Please be aware that the first BBC webcast, Death Comes to Time was made available with each episode split into various parts, hence the slightly complex listing below. The pilot episode was released in July 2001 with the rest of the story following from February to May 2002. The story It is no longer available on the BBC Doctor Who website but has been released by the BBC on CD (see the link to the BBC shop under "BBC Links" on the right of this page).

The following stories, Real Time, Shada and Scream of the Shalka, were made available in a more user friendly episodic format and can still be found on the BBC Doctor Who website, Real Time and Shada are also available to buy on CD (see the link to the BBC shop under "BBC Links" on the right of this page).

 

Details of the following webcasts are available below:

• » 2001/2002 - Death Comes to Time [view listing]
• » 2002 - Real Time [view listing]
• » 2003 - Shada [view listing]
• » 2003 - Scream of the Shalka [view listing]

 

Please click on any underlined (hyperlinked) title below to view relevant listings and articles.

2001

Death Comes to Time - The Pilot Episode (1, 27" 25'). All first available on Friday 13 July 2001.

Starring Sylvester McCoy, Kevin Eldon and Sophie Aldred
with Jon Culshaw, David Evans, Leonard Fenton, Stephen Fry, Richard Garraty, Britta Gartner, Benjamin Langley, Jacqueline Pearce, John Sessions, Huw Thomas and Moray Treadwell

Written by Colin Meek
Script Editor Nev Fountain
Producer/Director Dan Freedman

1. Prelude: The Fall of the Santine Republic (The Canisians attack. 06" 02')
2. Part One: Rescue (Who will save the senators? 07" 42')
3. Part Two: Myth (Ace has much to learn. 06" 10')
4. Part Three: At the Temple of the Fourth (A meeting on an abandoned planet. 04" 31')
5. Part Four: Golcrum (A future in medicine? 03" 00')

 

2002

Death Comes to Time (4, 12"). Episodes first made available from Thursday 14 February to Friday 03 May 2002 and onwards.

Starring Sylvester McCoy, Kevin Eldon and Sophie Aldred
with Anthony Stewart Head, Dave Hill, Charlotte Palmer, Stephen Brody, Gareth Jones, John Humphrys, Leonard Fenton, Andrew McGibbon, Michael Yale, Stephen Fry, Sala and Jon Culshaw

Written by Colin Meek
Script Editor Nev Fountain
Producer/Director Dan Freedman

 

• Episode 1 - Planet of Blood: Part One (first available: 14 Feb.)
• Episode 1 - Planet of Blood: Part Two (first available: 21 Feb.)
• Episode 1 - Planet of Blood: Part Three (first available: 28 Feb.)

 

• Episode 2 - The Child: Part One (first available: 07 March)
• Episode 2 - The Child: Part Two (first available: 14 March)
• Episode 2 - The Child: Part Three (first available: 21 March)

 

• Episode 3 - The Charm: Part One (first available: 28 March)
• Episode 3 - The Charm: Part Two (first available: 04 April)
• Episode 3 - The Charm: Part Three (first available: 11 April)

 

• Episode 4 - Death Comes to Time: Part One (first available: 18 April)
• Episode 4 - Death Comes to Time: Part Two (first available: 25 April)
• Episode 4 - Death Comes to Time: Part Three (first available: 02 May)

 

Real Time (6, 12"). Episodes first made available for download from Friday 02 August to Friday 6th September 2002 and onwards.

Starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables
with Jane Goddard, Yee Jee Tso and Stewart Lee

Written by Gary Russell

The Cybermen are back - and they're after time travel.

 

• Episode One - There's a mystery on Chronos (first available: 02 August)
• Episode Two - Bargain with the enemy (first available: 09 August)
• Episode Three - A traitor in the team (first available: 16 August)
• Episode Four - The horror of conversion (first available: 23 August)
• Episode Five - The Grandfather paradox (first available: 30 August)
• Episode Six - The temporal wave hits (first available: 06 September)

 

2003

Shada (6, 25"). Episodes first made available from Friday 02 May to Friday 06 June 2003 and onwards.

(Douglas Adams' last Doctor Who adventure completed)

Starring: Paul McGann, Lalla Ward and John Leeson.
with Sean Biggerstaff, Susannah Harker, Andrew Sachs and James Fox

Written by Douglas Adams

The most dangerous book in the universe has been stolen.

 

• Episode One - A mystery in Cambridge (first available: 02 May)
• Episode Two - The race for the book (first available: 09 May)
• Episode Three - The Doctor loses his mind (first available: 16 May)
• Episode Four - Death has its advantages (first available: 23 May)
• Episode Five - The race to find Shada (first available: 30 May)
• Episode Six - The universal mind (first available: 06 June)

 

Scream of the Shalka (6, 15"). Episodes first made available for download from Thursday November 13th 2003 to Thursday 18 December 2003 and onwards.

Starring: Richard E Grant, Sophie Okonedo and Sir Derek Jacobi
with Craig Kelly, Jim Norton, Conor Moloney, Anna Calder-Marshall, Andrew Dunn, Diana Quick and Wilson Milam

Written by Paul Cornell

Animated by Cosgrove Hall

Earth has been invaded - and nobody's noticed.

 

• Episode 1 - The sound of silence (first available: 13 November)
• Episode 2 - Sound of the underground (first available: 20 November)
• Episode 3 - Meet the Monsters (first available: 27 November)
• Episode 4 - Escape to danger (first available: 04 December)
• Episode 5 - Trouble on the move (first available: 11 December)
• Episode 6 - Hitting the right note (first available: 18 December)

 

More webcasts were planned to carry on from Shalka but BBC Television's announcement in September 2003 that they are making a new series of Doctor Who, to be screened in 2005 and starring Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper, put an end to these plans.