Where It All Started... - Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child (1963) - REVIEW
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"It all started out as a mild curiosity in a junkyard..."
My Hartnell-era marathon begins! Make sure to leave and comment and "like" the video to appease the almighty algorithm!
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“But now it’s turned out to be quite a… quite a great spirit of adventure, don’t you think?”
Subscribed! Great video! (I'd suggest you pin YOUR comment to the top!)
You mentioned early in the video about production problems but then said something like "that's a story for another video." Why yes, I would like to see that video!
@@marienbad2 I followed up with that video! It's about the unaired pilot :) You can find it on my channel from a few weeks ago!
@@MrTARDIS cool - I have just loaded it up and am gonna watch it now! Thanks for the update!
William Hartnell was a fascinating actor. For years and years he was typecast as "The Heavy", playing "Tough Guys" - IIRC, he was even called "The British James Cagney" - He finally broke out of that stereotype with his final role as The Doctor.
Thank you so much. Have always wanted to see An Unearthly Child. My Dad was Assistant Film editor on this first Dr Who episode and I was born the night it was first aired, so it has a special significance for me. ☺❤
Yknow, I'd never thought of that word before now but "Imp" is a surprisingly accurate description for this Doctor, even later on when he softens and the whole granddad feel comes through, Imp still feels like a good word for him
He keeps his trickster attitude when interacting with everyone other than his close friends, and I love it.
I remember it well, i was in the cubs, we played football in the park, lost as usual, then the whole team went back to Arkela's house for game break down, analysis and cups of tea and cake. But somebody knew about this New, Exciting series so we all crammed into his lounge and watched eagerly. I have watched every episode ever since. Wonderful stuff. Some of the sets were a bit naff and were a bit wobbly, but that didn't matter, some of those earlier tales were better than later ones when we went into colour. Things like the early adventures against the Master and the explanation that the Master stole the chameleon circuit, so it stuck as the police box.
Imagine if someone who was on or worked on the show 60 years ago was brought forward in time to see the 60th anniversary special next year. They'd be shocked yet happy to know this series would still be running and so popular all these years later.
The actor who played ian was in jodies final episode and won a guinness world record for longest gap between tv appearances as the same role (57 years) he was also the doorman in An Adventure in Space and Time which came out as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations
Sometimes I think about the original titles being considered "terrifying" and wonder what it'd be like to show 1963 audiences one of the modern intros LOL.
I’m assuming ur on about Ian
Some people keep bleating on about how Chibnall/Whittaker/Timeless Child ect. would have Hartnell turning in his grave but honestly I think he'd be elated that this silly little sci-fi show is still going after all this time.
Waris Hussein is still around at 84. His story should be told too. A very young director, mid 20's, working with the only female producer in the BBC, he was also Indian by birth, and gay, though that last fact would have been kept quiet....homosexuality was still illegal in 1963, though racial prejudice was not.
Doctor Who had everything against it...
Incidentally wasn't Ridley Scott also involved in the pilot?
Susan's mistake over decimal currency is, with hindsight, wholly understandable. In 1963, the public never imagined that just 8 years later, we would have a decimal system of currency (Feb '71)
Susan got her dates wrong by less than a decade.
Although no firm decision had been made by 1963, discussion of decimalisation had been underway for decades. I don't know when the change was finally announced but it was certainly at least a couple of years before the launch date. The 10 shilling note was replaced by the 50p coin in 69 if I recall correctly. The half crown was withdrawn shortly before the 50p appeared reportedly (at least amongst we school boys) because, being larger than the 50p it could have been filed down to fool slot machines. Quite which slot machines would have required such a high value payment is something I didn't consider at the time; cigarettes (for which there machines outside virtually every newsagents) were only a shilling or two per pack and a platform ticket at the station was only 2d.
Wow. William Hartnell was younger in An Unearthly Child than Sophie Aldred was in Power of the Doctor!
Same age Peter Capaldi was when he took the role. They poke fun at in Twice Upon A Time
@@roguebritgravy1 weird because David Bradley was 75 at the time
William Hartnell had pretty bad health which makes himn apear older then he really was.
Holy crap
@@robotx9285 He was also wearing a wig as the First Doctor. If I recall correctly, he had short hair normally.
I was 9 years old when I saw the first episode. I still remember it well today. Watching it in the evening with my parents. It was new and I was captivated and scared at the same time. You reminded me about the first episode being repeated the following week. Yes, I saw it again. By that time, as kids we had talked about it at school and couldn’t wait to see episode 2.
Thanks for the nostalgia.
My favourite Dr. Who, William Hartnell, he played it straight with a knowledgable air and didn’t try to play the fool. Subsequent Doctors were shadows of this original!
Honestly it's nice to see you coming in to bat for episodes 2-4.
I've always felt like the "Caveman bit" of An Unearthly Child is really underrated by fans. I get that part 1 casts a bit of a shadow over it but it's still more than worthwhile.
I remember discovering this on our one channel TV set in the spring of 1964. I was 13 then and had heard nothing about it until one Saturday at 4:30 PM it was on. We thought that was the coolest show ever, exciting and a little scary with that fantastic weird theme song. It just dropped out of the blue and we couldn’t wait to sit breathlessly watching the next episode. Those were the days. Black and white TV . We never anticipated colour TV until it suddenly burst upon us in 1966 and Batman with all its colour was just perfect for that. Dr. Who got lost in the shuffle but he was still big in England when I went there in 1974. That unknown to me was the beginning of my overseas travels for the next 50 years and still not over. But you had to be there in 1964 to experience the zeitgeist of the times. The future full of technological marvels and space travel were all the rage then and James Bond and the early Beatles. It seemed that all the coolest stuff was coming out of England as the Americans were racing to get to the moon. There just is no feeling now of the excitement anticipating what was going to come next that was in the air then. Dr. Who was part of that excitement.
Fantastic news to have my thoughts on the caveman politics backed up for a change. Adore the (new!) points about the good/bad morality split not existing in this story, because the nature of mankind is so beyond reason.
I love Hartnell as the opposite end of the spectrum, a future human man that is nothing BUT cold logic and condescending reason. I think Ian elects Hartnell as the leader because he's equally scared, but quiet about it. It makes sense since he (and we as an audience) are seeing ourselves as superior to the cavemen. Through the parallel we can begin to understand the Doctor's superior perspective, but resonate to Ian and Barbara as the true rational middle man. The Doctor hints in part 1 as to what the rest of the story will be about too, which I never noticed til this video.
Its all atmospheric but parts 2-4 are absolutely crucial. I think 1 is unquestionably a human in this, and its a story about progress as an introduction to time trave by showing us all the extremes at once. I think its absolutely genius.
So pumped for this series Will, thanks for helping make December the most exciting month of the year as ever. You're the definitive person on this website for me, man. Time to rewatch your Dead Planet video.
All four episodes are great. Very atmospheric.
I learned a lot more from this than I thought I would. The background on all the people that worked on putting the show together and making it work was splendid, thank you.
I do agree with you: the first story gets a bad rap, but it's actually really well done.
That's the episode that made a Whovian of me; I had seen random episodes on PBS, mainly the third and fourth Doctors, but around 1990 WANE TV, Fort Wayne's PBS station, announced that they had got the Hartnell episodes, so I tuned in, and was fortunate enough to see "Unearthly Child", which made a Whovian of me!
The two sticks are not touching each other because there is a string connecting the two sticks causing the vertical stick to spin.
I always wondered about the start of Dr Who. Well done.Thanks.
Future Doctors: I must protect innocent lives at all costs.
1st Doctor: (Literally kidnaps school teachers, and attempts to kill a cavemen)
There are two rules still in place today:
-No aliens
-No bug eye monsters.
Both rules were broken in the second serial.
I'm looking forward to this marathon. I don't think it gets much credit beyond the highlights.
While he has his charm, minus the early episodes, I never saw anyone say Hartnell was their favourite Doctor. But I know he was popular and beloved in the role, in Hartnell's time.
Off to a great start. Really looking forward to the rest.
An unearthly child was one of the first classic doctor who storys I even saw and an unearthly child is my favourite William hartnell story doctor who and I love this story alot and It Is a good introduction to the tardis and the first doctor and ian and Susan and Barbara and tv show i first watch this story in 2020 with my dad and I was the first William Hartnell doctor who story i even saw and I love it alot
The sticks are not in contact with each other because it is a not very good bow drill you can see the string turning the other stick. :)
Great review. Selfishly I'd like you to just keep going right up to present day hahaha but a herculean effort indeed!
First year I'll be following one of these marathons as it airs. Really excited 😊
I was thrilled back when these were released for home video. Living in the US PBS was my first source for DW. (#4!) Loved this essay, but one bone to pick. Ian's sticks weren't touching because he was using the Bow - Drill base method for starting a fire. The bow spins the upright stick creating the friction to cause combustion.
I recommend: An Adventure In Space & Time (2013).
A dramatisation of the early years of Doctor Who (1963), with the story revolving around BBC executive Sydney Newman, novice producer Verity Lambert and actor William Hartnell.
That Was a Superb Production .
Bow drills don’t touch. There is more than just 2 sticks.
I remember seeing this at my friend Charlie's house. when it was first broadcast.
I wish I had a time machine to go back, watch it again and tell my past self all about the 60 year history of Dr. Who..
You can also see how this Doctor is still very young, almost adolescent, even though that wasn't the intention at the time of course
It’s obviously a Tavistock thing, I just haven’t worked out what the intended message was.
I had recently turned 12 in November, 1963 and remember seeing these early episodes fresh out of the box as it were. For some reason, New Zealand was the first country outside of the UK to screen Dr Who on its then fledgling one-only television channel. We kids weren't aware of that, of course. The theme music was like nothing we had ever heard - because there was literally nothing like it on TV, or radio. Hartnell's Doctor was a scary old man in many ways, not at all the wholesome hero type. I remember the series being very intense and dark. I was used to the serial format because we'd watch serials at the cinema every Saturday morning; they were also black and white. It was the Daleks that scared the hell out of me back then, with their implacable and relentless urge to kill anything that moved. I was a dedicated Whovian I suppose by the time Hartnell was replaced by another very grumpy version in the form of Patrick Troughton.
Watching Hartnell now, in these excerpts, I cannot help comparing some of his expressions to, of all people, Tilda Swinton! She's 63, and an almost perfect match in age to the Doctor. Comparing photos of her to Hartnell, I find a compelling similarity. She's no stranger to impersonating males, eg Dr. Josef Klemperer in "Suspiria", and I find myself thinking what a fascinating twist she would be as the Doctor. Given a decent script.
This all about perceived superiority and advancement. The Doctor mocks Ian and Barbara as 'primitives'. Then as soon as they're in the stone age, they are all pretty useless in contrast with the early humans. But ultimately it's Ian who makes fire from scratch again and saves them. His boy scout skills trump the Doctor's advanced alien knowledge. This is all reflected in the power struggle between Cal and Za.
Also, I don't think Ian's acceptance of the Doctor as their leader is a sudden character u-turn. I think it's Ian forcing the Doctor to accept responsibility.
Thanks for giving the Fatman and Brian a shout out
I was 10 in 1963 when I sat down to watch the first episode only to hear the tragic news about President Kennedy, but once that haunting theme, created by Delia Derbyshire, started playing I was lost in a world of wonder.... I guess you were never a boy scout otherwise you would know how to make fire with two sticks and a piece of string and the reason the two sticks aren't touching is that the string is looped around the vertical stick and attached to the two ends of the horizontal stick so that the vertical stick spins when the horizontal stick is moved back and forward. If you look closely you can just see the string. Oh and by the way Schedule is pronounced Shed-u-all not sked-u-all in proper (UK) English ! :)
I have a vague memory that thia episode was to be known as "A child of the stars". I remember watching this, aged 8, and again the following Saturday night, then every episode since, so I was "in" from the beginning !
At the first Dr. Who Convention in California, my SFX company sent our robot to greet Tom Baker at the airport. Tom walked up to it, shook its claw and said "I believe I have met you before"....I also met Johnathan there and briefly broached the idea of an American Dr, with not much positive response.....
I remember watching this as it aired in 1963. Hard think that I am now so old.
I initially missed part of the first episode. A week later, I hurried home, arrived just in time, switched on the box, then waited forever for that insufferable white dot to disappear from the center of the screen. Surprise, surprise - I was incredibly pleased when it turned out to be a repeat of the first episode. In the following weeks, I got home early enough to see The Telegoons before Doctor Who. These days, that would be called a double whammy!
I just rewatched this series with a new to classic who friend yesterday. She adored the first episode and we had fun with 2-4. They are very entertaining if you are watching with a friend. The companion stuff is great! The other all plot is… not good. Quite funny, but hard to take seriously. And as I have a degree in history with a minor in anthropology if I tried to take it seriously I would pull out my own hair.
So if you go in knowing there is a really shift in the story you can have fun.
18:50 never noticed how it prefigures Rutger Hauer. He extemporized and wouldn't have heard this. Great minds arrive at resonating ideas...
How I wish in billions of ways, I had been born in the year 1963 or even born years earlier than 1963 so I could have been alive to see the early black and white Dr Who stories. I first started to watch Dr Who, in the early 1970s aged 3 when Jon Pertwee was the Dr.
When I saw this in the 80's on the local PBS station, they didn't show the cavemen episodes at all, but instead went directly into The Daleks. And I seem to remember a Doctor Who book at the time listed all of the serials in order, and had the first one as An Earthly Child/The Dead Planet, the latter, I believe, being the name of the first episode of The Daleks. So I'm wondering if at the time, the BBC felt that those episodes weren't good enough, and retconned them away.
I just ordered this on dvd. Since the digital will be removed, and I’ve only seen it once.
Police box? I always thought that was a British phone booth!
They were exclusively for police.
For a scholarly essay about the political thrust of Classic Doctor Who, listen to the video (audio) essay:
ua-cam.com/video/go7jMkKIajY/v-deo.html
Here, Jon Bigger sets out the case for an anarchist "exploration" of the show (not necessarily communist, as alluded in this video, but revolutionary nonetheless).
Later in the video, Bigger explores how these anarchistic aspects were dropped in the current 2015 reboot of the show, leading many lovers of Classic Who to form negative views about New Who over recent years.
Brilliant , I was 7 years Old I Remember The Opening Music and Visuals , and just being Draw In . William Hartnell , and Tom Baker where the Best `Doctors ` in my Humble Opinion .
What I love about this episode is that the son of its writer is very normal and fine
Your remark regarding Barbara and Ian following Susan - "call the police" - is ironic in the most macabre and chilling way when one considers that, at the precise time the first episode was being transmitted, on 23rd November 1963, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were abducting their second victim, twelve-year-old John Kilbride, from a market in Ashton-Under-Lyne, later to kill him on Saddleworth Moor.
Ever since this first occurred to me, many years ago now, it has made the episode seem so much darker. People always comment on the fact that it was shown the day after the Kennedy assassination but, as poor John Kilbride's body was not found for almost two years after his murder, I guess the timing was never noticed.
The man tries to open the door and the tardis proceeds to shock him, don’t ever touch a woman without her permission the pilot proceeds to laugh at his miss fortune
Remember hiding behind sofa to Cave Scene, age 8, in 1963. This was intended as children's television in a changeover slot family viewing time, not geek late night specialist
Takes me right back to my childhood & hiding behind the sofa.
I saw every William Hartnell Dr who episode from the very first day it was shown on BBC. Please correct me if Im wrong, but I always remember(?) some initial talk or question of the Tardis flying to the moon (or even briefly going there and back). Was that ever the case? Please help this perennial misunderstanding I may have. I was 8 years old at the time.
I will die on this hill, An Unearthly Child, the episode, is one of the best in B&W era, it's truely an ICONIC episode, the rest of the serial? ehhhh, I thought for, MANY, years after I first saw it, that it was a 6 Part adventure, and, i feel like thats an achievement
My Mother in Law is one of the 2 girls in the corridor at Coal Hill.
Not watched Ray Mears or done any scouting have you? Using a bow to spin one stick against another is standard practice and far more effective than spinning it between palms of hands - and I didn't do scouts
I was 16 when this aired. The first episode was quite gripping but the caveman story was a bit of a let down. The BBC produced some very good children's serials and by comparison the caveman story never rose above mediocre - it was very run of the mill. If Dr Who had continued at this level I doubt that it would have continued very long. But then, of course, they introduced a villain that seized the imagination of a generation.
Remember watching this
According to Sydney Newman, he describes Verity Lambert as being 'full of pi** and vinegar'.
Thank you.
I thought He was starting a fire with a bow fire starter. Its string wrapped around the other stick.
Yeah, tho Barbara & Ian were concerned about Susan, not trying to harm her. And, what an adventure they went on, huh👍.
31:56 Dude, you've got no backwood skills, this shit is basic Scout training!
"The Bow Drill Method
Wrap the cord of the bow around your spindle, place the blunt end of the spindle into the notch on the hearth and then apply pressure through the bearing block. To keep the spindle steady, it helps to kneel down onto one knee and wrap the arm you're applying pressure with around your shin.
Start with regular and steady movements back and forth. When smoke starts to show, don’t stop. Instead, increase the bow speed until you start to see a red glow. This means your ember has formed."
You're welcome ;)
its back
Star child Crowley. Adaptation
saw this when I was in high school and never watched another episode...ever.
Oddly enough both Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis died on that same day too.
Have you seen Newsbenders? You might question what we were told about who died when.
I think that was a fire bow, the string was just hard to see.
Gee i remember all these old episodes when i was young, i thought Susan was so pretty 😍 i was in love 🥰 ❤
Why is the music of the Avengers in the background??
Bring on the politics! Everything is political, and art reflects life. Keep up the great work.
Ah a society trying to cope with an energy crisis
Nothing really changes 😊
Objectification of women? Really? This is something that needs to be fixed? No The brutality of the tribe in all aspects is what makes it so compelling. The collapse of the history teacher when faced with grim reality of prehistory is the thrust of the story. Much as Ian's scientific knowledge is challenged and expanded in the next story. The scripting of the first season is tight and intriguing and remains one of the best seasons in all of Dr Who.
Watched the unearthly child every Christmas
Bill & Ben, Bill & Ben, Bill & Ben
the...........
I like An Unearthly Child
I love how the one thing that’s never changed, not even like changed a tiny bit ,like how the tardis gets bigger or smaller, is the tardis materialisation
I don't like Doctor Who being referred to as a "serial" ... Makes it sound like Cornflakes!
"In 45 minutes Bradley Walsh presents Blankety Bkank, but first here on BBC One, Ncuti Gatwa makes his debut in the serial, Doctor Who!"
Chesterfield received a nasty electric ⚡ shock from the Tardis Console ... The Doctor should have it PAT Tested to check it's properly earthed!
Hmmm. The Doctors Granddaughter? Obviously a Timelord in her own right, and yet her character gets written out of the series very early on. Why? Why has the Doctor in any of his subsequent incarnations ever revisited his own "Grandchild". Missed out a huge part in the original story here surely?
Part 1 is just electric
Cheers
Za will not make fire.
Could it be "that time of month" for Barbara?
👍
God I know the Answer. 😳
So I guess Suzan is also a time Lord? I know the drs origins weren’t fleshed out back then but I guess the evolution of the story makes her one right?
This should be listed "Here is my presentation for my Media Studies College Project. I hope you like my voice as much as I do".
Me, I'm off to find something to watch, without the blether.
Lolwut?
You know, you really should research your topic before being disparaging. It was quite a good analysis of the first story and the way it got made... and then you displayed your total ignorance of firemaking. Bagging it out with "the sticks aren't even in contact with each other" and calling a "cheap moment" due to some imagined studio fire risk. If you did less speculating and perhaps, I don't know, maybe actual VIEWING, you'll see the twine connecting the sticks and starting the friction... which is actually how one creates fire. Back to the drawing board, pal.
Honestly, in a 30+ minute video I think that one pretty inconsequential mistake that lasts a couple of seconds shows how good my research process is.
@@MrTARDIS Not really that inconsequential. It might be one seemingly innocuous point but , I can imagine someone watching this thinking that if you got that bit wrong, it sort of undermines your authority to create a documentary at all (you call it a review, but it's a 30-minute documentary where you claim the right to throw in a few under-researched criticisms and opinions). And you're asking people to PAY you money to misinform them?
@@stevepanozzo3716 it is inconsequential because it's a random aside and a gag. If I said "I was really enjoying this story but that poor fire-making knocked it from a 10/10 to a 6/10 then you'd be right.
And one of the first comments I got on this video was someone explaining what I missed (I didn't see the string/wire because the image quality is from the early 1960s) and I've hearted the comment so it appears near the top of the comments section.
Also, people don't need to pay for these reviews. You're just making stuff up now.
Doctor Who is total crap now it's gone PC and woke the same is happening to James Bond
NO WOKE BS back then 10/10 now days show a 2/10 WOKE TO HELL
Notice at 19:25 the internal decoration of the TARDIS was on the outside of the doors. Yet next scene we have the usual phonebox look of the TARDIS.
the sticks aren't meant to be touching when Ian makes fire, he isn't rubbing them together. There's some sort of twine connecting them, by moving the one stick forward and back he rotates the other stick which creates friction and heat at its base from which you make the fire.
What a shame he forgot to bring along the Bic.
Exactly, it's a bow drill for starting a fire.
Good thing Doc carries some robust twine in his pocket next to the sonic screwdriver! Brilliant review - thanks!
String, string is a marvellous thing, rope is thicker, but string is quicker. @@TomPauls007
@@TomPauls007the doc has deus ex scified way crazier bullshit honestly
Susan's hair is interesting, because it hadn't quite become a fashion trend at the time. The BBC hired legendary hairstylist Vidal Sassoon to style her hair, just before he started styling celebrity hair in similar ways, which then made hair like Susan's popular. It's an extremely rare case of sci-fi correctly predicting future fashion, and it only happened because they were perceptive and/or lucky enough to hire a trendsetter *just before* he got famous enough to be far out of their price range.
Jacqueline Hill's hair is very Jackie Kennedy-ish.
@@UnchainedAmericaher hair is very early 1960s but Susan's is more of the later decade
Imagine being 7 years old, and watching the first episode. I don't have to imagine. We, the viewers, were thd first to gasp "it's bigger on the inside!".
I can't tell you what a shock that was or how brilliantly it was executed. I still remember that moment like it was last Saturday...
I am too young to have experienced that, but I try to imagine what it was like to see live back then. (I'm American, my first exposure to Dr Who was with the Forth Doctor, in the 80s.)
Glad you sat back in awe. Insert joke about the Sabbath and… bing! 😅
I bet you hid behind the sofa (most of us did ) when the `DARLEKS` appeared
@@1tonyboat Ha. I didn’t. They’re just human.
@Neil070. I am with you on this one. I remember it vividly. I also remember my mum not being too sure whether it was something suitable for me to watch. She didn't want me to have nightmares!
I came to appreciate the post-episode one Caveman stuff because it immediately equalises the group. The Doctor holds all the cards after Ian and Barbara leave Earth, but it soon becomes a story about a group of people learning how to work together. The Dr goes from a smirking demigod to scared old man. The first life he ever saves in the show is Ian's from the cavemen "if he dies there will be no fire!" And Ian and Barbara see what dealing with them (20th-century human 'primitives') must be like for him through the cavemen. And the Dr appreciates Ian's aptitude for adventures- he's young and brave- things that the Dr will one day become.
Fancy seeing you here!
@@StayOnTarget. I get around
While I agree with the fact that Ian and Barbara follow Susan home is a bit dodgy to modern sensibilities, it was common as recently as the 1980s for school staff to have an authority over their pupil's safety, and would have been perfectly common for concerned teachers to distantly observed seemingly troubled students while on their way home. It certainly wasn't considered sinister by the majority of the general public at the time.
Your point about Ian's firemaking misses one crucial detail: it's not easy to make out, but there is a piece of twine or, possibly, one of Ian's shoelaces, looped around both sticks, in a figure of eight formation. By moving both sticks simultaneously, with one of them touching the base wood, it allows for ease of control of the fire. Frankly, just rubbing two sticks together would do bugger all. You'd need the friction caused by the tightly-wound twine/shoelace to better help create the flame; which is exactly what happens. Most children watching would be aware of this technique, as they'd either be in the Boy Scouts or the Girl Guides or whatever, where fire-making badges would be routinely presented to the many recipients.
Finally, this is a very fine video essay, and I absolutely agree with you on the political subtext of the caveman episodes; very well observed, that.
Mate, this isn't a mere "review", it's a whole freaking essay! Like in the best way possible, though.
This was so well thought-out, with a great balance of historical/behind the scenes facts and personal opinions.. And as always, very eloquently put and amazingly edited.
This video got me so hyped for the rest of your Hartnell reviews :)
It's a shame that this story didn't leave a first strong impression when it first came out in late 1963, However thanks to Terry Nation with the Daleks the show has reached it's Sci-fi peak.
I love the "What on Earth's it doing here? these things are usually on the street" line. It's like retroactive exposition for something that would've just been commonplace at the time.
Kinda eerie in a way, like they knew people would still be watching it 60 years later.
We never had police boxes round here, though there is now one in a local museum that had been in a pub! They were not commonplace outside London by any means.
At 7 years old, I needed that exposition it added to to the mystery and the "creepy" atmosphere. To think, I was a little scared of the Doctor in that first episode.....
@@Neil070 Thank you for that added context, that makes sense :)