Monday, 29 August 2016

An Unearthly Child

(Series 1, Episode 1)

Summary: Demonstrating a flagrant disregard for safeguarding policy, two school teachers follow a pupil home because she seems a little bit odd.  Arriving at a junkyard, they meet a dodgy old man whom they suspect of locking said pupil inside a police telephone box.  When they attempt to investigate, they are swiftly abducted through time and space.

Watch it because: This is where it all began…


Original Air Date: 23 November 1963.
Doctor: William Hartnell.
Companions: Susan (Carole Ann Ford), Ian Chesterton (William Russell) and Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill).
Writer: Anthony Coburn.
Director: Waris Hussein.
Producer: Verity Lambert.

Available on DVD? Yes.

An Adventure in Time and Space...

No new Doctor Who in 2016?  What an excellent opportunity to go back and fill in the gaps in my Classic Who knowledge.  So, let's start at the very beginning, as that's a very good place to start...