Katy Manning

Acting

Katy Manning

Born

1949-10-14 (77)

Place of birth

Guildford, Surrey, England

Known for

Acting

Credits

69 titles

Catherine Ann "Katy" Manning (born 14 October 1946) is a British actress. Although she has made many appearances on both screen and stage, Manning is best known for her part as the companion Jo Grant in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. Manning initially played the role regularly from 1971 to 1973 but also reprised the role in the Doctor Who spin-off The 'Sarah Jane Adventures' in 2010, and 'Power Of The Doctor' in 2022. She is also well known for voicing Iris Wildthyme in the audio series 'Iris Wildthyme' for Big Finish Productions since 2005.

Known for

Doctor Who poster
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The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

Doctor Who

1963

The Sarah Jane Adventures poster
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Sarah Jane Smith is a truly remarkable woman who inhabits a world of mystery, danger and wonder; a world where aliens are commonplace and the Earth is under constant threat. A world that Maria Jackson, a seemingly ordinary girl, can only dream of – until she moves in next door. Nothing will ever be ordinary again.

The Sarah Jane Adventures

2007

Doctor Who Confidential poster
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Doctor Who Confidential is a documentary to complement the revival of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Each episode was broadcast on BBC Three on Saturdays, immediately after the broadcast of the weekly television episode on BBC One. The running time of the first two series was 30 minutes, being extended to 45 minutes in the third. BBC Three also broadcast a cut-down edition of the programme, lasting 15 minutes, shown after the repeats on Sundays and Fridays and after the weekday evening repeats of earlier seasons.

Doctor Who Confidential

2005

Softly, Softly poster
7.5

Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.

Softly, Softly

1966

Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa poster
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Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.

Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa

2018

Target poster
7.0

A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.

Target

1977

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

Go Figure: More Than A Toy Story poster
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‘Go Figure: More Than A Toy Story’ is a 50-minute documentary produced by Connor Allen, exploring the impact of the Character Options toy range on a generation of fans who grew up watching Doctor Who after the 2005 revival. While fans of the classic years had DAPOL & Denys Fisher to keep them happy, Millennial and Gen-Z viewers see the CO range as the gateway to their own nostalgia. Available only on a VAM alongside the hardback edition of 'Go Figure!', a visual archive of the CO figures, this documentary features reminiscences from numerous fans & Doctor Who contributors. Including, Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Simon Fisher-Becker (Dorium Maldovar), Gary Russell (Script Editor), Joseph Lidster (Writer), and Kieran Highman (Colourisation Artist).

Go Figure: More Than A Toy Story

2025

Doctor Who: Defenders of Earth! poster
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Jo Jones - defender of ALL life on Earth!

Doctor Who: Defenders of Earth!

2023

Farewell, Sarah Jane poster
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Following the death of Sarah-Jane Smith, her friends and allies reunite at a memorial service to pay their respects.

Farewell, Sarah Jane

2020

Doctor Who: Return of the Autons poster
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In Jo and Cliff's home, they're accosted by Autons - but Jo saves the day.

Doctor Who: Return of the Autons

2020

Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster poster
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A look at the making of the Doctor Who story, The Time Monster.

Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster

2023

Convention Culture poster
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What makes a convention? Is it the signings, cosplay or the social aspect. In this documentary we will take a look into all those subjects. We also talk to some convention organisers to see why the decided to make a convention. We touch on conventions coming out of lockdown and how they will change.

Convention Culture

2020

Jeepers Creepers poster
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After twenty years as a struggling variety turn and then a prolific scriptwriter and television star, comic genius Marty Feldman found screen stardom with his very first Hollywood role in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. With his wife Lauretta as the power behind the throne, his rise and fall and decline is related through bittersweet memories of the past and intoxicated infidelities in the present.

Jeepers Creepers

2020

The Doctor Who Escape Room: Team Third Doctor poster
10.0

The cast and crew of Doctor Who take part in an escape room challenge were they must solve puzzles and escape in under 70 minutes. In this addition Team Third Doctor (Katy Manning, Sadie Miller & Daisy Ashford) attempt to escape the room of doom! Featured as an extra on The Collection Season 7 BluRay boxset.

The Doctor Who Escape Room: Team Third Doctor

2025

2010s · 16 titles

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot poster
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With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are keen to be involved. But do they manage it?

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

2013

My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen poster
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My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen was a special documentary made by the Doctor Who Confidential production team as a memorial tribute to the late Elisabeth Sladen.

My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen

2011

Run For Your Wife poster
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John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work! Simple? Well, when John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go hero and the Finsbury and Stockwell police forces discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst. The action of the movie takes place during the next hectic 24 hours as John, with the assistance of his gullible neighbor Gary, rush between North and South London attempting to thwart the police and prevent the two loving wives coming face to face!

Run For Your Wife

2012

The Power of One Coin poster
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The story follows five characters who have never met before, and seemingly have nothing in common. This all changes however when one day their lives become intertwined, by a simple coin that travels through the hands of each person. We see how for each character, the coin plays a crucial part in encouraging small acts of kindness. But what they don't know, is that kindness is powerful, and small selfless acts can have a huge positive impact. Although they are all suffering in some way, it only takes a single moment for everything to change.

The Power of One Coin

2018

Doctor Who and the Third Man poster
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An overview of the Third Doctor era, with new interviews and archival contributions.

Doctor Who and the Third Man

2019

Doctor Who: Hello Boys! poster
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Jo and Cliff Jones return to Llanfairfach to defeat more of the deadly giant maggots for the Doctor's sake.

Doctor Who: Hello Boys!

2019

Tales of Television Centre poster
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Various actors, presenters, directors and other staff who have worked at the iconic BBC Television Centre at Shepherd's Bush in London reminisce about their time there.

Tales of Television Centre

2012

Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2 poster
6.5

Amy tries to flirt with The Doctor but he tries to ignore her advances.

Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2

2010

A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee poster
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This exclusive documentary looks at the life and career of Jon Pertwee. With contributions from actors Katy Manning, Judy Cornwell, David Jacobs, Geoffrey Bayldon and Kenneth Earle, Doctor Who writer and script editor Terrance Dicks and long-time friend Stuart Money.

A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee

2013

Oakie's Outback Adventures poster
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Oakie, a young blue heeler pup, is supposed to be delivered to Texas, USA, but through a courier bungle he ends up in Texas, Queensland, in Outback Australia. Oakie is quickly befriended by Action Dann (an animated character identifiably based on Troy Dann) and they embark on a series of adventures, meeting many wonderful and quirky characters in the rugged and unique beauty of the Australian Outback.

Oakie's Outback Adventures

2011

The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years poster
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This is the definitive set of interviews with the team of actors who brought the Jon Pertwee era of Doctor Who to life! This documentary includes the best in-depth interviews with Jon Pertwee (the Third Doctor), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Caroline John (Liz Shaw), Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier), Richard Franklin (Captain Yates) and John Levine (Sergeant Benton) ever undertaken.

The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years

2017

The Doctor's Moriarty poster
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With the introduction of the Master, the Doctor now had his very own Moriarty, who would be the dark figure behind every story in Season 8, and many more beyond that. This documentary discusses the enduring appeal of the character.

The Doctor's Moriarty

2011

IMC Needs You! poster
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Cast and crew look back at the making of Colony in Space.

IMC Needs You!

2011

Evil Never Dies poster
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Ex-gangster Harry Payne confronts his violent past and vengeance from beyond the grave.

Evil Never Dies

2014

Axon Stations! poster
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The cast and crew look back at the making of The Claws of Axos.

Axon Stations!

2012

Life on Earth poster
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A documentary about the making of Terror of the Autons. Actors Katy Manning and Richard Franklin, both of whom made their debuts in this story, recount the production with the help of Jon Pertwee (through an archive interview), Script Editor Terrance Dicks and Producer Barry Letts who, along with new series Producer Phil Collinson, discuss how the series' production regimes differed between the new series and the old.

Life on Earth

2011

2000s · 11 titles

Doctor Who: A New Dimension poster
8.0

Documentary lead-in to the premiere episode of the 2005 revival of Doctor Who. Features cast interviews, behind the scenes footage, and a look at the Doctor's past.

Doctor Who: A New Dimension

2005

The Ties That Bind Us poster
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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.

The Ties That Bind Us

2008

ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis poster
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It was a operation worthy of UNIT itself… bringing The Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney), Captain Yates (Richard Franklin) and RSM Benton (John Levene) back together again at Chicago TARDIS. In this production we tear through the red tape to cover the convention and also talk to Katy Manning, Jon Pertwee, Terrance Dicks, Gary Russell, J. Jeremy Bentham and many more about the secret behind UNIT’s success.

ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis

2001

The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers poster
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In the far future, the remaining population of an oxygen-depleted planet Earth lies in enforced stasis in The Field of Dreams. Looking for ideas to help him re-connect to his captive audience, Zed, a young scenariosmith, turns to the world of Doctor Who for inspiration...

The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers

2009

Jungle Girl and the Lost Island of Dinosaurs poster
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The story of Emma Sharp, a prim and proper English child who becomes the Jungle Girl. On their way home to England, Emma and her father, William are wrecked on a mysterious uncharted island. The crew of their boat, Captain Jack and his mate Terry, steal the island's precious Golden Monkey statue. This act unleashes a herd of dinosaurs and threatens the safety of the entire island. Beano the talking dolphin, asks Emma to help him save the island. This she does, aided by Samson the toucan, Chuntee the chimp and Zelinka the Python. The statue is returned, the island is saved and Emma returns home with a new thirst for adventure.

Jungle Girl and the Lost Island of Dinosaurs

2002

Easter in Bunnyland poster
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In this animated adventure for the whole family, Easter is right around the corner, and three rabbits -- Flip Rabbit, Bitsy Bunn, and Buck -- are looking forward to celebrating the holiday with their good friend, the Easter Bunny. But the Easter Bunny is nowhere to be found, and Flip and his pals learn that the Bunny has been abducted by the evil Beau Rat and his partner in crime, J.J. Can Flip, Bitsy, and Buck rescue the Easter Bunny in time to save the holiday?

Easter in Bunnyland

2000

Hello Sailor! poster
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Cast and crew discuss the making of The Sea Devils, from the television series Doctor Who.

Hello Sailor!

2008

When Darkness Falls poster
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When Private Detective Virginia Martin is suspected of murdering a local call girl, she has two days to clear her name. Under the watchful eye of a police rookie - the alluring Betsy Sloane - the investigation that ensues draws our heroine into the familiar noir landscape of New York in the 1940s. In solving the case, the pair meet a number of quirky characters including a drunken sailor with a violent streak, a Police Commissioner with a secret vendetta and an ill tempered showgirl called Jinx de Luxe.

When Darkness Falls

2006

The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams poster
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Continuing his search for inspiration, Zed resumes his studies of twentieth-century television's Doctor Who. What he finds will have a profound effect...

The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams

2009

Roger Delgado: The Master poster
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A biography of actor Roger Delgado, featuring previously unseen photographs, rare excerpts from his many BBC TV appearances and interviews with those who knew and loved him.

Roger Delgado: The Master

2009

Katy Manning's World Down Under poster
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Have you wondered what it’s like being a star from Doctor Who living in Australia? Almost the only star in fact! That’s exactly the life Katy has led for the last 20 years (off and on) and you wouldn’t believe the things she gets up to! Well probably you would! In this absolutely, totally and utterly unique production, Katy - Interviews Louise Pajo, Sue Willis, Robert Kitts and Keff McCulloch at an Aussie Doctor Who convention - Gives us a whirlwind tour of Sydney - Introduces us to the best friend who was her flatmate during Doctor Who - Embarrasses her children again - Persuades her partner, Aussie legend Barry Crocker, to step in front of the camera with her - Takes a sideways look at Doctor Who fandom in Australia. There really is only one Katy Manning … Thank God! This World is too small for any more!

Katy Manning's World Down Under

2002

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 3 titles

1970s · 18 titles

Doctor Who: The Dæmons poster
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On the eve of May Day, dark elemental forces begin to disturb the village of Devil's End as the Master summons the demon Azal: unexplained murders, a stone gargoyle come to life, and a nigh-impenetrable infernal energy dome. With the Master fully prepared to destroy the Earth, the Doctor and UNIT - aided by a benevolent practitioner of witchcraft - battle the wicked rites of a secret science wielded by an alien from another world.

Doctor Who: The Dæmons

1971

Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil poster
7.5

Professor Emil Keller has created a machine that can pacify even the most dangerous of criminals. But when the Doctor and Jo arrive at Stangmoor Prison for a demonstration, things start to go horribly wrong - especially when they discover that the Doctor's old enemy the Master is responsible for the machine.

Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil

1971

Eskimo Nell poster
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Three young men, a scriptwriter, a producer and a director are called in by Benny U Murdoch, an exotic movie producer. He wants to make a new erotic movie starring a big woman - the "Eskimo Nell" of the title. However problems start from the beginning, the scriptwriter is a virgin, a lover of penguins and hasn't a clue on how to write an erotic movie, each of the three main backers want a different type of movie - a western, an erotic and a kung-fu movie with different people in the main part. However problems really start for the three when Benny runs off with all the money and they have to make three different versions of the same film and try not to let the backers and stars know what has happened. And this is made harder when there is a clean-up-filth society breathing down their necks....

Eskimo Nell

1975

Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons poster
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The Master, an old adversary of the Doctor, has arrived on Earth to destroy humanity with the aid of the Nestene Consciousness and their army of Autons and killer plastic daffodils - unless the Doctor, joined by new assistant Jo Grant, can stop them.

Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons

1971

Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks poster
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On the jungle planet Spiridon, the Doctor, Jo and a Thal group find a slumbering army of Daleks ready to awaken.

Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks

1973

Doctor Who: Colony in Space poster
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When the Master steals the Time Lords' secret file on the Doomsday Weapon, they grant the Doctor a temporary reprieve from his exile on Earth to deal with the crisis. He and Jo arrive on the planet Uxarieus and become enmeshed in a struggle between an agrarian colony and a powerful mining corporation.

Doctor Who: Colony in Space

1971

Doctor Who: The Mutants poster
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The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo on a mission to deliver a sealed message pod to an unknown party aboard a Skybase orbiting the planet Solos in the 30th century. They are caught quickly in a power struggle between the cruel Marshal of Solos and the young Solonian Ky over the future of Solos - a future that hinges on the contents of the message.

Doctor Who: The Mutants

1972

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors poster
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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 only way to defeat him is to break the First Law of Time and let the Doctor help himself — literally...

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

1973

Don't Just Lie There, Say Something! poster
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Based on the hit play. A British Government Minister puts forward a bill to battle filth in the UK but that doesn't stop him having an affair with both his secretary, Miss Parkyn and Wendy, the wife of a high-up reporter. Opponents to the bill - mainly some hippy girls, lead by Johnny, kidnap the Minister's best friend and co-founder of the bill, Barry Ovis just as he was getting married to his fiancee, Joan. Barry escapes, just before the police raid the hippies hiding place - to claim that Ovis was in a orgy and get the bill defeated - and dashes back to his and Joan's flat followed by Inspector Ruff, who is investigating the kidnap and Damina, one of the hippies. Meanwhile, the Minister is also trying to use the flat to carry on his affairs with both Wendy and Miss Parkyn. The Minister, Barry & Joan tries to keep the truth from Ruft, Wilfred Potts, an old and honest MP, Birdie, the Minister's wife and stop the hippies, and this causes no end of trouble.

Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!

1973

Doctor Who: The Green Death poster
8.4

The Doctor and UNIT investigate a deadly infection lurking underneath the Welsh mining town of Llanfairfach. It's an adventure that will change Jo Grant's life forever...

Doctor Who: The Green Death

1973

Doctor Who: Frontier in Space poster
7.5

In the 26th century, the Doctor and Jo uncover a plot by the Master to provoke an interplanetary war between Earth and Draconia.

Doctor Who: Frontier in Space

1973

Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos poster
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A group of gold-skinned aliens known as the Axons land on Earth and offer wondrous technology in exchange for fuel. The Doctor, however, isn't fooled, uncovering the Axons' true nature and once again facing his archenemy the Master...

Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos

1971

Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters poster
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The Doctor and Jo find themselves trapped inside an alien peepshow machine which showman Vorg and his assistant Shirna have brought to amuse the populace of the planet Inter Minor. Can they escape Vorg and the ferocious Drashigs?

Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters

1973

Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks poster
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Guerillas time-jump back from the 22nd century to assassinate Sir Reginald Styles - a diplomat working for World Peace, The Doctor discovers they are from a future where the Daleks have invaded the Earth (Following wars precipitated by Styles's destruction at the peace conference). With the Daleks desperate to maintain their version of history, The Doctor and Jo find themselves in a totalitarian future, where they must discover who really happened and prevent it.

Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks

1972

Doctor Who: The Time Monster poster
5.9

The Master, in the guise of Professor Thascalos, has constructed at the Newton Institute in Wootton a device known as TOMTIT - Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time - to gain control over Kronos, a creature from outside time. The creature is summoned but proves to be uncontrollable.

Doctor Who: The Time Monster

1972

Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon poster
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The planet Peladon has applied to join the Galactic Federation, and The Doctor is mistaken for the chairman of the committee sent to assess its application, while Jo is taken for an Earth princess, with the mythical curse of Aggedor apparently striking chancellor Torbis dead, The Doctor must discover who is desperate to stop Peladon joining, but soon he is sentenced to death and his only Allies seem to be Jo and the Ice Warrior Delegates.

Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon

1972

Doctor Who: The Sea Devils poster
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The Doctor and Jo visit the Master in his high-security prison on an island off the south coast of England. The governor, Colonel Trenchard, says ships have been disappearing mysteriously at sea. The Doctor discovers that Trenchard and the Master are in league to contact the Sea Devils, a race of reptiles in hibernation in a base beneath the sea, who have been awoken by recent work on a nearby sea fort. The Master intends to use his new allies to help him conquer the world!

Doctor Who: The Sea Devils

1972

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A free-spirited lodger profoundly disrupts the lives of the suburban family she moves in with.

The Golden Road

1973

Series credits

Doctor Who poster
7.9

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

Doctor Who

1963

The Sarah Jane Adventures poster
7.1

Sarah Jane Smith is a truly remarkable woman who inhabits a world of mystery, danger and wonder; a world where aliens are commonplace and the Earth is under constant threat. A world that Maria Jackson, a seemingly ordinary girl, can only dream of – until she moves in next door. Nothing will ever be ordinary again.

The Sarah Jane Adventures

2007

Doctor Who Confidential poster
8.0

Doctor Who Confidential is a documentary to complement the revival of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Each episode was broadcast on BBC Three on Saturdays, immediately after the broadcast of the weekly television episode on BBC One. The running time of the first two series was 30 minutes, being extended to 45 minutes in the third. BBC Three also broadcast a cut-down edition of the programme, lasting 15 minutes, shown after the repeats on Sundays and Fridays and after the weekday evening repeats of earlier seasons.

Doctor Who Confidential

2005

Softly, Softly poster
7.5

Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.

Softly, Softly

1966

Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa poster
NR

Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.

Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa

2018

Target poster
7.0

A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.

Target

1977

Tales of the Tardis poster
5.8

Classic Doctor Who duos are reunited as they board a very special TARDIS on a nostalgic voyage through space and time.

Tales of the Tardis

2023

Armchair Theatre poster
6.0

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

Armchair Theatre

1956

Gloria's House poster
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Gloria's House is the messiest house in a street full of perfect homes but it's a lot more fun than any of the other squeaky clean places in Chillsville.

Gloria's House

2000