The Doctor (Doctor Who) Big Finish Productions. Matt Smith made a brief "imagined" cameo seen only by actor William Hartnell (portrayed by David Bradley), in the movie dramatising the early years of Doctor Who "An Adventure in Space and Time". In early production documents, the Doctor was said to be 650 years old, although this was never stated on screen. By the time the Doctor did cite his age ("Let me see, in human terms, 400, yes, 450 years" in the serial "The Tomb of the Cybermen" (1967); he kept a 500-year diary), he had already regenerated to a younger form. The intention at
Doctor Who in Australia were still only around twelve months behind their original BBC transmission dates. In October 1966 the first episode of "The Space Museum" marked the first time the ABC stripped Doctor Who in the 6:30 Monday–Thursday timeslot. With only occasional changes or minor variations to days and times, the ABC continued to strip "Doctor Who" in a weekday early-evening timeslot for much of the next twenty-six years. Later in 1966 the ABC also started showing repeats of chunks of the most recent first-run stories in the same stripped prime-time slot. (Repeats not only remained commonplace, but their regularity also went on