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Style guide
To keep a consistent style to the articles, these guidelines should be followed.
General
- See also: Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- The article name, when first mentioned, should be bold, or bolded and italicised if it is a serial title.
- Where mentioned in subsequent text, serial titles from the classic series should be italicised. Episode titles from the new series and its spin-offs, as well as individual episodes within serials from the classic series, should be put in quotes.
- British English spelling should be used, and dates should place the number first. With the exception of episode synopses and ongoing events, the past tense should be preferred in the main article text.
- Names should
- Articles should be categorised in the correct subcategory at Category:Doctor Who.
- Quotations in general are not encyclopaedic, and are better added at Wikiquote, for example at q:Doctor Who.
Episode pages
- See also: Wikipedia:Television episodes, Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/How to write an episode article, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
| 175 – "The Girl in the Fireplace" | |
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| Doctor Who episode | |
 The Doctor searches Madame de Pompadour's mind. |
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| Cast | |
| Doctor | David Tennant (Tenth Doctor) |
| Companions | Billie Piper (Rose Tyler) |
| Noel Clarke (Mickey Smith) | |
| Guest stars | |
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| Production | |
| Writer | Steven Moffat |
| Director | Euros Lyn |
| Script editor | Helen Raynor |
| Producer | Phil Collinson |
| Executive producer(s) | Russell T. Davies Julie Gardner |
| Production code | 2.4 |
| Series | Series 2 |
| Length | 1 episode, 45 mins |
| Originally broadcast | May 6, 2006 |
| Chronology | |
| ← Preceded by | Followed by → |
| "School Reunion" | "Rise of the Cybermen" |
| IMDb profile | |
An episode article should be set out roughly to the guidelines below; however, these guidelines are not set in stone and the structure may be altered depending on the amount of available source material.
- Infobox
- The infobox should contain information about the episode, in a style similar to the credits. A screenshot representative of the episode may be included, and should be no wider than 250px for episodes broadcast before 1989, or 275px for episodes broadcast in widescreen, after 2005. Subsequent fields should be filled out, such as the episode's broadcast date. When the cast is mentioned in the infobox, the actor should be mentioned before their charaacter.
- Lead section
- The lead section should summarise the article in three to five paragraphs. Preferably, the first paragraph should talk about when the episode aired. After that, the episode's production, its plot, and how it was received should be written in one paragraph each.
- Plot
- This section discusses the plot, and is split into two sections:
- Synopsis
- A summary of the episode, which is concise, but legible. A common length is approximately ten words per minute, however this can be lengthened in the case of a complicated plot.
- Continuity
- This section should discuss relevant and important plot points that directly reference previous stories, or where the episode itself has been used as a reference. An example is in "Doomsday (Doctor Who)", which discusses both Daleks and Cybermen as part of the show's history, and then discusses how the Cybermen and the loss of Rose was used as a future plot point.
- Production
- The production section should focus on how the episode was made. Depending on how much can be written about each part, the following subsections should be used:
- Conception
- Notes about how the idea for the episode was created, and how the episode was written. Any outside references that have been noted by the production team or the BBC should be included in section. If an actor's performance is enough to make the production team call him/her back (such as Freema Agyeman's appearance in "Army of Ghosts"), this should be discussed alongside the episode's conception.
- Filming
- This section should talk about when and where the episode was filmed.
- Music
- Notes about the music used in an episode, whether diegetic, or instrumental.
- Broadcast and reception
- This section should deal with newspaper stories, its broadcast, and release. In particular, the following sections should be used.
- Publicity and broadcast
- For notes relating to the episode's pre-publicity - for example, the Christmas specials normally get some publicity months before broadcast, its original broadcast, and any other subsequent broadcasts (such as Doctor Who Confidential, or Torchwood's watershed and American broadcasts).
- Missing episodes
- A list of missing episodes, and a contextual paragraph describing them (First and Second Doctors only)
- Critical reception and release
- These should detail how well the episode was received by critics, and its later release in video or novella format.
- References
- Any statements that are not in the synopsis or lead sections should be adaquetly cited using inline citations to reliable sources.
- External links
- Various external links, including links to various reference sites and reviews from Outpost Gallifrey and the Doctor Who Ratings Guide. See Wikipedia:External links for more advice.
Terminology
Due to Doctor Who's history, there may be ambiguity in discussing episodes. The following terms should br used consistently across Doctor Who entries as appropriate.
- Episode
- A single television broadcast, generally falling within the normal season schedule. So far, with a few rare exceptions, all episodes have been either 25 or 45 minutes long. In the classic series, an episode would usually only constitute part of a story, while in the new series many stories are single episodes, with others spreading out the story over 2 or 3 episodes. Example from the new series: "Rose"
- Special
- A broadcast that falls outside the normal season schedule, and may be of any length. Examples: The Five Doctors, "The Christmas Invasion."
- Serial
- A group of episodes from the classic series which together form a single story. Example: Logopolis.
- Arc
- A group of serials or new series episodes which have some loose story connection. See Story arcs in Doctor Who for examples.
- Season
- A year's worth of episode broadcasts from the classic series. Although against UK convention, the term "season" is accepted usage for the classic series. Its first usage in an "official" tie-in appears to have been in the first Programme Guide in 1981; prior to that there appears to have been no particular convention. In the new series, they changed to use "series" and reset the numbering.
- Series
- A year's worth of episode broadcasts from the new series. Note that this can also be used to refer to the show as a whole, though this may occasionally be confusing to readers. In these cases, use instead either "show" or "programme."
- Classic series
- The original broadcast run of Doctor Who, from 1963 to 1989.
- New series
- The current broadcast run of Doctor Who, from 2005 to present.
