About Our Doctor Who Section
Doctor Who as it should have been. Imagine if Shada had actually been the last story in season 17, Colin Baker had completed three seasons, there had been a season 27 and Paul Mc Gann had gone on to do a furth...
Doctor Who, The Un-transmitted Pilot Episode
In 1963 The BBC commissioned a Pilot Episode for a new science fiction series entitled Doctor Who. Originally recorded a month before full recording on the series began, the initial recording was flawed with t...
An Unearthly Child – 1963
So where better to start our Doctor Who section than at the beginning. Early Doctor Who stories, in common with many other television shows of the time, did not have generic titles but each episode had it's ow...
The Daleks, 1963
The Dead Planet
Known by both titles, although at the time of transmission episodes had individual titles as opposed to generic story titles.This was the story that launched Doctor Who into the cult TV sho...
The Edge Of Destruction, 1964
The Edge Of Destruction was the two part story that followed The Daleks and was set entirely in the Tardis. The Story itself was written in two days as a hasty “filler” story to enable the series to fit a thir...
Marco Polo – 1964
Still with William Hartnell's first season (story four of eight) it's back in time for an adventure in history, this story is set in a historical period and context, avoiding science fiction elements beyond est...
The Keys Of Marinus, 1964
Story number five for William Hartnell's original Doctor and the second to be written by Dalek creator Terry Nation, he would only write one more non - Dalek story for Doctor Who and that would not be for eleve...
The Aztecs, 1964
Doctor Who - The Aztecs
The sixth story in the first Doctor Who series, sees another historical encounter for The Doctor. Historical stories were very common during the time of the first Doctor. This story r...
The Sensorites
The Sensorites, 1964
The seventh story of William Hartnell's time as the first Doctor. This six part story was first broadcast in 1964.The story is notable for its demonstration of Susan's telepathy and i...
The Reign Of Terror, 1964
The final story of Doctor Who's first season. This six part serial took The Doctor and his companions back to the time of the French Revolution.Of the six episodes only four now remain in BBC archives. Re...