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      A GUIDE TO THE SIXTIES SERIES EPISODES

  DR Doctor Who materialised on our television screens for the first time in 1963, created by Terry Nation and produced as a children's programme for the BBC Autumn schedule by Verity Lambert, Mervyn Pinfield, Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson. It was, originally, only expected to last for one season and only 13 episodes were commissioned.

The strengths of the production in casting, writing and, for its time, special effects were such that, in a very short time, the number of adult viewers exceeded that of its younger target audience. The enigmatic and somewhat quirky time traveller of indeterminate age from the planet Gallifrey was first played by the highly versatile William Hartnell.

He was to continue in the role for the next three and a half years, playing a game of cat and mouse throughout space and time in an effort to avoid being recaptured by his own people, the Time Lords, although details of The Doctor's history remained shrouded in mystery and were never revealed to the humble TV viewer during his incumbency.






The First Doctor: 1963 - 1966
Episode lists, transmission dates and production information
    
The Doctor's Companions: 1963 - 1969
 Image Gallery

The Second Doctor: 1966 - 1969
Episode lists, transmission dates and production information

Using a machine called the TARDIS, (which had an ability to blend in with any environment in which it found itself but due to a malfunction was stuck with looking like an old-fashioned police call box,) The Doctor found himself involved in many varied adventures throughout the cosmos, accompanied by various 'companions' whose help he managed to acquire along the way.
The underlying humour of The Doctor's somewhat less than trustworthy advanced technology and the undoubted glamour of his female companions were amplified and contrasted by the nature and variety of the enemies he made during his adventures. The greatest of these, and undeniably major factors in the continuing success of the series, were the Daleks and the Cybermen - chilling, mercilessly evil, and the cause of thousands of us hiding behind the sofa for half an hour on a Saturday evening.

William Hartnell left the series at the height of its popularity in 1966, to be replaced by a younger, less crotchety, but even more accident-prone version of The Doctor, created by his body having to go through a periodic regeneration. The new Doctor was played by the brilliant Patrick Troughton and showed much more of an affinity with the lowly life forms inhabiting the planet Earth. Despite the Hartnell version being a very tough act to follow, Troughton endowed The Doctor with a whole new personality which was, if anything, even more popular. Patrick continued playing the character until the end of the decade, taking the pivotal role in what is considered by many to be the finest episode, 'Fury From The Deep', and finally revealing some of the secrets of The Doctor's origins and mysterious past history at the end of his tenure.

Script Editors
Script editing responsibilities for the Sixties
shows were shared between:

David Whitaker, Dennis Spooner, Donald Tosh,
Gerry Davis, Peter Bryant, Victor Pemberton,
Derrick Sherwin and Terrance Dicks
      
Missing Episodes
There are actually no original tape recordings of the original Hartnell or
Troughton series in existence. The tapes were wiped for re-use after
being transferred to black and white film for overseas television transmission.
Some of the original Hartnell episode tapes were known to be in existence
up until 1969. All currently available recordings are made from these or
private recordings. There are still 108 episodes missing! Can you help?


The Doctor's Companions 1963 - 1969
'Barbara Wright'
Jacqueline Hill


'Susan Foreman'
Carole Ann Ford


'Ian Chesterton'
William Russell


'Vicki'
Maureen O'Brien


'Steven Taylor'
Peter Purves


'Katerina'
Adrienne Hill


'Sara Kingdom'
Jean Marsh


'Dorothea Chaplet'
aka 'Dodo'
Jackie Lane


'Ben Jackson'
Michael Craze


'Polly Wright'
Anneke Wills


'Jamie MacCrimmon'
Frazer Hines


'Victoria Waterfield'
Deborah Watling
 
'Zoe Heriot'
Wendy Padbury

 
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