*PLEASE NOTE* Due to a copyright claim, I've had to remove around 30 seconds of this video. The removed segment was just after I introduce An Unearthly Child/100,000 BC and ended just before we look at the viewing figures for the 4 individual episodes. I do apologise for the inconvenience, the last thing I want to do is remove parts of these videos. The removed information was a brief synopsis of the story, the individual titles of the 4 episodes, and the original transmission dates. This removed footage can still be found in the compilation version of this era, the Hartnell Years, which you can watch via the link below, - ua-cam.com/video/_39IzsD1J0Q/v-deo.html
Adam you have nothing to apologise for. BBC should apologise to you. Any videos about Doctor Who or anything is free publicity and introducing someone to the subject they may have not known of. It's all free material promoting the show which is revenue of new viewers or better new fans who watch and buy Who products. I think BBC should allow it for that reason and as a good will gesture to fans so they can celebrate their passions. As with good old Josh Snares I love videos like this looking at the real world behind the scenes of DW and beyond. Your work is straight forward and it's great people like you and Josh who carry the torch of DW from Hartnell to the out going Jodie. David Aston, a fan who has a vague memory of the 5 Doctors and the 1st cliff hanger to Warriors of the Deep. Thank you for being a top chap.
Excellent video, and I'm really looking forward to the rest. What's interesting is that, with an average audience of 10.1 million, even a well-watched story like "Edge of Destruction" only averaged 84th place in the weekly viewing charts. Compare that with the recent "Spyfall Part One", which at 6.89 million had a little over 3 million *fewer* viewers than "Edge", but was the 8th (eighth) most watched programme in the week it aired. How times have changed! Some critics have laid into recent stories for having the lowest figures since the Classic era, but they're not comparing apples with apples. The raw figures might be lower but, in terms of audience share, the show is still doing significantly better than most Classic Who stories ever did. To put things in perspective, the _highest ever_ a Hartnell story got in the weekly charts was 10th place, and even Orphan 55 managed that :)
I'm genuinely intrigued to find out where weekly tv ratings lists long enough to have an 84th place might exist. For one thing this video is, I assume, using the BBC internal ratings, and those original charts have never been published as far as I know, and in any case (assuming the BBC's internal chart wasn't bothering to rank ITV shows) I doubt that there would be 83 other BBC shows in one week that scored higher, given that that would require many daytime (schools shows, welsh language obligations etc) or late night shows to be amongst them as there were only so many BBC shows in a week overall. The published national network figures from TAM, ITV's ratings contractor, were a Top 20, and in the first week of Edge of Destruction their top 20 runs to A Touch Of The Norman Vaughan in 20th place with 5.594 million homes watching, which, with a generally accepted average multiplier of 2.2 people watching per home, is about 12.3 million people, so would there then be another 63 programmes below Norman and above Who and all in the 12m-10m range?
@@MrDannyDetail I don’t know where they got the chart placement of 84 from doctor who the complete history gives it 21 for part one and 31 for part 2 also when it comes to chart placement all broadcast in a given week tend to be included.
@@alexbennett7018 So an average position of 26th then. Does the complete history say anywhere whether it is using the internal BBC charts or the TAM ones (of which a Network Top 20 was being published weekly). I suppose it could be TAM figures if they had access to more than the Top 20s that newspapers and magazines published at the time. If it's BBC internal figures then I suppose it's possible that they still compiled a chart that encompassed all broadcasters, and not just their own channels. I know that TAM (and its succesors AGB then BARB) did and still do monitor all 'terrestrial' broadcasts and all non-terrestrial channels that pay for the privelidge, so the chart would theoretically included everything that was broadcast that week, but in reality the published upper part of the weekly chart, and the next portion below the published part, was only ever going to contain certain types of shows, and almost exclusively those broadcast in the evenings, which limits how far down the chart any evening show like Doctor Who could fall in worst case scenario.
Adam's gonna be so happy when he gets to Season 7 and only has to cover 25-26 episodes or less! 😂 This has reminded me of how much I love Season 1 and Doctor Who numbers videos! I'm gonna enjoy this series!
Also there wasn’t a high ratings for the first episode because of a widespread power cut. Which is probably another reason that they repeated it the following week.
*PLEASE NOTE*
Due to a copyright claim, I've had to remove around 30 seconds of this video.
The removed segment was just after I introduce An Unearthly Child/100,000 BC and ended just before we look at the viewing figures for the 4 individual episodes.
I do apologise for the inconvenience, the last thing I want to do is remove parts of these videos. The removed information was a brief synopsis of the story, the individual titles of the 4 episodes, and the original transmission dates.
This removed footage can still be found in the compilation version of this era, the Hartnell Years, which you can watch via the link below,
- ua-cam.com/video/_39IzsD1J0Q/v-deo.html
Adam you have nothing to apologise for. BBC should apologise to you. Any videos about Doctor Who or anything is free publicity and introducing someone to the subject they may have not known of. It's all free material promoting the show which is revenue of new viewers or better new fans who watch and buy Who products.
I think BBC should allow it for that reason and as a good will gesture to fans so they can celebrate their passions.
As with good old Josh Snares I love videos like this looking at the real world behind the scenes of DW and beyond.
Your work is straight forward and it's great people like you and Josh who carry the torch of DW from Hartnell to the out going Jodie.
David Aston, a fan who has a vague memory of the 5 Doctors and the 1st cliff hanger to Warriors of the Deep.
Thank you for being a top chap.
Great video but all sources I've found, including the DVD, refer to episode four of the daleks as _THE AMBUSH_ as opposed to _THE AFTERMATH_
Excellent video, and I'm really looking forward to the rest. What's interesting is that, with an average audience of 10.1 million, even a well-watched story like "Edge of Destruction" only averaged 84th place in the weekly viewing charts. Compare that with the recent "Spyfall Part One", which at 6.89 million had a little over 3 million *fewer* viewers than "Edge", but was the 8th (eighth) most watched programme in the week it aired. How times have changed!
Some critics have laid into recent stories for having the lowest figures since the Classic era, but they're not comparing apples with apples. The raw figures might be lower but, in terms of audience share, the show is still doing significantly better than most Classic Who stories ever did. To put things in perspective, the _highest ever_ a Hartnell story got in the weekly charts was 10th place, and even Orphan 55 managed that :)
I'm genuinely intrigued to find out where weekly tv ratings lists long enough to have an 84th place might exist. For one thing this video is, I assume, using the BBC internal ratings, and those original charts have never been published as far as I know, and in any case (assuming the BBC's internal chart wasn't bothering to rank ITV shows) I doubt that there would be 83 other BBC shows in one week that scored higher, given that that would require many daytime (schools shows, welsh language obligations etc) or late night shows to be amongst them as there were only so many BBC shows in a week overall. The published national network figures from TAM, ITV's ratings contractor, were a Top 20, and in the first week of Edge of Destruction their top 20 runs to A Touch Of The Norman Vaughan in 20th place with 5.594 million homes watching, which, with a generally accepted average multiplier of 2.2 people watching per home, is about 12.3 million people, so would there then be another 63 programmes below Norman and above Who and all in the 12m-10m range?
@@MrDannyDetail I don’t know where they got the chart placement of 84 from doctor who the complete history gives it 21 for part one and 31 for part 2 also when it comes to chart placement all broadcast in a given week tend to be included.
@@alexbennett7018 So an average position of 26th then. Does the complete history say anywhere whether it is using the internal BBC charts or the TAM ones (of which a Network Top 20 was being published weekly). I suppose it could be TAM figures if they had access to more than the Top 20s that newspapers and magazines published at the time. If it's BBC internal figures then I suppose it's possible that they still compiled a chart that encompassed all broadcasters, and not just their own channels. I know that TAM (and its succesors AGB then BARB) did and still do monitor all 'terrestrial' broadcasts and all non-terrestrial channels that pay for the privelidge, so the chart would theoretically included everything that was broadcast that week, but in reality the published upper part of the weekly chart, and the next portion below the published part, was only ever going to contain certain types of shows, and almost exclusively those broadcast in the evenings, which limits how far down the chart any evening show like Doctor Who could fall in worst case scenario.
Adam's gonna be so happy when he gets to Season 7 and only has to cover 25-26 episodes or less! 😂 This has reminded me of how much I love Season 1 and Doctor Who numbers videos! I'm gonna enjoy this series!
Are you a fan of the all four parts of An Unearthly Child?
And so my marathon of watching the viewing figure videos begins. Fab video my love. Really interesting too! Xxx
Awww bless you my love 😭🥰❤❤❤❤ I'm so glad you found it interesting, i hope you enjoy the rest of the episodes 😘❤❤❤❤
@@AdamMartyn Love you xxxx
Love you too 😘❤ xxx
A neat idea for a series, looking forward to seeing more of these videos
I'm interested in ratings figures as well, so this got my attention.
Radio Free Skaro brought me here! Love the content
Thank you so much Andrew! I've listened to them for years so to hear them shout out the series was such an unexpected joy!
Great Video Adam, very enjoyable viewing.
Cool concept mate!! Great video as always :D
Love keys of Marinus
Cool idea!!!
Thankyou Adam. Brilliant.
Thank you for watching 😊
You're going HARD into that Whovian angle ayy?
I feel ratings can be surprising especially when it’s good films and tv shows.
Also there wasn’t a high ratings for the first episode because of a widespread power cut. Which is probably another reason that they repeated it the following week.
Great video. Quick question, what's the piece of music used at the beginning of this video?
4:19 The Ambush*
Nice to see a reign of terror that doesn't include Triple H.
Hey Adam do the Sarah Jane adventures that was on CBBC and it is part of the Whoverse.
Would you like a jelly baby
Are doing to do any overlooking videos again?
You didn’t muffle the mic for the ident
2 Scudo-obscure Who youtubers i recommend:
Clever dick films and Diamndahagan