2010)


SPIN-OFF GRAPHIC NOVELS

Abslom Daak - Dalek Killer (1980-1990)


AUDIO BOOKS

Doctor Who - The Runaway Train (2010)


SOUNDTRACK CDs

Doctor Who - Series 5 (2010)


MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS

Doctor Who - The Official Annual 2011 (2010)
Doctor Who - The Brilliant Book 2011 (2010)
Doctor Who - The Brilliant Book 2012 (2011)


Whilst that may seem a ridiculous amount of stuff I have loved every minute of it and look forward to the next two years of trying to get it all done!