Doctor Who (2013 specials) Jackie. On 19 September 2013, scenes were filmed in the evening at Puzzlewood with fake snow being scattered over certain areas. On 5 October 2013, Doctor Who producer Marcus Wilson revealed via Twitter that filming was complete. In addition to the 50th anniversary episode featuring Matt Smith and David Tennant, a further special was produced to celebrate "Doctor Who's" half-century. "An Adventure in Space and Time", written by Mark Gatiss, was a feature-length docudrama detailing the conception and initial production of "Doctor Who". It featured David Bradley as William Hartnell and Reece Shearsmith as Patrick Troughton; Matt Smith has a
Doctor Who in Canada and the United States CBC did not renew the program and it would not reappear on the network for 40 years. The BBC series was originally sold to television stations in the United States in 1972, with Time-Life Television syndicating selected episodes of Jon Pertwee's time as the Doctor. The series did not do well, despite an interesting write-up some years earlier in "TV Guide". Apparently, program directors of the commercial television stations that picked up the Jon Pertwee series did not know that the program was an episodic serial, and so it was constantly being shuffled about in the programming schedules. In 1978,