The New Who!
- Publication: Fine Tuning (East Lansing)
- Date: January 1988
- Author:
- Page: 7
- Language: English
It's a new Doctor and a new day when Doctor Who continues on WKAR-TV. The new day is Sunday at 2 p.m. The new Doctor is actually the old one—William Hartnell, the original Doctor Who.
Doctor Who is a popular science-fiction series that has survived the test of time. On November 23, 1963, while all America was mourning the loss of John F. Kennedy, the Doctor made his debut on the BBC. Since that day, the program has become the longest running science-fiction program in television history.
William Hartnell was the original Doctor, and according to his widow, Heather, he loved every minute of the three years he played the part. He set the stage and created the groundwork for all of the other Doctors. When ill health forced him to leave the series in 1966. he was heartbroken because he loved it so much. One consolation, according to Heather Hartnell, was Patrick Troughton taking over the role. Hartnell had known Troughton's work for years, and was sure that the Doctor would be in safe hands.
The William Hartnell episodes of Doctor Who open with An Unearthly Child. Two teachers investigating the background of the Doctor's granddaughter, Susan, happen upon the TARDIS, the Doctor's time travel machine and are plunged back into the year 100,000 BC.
The Daleks is aired January 10. The TARDIS, now stuck in the shape of a police call box lands on the planet Skaro, which is inhabited by the perfect Thals and the Daleks, an evil intelligence housed in protective metal casing.
In The Edge of Destruction (January 17) the Doctor is hurtled back to the beginning of creation.
The Keys of Marinus (immediately following The Edge of Destruction on January 17) finds the Doctor and his companions on the island of the planet Marinus. They must find four of the five lost keys of the planet—keys which are responsible for running the Conscience of Marinus.
The Aztecs takes the TARDIS to an Aztec tomb in the year 1430. Problems arise when Barbara, one of the Doctor's companions, is thought to be the reincarnation of an Aztec priest.
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