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Fifty years ago today, Doctor Who’s first episode, An Unearthly Child, was broadcast. More relevantly - or terrifyingly - for those of my age though is that we’re now as far from Silver Nemesis as Silver Nemesis was from An Unearthly Child!
To celebrate the show’s fiftieth anniversary, or, if you prefer, the twenty-fifth anniversary of its twenty-fifth anniversary, The History of the Doctor turns its attention to the adventure that made such unprecedented longevity possible, recently released on DVD with its lost fourth episode replaced by an all-new animation. It’s not bad at all if you appreciate the irony of listening to the musings of an actor with two titanium knees commentate on a near-fifty-year-old production that reflects society’s fear of “spare parts”; a production that itself is now one-quarter artificial, sporting the serialised equivalent of a prosthetic limb....
Happy birthday to Who!
To celebrate the show’s fiftieth anniversary, or, if you prefer, the twenty-fifth anniversary of its twenty-fifth anniversary, The History of the Doctor turns its attention to the adventure that made such unprecedented longevity possible, recently released on DVD with its lost fourth episode replaced by an all-new animation. It’s not bad at all if you appreciate the irony of listening to the musings of an actor with two titanium knees commentate on a near-fifty-year-old production that reflects society’s fear of “spare parts”; a production that itself is now one-quarter artificial, sporting the serialised equivalent of a prosthetic limb....
Happy birthday to Who!
