which channel aired the series?
BBC TV.
Doctor Who
"Doctor Who" first appeared on BBC TV at 17:16:20 GMT on Saturday, 23 November 1963; 
where do the doctor who specials fit into the series The two special broadcast episodes were initially released in separate home media sets, before being released together alongside the mini-episodes in a collector's boxset. do those special episodes have any name? Yes, "The Night of the Doctor" and "The Last Day". what is the former's storyline? The episode is set during the Time War and shows the previously unseen last moments of the Eighth Doctor and his artificially controlled regeneration into the War Doctor. how was the reaction of the fans on it? After the release of the mini-episode, fans of the show demanded a "Doctor Who" spin-off featuring McGann. where was the aforesaid series filmed? UNANSWERABLE
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Doctor Who [SEP] History
"Doctor Who" first appeared on BBC TV at 17:16:20 GMT on Saturday, 23 November 1963; this was eighty seconds later than the scheduled programme time, because of the assassination of John F. Kennedy the previous day. It was to be a regular weekly programme, each episode 25 minutes of transmission length. Discussions and plans for the programme had been in progress for a year. The head of drama Sydney Newman was mainly responsible for developing the programme, with the first format document for the series being written by Newman along with the head of the script department (later head of serials) Donald Wilson and staff writer C.