Doctor Who - Lost in Time Collection of Rare Episodes - The William Hartnell Years and the Patrick Troughton Years
Transbuddha.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Forty-six years ago today an actor named William Hartnell stepped out of a police box and a legend was born. So today we take a moment to acknowledge the man known only as The Doctor. Matt Smith will become the eleventh actor to star in the role when the new season of Doctor Who begins [...]
The Glass Walking-Stick (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... hundreds of people who have worked on the show over the decades, and especially the late, great William Hartnell who first brought the character so vividly to life. "Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the fourth dimension? Have you? To be exiles? Susan and I are cut off from our own planet, without friends or protection. But one day we shall get back. Yes,...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
'The Nightmare Fair' is the first adventure to be released, with the rest slated to follow over the coming months. Ever since it was first announced almost a quarter of a century ago, the appetites of Whovians were whetted by the prospect of The Doctor locking horns with the esteemed Michael Gough's 'Celestial Toymaker' two decades after William Hartnell's first incarnation defeated him....
Caron's Musings (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... the first episode live on that Saturday evening in 1963. Consequently, his favourite Doctor is William Hartnell. He loved his grandfatherly magic. For me, I just fell in love with Tom Baker when I was 7 years old. The very first episode I ever watched, against my will, was Planet of the Spiders where Jon Pertwee regenerated. It was some sort of school holiday, I remember that, because...
The Modern Historian (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... David Whitaker as scriptwriter. Lambert offered the lead role to the 55-year-old character actor William Hartnell, who was initially reticent to take on the role. She also cast Carole Ann Ford as the Doctor's granddaughter, Susan Foreman, and Jacqueline Hill and Ian Chesterton as two of Susan's teachers. Filming of the first Doctor Who story, "An Unearthly Child", began...
Hello, I'm the Doctor (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
They made their first appearance in the series in 1966's The Tenth Planet - the last episode to feature William Hartnell. The Doctor next encountered the malevolent metallic menace in The Moonbase, a four-part adventure broadcast in 1967. The Doctor met them again that year when he travelled to the planet Telos, setting for The Tomb of the Cybermen. Doctor Who companion Zoe Heriot (Wendy...
Bear Alley (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... a third season adventure of Doctor Who (later novelised by David Cotton) in which the Doctor—William Hartnell—travels to Tombstone of 1881 in time to witness the gunfight of the OK corral, and in an episode of The Invisible Man entitled "The White Rabbit", about a mad scientist’s plans to create an army of invisible animals; he also appeared a couple of times in The Avengers, although...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... Doctor Who . I have to admit that, while I watched most of his episodes as the Doctor, I disliked William Hartnell, the first occupant of the Tardis, who barked with the authority of his sergeant from The Army Game . Patrick Troughton, the second Doctor, brought an absent-minded quirkiness to the character which stayed with him at his best. Jon Pertwee took him back to his more authoritarian...
doorQ.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
If you are tired of the great special effects, high production values and cool stories of the revamped DOCTOR WHO currently airing on TV -- and I've seen the latest "The Waters of Mars" episode and it's quite, quite good -- then head on over to YouTube where you can catch some classic episodes from WHO's 40 year history, spinning back to original episodes from the William Hartnell,...
