It did bring together the then two most recent Doctors, Matt Smith and David Tennant, various companions and creatures past and present and a cameo from a cryptic Tom Baker, not to mention tied up some big aspects of back continuity (as well as added just as many more mysteries with the addition of John Hurt as a heretofore unknown Doctor whose significance fans will probably be debating for the next fifty years). The Day of the Doctor didn’t quite end up being The Eleven Doctors as one expected. David Barclay as William Hartnell playing The First Doctor The show had celebrated each of its prior anniversaries with episodes that brought together Doctor’s past and present – the tenth anniversary special The Three Doctors (1973) bringing together Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton and an infirm William Hartnell seen only on a tv monitor and The Five Doctors (1983), which brought together Peter Davison, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, as well as archive footage of Tom Baker, who declined to return, and with the late William Hartnell being replaced by Richard Hurndall. The fiftieth anniversary was celebrated by the 90-minute special The Day of the Doctor (2013), which was simulcast around the world, even shown live in cinemas in 3D in some areas – attracting the largest single television broadcast numbers in history to that point, while the one-day only cinematic broadcast managed to come in second at the box-office only to the premiere of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013). Fourteen actors have taken up the part in the main continuity. The other aspect of the show’s enduring appeal was, as shown here, when William Hartnell became too ill to continue the role, the invention of a dramatic sleight of hand known as regeneration that allowed The Doctor to be recast with another actor. The original series was cancelled in 1989 due to BBC in-politics, however was revived in slightly different format in 2005 with top quality effects and a much snappier, at times even daring, degree of humour and character interaction, which made it an enormous success all over the world. The effects and production values were always primitive but it was the colourfulness of the elements, the unique monsters and the sense of humour that came in in later years that made the show a fan favourite. The period that the film covers – the show’s first four seasons from 1963 to 1966, the tenure of the First Doctor – is when Dalekmania took over England and the series created a number of memorable monsters. Originally conceived along the lines of a series that dramatised history for children, this was soon abandoned and the science-fiction elements took over. Doctor Who is the longest running science-fiction tv series in the world. However, as Hartnell is diagnosed with arteriosclerosis, this leaves him with increasing difficult in remembering lines and the show’s punishing production schedule begins to exert a toll.Īn Adventure in Space and Time was a tv movie special made for the fiftieth anniversary of tv’s Doctor Who (1963-89, 2005– ). The show becomes an audience favourite and William Hartnell much loved with children. With her head on the block, she pushes for the show to go ahead and the second story ‘The Daleks’ proves a big ratings success. Verity perseveres through production difficulties to get the show on the air. Verity and director Waris Hussein cast William Hartnell as The Doctor who takes the part because he is sick of being cast as military types. He chooses as his producer Verity Lambert, previously a production assistant, which causes some ripples because she is the first woman to be made a producer at the BBC. He comes up with an idea about a cantankerous grandfather and his companions as they travel through time and space and calls this ‘Doctor Who’. In 1963, the BBC’s head of drama Sydney Newman decides to create a science-fiction show to fill a half-hour slot.
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