Doctor Who: Season One (1963-64). Starting from Scratch, with No Scratch.
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- #DoctorWho #WilliamHartnell #DoctorWho60th #DoctorWho60thAnniversary
Stam Fine Reviews goes back to where it all started, by ‘it’ we we mean 'Doctor Who.'
Doctor Who began as a 25 minute drama aimed at kids in order to bridge the gap between the BBC’s sports coverage and a pop music programme.
The Doctor (William Hartnell) and his granddaughter Susan (Carol Ann Ford) are saddled with two of Susan’s Teachers- Ian (William Russell) and Barbara _- on their adventures through space and time.
This video looks at the start of Doctor Who, and how it was made as well a look at the individual stories of what would be the show’s first season. So, it’s Season One of Doctor Who, not Series One, or the other Season one.
Also, it’s in black and white. Not because it’s moody, but because it was 1963 and no one had colour telly in Britain, except for maybe the Queen, and possibly Peter Sellers.
0:00 Introduction
2:10 Origins of Doctor Who
6:55 Time Machine or Police Box?
10:25 Producer Verity Lambert
10:56 William Hartnell is The Doctor
13:30 Susan (Carol Ann Ford)
14:12 Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill)
14:43 Ian Chesterton (William Russell)
15:32 How It Was Made
18:51 A New BBC Tradition- Cancelling Doctor Who.
19:26 Production Team
19:43 Titles and Theme Music
22:20 Pilot
23:45 Episode Titles and Missing Episodes
24:20 The First Story
28:17 The Daleks
34:36 The Edge of Destruction
36:54 Marco? Polo!
38:32 Keys of Marinus
41:50 The Aztecs
43:03 The Sensorites
46:05 Reign of Terror
48:14 Summary - Розваги
My father worked on the show. One day he took me in to see it being made. I saw the Troughton titles being created ! It took me years to realise what I had seen. Many years later I too worked on the show. I'd love to do it again.
Very lucky man
lucky.
I agree with the people who commented before me you were very lucky indeed... Treasure those memories, I fear the show will not last longer than 4 years now that Disney has it, or rather has their hands in the pie.
Very special indeed
I'm 70. I remember watching the first episode - such a long, long time ago, in a different place.
nice
😊 me too...
(including being 70 !! How did *That* happen?! ... I reckon it was having too many birthdays...?!!)😊🏴🤔🇬🇧🙂❤️🖖
@@brigidsingleton1596 that's cool, I guess you might remember some of the missing episodes then. do you have any particular moments you remember fondly? if I was a kid in the 60s I reckon I'd find most of the historical episodes kind of boring (although I love them now)
I said I'd never watch Doctor Who, because I saw the first episode of the modern run and it was obnoxious to me. Two days ago I figured I'd try watching some of the 1963's original episodes and they're mostly quite fun. When the Daleks show up by episode 5 and they have like a seven or eight episode arc, I must say, for it being British TV in the early sixties, this is extraordinarily well produced. You get special effects, matte paintings, miniature cities, movie set alien nuclear radiated forest, very well made Dalek... vehicles, what are they, cyborgs? I don't know whether to call it puppeteering, animatronic or the actors maneuvering a sort of vehicle. The writing, dialogue and acting is quite good and comes off as natural most of the time too. Quite a marvel for such humble beginnings.
The modern show would get much better as it went on.
ya think?
The special effects of the original series in the 60s are incredible
@@Tolstoy111 and also much worse
I think The Edge of destruction is such an underrated story. So tense, character driven and full of atmosphere.
I was 15 in 1963. I remember running home to watch the first episode.
😊 WoW... Happy 75th birthday this year!
@@brigidsingleton1596 Thank you very much. I actually just turned 76 a few days ago and celebrated 50 years of happy marriage yesterday.
@@jinnbuster4753
Congratulations on both happy achievements. 🏆🙂🏴🇬🇧🖖
I grew up on the west coast of the US. As a kid I watched reruns of Doctor Who on PBS. My family and friends could not understand what I saw in that show. My Mom would leave the living room and say "I'm not watching paper mache monsters". To her credit she never made me turn it off. I love the classic episodes of Doctor Who. Haha. The paper mache monsters still do not bother me.
Oh yes, the PBS days. If you forgot to program the VCR, you had to wait like two years for the show to come back around, assuming they were showing 4-6 episodes per week.
I feel like more recently improved costumes and Special effects take away something unique about Doctor Who. The most important element was writing. And actors who brought characters to life.
@@carlrood4457Most of early Doctor Who episodes were lost because were video taped. You notice episodes that survived in tact were film transfers
Born in 59, I well remember hiding behind the couch, at my Grandma's we used to visit once a week in the 1960s. A revoltingly strong cup of tea, Dixon of Dock Green over, it was time for Doctor Who, all in glorious Black & White. No recording, no timeshifting, you had to be there.
"Revoltingly strong cup of tea."😂
'side tracked by his own brilliance" - 60 years later, that's still the case.
I was impressed by visual and sound effects created for William Hartnell era. Electronic music was just beginning heard mostly in radio series or reproduction from SF Classic movies of 1950s.
I met Tom Baker many years after he had left Doctor Who in a pub in Fort Willam in Scotland, I did not recognise him at first but when he spoke I recognised his distinctive voice right away. I ended up having a conversation with him and to cut a long story short he told me he was there as they were filming some location shots for Monarch of the Glen. We ended up having quite a long and interesting conversation and he even bought me a pint of Guinness. I learned that he had a connection to Scotland, he told me his middle name was Stewart and that his father had Scottish and English ancestry. I'm very pleased that I met him, Tom was a gem of a man and very down to earth and had many interesting anecdotes.
My old friend Peter. RIP, was a huge Tom Baker fan and told me that when he met him, that Tom was a great guy
True story, I once built a 3/4 scale TARDIS with a Mame console inside it (signed inside the Police Box signs by various Drs and assistants), once modded the original DOOM game to have Dr Who sound effects and once met Jon Pertwee whilst visiting a bird sanctuary near Palmerston North in NZ sometime around 1990. So I am probably what you'd call a fan although I lost interest somewhere around the Capalidi seasons and haven't really seen anything since. 'My' Dr was Tom Baker but Peter Davison grew on me in later years, mainly after I saw him in 'A very Peculiar Practice' which might be another series you could review one day (which also starred David Troughton who is Patrick Troughton, the 2nd Dr's, son). Great review as always!
Lol I was 52 and saw a tardis at Sydney Comic-Con and I had to try to open door… just in case❤
I was born that year and grew up with The Doctor. Thanks Stam
I recommend 'The Aztecs' strongly to anyone who has not seen it!
Very lucky it survived.
Yeah I am shocked SF thought it was middling. But then I like the Historicals
Its one of my favourite Hartnell stories.
I hated The Aztecs! It was like a long, boring school play to me.
@@Dermot2927 Ah well, sorry you didn't enjoy it
The Aztec was my first introduction to the 1st Doctor.
A bit over acting by the actor who played the high priest but loved his character.
Crumbs!
Hartnell was only 55?
And having memory issues to boot....
Life was harsh back in the day!
I was thinking much the same thing. I'm nearly that age and IMO don't look anywhere close to that age. Some people just seem to skip middle age and go straight to grandparent looks (like Wilford Brimley). Or maybe it's all the preservatives in our food now (notably lacking in Quaker Oats).
He was a heavy drinker.
Heavy drinking and smoking, and a nervous breakdown while in the Army during the War
@@davidmills8726 heck, even William Shatner looks 40-going-on-50 in TOS when he was in his 30s. Chris Pine was only a couple years younger in the 2009 film, but by comparison he looks like a fresh-faced 21-year-old.
All that pollution really did a number on our ageing. Which kinda makes sense when you think about it, that microscopic damage must build up. You'd even see a dramatic difference in ageing between 18 and 21 years old for a lot of actors, which doesn't quite happen anymore in the same way.
Yup, he was the same age as Peter Capaldi was in his first series.
Glad to see you cover 60s who :)
Bloody hell! I almost choked on my sandwich when the Daleks started singing "We built this city on Rock and Roll".
Thank you so much, a long awaited addition to your wonderful library of videos...and not a moment too soon.
Great to see this tribute to not only a wonderful program but also to William Hartnell, the FIRST incarnation..."the original, you might say".
The Master may have fooled the last incarnation of The Doctor - once again manipulating the Matrix in order to deceive - but he doesn't fool me; Mr. Hartnell was and always will be the original.
To say otherwise is to “... unwrite [many great writers'/script editors'/producers'] work...to deny what [they] wrote...It’s absolutely [not] fine. It’s canon, it happened. It was transmitted. You cannot unwrite things, that would be absolutely rude [to Mr. Hartnell and many others behind the scenes since 1963].”
100% true. The Timeless rubbish is simply an illusion to throw the Doctor off by the cunning Master. There were no Doctors before Hartnell because he was the original.
Describing the civil war plot of The Daleks, an opportunity for karaoke was right there and you didn't take it; WHEN TWO TRIBES GO TO WAR, GO TO WAR, GO TO WAR....
This is the Dr Who that I grew up watching. The Daleks scared me stiff!
The Daleks are scary
Clearly a labour of love and respect... thank you!
Not to be confused with series one or the other season one.
Lol. Although right now, those season's 1 are in the past, the present, AND the future... how very Doctor Who
Makes sense when you split them into Classic, Nu Who and Whoniverse. Season 1 is titled that way as it'll be a clean break from Nu Who, and is being produced by Bad Wolf Studios as a wholly outsourced project, rather than it being produced in-house by the BBC (and also it's for the ease of listing on Disney+). Basically split by production management & funding, with Classic by BBC, Nu Who by BBC Wales (and BBC America later on), and Whoniverse by BBC & Disney).
I've watched several season 1 breakdowns and the 50th anniversary docudrama and I'm impressed at how much new information you've included here. A Stam Fine job indeed!
That was really enjoyable. I'm just old enough to have seen the first doctor on TV as a youngster (I can remember the Celestial Toy Maker clearly and a few others from season three) and it was a big deal at the time. It hasn't aged well, but I thought you handled that well, and the humour was spot on. The Daleks singing 'we built this city' was brilliant.
I was born in 1981 but was never allowed to watch it growing up as my family weren’t into sci-fi like I was now watching the reboots with Chris Eccleston and David Tennant
Very enjoyable.
I've been watching Dr. WHO since 1963 at age 7.
In the 70s, my parents bought a VHS recorder, and I'm sure I recorded these early episodes when ABC re-aired them.
I'd need to view around 2,500 E180 & E240 tapes to find them. WHO knows, I might even have the "missing" episodes.
Please do, it would be amazing for fans to find more lost episodes.
That would be wonderful.
An adventure in space and time is incredibly solid, especially considering how hit or miss Mark Gatiss' writing is
True. I quite liked some of his stuff although I thought his take on Dracula was pretty tedious and overblown.
I've felt, for a long time, that the other writers from 'League of Gentlemen', would be a better fit.
And then it throws realism out the window away with that last scene - and then doubles down with the re-edited version.
And the extras on the Bluray are proof that Gatis should not be let anywhere near the dressing up box.
It's solid, but it does also skip over a lot of the history like many biopics
Credit to Delia Derbyshire. Amazingly creative individual x
OMG imagine if every TV show and film featuring a time machine DID use the Tardis piano string/key sound effect? I think they ought to, it should be the law.
this was a pretty pleasant surprise, but i really hope season 25 is coming up next!
well, the next who video will feature A Scottish Doctor. (EDIT for clarification)- A scottish actor playing the Doctor.
@@StamFine Not the 2 hour in depth Terror of the Zygons analysis suely?? ;)
@@StamFine Was just imagining Amelia Pond being the companion of David Tennant's Doctor, two Schots in the T.A.R.D.I.S.
@@StamFine Sylvester McCoy,David Tennant and Peter Capaldi three SCOTS so far to have played the Doctor and now Ncuti Gatwa will play the fourth Scottish actor to play the Doctor and John Barrowman is also Scottish born.
First doctor era is such a different ballpark to the vast majority of DW and you can call it simplistic without being wrong. But there are some absolutely charming parts to it. Love the demure romance you can sense building between Ian and Barbara. The Doctor letting Susan go so she can live her own life (if you're able to make peace with the fact that he never visits her again on-screen, which is a weirdly off character thing down on paper). And the slow but steady respect that warms between Doctor and Barbara & Ian. There's that really sweet moment when Susan's just recently left and the Doctor mistakenly asks her to set a control on the TARDIS, so to soften the absence, Barbara steps in and asks if the Doctor can show her how to do it instead.
I know it sounds ridiculous to most people, but Hartnell is definitely my favorite doctor by far. He was the original, and set the tone forevermore, and my feeling is no one was ever quite up to catching the true gist of it after him. Yes, that's how I feel about it. And I don't mind that everyone disagrees. I have my view and I'll stick with it, thank you very much. My hat's off to Hartnell, who was the best of them all.
I've always thought it was amusing that in the original 1963-1989 run of Doctor Who, the only Doctor who ever gets out of a jam using his pure sex appeal, Captain Kirk-style, is William Hartnell in "The Aztecs".
Marvelous review. Thank you for the time and effort you put into it.
It's awful that the Beeb gave Raymond Cusick a paltry ex-gratia of £100 for his design of the Daleks. He was, however, the proud recipient of a gold Blue Peter badge for his work. 🇬🇧
I remember watching the first episode, compared to what else was on at that time it was ground breaking and scary!
What a wonderful overview of where it all began. I always look forward to your Who reviews but this was something special.
I love your mix of analysis and comedy and the singing Daleks are always a good laugh.
Thank you for all your hard work producing this video. And the Captain Pugwash joke was inspired. Excellent job.
I’m working my way through the classic seasons on BBC iPlayer and am on season 5. This helped jog my memory about what happened in season 1 as you tend to forget when you’ve watched a lot of them. I’ll give the other reviews too.
Weirdly, I found out i'm distantly related to Peter Brachacki, who was my grandfather's cousin, late in life when my nan randomly told me about it about 15 years ago.
Always love a Stam Fine Who video as we always get some 'Dalek Karaoke!' Couple of bangers this time...particularly enjoyed 'Cuando, Cuando, Cuando!'
In my opinion whether inadvertently or deliberate William hartnell's first doctor really showed that he had a hard time knowing what humans are about (antisocial really) it was easy with Susan because she was a fellow Gallifreyan. And I don't think it was until Jamie came along with Patrick troughton's second doctor that he started to realize well maybe these humans are good traveling companions and worth protecting.
He inadvertently made the doctor more friendly and likeable. In universe, you could say that it was the doctor getting used to humans and their emotions. Out universe, it was probably the writers making him nicer based on feedback from the higher ups and them still trying to figure out the character themselves.
What a wonderful video surprise to find uploaded around midnight here in california... That's in American, don't you know!
Fantastic work as always... And right up to date too...
I'm impressed with the idea that in 1963 one could consider the processes of the BBC to be "stuck in the past" ... it's not like anyone had been doing it a long time.
Radio serials had been going on since the 30s… so could be relatively antiquated by 63…
Correction - according to Wikipedia they were doing radio plays in the 20s!
I think the BBC being stuck in the past has more to do with its inability to see TV as a place for non-fiction other than serious period dramas presented like stage plays. Many higher ups saw the BBC as being an educational vehicle, but actors and directors all had theatre backgrounds and dry education was not their preference, so they were always pushing to do more. The idea that Doctor Who is “not very BBC” has plagued the show from the beginning to even now.
Consider also that 'commerical television' had only been launched relatively recently, and they were already pitching themselves as being more trendy than the old guard BBC who had been on airwaves (screen and radio) for decades already by that point. Right or wrong, the Beeb was already percieved to be your dad's TV station.
Wasn't the Reithian mission statement "to educate,inform and entertain" (not necessarily in that order)?
Thanks Stam
I’m a huge Doctor Who fan from the U.K. and it’s evident you’re a huge fan too! I loved this. So much work put into this review which I know would have taken hours and hours. Brilliant! Well done!
Wow! Perfectly times for when I finish work and start the weekend, thanks Stam Fine!
Thank you for uploading this.
I was expecting Doctor Who this week but I expected the 25th season honoring its 25th anniversary for its 35th anniversary for the 60th.
But honoring the show by reviewing the first season for its 60th anniversary... fine, it's fine.
I like Hartnell's Doctor and I like the components in the first season but it's too obvious the question "what should we do with them?" didn't come up until after the season was over.
gotta start somewhere
I didn't think you would go back from the beginning to Season 1 of Doctor Who. Good Review!
Great review! I appreciated the breakdowm of the technical aspects of the production.
I obviously haven't had a whole lot to laugh about lately, but you cracked me up so much with that 67 aneurysms...
Well done, sir 👏
Three days later and I’ve just got the Helen Reddy reference!
Fan-fabby-tastic work as always my good man! ❤
43:29 I didn't expect the 12th Doctor back in Season 1! Lol. From just that angle anyhow, totally looks like Capaldi.
Woohoo! So glad you're covering this era! Another great video, thanks!
Your artistic licenses are a lot better than the 50th anniversary special. 😃
And the "discarded made up 1980's attempts at colourising are not that far off, LOL!"
Great video! Very entertaining😅
My brain is telling me to watch all of these videos but I'm in the process of watching series 10 and want to keep myself relatively unspoiled.
The vids will be here when you're ready.
Some great edits and a perfect script. Your video is way funnier than Dr Who was.
Great documentary about the first season.looking forward to season 2 now
Everytime I see videos about the original Doctor, it reminds me how much I loved the Time Tunnel as a kid and how much I really wish we'd been lucky enough to have gotten a second season, let alone more. I'm glad this show isn't one of the many under appreciated and "forgotten" gems. Wish they'd played it here, back then; I don't know if I'd have watched every part of each story arc, but I'm willing to be the start, resolution and at some of the episodes between would've been must see TV for me.
I watched the Time Tunnel,too,in the mid-70s.
FINALLY! I wondered why you never covered the first few seasons
It's taken me a few days to watch this but have really enjoyed it. I remember it on TV from when I was younger, even though I'm a massive sci-fi fan, this never connected with me. I do actually follow several channels that do Doctor Who material because some of the lore and episode concepts are really interesting.
I agree that the Sensorite series was sham but, the Keys of Marinus was a good and clever series of stories.
Being lucky enough to be born in 1962 watching Doctor who was always part of our families routine and gathered around the television to be glued watching this old man and his freinds travelling through the galaxy in his police box we never mentioned wobbly sets or bad acting just enjoyed going on these adventures and learning as we went they really were as a kid growing up great times and it takes me back remembering all of us gathered together enjoying this once fantastic show .
Fun fact #573: According to the Radio Times The "Roundels" assist with the transendentalism. So there :p
at least over here in the uk we dont scrap story lines half way through cough cough stargate Atlantis , Stargate Universe, lost in space and man many others !!!!
the First Doctor is my favorite classic Doctor, there a satisfaction and cool grandpa feel to him I enjoy
I do like these deep dives.
Bastards of Skaro is a great band name
I been loving you reviews since I started watching Classic over 2 months ago. Was wondering if you will be doing seasons 25 and 26?
eventually
I love your reviews and this was fantastic. I love the humour you inject into them, I was creasing up at the p*ss and vinegar joke. I hope you do one of these each doctor series. I love the singing Daleks.
Thank you for the laugh...
I remember the Keys of Marinus and I thought it was spooky, weird, and fantastic. I was 10 at the time.
the best doctor....william hartnell
Wliiam Hartnell ... Is Doctor Who ... He was and still is the best of all
"15-year-old teen genius, or teenius" 😆
I find those first three stories to be among the most important stories, because they introduce all of the components that made Doctor Who. The other part is showing the First Doctor’s character growth to the hero that future incarnations would build on.
Well, to be fair, the brains in jars did owe Barbara 10,000 quatloos.
22:40 the closest doctor who has come to getting axed
Subbed 👍👍👍😎
Excellent. And funny.
Any chance for the Shogun from 1980 in the future?
This^^ also Water Margin and Tenko please
2:24 Ooooh, would LOVE a BBC Quatermass video! 😳
Hint, hint 😁
So you will be addressing Peter Cushing's involvement - yay!
yes.
I feel like you already did this and I watched it. Am I imagining things?
Recently found that William Hartnell had reprised the character from an earlier romcom from the early fifty’s where he played Scientific advisor for the government who’s daughter falls for the lead role ( I think was a reporter ) while he had been called away and only seen at the start and end of the film
You do see in the Nation story for the Keys. the use of bracelets and teleport which is used in Blake Seven
It is such a pity that these old episode can not be remade so getting back the lost history.
Why if Susan is the Dr Child do we never see her ever back in the future episodes. is Susan is also an alien, then she is also a time lord too. and you would expect could regenerate too
And there was that teleporting bracelet/ring thing the Time Lord gave the Doctor,Sarah and Harry in Genesis of the Daleks.
nice job.
'Inside the Machine' I thought was brilliant!
this is the only doctor who I watched in it entirety, I wanted to watch it from the start... but I pass the second doctor though... I love ds9 bsg and tng, what doctor do you recommend to me?
I watched it live.
My 20th birthday 23 November 1963, marred by Prez. Kennedy's murder.
awesome
As of 12:10 good job. Well researched.
Major kudos for not using the overused bohemian rhapsody video as an example of video feedback.
Three comments!
A -- Best episode to date regarding Doctor Who. Very well done, quite funny.
B -- I've been laughing more and more at the Dalek karaoke segments. Engelbert Humperdalek FTW.
C -- Yes, yes, it is time Stam Fine. The Daleks need to make it very clear to humanity that of all the things they need to exterminate, bullshit restocking fees are at the top of their list.
I’ve been revisiting the First Doctor and find him rather charming.
He was also quite mysterious as I’ve just seen in the original Terminator film…. Sorry, I mean the Who story “The War Machines”
When you look at the cast, it's very reminiscent of 50's sci-fi movies. The young hero, old scientist, the girlfriend, and the girl related to the scientist in some way (assistant, daughter, etc). Often, the last two are just a single character
If it weren't for the title, you could argue Ian was the main character in the first season. He was the one with more heroic tendencies.
Was it common at the time to use open flames in a TV studio? I would have thought that was a dangerous practice.
How else to do it?
Helen was Reddy, but we weren't!