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The UK Gold 40th Anniversary Weekend

Introduction

The 40th anniversary of Doctor Who's first broadcast, on the 23rd of November 1963, was celebrated in style by UK Gold over the weekend of the 22nd and 23rd of November 2003. The satellite/cable channel aired an entire weekend of special programmes, including repeats of stories and old documentaries as well as newly commissioned features.

UK Gold has been showing Doctor Who continuously since the channel began broadcasting in 1992 (see Radio Times article Classics from Outer Space). It could be argued that UK Gold (which is part owned by the BBC) has, over the last decade, probably introduced more people to the programme than BBC TV whose support, until recently, has tended to be patchy and inconsistent! That, of course, is something that is doubtless set to change considerably as a result of the announcement of a new series in 2005.

Gold had announced the Doctor Who @ 40 weekend earlier in 2003 but full details remained sketchy right up to the time of broadcast. The 'blurb' on their website gave some clues as to what was to be shown:

In the week before the weekend listings magazines covering the 22nd and 23rd offered slightly more detail but viewers still had to wait until the weekend itself to finally see exactly what was on, see below for a full listing of what was eventually shown.

In the final analysis UK Gold offered the public a weekend of excellent programming that comprised stories from each TV Doctor (apart from Paul McGann) and documentaries including specially commissioned features and shorts, produced by independent TV production company Free @ Last and this was where the Cuttings Archive was involved...

For us the most notable aspect of the Free @ Last produced programmes lay in the unique, for broadcast TV coverage of Doctor Who, use of press and Radio Times coverage of stories and events.

The Cuttings Archive was contacted by the Executive Producer, Barry Ryan, a few weeks before the final air date and asked to help source high-resolution scans of Newspaper and Radio Times articles and listings (we also helped to source some rare video footage for the documentaries).

Whilst much of the material broadcast was taken straight from cuttings already on the website a number of listings were scanned specially, these were as follows:

• The Daemons - listings for the 5 episodes
• The Daemons - article accompanying episode 2 listing
• The Daemons - listing for Xmas 1971 omnibus repeat on BBC 1
• The Pyramids of Mars - listings for 4 episodes
• The Caves of Androzani - listings for 4 episodes
• Attack of the Cybermen - listings for 2 episodes

Additionally a number of newspaper articles were scanned for a feature on the mid 1980's cancellation crisis/hiatus. The most notable of these were:

• SAVE Dr WHO DISC GIVEN A BBC SPIN
• BBC to air protest on Dr Who
• ROCK AROUND THE DOCK! Stars' record bid to save TV's Who
• The Daily Star Newspaper "Save Doctor Who" Campaign sticker

The other materials used on broadcast are far too numerous to list here but there are two galleries of screen captures illustrating the cuttings as used on screen, the first can be seen here. Additionally a full listing of, including links to, all the cuttings used is here.

The weekend provided a superb anniversary present for all fans of the programme and was, we felt, considerably enhanced by the inclusion of the Radio Times listings and the other material from The Cuttings Archive.

See the links on the top left and right of this page for more images and screen shots from the UK Gold programmes, links to the original cuttings used and the original Free @ Last Press Release.

Listing for UK Gold Doctor Who @ 40 Weekend

Notes:

• The schedule below gives approximate times, some programmes listed may have started earlier or later than listed.
• The start times given below are based on details from the UK Gold website, information from the This Week in Doctor Who column by Benjamin F Elliot, information in UK listings magazines and details collated by Roger Anderson from off-air recordings of the weekend.
• UK Gold aired a number of specially produced features. These have been listed in 5 to 15 minute blocks and are labeled"(short feature)". Times given for these are very approximate.
• K9 introduced all the short features and many of the main programmes.
• Throughout the weekend the main trailer for Doctor Who @ 40 was shown as well as various Doctor Who competition questions, these have not been listed.
• All stories shown over the weekend were shown in edited format. The introductory and end titles for the individual episodes were edited out - generic titles were shown at the start and end of the entire story. These have been labeled"('movie'/omnibus format version)".
• The Curse Of Fatal Death aired on both days, in 4 parts.

UK Gold Doctor Who @ 40 - Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd November 2003

Saturday:

07:00am GMT: Welcome from K9 followed by short feature on "1963".

07:05am GMT: Introduction to "The Tomb of the Cybermen" (short feature)

07:15am GMT: "The Tomb Of The Cybermen" ('movie'/omnibus format version)

09:15am GMT: "Doctor Who and the Curse Of Fatal Death" Part 1 of 4

09:25am GMT: Introduction to "The Caves of Androzani" (short feature)

09:35am GMT: "The Caves Of Androzani" ('movie'/omnibus format version)

11:35am GMT: "Doctor Who and the Curse Of Fatal Death" Part 2 of 4

11:45am GMT: Introduction to "The Daemons" (short feature)

11:55am GMT: "The Daemons" ('movie'/omnibus format version)

02:25pm GMT: "Doctor Who and the Curse Of Fatal Death" Part 3 of 4

02:40pm GMT: "The Theme Music" and introduction to "Adventures in Space and Time" (short features)

02:45pm GMT: "Adventures In Space And Time" (1999 BBC Documentary)

03:40pm GMT: "Doctor Who and the Curse Of Fatal Death" Part 4 of 4

03:55pm GMT: "Don't Mention Mel" (short feature)

04:00pm GMT: "The Two Doctors" ('movie'/omnibus format version)

06:45pm GMT: "The Cancellation Crisis" (short feature)

End at 07:00pm GMT

Note: UK Gold + 1 aired the above programmes 1 hour later than listed above.

Sunday:

07:00am GMT: Welcome back from K9

07:05am GMT: "Radio Times" and "1963 The year of Dr Who" followed by introduction to "The Time Meddler" (short features)

07:15am GMT: "The Time Meddler" ('movie'/omnibus format version)

09:15am GMT: "Doctor Who and the Curse Of Fatal Death" Part 1 of 4

09:25am GMT: Introduction to "Dragonfire" (short feature)

09:35am GMT: "Dragonfire" ('movie'/omnibus format version)

11:00am GMT: "Doctor Who and the Curse Of Fatal Death" Part 2 of 4

11:10am GMT: Introduction to "Attack of the Cybermen" (short feature)

11:20am GMT: "Attack Of The Cybermen" ('movie'/omnibus format version)

01:20pm GMT: "Doctor Who and the Curse Of Fatal Death" Part 3 of 4

01:30pm GMT: "Monstermania" and introduction to "Carnival of Monsters" (short features)

01:35pm GMT "Carnival Of Monsters" (1999 BBC Documentary)

02:15pm GMT: Introduction to The Pyramids of Mars (short feature)

02:25pm GMT: "Pyramids Of Mars" ('movie'/omnibus format version)

04:25pm GMT: "Doctor Who and the Curse Of Fatal Death" Part 4 of 4

04:35pm GMT: "The Timelady" (short feature)

04:40pm GMT: "The Three Doctors" ('movie'/omnibus format version)

06:50pm GMT: "The Timelord's Coming Home" (short feature)

End at 07:00pm GMT

Note: UK Gold + 1 aired the above programmes 1 hour later than listed above.