To date, a total of 778 individual episodes of the British BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who (TARDIS pictured) have been broadcast, encompassing 218 stories and including one television movie. The show's high episode count resulted in Doctor Who holding the world record for the highest number of episodes for a science fiction programme. For comparison, the Guinness World Record holder for the highest number of consecutive episodes, Stargate SG-1, aired 214 episodes. Each story in the original version (1963–1989) is a multi-episode serial, with an episode usually lasting 25 minutes. During the early series of the programme, most serials were linked together and one typically would lead directly into the next. Beginning with the 2005 revival, the production team abandoned the traditional serial format for a largely self-contained episodic format with occasional multi-part stories and loose story arcs. The new episodes usually are 45 minutes long. (Full list...)