William Hartnell


Doctor Who continued … You can’t say that this episode doesn’t do what it says on the tin.  Our heroes spend most of their time in a forest.  Za defeats a beast that we don’t see and, despite apparently being at death’s door, it doesn’t take him long to recover. […]

3. The Forest of Fear


Doctor Who continued … This episode starts the caveman adventure and, as such, it’s the “first” episode of three.  At first, we don’t get to see what’s going on inside the TARDIS since the dramatic “take off” prior to the cliffhanger.  Instead, some time is spent setting up the heirarchy […]

2. The Cave of Skulls


This third version of the pilot episode of Doctor Who, at just 25 minutes long, is pretty much the same as the “raw” version except that it has some scenes reshot (to avoid the banging doors), and some that may have been edited (Barbara getting her coat trapped in the […]

An Unearthly Child



Continuing my Doctor Who marathon, I watched the shorter (23 minute) “official” broadcast version of An Unearthly Child last night.  In comparison to the previous version, it felt like it zipped along a bit quicker but I couldn’t honestly tell you where the missing 12 minutes were (although a good […]

1. An Unearthly Child


It’s probably no great surprise that my writing of time travel related stories was inspired by other time travel related stories, including TV shows such as Doctor Who.  I’m not (quite) old enough to have watched Doctor Who from the very beginning but thanks first to VHS, and then to […]

An Unearthly Child