Tag Archives: First Doctor

Vicki is tempted by love but not history in The Myth Makers

020 The Myth Makers

Following on from an unprecedented Doctor-free Dalek adventure, the Audience Research Report for The Myth Makers serial indicates that when it was first broadcast in October 1965, many found the…

John Guilor voices the First Doctor in the reconstructed Planet of Giants

John Guilor: Man of a Time Lord’s Voices

This week sees the DVD release of the 1964 William Hartnell story Planet of Giants. As you may know, this story was originally recorded as a four-parter but in order…

The menagerie of monsters plot alongside the Daleks

019 Mission to the Unknown

Foreshadowing the events of The Daleks’ Master Plan, Mission to the Unknown comes in a short, sharp burst of energy, encompassing the adrenaline and danger of the lives of a…

Beware the Drahvin in Doctor Who classic Galaxy 4!

018 Galaxy 4

The Doctor finds himself caught up in the struggle between two shipwrecked and ideologically different alien space crews on a planet facing imminent disintegration (presumably somewhere in a galaxy numbered…

Peter Butterworth and William Hartnell in The Time Meddler

017 The Time Meddler

And so it begins. Gallifrey begins to emerge into the Doctor Who mythos, ready to take it’s grand place alongside other significant Who staples. At last the noble race of…

The Daleks Are Back! Doctor Who 016 The Chase Reviewed

016 The Chase

Serial number 16, The Chase – also known as serial R – marks the second end of an era for the original run of Doctor Who. After almost two years…

William Russell stars as Ian Chesterton in The Time Museum

Ian’s History Unfolds…

We’re going right back to the beginning with this month’s Companion Chronicle from Big Finish with The Time Museum, a story performed by Doctor Who legend William Russell. The story…