BBV is a video and audio production company specialising in Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...science fiction drama, known for its links with the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and a member of the British Commonwealth and European Union. ...British A broadcast of the long_running and popular British science_fiction series Doctor Who. ...science fiction television series The Doctor Who 2005 television series logo. ...Doctor Who (founder Bill Baggs is a fan, and BBV productions often feature characters and/or actors from the series). The name of the company is short for Bill & Ben Video, "Ben" being the nickname of Bill Baggs's wife, Helen.

Video

BBV's first production, in 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...1991, was Summoned by Shadows, co_produced with the BBC Film Club. Partly as a homage to Doctor Who, of which Baggs was a fan, and partly in a pragmatic attempt to take advantage of a pre_existing audience, Summoned by Shadows was a Who_style tale of strange doings on a distant planet featuring Colin Baker (born June 8, 1943) is a British actor who is best known for playing the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long_running science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...Colin Baker as the nameless protagonist (listed in the credits as "The Stranger"). Nicola Bryant (publicity portrait). ...Nicola Bryant co_starred as "Miss Brown". The adventures of The Stranger ran to six videos (and two audio dramas, the second, confusingly, remade as the sixth video). (For more information, see The Stranger was a series of direct_to_video science fiction dramas made by BBV and starring Colin Baker. ...The Stranger (video series).)

BBV's next effort was The AirZone Solution?, an ecologically_themed thriller about a near future conspiracy. Released in 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993_2003) Events January January 1 _ Czechoslovakia divides. ...1993, Doctor Who's thirtieth anniversary year, it featured four ex_Doctors. Baker and Bryant starred. Successor Sylvester McCoy (born August 20, 1943) is a British actor. ...Sylvester McCoy and predecessors Peter Davison (born April 13, 1951) is a British actor, most commonly associated with the leading role in Doctor Who, which he played from 1981 to 1984. ...Peter Davison and John Devon Roland Pertwee (July 7, 1919–May 20, 1996), better known as Jon Pertwee, was a British actor. ...Jon Pertwee also appeared as members of a small group joined against a sinister conspiracy.

The Zero Imperative ( 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...1994) marked a new departure for BBV. Although stuffed to the gills with ex_Doctor Who guest stars, one of them was actually playing the same character: the story was built around Caroline John (publicity portrait from 1987). ...Caroline John's Dr Caroline John as Liz Shaw. ...Elizabeth Shaw, the Doctor's companion in the seventh season of Doctor Who, now depicted as an investigator for PROBE (the "Preternatural Research Bureau"). The PROBE series ran for an additional three stories; all four were written by Mark Gatiss (born October 17, 1966 in Sedgefield, County Durham) is a British actor and writer. ...Mark Gatiss, who later found more widespread fame as a member of The League of Gentlemen is a troupe of British comedy performers, and the name of their stage, radio, and latterly television series. ...the League of Gentlemen. The potentially_confusing mixture of Caroline John reprising her Doctor Who role with other recognisable Who stars playing different characters worked against the series, as did the way that Liz Shaw often seemed to be herself a different character from the Doctor Who original. (The latter problem may have been exacerbated by the fact that, although BBV had obtained permission to use Liz Shaw, they had no rights relating to Doctor Who itself _ which meant that no explicit reference could be made to any other aspect of Doctor Who, including the events of the stories in which Liz had appeared.)

BBV's next series was a spin_off from two Doctor Who stories in the 1970s in which the Doctor assisted the The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (also known as UNIT) is a fictional military organization from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT) in defeating the An Auton, from Spearhead from Space The Autons are an artificial life form from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and adversaries of the Doctor. ...Autons, robotic invaders sent to conquer Earth on behalf of the alien Nestenes. The trilogy, beginning with Auton in 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. ...1997, recounted UNIT's battle against another Auton invasion, this time without the Doctor's aid (since BBV had obtained permission to use UNIT and the Autons, but permission to use the Doctor himself was as always unavailable). Auton was also the first BBV production to have no Doctor Who guest stars at all, after External links Nicholas Courtney at the Internet Movie Database Categories: Actor stubs | 1929 births | English actors | Doctor Who actors ...Nicholas Courtney (who would have reprised his Doctor Who role as UNIT commander Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge_Stewart. ...Brigadier Lethbridge_Stewart) was forced by ill health to withdraw from the project. With Courtney out, the focus of the series was the original character of Lockwood, an enigmatic UNIT agent played by Michael Wade.

Other BBV video productions include Cyberon (featuring a race of alien The term cyborg, a portmanteau of cybernetic organism, is used to designate a creature which is a mixture of organic and mechanical parts. ...cyborgs almost but not quite entirely unlike the The Cybermen _ 1966 vintage (from The Moonbase). ...Cybermen) and "Do you Have a Licence to Save this Planet?" (a Doctor Who parody featuring Sylvester McCoy (born August 20, 1943) is a British actor. ...Sylvester McCoy as the Chiropodist, meaning Foot Doctor).

Audio

After a few earlier experiments, BBV began regularly releasing audio dramas on CD in 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...1998, under the umbrella title Audio Adventures in Time & Space. The mainstay of the CD line to begin with was a series starring Sylvester McCoy (born August 20, 1943) is a British actor. ...Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred (born August 20, 1962) is an English actress and television presenter, best known for her portrayal of the Doctors assistant Ace in the television series Doctor Who. ...Sophie Aldred (the Doctor/companion team from the 1987, 1988 and 1989 seasons of Doctor Who) as a pair of wanderers in time and space named "The Professor" (McCoy) and "Ace" (Aldred) who so closely resembled the characters McCoy and Aldred had played on Doctor Who _ even addressing each other by the same nicknames _ that the BBC stepped in and their seventh outing, Ghosts, consequently introduced a number of changes to the characters that made the resemblance somewhat less close, the main one being that the adventures now featured "The Dominie" (McCoy) and "Alice" (Aldred).

The first of the Audio Adventures in Time & Space not to feature the McCoy/Aldred double act was Cyber_Hunt, the first BBV production to feature the Cyberons. A further Who_ish note was added by the introduction of an amnesic space traveller (who one of the other characters dubs "Fred" after her pet Trinomial name Carassius auratus auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) The goldfish (Carassius auratus auratus) is one of the earliest fish to be domesticated and is still one of the most commonly_kept aquarium fish. ...goldfish) played by Nicholas Briggs, who some years earlier had played the Doctor in the Audio Visuals is an unlicensed Doctor Who fan audio series of the 1980s. ...Audio Visuals series of unlicensed fan audios.

More recently, BBV have moved away from characters_who_might_be_the_Doctor (a field that, in any case, lost some of its appeal for fan audiences once Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays based on British cult science fiction properties. ...Big Finish Productions began producing official licensed Doctor Who audio dramas featuring characters who were definitely the Doctor) and, following the success of the Auton trilogy, focussed more on stand_alone dramas featuring various Doctor Who alien races, licensed directly from the writers who created them. For some of those writers, the BBV audios have offered a chance to revisit their creations: for instance, the range includes a story by Pip & Jane Baker explaining what happened to Kate OMara as the Rani The Rani is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...the Rani (last seen in Doctor Who being abducted by a group of aliens that, conveniently, were also created by Pip & Jane Baker), and a series of stories by Lawrence Miles about his history_spanning terrorist organisation Faction Paradox is the fictional time travelling voodoo cult/rebel group/organized crime syndicate created by Lawrence Miles. ...Faction Paradox.

Productions

Video

• The Stranger was a series of direct_to_video science fiction dramas made by BBV and starring Colin Baker. ...The Stranger
  1. Summoned by Shadows by Christian Darkin
  2. More Than A Messiah by Nigel Fairs
  3. In Memory Alone by Nicholas Briggs
  4. The Terror Game by Nicholas Briggs
  5. Breach of the Peace by Nicholas Briggs
  6. Eye of the Beholder by Nicholas Briggs

• PROBE
  1. The Zero Imperative by Mark Gatiss
  2. The Devil of Winterborne by Mark Gatiss
  3. Unnatural Selection by Mark Gatiss
  4. Ghosts of Winterborne by Mark Gatiss

• Auton trilogy
  1. Auton by Nicholas Briggs
  2. Auton 2: Sentinel by Nicholas Briggs
  3. Auton 3 by Arthur Wallis (Nicholas Briggs)

• Standalone
  • The AirZone Solution? by Nicholas Briggs
  • Cyberon by Lance Parkin
  • "Do you have a Licence to Save this Planet?" by Paul Ebbs and Gareth Preston

Audio

Licensed Doctor Who spin_offs

• K_9 refers to a variety of entries, most related to dogs. ...K_9 and his Mistress
  1. The Choice by Nigel Fairs
  2. The Search by Mark Duncan

• The Zygons are a fictional extraterrestrial race in the long_running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...Zygons
  • Homeland by Paul Dearing
  • Absolution by Paul Ebbs
  • The Barnacled Baby by Anthony Keetch

• Krynoids
  • The Root of All Evil by Lance Parkin
  • The Green Man by Zoltán Déry

• A Sontaran (from The Time Warrior) The Sontarans are a fictional extraterrestrial race from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...Sontarans
  • Silent Warrior by Peter Grehan
  • Old Soldiers by Simon Gerard and Colin Hill
  • Conduct Unbecoming by Gareth Preston

• The Rutan Host, or Rutans are a fictional extraterrestrial race from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...Rutans
  • In 2 Minds by Iain Hepburn

• the I
  • I Scream by Lance Parkin

• Guy de Carnac
  • A Quality of Mercy by Dave McIntee

• Kate OMara as the Rani The Rani is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...The Rani
  • The Rani Reaps The Whirlwind by Pip & Jane Baker

• the Wirrn
  • Race Memory by Paul Ebbs

• Faction Paradox is the fictional time travelling voodoo cult/rebel group/organized crime syndicate created by Lawrence Miles. ...Faction Paradox
  1. The Eleven Day Empire by Lawrence Miles
  2. The Shadow Play by Lawrence Miles
  3. Sabbath Dei by Lawrence Miles
  4. The Year of the Cat by Lawrence Miles
  5. Movers by Lawrence Miles
  6. A Labyrinth of Histories by Lawrence Miles

Unofficial/Apocryphal Doctor Who spin_offs

• The Dominie and Alice
  1. Republica by Mark Gatiss
  2. Island of Lost Souls by Mark Gatiss
  3. Prosperity Island by Tim Saward
  4. The Left Hand of Darkness by Mark Duncan
  5. The Other Side by Mark Duncan
  6. Guests for the Night by Nigel Fairs
  7. Ghosts by Nigel Fairs
  8. Only Human by Mark J. Thompson
  9. Blood Sports by Nigel Fairs
  10. Punchline by Jeremy Leadbetter (Robert Shearman)

• Fred
  1. Cyber_Hunt by Martin Peterson _ featuring the Cyberons
  2. Vital Signs by Tim Saward

• Cyberons
  • Cyber_Hunt by Martin Peterson _ featuring Fred
  • Cybergeddon by Paul Ebbs

• The Stranger audios
  • The Last Mission by Nicholas Briggs
  • Eye of the Storm by Arthur Wallis (Nicholas Briggs)

Stand_alone

• Infidel's Comet by Colin Hill and Simon Gerard
• The Pattern by Mark Duncan

Related topics

• Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays based on British cult science fiction properties. ...Big Finish Productions
• Reeltime Pictures is a British multimedia film and video production company founded in 1984 by Keith Barnfather. ...Reeltime Pictures

External link

• BBV official site (http://www.bbvonline.co.uk/)