Where’s the David Tennent review. I’m in no position in telling you on how you should run your own UA-cam channel but shouldn’t you Finnish with the doctors before doing the companions.
@@sammiller3505 It's quite an involved and time-consuming process to research and make a "Doctor" video to these standards. Whilst some "Companion" videos will also need significant work, I'd imagine that most would be comparatively less time-consuming to produce, so they can be slotted between "Doctor" videos if it turns out that way.
Can understand you. Watching documentations of those days Susan´s moves are not appearing so odd for us nowdays. The productions with French and Italien teams were the most experimental in this field. Compare for example the German/French/Italien coproduction RAUMPATROUILLE - RAUMSCHIFF ORION ( SPACESHIP ORION - as it was also called in novelised form ) Here as an example on UA-cam: Raumpatrouille Orion - Tanz den Rücksturz ( Teil 4 von 7); put on the Net by KoenigVonWestfalen. Regrettably this " experiment of the Germans with Space Opera Science Fiction on the screen was stoped right after the first season. It went on then in novelised form. Also a handicap for the worldwide sale had been the making in Black and White. An American Station almost had bought the international rights on it but pulled out again when this became known to them.
@@Eric_1991 You're probably right, according to Wikipedia transistor radios became very popular at the time. The first models from 1954 were very expensive and not very reliable, but that changed over the next years. In 1962 you could get one for $15 (~145 today). I wasn't aware they've been accessible and affordable that early.
I've seen so many people making suggestions as to who should've been the timeless child and literally every single one of them are so good. Literally anyone else but the doctor was a better option to be the timeless child
@@reddemon13xzhonestly as good of an idea that is.. I wouldn’t do that. The doctor and Susan left Gallifrey with the hand of Omega all those centuries ago and never gone back. It’s best left that reason untold
@@ChibiSteakI actually heard something. I heard that the reason that Chanball left a lot of stuff open ended was that, just like with Susan and the Doctor in the premiere, he wanted to let future writers and media build upon it. Maybe it will be improved there, like with Big Finish.
@@aswarmofcrabs its also stated in a lot of the expanded universe that a lot of what we know about timelord biology doesnt apply to their first incarnation, for example some timelords only have one heart until they regenerate for the first time. This could mean they feel the efffects of age a lot more as well.
It's sad that Susan was so mistreated. She could've been such a good character. Leaving an alien girl with a grown human man to marry was just horrible from the Doctor
Another great video. I simply cannot overstate just how much of a fan i am of your videos. Even if i say "best Doctor Who based youtuber of all time", it's still an understatement. Keep up the fantastic work.
Me too. Make that a third vote. He is the perfect Dr Who commentator. Insightful, well researched, well produced and unique. He is doing what I always wanted to do, as I think at its best Dr Who is not just the best TV series ever but the most important. It is the Beatles of TV which is perfect as the Dr and his early companions often mentioned them. Having said that however at its worst Dr Who can be utterly dreadful. From 'Eleanor Rigby' to 'Ebony and ivory'. From profound and deep to nasty and cheap. All thanks to the interruption by politics which 'Clever' so carefully relates. So I am out of a job. I feel like Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys after Sgt Peppers. I quit!
Susan was also in two of the Unbound stories which are set in an Alternative Timeline where Her and The Doctor never left Gallifrey. She was brilliant and her chemistry with the Alternate Doctor played by Geoffrey Bayldon is really beautiful.
Just listening to your voice makes me feel more intelligent. Seriously though, the prospect of you tackling the companions and videos like these - sort of like a sister series to your main documentary is magnificent
Susan is a character that took a while to grow on me. Though I quite liked her as she appeared in the first episode, and (as pointed out here) at various points in individual stories, I agree that Carol Ann Ford was given a raw deal in the way her character was allowed to develop. It took rewatching the entire Hartnell run to appreciate some of the subtleties she brought to the role, at which point the character took on more psychological complexity for me... and I would say that was entirely due to the actress herself, rather than the scripts, in most cases. While still not my favorite among the companions, I've grown rather fond of the character, and she has a special place in my regard. I've not had a chance to hear any of her performances in the Big Finish productions, so I'm very glad she's been given a chance to let the character breathe. I think both Carol Ann and the character deserve that, and it's long overdue.
I’ve always had such a soft spot for susan. Although there are future female companions I grew to like more like liz sladen, jo, ace, rose, amy pond etc. But susan had the swinging sixties hip chick swagger down to a science. I’m just recently finding hartnell to be one of the most interesting, underrated drs of them all. I can find so much to like in a episode like space museum or planet of giants. Anybody with me?
William Hartnell is my second favourite doctor, behind Jon Pertwee. The 1st doctor era is so underrated in my eyes. I love The Romans, Planet Of Giants and The Space Museum, just to name a few stories :)
Despite her faults I enjoy susan as her history and dynamic with the first doctor makes her a standout among a long list of companions who often were either friends or love interests.
Susan is such a weird character for me because I ultimately agree with every criticism stated by fans and the actress herself, but I can't help but love her character nonetheless. For me, she gets a lot of passes for being the literal Doctor's granddaughter. I think that adds to the character, and I do think Susan added something to that original team.
I like Susan quite abit. I really liked how she was written by Big Finish in the Early Adventures. I can’t wait to hear her in the CC and her box set. I really hope the next companion video is both Ian and Barbara since it’s hard to separate anything about them without mentioning the other.
I really like Susan and the chemistry between her and William Hartnell. I just wish sometimes they would have given her more to do than just being the scared little girl.
Fantastic! I didn’t really warm up to Susan as fast as I did the other companions at the beginning of the Hartnell era. Thanks to your excellent documentary on Susan I’ll pay even more attention to her as I rewatch my favorite early Hartnell episodes ! Great video as always and looking forward to more of your companion series!
Absolutely wonderful! I love all your analysis! I was thrilled to hear you include her Big Finish appearances as well. An Earthly Child is one of my favourite Eighth Doctor adventures and the tragedy she suffers in To The Death was always so heartbreaking to me.
Love these. Another excellent and well researched video as expected. We need one on every single companion, villain, character, alien race, planet, and so on, in your entertaining and informative style. Shouldn't take you more than a few hundred years, and only a couple of regenerations.
Like much of Big Finish, Susan gets a proper outing and some meaty, truly epic stories and she's got her own spin off, Susa's War, part of the Time War series. It's brilliant.
Thanks for using the clip at 14:54. Orbital sampled it when they performed their remix of the Doctor Who theme at Glastonbury in 2004. Very appropriate, considering the doctor would indeed come back very shortly.
I think the second version of An Unearthly Child really helped all the characters, her especially. She's less off putting, with her original announcements, mainly the decimal system, toned down a bit.
Another splendid video. I had the honour of working on the Five Doctors, and was leaked the 'Bugger, I've Lost them" Dalek clip. I also twice interjected an answer to Carol Anne Ford when she addressed the audience at the last two Dr Who Proms. I am rather geekish too. I did not know anything of her Big Finish work though and am delighted to learn it ! Many thanks and keep it up. Another splendid discovery is that her character was going to be named Bridget, Biddy - which is my Sister's name and nick name. My Father worked on the early shows too :-)
Great stuff! I hope this series continues to cover all the companions. Of particular interest was Carole-Anne's career after the TV series. The Big Finish CDs. Very enjoyable, well written and narrated, absolutely top marks Richard.👏👏
I’d love to see a Saga of Susan series with the stories we know already shown from her pov. The assumption being that we watched the original shows from Grandfather’s perspective.
Excellent, always a joy to watch your documentaries. Like how you brought it right up to date with the Big Finish material. Proper tragedy the story arc she had with the 8th Doctor.
Wow, so much information I never knew. Great job on the research. Carole Ann Ford is such a great actor who could have brought so much more to the role of Susan.
Tardis Eruditorium Volume 1 does a very good job of addressing the character of Susan and it's misuse of the character as "The Problem of Susan". Basically, because of the character's age, it deals with two seemingly but contradictory facets with her character. Part teenage sexuality and part Doctor's granddaughter, this works ultimately against Susan and her character being written out of the series ends up being the only inevitable solution.
I believe the author, Elizabeth Sandifer, was referring to the classic series. Susan might have been showcased occasionally, like her brief stint in The Five Doctors, but as a full-fledged, flesh and blood recurring character, at least in the classic series, we really don't hear much about her. The Doctor, in the classic series, had more of a connection with his companions, like Jo Grant or Sarah Jane Smith.
Whenever the classic series is mentioned, it refers to the years 1963-1989. We are not talking about BBC books, New Virgin Line, comics, K-9 & Company, Torchwood, the reboot of the series (circa 2005), or anything else. If it was shown on television between the years 1963 and 1989, that is what is referred to the classic series. Not NuWho. But seriously, Kenneth, I want to personally thank you for putting the spotlight on this part of the thread. As long as you keep arguing about it (I am not interested in arguing with you, I just want you to keep telling me where I am wrong), you do me a favor by bringing more interest into this part of the thread. Thank you, again.
@@johnlane2585 As you argue, it is like Susan couldnt handle herself and just was the victim in every episode and only was there to bring in the young boys and men to watch the show. You argue as if Susan "only" was/being "eyecandy" and the "damsel in distress" and as such she could "easily" be written out of the show. I argue against that for one simple reason. The show isnt and has never been about Susan. Thats the reason she could so easily be written out. Nothing else. Not her "age", not her "sexuallity" not her "ending up in trouble so the Doctor must save her trope". This; that everyone is a victim under the circumstances are getting old. Quickly.
I think it's her clear Audrey Hepburn vibe that got her the job. I agree so wholeheartedly on the missing of of a great opportunity. I kept expecting it to pay off. However much like the Lost tv series nothing really came out of all the little teases of something more.
Wow! Another well researched and superbly crafted video. Lovely to see the Big Finish productions being included too. Thank you for the time and work you clearly put into this.
Wow!!! even the companion videos. I really enjoy your videos, and thank you for making them. I'm having fun watching them. Can't wait for the other vids.
Just finished watching this! Another awesome video under your belt! Well done brother!! A fine start to another video series. I was shocked about how much I didnt know about Carol Ann Ford! Your video series is THE finest Doctor Who retrospective I've ever seen! Keep up the fantastic work and I'm looking forward to the next videos! Take care brother!!
This was great...It makes me want more...MORE!!! It makes me wonder, who you would do next, and how you would do certain companions?!!! But you are grouping together some Companions, so that's good!!!
It makes sense to group together certain companions who entered and left at more or less the same time...Ben and Polly, Ian and Barbara and Amy and Rory (eventually)
Here is my impression of Susan: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH But to be serious, I would love a scene with an older Susan holding her own granddaughter & 13 getting to meet her great-great-grandaughter.
Thank you so much for starting this series. I feel like the modern show has had a very restrictive idea of what a companion is or must be, and an overview of how all the Classic companions (and maybe Big Finish ones) worked, the different kinds of relationship with the Doctor, and especially how they left the show, would be very interesting to see.
The background 'music' when Susan is in telepathic contact with the Sensorites was reused extenively in the early years of ITV's 'The Tomorrow People'.
Ace had a lot more of a consistent vision on TV, but you can see how that advancement kind of falls apart in the books. Oddy i've started to get the view that companions are the one that should get the development an change.
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But Ace has a character of her own and it's more active and independent. Susan behaves like a troublesome child even when she's not a child anymore.
Another amazing production to add to my collection of officially unofficial Doctor Who Bonus features to accompany the series! Love the accompanying subtitle files as always!
A fantastic “if you pardon the pun “ companion piece to your main retrospectives! If it means we get to see more content from you on a more regular occasion then it’s a great thing👍
oh my goodness thank you so much for this!! i adore her so much and its really nice to see someone else taking the time and effort to create sometrhing like this!!
Another superlative episode in your range of Dr.Who uploads. Something to bridge the gap for the much anticipated Tennant Era instalment. What a treat. I don't mind Susan to be honest, it's always interesting to see the companions represent the era in which Dr.Who was produced ; as you state a hell of a lot more could have been done with her character - I admire her bravery and the fact she grew up before our eyes although it was a very 'sudden'. Am looking forward to more for sure (as always). Thank you so much you are, and for me, have been an inspiration. Best always Crab x
Excellent video. For us living in the United States, we came to know of the Dr.Who TV show around 1980, from the third Doctor Tom Baker on our local PBS stations. While, I have only seen a few episodes with Susan, I do speak about her often to others to explore and check out classic (Black and White) episodes of this show. Also, I never knew about her being used for Dr. Who audio stories which is great. Glad they are adding more to her role because, she is a true gem.
Never liked her, honestly - not that it was Carol-Anne Ford's fault, of course. Susan never really got a chance to shine because this was the 60s and they thought that a damsel in distress was needed.
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Also, there's the part about the original intention. They meant to make an educational programme, Susan was meant to be the child that gets in troubles and needs help and counselling from adults, very much like fairy and moral tales work.
Sounds good to a Doctor Who fan but to the general audience it likely makes no sense. Well... She could've been introduced earlier in Series 12, maybe meet her with Nikola... I mean she likely knows how to time travel and I doubt she'd pass on Tesla
@@aswarmofcrabs Why would this be a good twist exactly? "Doctor, your granddaughter who hasn't appeared onscreen in decades was the Timeless Child all along, the origin of the Time Lord's ability to regenerate!" "Why didn't I know? Is she even still alive? Did she survive the Time War, and if so, does that mean you killed her?" "You know what, those are all very good questions with very good answers, but I'm not a good person so I won't tell you."
I really like Susan, been watching her stories back. She was a quite fun character. I kind of want her to come back. The Doctor still hasn't gone back for her. It would be cool to see her with Jodie just to see her adjust to knowing her grandfather as a grandmother.
Its so weird how simultaneously important yet unimportant Susan is to the greater Dr Who mythos. On the one hand, she’s a shrieking violet, one of the show’s worse examples in fact. She barely has any agency, character growth, or really anything interesting outside the Pilot episode. Yet at the same time, she’s the Doctor’s granddaughter, his flesh and blood, the one person the Doctor brought with him when he decided to leave Gallifrey. So much weight is retroactively placed on Susan as the scope of the Doctor and the Time Lords expanded putting her in a weird limbo of “pretty important” and “kind of pathetic”.
I've given up trying to think of superlatives to describe the sheer quality and dedication you have shown yet again. I hope the rumours I've heard are true, that you're being inducted into the Prydonian Chapter in recognition of your peerless historical work regarding one of its most renowned members and now his family as well.
when I saw her in an unearthly child I was really looking forward to her as a companion, then she immediately proceeds with the shrieking... I was really relieved when they replaced her with Vikki, whom I adore.... great chemistry with the doctor and bubbly personality over all, can't wait for your video on vikki
Clever Dick Films I saw this drop earlier, and I knew I had to see it now, after first watching your job on Hartnell. You were mercifully more kind than the 2013 movie. I've heard about Big Finish, and I have to check that out, but not until I'm done with your catalog of reviews. I'm going to watch the one on Troughton after a short break. You know, part 3. The one about the second Doctor! Lol. Can't help it; all good-natured though.
Didn’t know where to leave this comment so just chose here. This has been the best UA-cam series I’ve ever watched. Totally revitalised my love for the Doc. Just as an aside, if you ever feel the itch to do another companions video, could I put a cheeky request in for Ace? I would be soooo happy!
Thanks so much; that's wonderful to hear! The companion videos are voted for on my Patreon and the next one will focus on the Brigadier. Ace has been a close runner-up in the last two polls, however, so your request may well be granted soon!
I think she is biologically related to the Doctor, but in some way that she knows and he doesn't. Like maybe she was sent backwards along her grandfather's timeline. With all the lore that was only added to the show after she left, I think it makes more sense than not that there would be something timey-wimey involved in their relationship. Hehe, maybe she's Jenny's daughter or something to do with River :) If they do bring her back in the modern series -- and the chaotic kitten part of me hopes those rumors are true, just 'cause she's gonna be old enough to be the grandparent of the character she'll still be calling "grandfather" -- if they do, I hope they tie her relationship with the Doctor into something that's happened since she left. Not so much to solve the mystery, maybe, but adding just enough context to things we've already seen to deepen it.
Fantastic review as always! I was wondering for a review on the Master, do you reckon you'd seperate them into incarnations or just do one big video covering all of them? Really loving the side-series, really keen for Ace to get one :) :)
Having Susan with Martial Arts skills and telepathy would have made a MUCH different Doctor Who series! I think I'd have enjoyed that version just as much, especially if Ian couldn't fight and Susan was able to perform like River in Firefly, as long as she abhorred weapons.
Incidentally, it's 'The Tribe of GUM', in case you were unsure!
Where’s the David Tennent review. I’m in no position in telling you on how you should run your own UA-cam channel but shouldn’t you Finnish with the doctors before doing the companions.
Sam Miller - exactly what does Finnishing with the Doctors entail?
@@sammiller3505 nah mate he should do it how he wants to
@@sammiller3505 It's quite an involved and time-consuming process to research and make a "Doctor" video to these standards. Whilst some "Companion" videos will also need significant work, I'd imagine that most would be comparatively less time-consuming to produce, so they can be slotted between "Doctor" videos if it turns out that way.
You know it doesn't say gum. Why do you deny the truth?
The funny thing about her alien dancing scene is that I was never sure that it wasn't just how people danced in the 60s.
Can understand you. Watching documentations of those days Susan´s moves are not appearing so odd for us nowdays.
The productions with French and Italien teams were the most experimental in this field. Compare for example the German/French/Italien coproduction RAUMPATROUILLE - RAUMSCHIFF ORION ( SPACESHIP ORION - as it was also called in novelised form ) Here as an example on UA-cam: Raumpatrouille Orion - Tanz den Rücksturz ( Teil 4 von 7); put on the Net by KoenigVonWestfalen.
Regrettably this " experiment of the Germans with Space Opera Science Fiction on the screen was stoped right after the first season. It went on then in novelised form. Also a handicap for the worldwide sale had been the making in Black and White. An American Station almost had bought the international rights on it but pulled out again when this became known to them.
It was not about the dancing moves, but about the portable music player.
@@Spielkalb-von-Spartawasn't it a little radio? Didn't they exist back then?
@@Eric_1991 You're probably right, according to Wikipedia transistor radios became very popular at the time. The first models from 1954 were very expensive and not very reliable, but that changed over the next years. In 1962 you could get one for $15 (~145 today).
I wasn't aware they've been accessible and affordable that early.
Dunno why Susan wasn't the Timeless Child. That'd been genius
That could have been the reason why they left on the first place god damn
I've seen so many people making suggestions as to who should've been the timeless child and literally every single one of them are so good. Literally anyone else but the doctor was a better option to be the timeless child
@@reddemon13xzhonestly as good of an idea that is.. I wouldn’t do that. The doctor and Susan left Gallifrey with the hand of Omega all those centuries ago and never gone back. It’s best left that reason untold
@@ChibiSteakI actually heard something. I heard that the reason that Chanball left a lot of stuff open ended was that, just like with Susan and the Doctor in the premiere, he wanted to let future writers and media build upon it. Maybe it will be improved there, like with Big Finish.
Agreed
I'd like a regeneration of Susan to come back sometime. I'm shocked that hadn't been a thing yet.
Unfortunately Susan isn't a Time Lord. She's just Gallifreyan so she can't regenerate
@@zachclawges6932 Didn't stop River Song, and it's definitely possible that she's her grandmother.
@@NotAGoodUsername360 I think her grandma is a lady named patience
@@zachclawges6932 That's so stupid
@@Dana-61well it’s confirmed that she is so gotta move with the flow
"You see David, Grandfather's old, he needs me!"
He's like... 25 by Gallifreyan standards...
Well he was reaching the end of his first incarnation, so you could read that as her helping him through his first regeneration when it happens.
@@lucasdolding6924 that makes sense
@@aswarmofcrabs its also stated in a lot of the expanded universe that a lot of what we know about timelord biology doesnt apply to their first incarnation, for example some timelords only have one heart until they regenerate for the first time. This could mean they feel the efffects of age a lot more as well.
@@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502 PLus even in the show it has shown that each regeneration does age, albeit very slowly
"Grandfather's OLD"
"Susan my dear, I'm like 90 something, a teenager-"
It's sad that Susan was so mistreated. She could've been such a good character. Leaving an alien girl with a grown human man to marry was just horrible from the Doctor
She was a human at the time
Another great video. I simply cannot overstate just how much of a fan i am of your videos. Even if i say "best Doctor Who based youtuber of all time", it's still an understatement. Keep up the fantastic work.
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it!
I couldn't agree more! I second this.
Me too. Make that a third vote. He is the perfect Dr Who commentator. Insightful, well researched, well produced and unique. He is doing what I always wanted to do, as I think at its best Dr Who is not just the best TV series ever but the most important. It is the Beatles of TV which is perfect as the Dr and his early companions often mentioned them. Having said that however at its worst Dr Who can be utterly dreadful. From 'Eleanor Rigby' to 'Ebony and ivory'. From profound and deep to nasty and cheap. All thanks to the interruption by politics which 'Clever' so carefully relates. So I am out of a job. I feel like Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys after Sgt Peppers. I quit!
This will help hold us over till the tenth Doctor episode
Susan was also in two of the Unbound stories which are set in an Alternative Timeline where Her and The Doctor never left Gallifrey. She was brilliant and her chemistry with the Alternate Doctor played by Geoffrey Bayldon is really beautiful.
Just listening to your voice makes me feel more intelligent.
Seriously though, the prospect of you tackling the companions and videos like these - sort of like a sister series to your main documentary is magnificent
Susan is a character that took a while to grow on me. Though I quite liked her as she appeared in the first episode, and (as pointed out here) at various points in individual stories, I agree that Carol Ann Ford was given a raw deal in the way her character was allowed to develop. It took rewatching the entire Hartnell run to appreciate some of the subtleties she brought to the role, at which point the character took on more psychological complexity for me... and I would say that was entirely due to the actress herself, rather than the scripts, in most cases. While still not my favorite among the companions, I've grown rather fond of the character, and she has a special place in my regard. I've not had a chance to hear any of her performances in the Big Finish productions, so I'm very glad she's been given a chance to let the character breathe. I think both Carol Ann and the character deserve that, and it's long overdue.
For someone born and raised on Gallifrey, Susan really seems to struggle with the concept of what a Time Lord is and how regeneration works
I’ve always had such a soft spot for susan. Although there are future female companions I grew to like more like liz sladen, jo, ace, rose, amy pond etc. But susan had the swinging sixties hip chick swagger down to a science. I’m just recently finding hartnell to be one of the most interesting, underrated drs of them all. I can find so much to like in a episode like space museum or planet of giants. Anybody with me?
William Hartnell is my second favourite doctor, behind Jon Pertwee. The 1st doctor era is so underrated in my eyes. I love The Romans, Planet Of Giants and The Space Museum, just to name a few stories :)
Despite her faults I enjoy susan as her history and dynamic with the first doctor makes her a standout among a long list of companions who often were either friends or love interests.
Susan is such a weird character for me because I ultimately agree with every criticism stated by fans and the actress herself, but I can't help but love her character nonetheless.
For me, she gets a lot of passes for being the literal Doctor's granddaughter. I think that adds to the character, and I do think Susan added something to that original team.
Excellent documentary, Richard. Nicely timed to coincide with Carole Ann Ford's Eightieth birthday.
I like Susan quite abit. I really liked how she was written by Big Finish in the Early Adventures. I can’t wait to hear her in the CC and her box set.
I really hope the next companion video is both Ian and Barbara since it’s hard to separate anything about them without mentioning the other.
I really like Susan and the chemistry between her and William Hartnell. I just wish sometimes they would have given her more to do than just being the scared little girl.
Always a treat to see another one of your uploads, cheers.
Really enjoyed this, as someone who doesn't really know any of the behind the scenes of the original show, these videos are very informative.
Oh wow, so many companions, so many videos. EXCITED!!
Fantastic! I didn’t really warm up to Susan as fast as I did the other companions at the beginning of the Hartnell era. Thanks to your excellent documentary on Susan I’ll pay even more attention to her as I rewatch my favorite early Hartnell episodes ! Great video as always and looking forward to more of your companion series!
Absolutely wonderful! I love all your analysis! I was thrilled to hear you include her Big Finish appearances as well. An Earthly Child is one of my favourite Eighth Doctor adventures and the tragedy she suffers in To The Death was always so heartbreaking to me.
Love these. Another excellent and well researched video as expected. We need one on every single companion, villain, character, alien race, planet, and so on, in your entertaining and informative style. Shouldn't take you more than a few hundred years, and only a couple of regenerations.
11:39 David Tennant! He really is a time lord!
Bit weird though, considering Susan went on to marry David (Campbell, that is)!
The BBC logo animation at the beginning is so cool!!
Yeah, it was good one, wasn't it? They replaced it with a more generic world logo when they created BBC2.
Like much of Big Finish, Susan gets a proper outing and some meaty, truly epic stories and she's got her own spin off, Susa's War, part of the Time War series. It's brilliant.
I like what you chose for her theme music
Technically he didn’t. That’s the song she’s listening to at the start of unearthly child
@@matthewduncan8523 That's possibly why "Buck Rogers" liked the fact that Richard decided to use it.
@@matthewduncan8523 I was sure I recognized it!
Thanks for using the clip at 14:54. Orbital sampled it when they performed their remix of the Doctor Who theme at Glastonbury in 2004.
Very appropriate, considering the doctor would indeed come back very shortly.
I really wish Susan would return in the new series. So much dramatic potential there.
Ayy! Well done for moving to HD! Excellent video as always. Also, you are utilizing the new time stamp feature perfectly!
Yes, the support from my patrons has allowed me to upgrade to the new Adobe suite!
@@cleverdickfilms Nice!
I think the second version of An Unearthly Child really helped all the characters, her especially. She's less off putting, with her original announcements, mainly the decimal system, toned down a bit.
Another splendid video. I had the honour of working on the Five Doctors, and was leaked the 'Bugger, I've Lost them" Dalek clip. I also twice interjected an answer to Carol Anne Ford when she addressed the audience at the last two Dr Who Proms. I am rather geekish too. I did not know anything of her Big Finish work though and am delighted to learn it ! Many thanks and keep it up. Another splendid discovery is that her character was going to be named Bridget, Biddy - which is my Sister's name and nick name. My Father worked on the early shows too :-)
Great stuff! I hope this series continues to cover all the companions. Of particular interest was Carole-Anne's career after the TV series. The Big Finish CDs. Very enjoyable, well written and narrated, absolutely top marks Richard.👏👏
I’d love to see a Saga of Susan series with the stories we know already shown from her pov. The assumption being that we watched the original shows from Grandfather’s perspective.
Ah, lovely. The perfect treat for my Friday after-work afternoon! You, sir, are a master craftsman. Thank you once again for doing what you do.
One of the more under-appreciated companions in my view (at least in comparison to post reboot companions). You’ve done her justice
Excellent, always a joy to watch your documentaries. Like how you brought it right up to date with the Big Finish material. Proper tragedy the story arc she had with the 8th Doctor.
Wow, so much information I never knew. Great job on the research. Carole Ann Ford is such a great actor who could have brought so much more to the role of Susan.
Tardis Eruditorium Volume 1 does a very good job of addressing the character of Susan and it's misuse of the character as "The Problem of Susan". Basically, because of the character's age, it deals with two seemingly but contradictory facets with her character. Part teenage sexuality and part Doctor's granddaughter, this works ultimately against Susan and her character being written out of the series ends up being the only inevitable solution.
Was she thou? I could cite a few times...
I believe the author, Elizabeth Sandifer, was referring to the classic series. Susan might have been showcased occasionally, like her brief stint in The Five Doctors, but as a full-fledged, flesh and blood recurring character, at least in the classic series, we really don't hear much about her. The Doctor, in the classic series, had more of a connection with his companions, like Jo Grant or Sarah Jane Smith.
Caugh caugh: Im not gonna refer to the new (read current) Doctor´s (read Jenna Coleman) granddaughter (read Maisie Williams)....
Whenever the classic series is mentioned, it refers to the years 1963-1989. We are not talking about BBC books, New Virgin Line, comics, K-9 & Company, Torchwood, the reboot of the series (circa 2005), or anything else. If it was shown on television between the years 1963 and 1989, that is what is referred to the classic series. Not NuWho. But seriously, Kenneth, I want to personally thank you for putting the spotlight on this part of the thread. As long as you keep arguing about it (I am not interested in arguing with you, I just want you to keep telling me where I am wrong), you do me a favor by bringing more interest into this part of the thread. Thank you, again.
@@johnlane2585 As you argue, it is like Susan couldnt handle herself and just was the victim in every episode and only was there to bring in the young boys and men to watch the show. You argue as if Susan "only" was/being "eyecandy" and the "damsel in distress" and as such she could "easily" be written out of the show.
I argue against that for one simple reason.
The show isnt and has never been about Susan.
Thats the reason she could so easily be written out. Nothing else.
Not her "age", not her "sexuallity" not her "ending up in trouble so the Doctor must save her trope".
This; that everyone is a victim under the circumstances are getting old. Quickly.
What a great tribute to a glorious companion. Thank you for another great video. Absolutely fantastic!
I notice a lot of the music you use from the 50th anniversary collection. It's fun whenever I recognize one.
Nice idea, nice way to continue doing videos similar to your Doctor episodes but for the Companions. I look forward to more.
What a pleasant surprise! A very neat idea to supplement your main documentary series on Doctor Who. I heartily approve!
I think it's her clear Audrey Hepburn vibe that got her the job. I agree so wholeheartedly on the missing of of a great opportunity. I kept expecting it to pay off. However much like the Lost tv series nothing really came out of all the little teases of something more.
Wow! Another well researched and superbly crafted video. Lovely to see the Big Finish productions being included too. Thank you for the time and work you clearly put into this.
Wow!!! even the companion videos. I really enjoy your videos, and thank you for making them. I'm having fun watching them. Can't wait for the other vids.
Just finished watching this! Another awesome video under your belt! Well done brother!! A fine start to another video series. I was shocked about how much I didnt know about Carol Ann Ford! Your video series is THE finest Doctor Who retrospective I've ever seen! Keep up the fantastic work and I'm looking forward to the next videos! Take care brother!!
Thanks so much!
This was great...It makes me want more...MORE!!!
It makes me wonder, who you would do next, and how you would do certain companions?!!!
But you are grouping together some Companions, so that's good!!!
It makes sense to group together certain companions who entered and left at more or less the same time...Ben and Polly, Ian and Barbara and Amy and Rory (eventually)
Another wonderful video, thank you. There is much here that I didn't know.
Here is my impression of Susan:
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
But to be serious, I would love a scene with an older Susan holding her own granddaughter & 13 getting to meet her great-great-grandaughter.
Thank you so much for starting this series. I feel like the modern show has had a very restrictive idea of what a companion is or must be, and an overview of how all the Classic companions (and maybe Big Finish ones) worked, the different kinds of relationship with the Doctor, and especially how they left the show, would be very interesting to see.
Your top quality videos are always a pleasure to watch.
Thank you for subtitles.
You're very welcome!
Keep up the great work! Love how consistently high quality your stuff is
I love it! Nice to see you covering the companions!
The background 'music' when Susan is in telepathic contact with the Sensorites was reused extenively in the early years of ITV's 'The Tomorrow People'.
She's similar to Ace in a way, a Young girl who hangs around with the Doctor. Somewhat feisty in a sense.
Ace had a lot more of a consistent vision on TV, but you can see how that advancement kind of falls apart in the books.
Oddy i've started to get the view that companions are the one that should get the development an change.
But Ace has a character of her own and it's more active and independent. Susan behaves like a troublesome child even when she's not a child anymore.
Susan and Ace are both unique in their own way as their characteristics and dynamic with the doctor, makes them stand out
Posted a while ago, but what I think I must've meant was that Susan essentially provided the building blocks for characters like Ace.
@ Technically by her species standard she is still a child.
Another amazing production to add to my collection of officially unofficial Doctor Who Bonus features to accompany the series! Love the accompanying subtitle files as always!
Ooooh this is great! I did not expect a series of video about companions at all
A nice "short" video to get me back into your work. Man I've been away for to long, your stuff is great!
A fantastic “if you pardon the pun “ companion piece to your main retrospectives! If it means we get to see more content from you on a more regular occasion then it’s a great thing👍
So glad you're back! I absolutely love your work on these videos!
Oh my god, a new series of videos
Brilliant analysis. Poor Susan - an unearthly child of her time!
this was an awesome surprise! love your videos and a companion series would be awesome alongside your Doctor Who era series!
hope to see more of this series. very well done.
Now this is another series I would love to see you produce!
oh my goodness thank you so much for this!! i adore her so much and its really nice to see someone else taking the time and effort to create sometrhing like this!!
Great vid. Well researched and informative as ever. Brilliant stuff.
15:24 - Nebrox?!! [Hurndall appeared in the Season 4 Blake's 7 episode 'Assassin', as mentioned in the Fifth Doctor era of the documentaries]
An excellent high quality retrospective, well done sir!
Bravo. Such amazing quality writing and documentary. Can’t wait for what’s next
Every episode you make is always of high quality.
Fantastic video as always, well done!
Another superlative episode in your range of Dr.Who uploads. Something to bridge the gap for the much anticipated Tennant Era instalment. What a treat. I don't mind Susan to be honest, it's always interesting to see the companions represent the era in which Dr.Who was produced ; as you state a hell of a lot more could have been done with her character - I admire her bravery and the fact she grew up before our eyes although it was a very 'sudden'. Am looking forward to more for sure (as always). Thank you so much you are, and for me, have been an inspiration. Best always Crab x
Excellent video. For us living in the United States, we came to know of the Dr.Who TV show around 1980, from the third Doctor Tom Baker on our local PBS stations. While, I have only seen a few episodes with Susan, I do speak about her often to others to explore and check out classic (Black and White) episodes of this show. Also, I never knew about her being used for Dr. Who audio stories which is great. Glad they are adding more to her role because, she is a true gem.
Never liked her, honestly - not that it was Carol-Anne Ford's fault, of course. Susan never really got a chance to shine because this was the 60s and they thought that a damsel in distress was needed.
Also, there's the part about the original intention. They meant to make an educational programme, Susan was meant to be the child that gets in troubles and needs help and counselling from adults, very much like fairy and moral tales work.
She did scream well, however.
I also think sometimes they make her act a little young for a 15 year old, or maybe I'm just comparing her to 15 yr olds of today.
Another excellent episode! You have certainly taken on quite a task if you are branching out to work on the companions!
Now imagine if she had been the Timeless Child instead?!
Wait a minute, you might be on to something here...
Ngl this would've been a great twist
PLEASE BE THE SHOW RUNNER
Sounds good to a Doctor Who fan but to the general audience it likely makes no sense. Well... She could've been introduced earlier in Series 12, maybe meet her with Nikola... I mean she likely knows how to time travel and I doubt she'd pass on Tesla
@@aswarmofcrabs Why would this be a good twist exactly? "Doctor, your granddaughter who hasn't appeared onscreen in decades was the Timeless Child all along, the origin of the Time Lord's ability to regenerate!"
"Why didn't I know? Is she even still alive? Did she survive the Time War, and if so, does that mean you killed her?"
"You know what, those are all very good questions with very good answers, but I'm not a good person so I won't tell you."
I really like Susan, been watching her stories back. She was a quite fun character. I kind of want her to come back.
The Doctor still hasn't gone back for her.
It would be cool to see her with Jodie just to see her adjust to knowing her grandfather as a grandmother.
Awesome upload
Its so weird how simultaneously important yet unimportant Susan is to the greater Dr Who mythos.
On the one hand, she’s a shrieking violet, one of the show’s worse examples in fact. She barely has any agency, character growth, or really anything interesting outside the Pilot episode.
Yet at the same time, she’s the Doctor’s granddaughter, his flesh and blood, the one person the Doctor brought with him when he decided to leave Gallifrey. So much weight is retroactively placed on Susan as the scope of the Doctor and the Time Lords expanded putting her in a weird limbo of “pretty important” and “kind of pathetic”.
Man, I really need to listen to the Big Finish Audio stories...
I only got into them recently. I started with Spare Parts, a 5th Doctor Cyberman story. Highly recommended.
yes you do, and there are now hundreds of them! Pick a doctor and take a listen, all are here now except 9th and 12th
I love how you used John Smith and The Common Men for the music. Brilliant video as always
I've given up trying to think of superlatives to describe the sheer quality and dedication you have shown yet again. I hope the rumours I've heard are true, that you're being inducted into the Prydonian Chapter in recognition of your peerless historical work regarding one of its most renowned members and now his family as well.
I don't think I could fit the collar through the door!
when I saw her in an unearthly child I was really looking forward to her as a companion, then she immediately proceeds with the shrieking... I was really relieved when they replaced her with Vikki, whom I adore.... great chemistry with the doctor and bubbly personality over all, can't wait for your video on vikki
Please do one of these on Barbara. They are very good and I think there’s a great wealth to say about her particularly
I shall do, have no fear!
Excellent video! As you said, character development wasn't a priority in the 1960s but Big Finish gave us the Susan we should have seen.
Awesome video! I hope you do more!
amazing video, can't wait for the 10th doctor video
This is going to be a fascinating series
Excellent piece, discovered Dr Who November 1963, discovered my Susan December 1964 still a big fan of both. :o) now a silly old buffer!
Clever Dick Films I saw this drop earlier, and I knew I had to see it now, after first watching your job on Hartnell. You were mercifully more kind than the 2013 movie. I've heard about Big Finish, and I have to check that out, but not until I'm done with your catalog of reviews. I'm going to watch the one on Troughton after a short break. You know, part 3. The one about the second Doctor! Lol. Can't help it; all good-natured though.
This is a perfect follow up from the main series! Yes!
Didn’t know where to leave this comment so just chose here. This has been the best UA-cam series I’ve ever watched. Totally revitalised my love for the Doc. Just as an aside, if you ever feel the itch to do another companions video, could I put a cheeky request in for Ace? I would be soooo happy!
Thanks so much; that's wonderful to hear! The companion videos are voted for on my Patreon and the next one will focus on the Brigadier. Ace has been a close runner-up in the last two polls, however, so your request may well be granted soon!
Thank you for this wonderful work. It was very educational and beautiful in presentation.
An unexpected addition to the series, but more than welcome!
I think she is biologically related to the Doctor, but in some way that she knows and he doesn't.
Like maybe she was sent backwards along her grandfather's timeline. With all the lore that was only added to the show after she left, I think it makes more sense than not that there would be something timey-wimey involved in their relationship.
Hehe, maybe she's Jenny's daughter or something to do with River :)
If they do bring her back in the modern series -- and the chaotic kitten part of me hopes those rumors are true, just 'cause she's gonna be old enough to be the grandparent of the character she'll still be calling "grandfather" -- if they do, I hope they tie her relationship with the Doctor into something that's happened since she left. Not so much to solve the mystery, maybe, but adding just enough context to things we've already seen to deepen it.
Fantastic review as always! I was wondering for a review on the Master, do you reckon you'd seperate them into incarnations or just do one big video covering all of them? Really loving the side-series, really keen for Ace to get one :) :)
I think I’ll look at the Master by incarnation but I’ll have to think a bit more about it.
@@cleverdickfilms Alright fair enough, might be a miniseries in a miniseries (of Monsters & Villains)
Having Susan with Martial Arts skills and telepathy would have made a MUCH different Doctor Who series!
I think I'd have enjoyed that version just as much, especially if Ian couldn't fight and Susan was able to perform like River in Firefly, as long as she abhorred weapons.
Susan was a very pretty yet ‘worried’ companion