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The webpage originally linking to documentaries.

Status: Found

Date found: Unknown

Found by: XSandion

The Doctor Who Years were a series of documentaries detailing the history of the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, released on its official website in early 2005 as a tie-in to the show's revival that year (having been cancelled in 1989, with only a 1996 made-for-TV movie released during the interim). Designed to inform new viewers about the show's history, the documentaries were watchable through the BBC's digital interactive service, BBCi (known today as BBC Online).

They were produced in the style of The Rock 'n' Roll Years (1984-1994), with clips from the 1963-1989 run of the TV show overlaid with era-appropriate songs form the UK Top 40 singles charts. This was accompanied by on-screen captions detailing the events of both the surrounding period and the development of the TV show, as well as newspaper clipping covering media response to the show. Three separate videos were made, each totalling around 30 minutes, with one for each decade - the Sixties, the Seventies, and the Eighties. The Seventies and Eighties Documentaries were produced by Ed Stradling,^[1] while the Sixties Documentary was reportedly produced by SVS, an archival television restoration service ran by veteran Who fan Peter Crocker.^[2]

There are known to be two versions of the The Doctor Who Years: The Sixties. The original documentary was re-edited with larger, different captions following complaints the originals were too difficult to read.^[3]

Due to the large use of copyrighted music, clips, and footage from non-Doctor Who TV shows, such as Blue Peter, these were never rereleased on any Doctor Who Classic Series DVD, nor are they still hosted on the BBC website in a watchable format.

Clips of The Doctor Who Years were reuploaded to YouTube, although many were taken down due to music copyright violations.^[4] The full versions were shared by commenter XSandion via Google Drive in December 2021^[5] and were reuploaded to the Internet Archive.^[6]

Gallery

Screenshot of the release announcement of the Seventies Documentary.
Screenshot of the release announcement of the Eighties Documentary.

References

[1] ttps://youtu.be/Ly3_iW9N8N4?t=110

[2] Regenerating an original Doctor Who

[3] Sixties revamped: Revised version of first Who Years programme

[4] ttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfIK5T-fVckGPZzC05FVRm6N5RPO_VrIw

[5] XSandion's Google Drive upload

[6] Internet Archive - The Doctor Who Years: The Sixties, The Seventies, & The Eighties

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-'''''The Doctor Who Years''''' were a set of documentaries published on the BBC's ''Doctor Who'' website in early 2005, designed to inform new viewers of the history of the show, with it returning to the TV Screens at roughly the same time. They were watchable on the BBC's digital interactive service, BBCi.
+'''''The Doctor Who Years''''' were a series of documentaries detailing the history of the BBC science fiction series ''Doctor Who'', released on its official website in early 2005 as a tie-in to the show's revival that year (having been cancelled in 1989, with only a 1996 made-for-TV movie released during the interim). Designed to inform new viewers about the show's history, the documentaries were watchable through the BBC's digital interactive service, BBCi (known today as BBC Online).
-They were produced in the style of ''The Rock 'n' Roll Years'' (1984-1994), with clips from the 1963-1989 run of the TV show overlaid with era-appropriate songs form the UK Top 40 singles charts. This was accompanied by on-screen captions detailing the events of both the surrounding period and the development of the TV show, as well as newspaper clipping covering media response to the show. Three separate videos were made, each totaling around 30 minutes, with one for each decade - the Sixties, the Seventies, and the Eighties. The Seventies and Eighties Documentaries were produced by Ed Stradling,<ref>https://youtu.be/Ly3_iW9N8N4?t=110</ref> while the Sixties Documentary was reportedly produced by SVS, an archival television restoration service ran by veteran Who fan Peter Crocker. <ref>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/nov/02/bbc.broadcasting</ref>
+They were produced in the style of ''The Rock 'n' Roll Years'' (1984-1994), with clips from the 1963-1989 run of the TV show overlaid with era-appropriate songs form the UK Top 40 singles charts. This was accompanied by on-screen captions detailing the events of both the surrounding period and the development of the TV show, as well as newspaper clipping covering media response to the show. Three separate videos were made, each totalling around 30 minutes, with one for each decade - the Sixties, the Seventies, and the Eighties. The Seventies and Eighties Documentaries were produced by Ed Stradling,<ref>https://youtu.be/Ly3_iW9N8N4?t=110</ref> while the Sixties Documentary was reportedly produced by SVS, an archival television restoration service ran by veteran Who fan Peter Crocker.<ref>[https://theguardian.com/technology/2006/nov/02/bbc.broadcasting Regenerating an original Doctor Who]</ref>
-There are known to be two versions of the ''The Doctor Who Years: The Sixties''. The original documentary was re-edited with larger, different captions following complaints the originals were too difficult to read.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20050413050645/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/news/drwho/2005/04/08/18387.shtml</ref>
+There are known to be two versions of the ''The Doctor Who Years: The Sixties''. The original documentary was re-edited with larger, different captions following complaints the originals were too difficult to read.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20050413050645/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/news/drwho/2005/04/08/18387.shtml Sixties revamped: Revised version of first Who Years programme]</ref>
-Due to the large use of copyrighted music, clips, and footage from non-''Doctor Who'' TV shows, such as ''Blue Peter'', these were never rereleased on any ''Doctor Who'' Classic Series DVD, nor are they still hosted on the BBC website in a watchable format. Various fragmentary clips can be found on YouTube, but no complete versions of any of the documentaries exist in an easily watchable form. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfIK5T-fVckGPZzC05FVRm6N5RPO_VrIw </ref>
+Due to the large use of copyrighted music, clips, and footage from non-''Doctor Who'' TV shows, such as ''Blue Peter'', these were never rereleased on any ''Doctor Who'' Classic Series DVD, nor are they still hosted on the BBC website in a watchable format.
+Clips of ''The Doctor Who Years'' were reuploaded to YouTube, although many were taken down due to music copyright violations.<ref>https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfIK5T-fVckGPZzC05FVRm6N5RPO_VrIw </ref> The full versions were shared by commenter XSandion via Google Drive in December 2021<ref>[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lc8V4fwM3wOzU35BIi7wFCL2Bzch4LhV XSandion's Google Drive upload]</ref> and were reuploaded to the Internet Archive.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/the-doctor-who-years/The+Doctor+Who+Years Internet Archive - The Doctor Who Years: The Sixties, The Seventies, & The Eighties]</ref>
 ==Gallery==
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 File: Doctor Who Years 80s.png|Screenshot of the release announcement of the Eighties Documentary.
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+==See Also==
+*[[Doctor Who (partially lost episodes of British science-fiction TV series; 1963-1974)]]
+*[[Doctor Who: "The Parting of the Ways" (lost alternate ending of science-fiction TV series finale; 2005)]]
+*[[Planet of Giants "The Urge to Live" (lost unaired forth part episode of Doctor Who serial; 1964)]]
+*[[Doctor Who (lost pilot episodes of cancelled reboot of British sci-fi TV series; 1991)]]
+*[[Doctor Who - Journey into Time radio play (lost radio program pilot; 1966-1967)]]
+*[[Shada (found unfinished Doctor Who serial; 1979)]]
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