The start of probably the most important story the show ever did, the one that made it into a big success. I never tire of this episode - I love the interaction of the TARDIS crew, the Doctor’s underhand duplicity, the food machine and the look of the Dalek city, as well as Tristram Cary’s creepy, avant grade soundtrack. It really feels as if we start getting to know the characters more fully here, and the cliffhanger is rightly iconic. This was originally intended to be the fourth story broadcast in the first season, but plans were changed when the original second story, called The Robots, was dropped. Terry Nation had already completed his scripts for this one, so it got bumped up the production order (it was commissioned after the first story).
Funny you mention cheese😆...A little fact for you,the food dispenser scene where Ian and Barbara were having Bacon and Eggs,those little bars they were eating were actually pieces of cheese!😆
Hi Marie-Clare I hope Adam enjoys classic Dr Who as you did first time round, and also I appreciate all the work you have done on these videos you watch and react to . I am glad you enjoyed classic Sci-fi series Blake,s Seven from the late 70s to early 80s and also has Adam yet seen Blake,s Seven if not I imagine he will see it and hopefully like you enjoy Blake,s Seven as much as you did first time round. I like the sets in this Marie-Clare, and I saw this story when it came out on vhs in the year classic Dr Who ended after 26 golden years on bbc1 . I also thought the TARDIS sets were awesome and the, sets on the planet are awesome too .
The recent Doctor Who at the Proms event had a section for the vintage radiophonic sounds used in the 1960s, including this musique concrete score from Tristram Carey; a pioneer in British electronic music. And it really does suit the eeriness of the piece, which was always designed to unnerve the audience. The biggest UK sci-fi before Doctor Who was Quatermass and that pretty much set the tone. It was more akin to horror.
To answer your question, work on An Unearthly Child was in progress by 14/6/63 (transmitted Nov/Dec 1963). What will be the fourth story was commissioned on 9/7/63 (transmitted from Feb 64) while this story was commissioned around the end of July after Terry Nation rejected an offer by the BBC to write for the show in June, but then found himself out of work and changed his mind. His scripts were all delivered by mid-September, two weeks ahead of schedule. What you have to know about this period of the show is that finding useable scripts was really hard and that was due to the fact that Doctor Who wasn't a writer-created programme. By that, I mean that one person didn't write a script that others could look at and say "Ah, I get what this is about", in the same way that Tony Warren wrote the first 12 episodes of Coronation Street, Troy Kennedy Martin wrote the first Z Cars script, Gene Roddenberry wrote the first two Star Trek scripts, etc etc. Doctor Who didn't have that. In a way, Terry Nation wrote a script that created the style of the show more than anyone else but ironically BBC execs hated his scripts and ordered the production team not to proceed with them. They argued back that they had nothing else that was workable. To be fair to them, after these episodes took off, those same execs apologised to Verity Lambert, the producer, and told her they would leave her alone from then onwards as she understood the show better than they did!!!
I cannot tell you how many times I've watched this wonderful episode since my first viewing of it at a convention in 1982 and I've only just seen, while watching this reaction, what appears to be a glimpse of the studio at the edge of the scenery on the left at 4.44 as Hartnell walks out of shot.
As did David Whitaker from BBC colleagues when he came into the office on the Monday morning. That was his first inkling that they may be on to something...
@@markdavidson9100Although it was planned from the start that 52 episodes would be made, the Controller of BBC Television would initially only agree to commission 13 episodes, before being persuaded to green light the rest of the production block.
If memory serves, the novelization of this explores not only the Tardis food machine but a kind of automatic hairdressing device. Which might explain the later tendency for companions to completely change their hairstyles between episodes (and I might be looking at this story too when I say that).
The Target novelization also presented it as the first story instead of "An Unearthly Child," told first-person from Ian's POV, where the TARDIS was on Barnes Common instead of 76 Totters Lane.
9:22 the tardis might be larger on the inside, but it'd probably get boring too? Unless the machine malfunctioned, as the fluid link just had 😳. But yeah, Ian is skeptical of the Doctor, hehehe! Once they enter the city... oh yeah! 😍 the sense of exploration and threat... and that cliffhanger!! And it only gets better
The original Season 1 might have ended up very differently. For instance, one of the ideas for the first story was called 'The Miniscules', where the TARDIS was meant to materialize in Ian's science lab - with the ship and crew reduced to one inch tall. An idea that seems to keep coming around (indeed, the US did something similar shortly after). And the focus was originally on science and education. They could go forwards in time (speculation), backwards into history (educational) or sideways (philosophical). But this story changed quite a bit of that. I don't know whether it's true that Terry Nation wrote the seven episodes in seven days, but they needed two Directors just to pull it off.
Nation claimed years later seven days but contemporary documentation shows that he took some six weeks to deliver the scripts, one or two at a time. His very long storyline may have taken seven days. My source is David Brunt's excellent production diary book.
You'll find a lot of these anecdotes need to be taken with a pinch of salt, as the need to tell an entertaining interview story tends to overshadow the need to be accurate. Of course, some of stories- especially those told by Donald Tosh, may have a more sinister agenda.
Dr. Who was originally suppose to be an educational show which is set in past and future. Creator Sydney Newman insisted on no bug eyed monsters but when as soon as the Daleks turn up it became a massive hit and it became the show we all know and love today. Without the Daleks this show would had ended in 1963 it keeps evolving.
Basically Adam is right it is called "Doctor Who" since classic came first and before the 2005 revival it was just called plain "Doctor Who" but now alot of the younger generation refer to it as "Classic Who".
I like the studio based alien world and the impressive Dalek City model effect. Classic Who was better at creating strange worlds on low budgets. I find the first Doctor’s manipulative side quite amusing. He’s so driven by his need for exploration and acquiring knowledge that he’s blinded by the dangers. I’d give this episode a 10/10. Great reactions.
Even if you know the name of the titles it doesn't necessarily spoil the story itself, back in the day we knew pretty much the titles anyway because it was advertised all over the newspapers and TV guides it was unavoidable.
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The start of probably the most important story the show ever did, the one that made it into a big success. I never tire of this episode - I love the interaction of the TARDIS crew, the Doctor’s underhand duplicity, the food machine and the look of the Dalek city, as well as Tristram Cary’s creepy, avant grade soundtrack. It really feels as if we start getting to know the characters more fully here, and the cliffhanger is rightly iconic.
This was originally intended to be the fourth story broadcast in the first season, but plans were changed when the original second story, called The Robots, was dropped. Terry Nation had already completed his scripts for this one, so it got bumped up the production order (it was commissioned after the first story).
Funny you mention cheese😆...A little fact for you,the food dispenser scene where Ian and Barbara were having Bacon and Eggs,those little bars they were eating were actually pieces of cheese!😆
That is not just a good cliffhanger...it's one of THE Sixties ones👍❤️🎩
Hi Marie-Clare I hope Adam enjoys classic Dr Who as you did first time round, and also I appreciate all the work you have done on these videos you watch and react to . I am glad you enjoyed classic Sci-fi series Blake,s Seven from the late 70s to early 80s and also has Adam yet seen Blake,s Seven if not I imagine he will see it and hopefully like you enjoy Blake,s Seven as much as you did first time round. I like the sets in this Marie-Clare, and I saw this story when it came out on vhs in the year classic Dr Who ended after 26 golden years on bbc1 . I also thought the TARDIS sets were awesome and the, sets on the planet are awesome too .
that is one of the most memorable cliffhangers. the Daleks are my favorite Dr who villain's .
Loved this story and having Barbara in that classic cliffhanger i cant remember how many years ago you original watched this MC
The recent Doctor Who at the Proms event had a section for the vintage radiophonic sounds used in the 1960s, including this musique concrete score from Tristram Carey; a pioneer in British electronic music. And it really does suit the eeriness of the piece, which was always designed to unnerve the audience. The biggest UK sci-fi before Doctor Who was Quatermass and that pretty much set the tone. It was more akin to horror.
To answer your question, work on An Unearthly Child was in progress by 14/6/63 (transmitted Nov/Dec 1963). What will be the fourth story was commissioned on 9/7/63 (transmitted from Feb 64) while this story was commissioned around the end of July after Terry Nation rejected an offer by the BBC to write for the show in June, but then found himself out of work and changed his mind. His scripts were all delivered by mid-September, two weeks ahead of schedule. What you have to know about this period of the show is that finding useable scripts was really hard and that was due to the fact that Doctor Who wasn't a writer-created programme. By that, I mean that one person didn't write a script that others could look at and say "Ah, I get what this is about", in the same way that Tony Warren wrote the first 12 episodes of Coronation Street, Troy Kennedy Martin wrote the first Z Cars script, Gene Roddenberry wrote the first two Star Trek scripts, etc etc. Doctor Who didn't have that. In a way, Terry Nation wrote a script that created the style of the show more than anyone else but ironically BBC execs hated his scripts and ordered the production team not to proceed with them. They argued back that they had nothing else that was workable. To be fair to them, after these episodes took off, those same execs apologised to Verity Lambert, the producer, and told her they would leave her alone from then onwards as she understood the show better than they did!!!
I cannot tell you how many times I've watched this wonderful episode since my first viewing of it at a convention in 1982 and I've only just seen, while watching this reaction, what appears to be a glimpse of the studio at the edge of the scenery on the left at 4.44 as Hartnell walks out of shot.
I first saw it in 1985. Always remains an enjoyable viewing! 😍
Allegedly, after the cliffhanger, Terry Nation received a lot of phonecalls, asking 'What the hell was that?' - Hopefully in a good way.
As did David Whitaker from BBC colleagues when he came into the office on the Monday morning. That was his first inkling that they may be on to something...
The show was only supposed to run for six weeks, then Daleks changed the schedule 😊 thanks so much to you both
Sorry, but that's a myth. The show was always planned for a 52 week initial run, even before they'd worked out the format of Doctor Who.
@@ancientonezero that’s ok, heard it from Sylvester McCoy interview
@@markdavidson9100Although it was planned from the start that 52 episodes would be made, the Controller of BBC Television would initially only agree to commission 13 episodes, before being persuaded to green light the rest of the production block.
If memory serves, the novelization of this explores not only the Tardis food machine but a kind of automatic hairdressing device. Which might explain the later tendency for companions to completely change their hairstyles between episodes (and I might be looking at this story too when I say that).
The Target novelization also presented it as the first story instead of "An Unearthly Child," told first-person from Ian's POV, where the TARDIS was on Barnes Common instead of 76 Totters Lane.
❤❤❤❤❤ love your videos and doctor who
I'm glad your watching the original 7 part version.
9:22 the tardis might be larger on the inside, but it'd probably get boring too? Unless the machine malfunctioned, as the fluid link just had 😳.
But yeah, Ian is skeptical of the Doctor, hehehe!
Once they enter the city... oh yeah! 😍 the sense of exploration and threat... and that cliffhanger!! And it only gets better
The original Season 1 might have ended up very differently. For instance, one of the ideas for the first story was called 'The Miniscules', where the TARDIS was meant to materialize in Ian's science lab - with the ship and crew reduced to one inch tall. An idea that seems to keep coming around (indeed, the US did something similar shortly after). And the focus was originally on science and education. They could go forwards in time (speculation), backwards into history (educational) or sideways (philosophical). But this story changed quite a bit of that. I don't know whether it's true that Terry Nation wrote the seven episodes in seven days, but they needed two Directors just to pull it off.
Nation claimed years later seven days but contemporary documentation shows that he took some six weeks to deliver the scripts, one or two at a time. His very long storyline may have taken seven days. My source is David Brunt's excellent production diary book.
You'll find a lot of these anecdotes need to be taken with a pinch of salt, as the need to tell an entertaining interview story tends to overshadow the need to be accurate. Of course, some of stories- especially those told by Donald Tosh, may have a more sinister agenda.
Dr. Who was originally suppose to be an educational show which is set in past and future.
Creator Sydney Newman insisted on no bug eyed monsters but when as soon as the Daleks turn up it became a massive hit and it became the show we all know and love today.
Without the Daleks this show would had ended in 1963 it keeps evolving.
Basically Adam is right it is called "Doctor Who" since classic came first and before the 2005 revival it was just called plain "Doctor Who" but now alot of the younger generation refer to it as "Classic Who".
I need to watch more of One; he's quite funny at times.
I like the studio based alien world and the impressive Dalek City model effect. Classic Who was better at creating strange worlds on low budgets. I find the first Doctor’s manipulative side quite amusing. He’s so driven by his need for exploration and acquiring knowledge that he’s blinded by the dangers. I’d give this episode a 10/10. Great reactions.
Even if you know the name of the titles it doesn't necessarily spoil the story itself, back in the day we knew pretty much the titles anyway because it was advertised all over the newspapers and TV guides it was unavoidable.
Adam do the intros, so that no giveaways happen !
So... a virgin's new adventure?
Is a "sacrifice" in order? Iykyk!