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TARDIS Crew:

The First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton

Notes About Story:

This story marks the last appearance of Susan Foreman as a regular member of the TARDIS crew. Susan appears next in the Fifth Doctor story The Five Doctors.

The Daleks make their second appearance. They last appeared in the First Doctor story The Daleks.

The Daleks next appear in the First Doctor story The Chase.

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TARDIS Crew:

The First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton

Notes About Story:

This is the first story of Season Two

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TARDIS Crew:

The First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton

Notes About Story:

This is the last story of Season One

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TARDIS Crew:

The First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton

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TARDIS Crew:

The First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton

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TARDIS Crew:

The First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton

Notes About Story:

The first and only appearance of the Voord.

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TARDIS Crew:

The First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton

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TARDIS Crew:

The First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton

Notes About Story:

This two part story features only the regular cast and no others!!!

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TARDIS Crew:

The First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton

Notes About Story:

The first appearance of the Daleks who would go on to become the Doctor’s greatest enemies.

The Daleks appear next in the First Doctor story The Dalek Invasion Of Earth.

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DVD Cover

DVD Cover

 

Episode One

 

The Tardis Crew:

 

The First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton

 

Plot:

 

Two teachers (Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright) are intrigued by the behaviour of one of their students a girl called Susan Foreman. They follow her to her home, a junkyard located at 76 Totter’s Lane. Here they meet Susan’s grandfather (the Doctor) who has apparently locked Susan in an abandoned Police Box. When Ian and Barbara enter the Police Box to rescue Susan, they find themselves in a futuristic space-time machine known as the TARDIS. The Doctor and Susan are actually aliens who travel through time and space in the TARDIS. Susan begs the Doctor to let the two teachers go but he refuses and sets the TARDIS in flight. It lands on a barren landscape. A mysterious man-shaped shadow approaches the recently arrived ship.

 

Notes On Episode:

 

When we first see the TARDIS, it is located at 76 Totter’s Lane, the establishment of one I.M. Foreman. Considering how often the Doctor will go on to save the human race it is interesting to note that the junkyard’s proprietor can be read as I Am For Man!!!

 

Barbara has the most amazing hair-style. I expect many of her students would have been terrified of it.

 

Susan’s surname (Foreman) is the same as the name on the junkyard. Susan probably appropriated this name for the school records, unless the Doctor is actually I.M. Foreman himself?

 

Totters Lane appears next in the Sixth Doctor story Attack Of The Cybermen

 

Worthy Of The Diamond Logo?:

 

Quite simply, these are 25 of the most significant minutes in the history of television. Many of the basic elements that are still integral to Doctor Who are introduced here: The Doctor himself, the TARDIS in the shape of a Police Box and the use of companions. The episode is edgy and utilises techniques that would never be used again in the series original run. This is truly amazing stuff!

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