Season 1 (Through Time and Space)

Season 1 of Doctor Who: Through Time and Space, broadcast as Doktor – Przez Czas i Przestrzeń in Poland premiered in the summer of 2019. It featured Janusz Gajos as The Doktor, Paulina Walendziak as Pola Pisarek, and Jan Hrynkiewicz as Benek Jackiewicz. With David Bailie reprising his role of The Toymaker in the English version of the season.

Production Team
After being awarded the franchisee contract with BBC Studios and CBS Corporation in late-2017, TVN took the project extremely serious, seeing it as a huge opportunity for Polish television. They entered into co-production with ATM Group, to produce the show and along with them came producer, Artur Kowalewski. Patrick Yoka was hired by TVN as the showrunner, but later on, Piotr Szymanek joined as a co-showunner, due to disagreements between TVN and ATM Group. One of ATM’s trusted directors, Magdalena Łazarkiewicz, agreed to direct episode 1, and other directors were carefully selected.

Bilingual Approach
In the UK, unlike the other foreign adaptations, the show was not titled “Doktor – Przez czas i przestrzeń”, but instead the title was translated into English and became “Doctor Who: Through Time and Space”, to make it more accessible to an English audience. But, it didn’t stop there, as Jane Espenson, as the Franchise Executive, saw an opportunity during pre-production of the show, as she noticed that pretty much all Polish actors, unlike those in the Netherlands and Spain, spoke fluent English, leading her to consult with BBC Studios, and decide that instead of an English Dub, the series would instead use a model of foreign TV making, first pioneered on BBC/S4C co-productions, which would shoot each scene twice, firstly in Polish and secondly in English and then create two different versions of the show, negating the need for an English dub. This meant that the show was in Native English, instead of in a dubbed form, and therefore it sparked a lot more interest at the BBC, as suddenly, it not only became a whole lot more marketable, but it also became a massive advertising opportunity for the concept of ‘Bilingual’ dramas. All of this together, persuaded the BBC to push this series more than the other three, and they even premiered the show on BBC Two, instead of BBC Four. Naturally, the BBC put more money into this show, paying, along with CBS, for the cost of shooting each scene twice. Additionally, to justify it’s place on BBC Two and to help explain to English audiences what exactly they were watching, ten 60-120 second introductions were commissioned to open each episode of the show, featuring David Bailie, reprising his role as the Toymaker, explaining that he’s created a whole new universe of Doctors, just for the fun of it, and summarising events of the previous episodes, as the series went on. Suddenly, with these changes, proposed by Jane Espenson, the show was propelled from just another English dub of some important foreign television show to air late night on BBC Four into another one of Doctor Who’s spinoffs for a wider English speaking audience to enjoy.

The Doktor
In order to push the marketing for the adaptation, and sell the ‘Doctor Who’ brand to the Polish audience, well-known Polish actor of the small and big screen, Janusz Gajos, was persuaded to take on the role of the Doktor. Gajos’s Doktor drew major inspiration from William Hartnell, Richard Griffiths and David Suchet portrayals, creating grumpy, snarky and stubborn, but kind-hearted incarnation, excited to explore the wonders of universe and caring about his companions; insistent on preserving history and slowly but surely developing empathy; smart, perceptive and witty, quite quirky. Additionally, Gajos gave the character occasional campy abruptiveness and almost theatrical act in the moments of ecstasy, much reminiscent of his performance in Zemsta.

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 * The Doktor - Janusz Gajos
 * Pola Pisarek - Paulina Walendziak
 * Benek Jackiewicz - Jan Hrynkiewicz
 * The Toymaker - David Bailie

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