Post by Tumble Lord on Nov 8, 2005 20:44:15 GMT
"It all started life in a simple junkyard, now it's turned into a really fantastic adventure, don't you think?"- The Doctor.
Story A: "An Unearthly Child" written by Anthony Coburn.
Produced by Verity Lambert and Sydney Newman
Starring William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill and Carol Ann Ford.
On the 23rd of November 1963 we followed the simple tale of "An Unearthly Child"; two teachers from the Shoreditch school Coalhill have an extraordinary pupil in their sight, the mysterious hyper-intelligent Susan Foreman; at science, mathematics and the like she is cleverer than the teachers and yet at the other such subjects like Geography and English she seems to fail mercilessly. At first Susan, a remarkable teenager seems unaware that something is wrong when she spoken to briefly by Science and history teachers; Ian Chesteron and Barbara Wright about her studies. She is then dismissed while Ian decides to meet her parents, to have a personal conversation in a bid to discover the girl's amazing roots. This first episode behaves remarkably unlike any Doctor Who story; more of a mystery thriller with an outer frame of Grange Hill about its roots for as Susan wanders towards her home, unseen behind her lurks Ian and Barbara. They come to Totter's Lane; mysteriously enough it is no home for a teenager but a scrapyard under the control of a one; I.M. Foreman, this person is never featured throughout the series, adding an extra depth of mystery to the proceedings.
Since Susan's name is; Foreman, the teachers take this to be her Father's place of work and yet as they enter through the towering shadowy gates; there is no house, no doorway open to a house on the premesis, nor any sign of Susan. It is just a simple junkyard decled out with all manner of rubbish; a broken shop dummy, picture frames, bed spring frames and curiously enough a 1950s Police call box sitting in a corner.
Drawn to this curious item, the two observe a mysterious old man, wandering through the gates, taking this to be Mr Foreman, Ian confronts him concerning Susan and her disappearance, the old man disregards this, claiming otherwise his lack of understanding concerning Susan.
However barbara's attention is drawn to the sound of Susan's muffled voice emanating from within of all things; the police box! Has the old man ensnared her inside its cuboid frame through some criminal act? As Ian demands her release, he is startled by the curious sensation wandering across his hands; a faint tingling vibration, something not associated with wooden call boxes.
What happens next is a record in television history; a moment that lives eternally as Ian and Barbara forces their way into the police box despite the old man's protests; only now does the wholesome science fiction element inject itself into being as Ian and Barbara cross the threshold to find a space larger than its exterior.
"But it's a police telphone box, I walked right round it, you saw me, Barbara, didn't you?"
A space; a gleaming white artificial technological cavern of honeycombed walls surrounded by complex machinery, clearly the teachers have crossed their step into fantasy for this interior cannot be a real place,yet Susan appears, quite unharmed. An anchor to reality, the very real girl in an unreal environment addorned with curious historical furnture and marble busts of Napoleon, Nero and at its centre a highly complex seeming control panel.
"And this is really your home, Susan?" asks a confused Barbara as she tries to take in this baffling display about her; both experiencing real bewilderment at where they find themselves.
The Old man seems aggravated by these intruders into his domain, confering with Susan, whom he reveals as his Granddaughter, about the identities of these two persons. He is unlike the more familar figure; being self-fish, withdrawn, arrogant and paranoid as to what actions these teachers will do; contact the authorities, realising all to well the danger involved that his daughter has brought down upon them, he decides to leave, despite Ian's attempts to wrest control from the old man; this special machine, his TARDIS; Time and Relative Dimension In Space machine, a product of a higher civilisation departs from London 1963. Believing them to be mad, as outcasts from another planet or a time machine, Ian and Barbara are more astounded to discover that they have indeed travelled. Followed by the end of the 24 minutes comes the famous theme tune written by Australian composer Ron Grainer, who went on to write the themes for Z-cars and Steptoe and Son.
100,000 years BC and the world is a savage unknown place; the reason for this move was that the Executive producer Sydney Newman saw the stone age simplicity as a nice comparison to the technological titan of a time machine. The Old man, mistakenly called "Foreman" departs his ship, immediate disinterest in these guests of his, he disappears leaving Susan in the incredulous hands of Ian and Barbara, the pilot, this old man, he's not Foreman, simply the name given to Susan on her school form. This man, is a Doctor, prefers to be called this, he has been taken hostage by an outsider from another time. A stone age newcomer to the Tribe of stone-age inhabitants known as Gum. These few have lost the ability to make fire, the oldest man in the group, the savage leader Za is having trouble sustaining his power but the presence of an outsider; Kal, who has taken the Doctor from his "wooden tree". A tribe of religious beings, who worship the sun for its heat known to them as "Orb", they have lost the ancient means to cast fire and Kal dares challenge Za for leadership. The others have been captured by tribesmen, seen as outsiders, they are imprisoned with the Doctor inside a sacrificial cave; where the victims have suffered by having their skulls split open.
Helped by Za's mother; known only as "Old Mother", she wants things to remain peaceful, in return, the Doctor will teach them how to make fire. They however escape leaving Za and his friend Horg to stalk after them. Kal takes his vengeance on Old Mother, for Za could not create fire as he promised and Kal has been denied his right and as the travellers hide, a beast attacks Horg and Za. The shear arrogant cold nature of the Doctor is revealed as Za lies in agony, he pulls free a stone ready to club the the caveman dead, he is stopped by Ian, stating the moral attitude as this fish out of water starts to grow lungs. Aided back to his tribe, Old Mother has been slain and Za, innocent has been accused of her death. Kal is all too clear the villain possessing his blood-stained dagger; a simple but effective subplot culminating in Kal being banished and once more the Doctor is persuaded into making fire, he smoking a pipe outside when Kal first spotted him, As the others attempt to escape, Kal attacks Za but fails to succeed, dying with a cry to the ground, buying the time for the travellers to escape into the TARDIS just as the tribesmen riot with spears.
Aboard the ship, now moving effortlessly through space and time, the ship's computers aren't fixed, the outer shell fails to blend into its background and the year-ometer cannot be corrected. Ian and Barbara are lost between worlds and despite their pleas, the Doctor cannot take them back home. As the grating of the ship's engine fills their ears, the ship has landed, where it is not certain but no one has seen the radiation guage on the console move into the extreme red area.
QUOTES:
"Have you ever wondered what it's like to be wanderers in the fourth dimension? Have you? To be exiles?"
"I never once thought you were afraid"
"Is Za, son of the firemaker, afraid of an old man?"
"You're treating us like children!"
"Am I? The children of my civilisation would be insulted"
Story A: "An Unearthly Child" written by Anthony Coburn.
Produced by Verity Lambert and Sydney Newman
Starring William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill and Carol Ann Ford.
On the 23rd of November 1963 we followed the simple tale of "An Unearthly Child"; two teachers from the Shoreditch school Coalhill have an extraordinary pupil in their sight, the mysterious hyper-intelligent Susan Foreman; at science, mathematics and the like she is cleverer than the teachers and yet at the other such subjects like Geography and English she seems to fail mercilessly. At first Susan, a remarkable teenager seems unaware that something is wrong when she spoken to briefly by Science and history teachers; Ian Chesteron and Barbara Wright about her studies. She is then dismissed while Ian decides to meet her parents, to have a personal conversation in a bid to discover the girl's amazing roots. This first episode behaves remarkably unlike any Doctor Who story; more of a mystery thriller with an outer frame of Grange Hill about its roots for as Susan wanders towards her home, unseen behind her lurks Ian and Barbara. They come to Totter's Lane; mysteriously enough it is no home for a teenager but a scrapyard under the control of a one; I.M. Foreman, this person is never featured throughout the series, adding an extra depth of mystery to the proceedings.
Since Susan's name is; Foreman, the teachers take this to be her Father's place of work and yet as they enter through the towering shadowy gates; there is no house, no doorway open to a house on the premesis, nor any sign of Susan. It is just a simple junkyard decled out with all manner of rubbish; a broken shop dummy, picture frames, bed spring frames and curiously enough a 1950s Police call box sitting in a corner.
Drawn to this curious item, the two observe a mysterious old man, wandering through the gates, taking this to be Mr Foreman, Ian confronts him concerning Susan and her disappearance, the old man disregards this, claiming otherwise his lack of understanding concerning Susan.
However barbara's attention is drawn to the sound of Susan's muffled voice emanating from within of all things; the police box! Has the old man ensnared her inside its cuboid frame through some criminal act? As Ian demands her release, he is startled by the curious sensation wandering across his hands; a faint tingling vibration, something not associated with wooden call boxes.
What happens next is a record in television history; a moment that lives eternally as Ian and Barbara forces their way into the police box despite the old man's protests; only now does the wholesome science fiction element inject itself into being as Ian and Barbara cross the threshold to find a space larger than its exterior.
"But it's a police telphone box, I walked right round it, you saw me, Barbara, didn't you?"
A space; a gleaming white artificial technological cavern of honeycombed walls surrounded by complex machinery, clearly the teachers have crossed their step into fantasy for this interior cannot be a real place,yet Susan appears, quite unharmed. An anchor to reality, the very real girl in an unreal environment addorned with curious historical furnture and marble busts of Napoleon, Nero and at its centre a highly complex seeming control panel.
"And this is really your home, Susan?" asks a confused Barbara as she tries to take in this baffling display about her; both experiencing real bewilderment at where they find themselves.
The Old man seems aggravated by these intruders into his domain, confering with Susan, whom he reveals as his Granddaughter, about the identities of these two persons. He is unlike the more familar figure; being self-fish, withdrawn, arrogant and paranoid as to what actions these teachers will do; contact the authorities, realising all to well the danger involved that his daughter has brought down upon them, he decides to leave, despite Ian's attempts to wrest control from the old man; this special machine, his TARDIS; Time and Relative Dimension In Space machine, a product of a higher civilisation departs from London 1963. Believing them to be mad, as outcasts from another planet or a time machine, Ian and Barbara are more astounded to discover that they have indeed travelled. Followed by the end of the 24 minutes comes the famous theme tune written by Australian composer Ron Grainer, who went on to write the themes for Z-cars and Steptoe and Son.
100,000 years BC and the world is a savage unknown place; the reason for this move was that the Executive producer Sydney Newman saw the stone age simplicity as a nice comparison to the technological titan of a time machine. The Old man, mistakenly called "Foreman" departs his ship, immediate disinterest in these guests of his, he disappears leaving Susan in the incredulous hands of Ian and Barbara, the pilot, this old man, he's not Foreman, simply the name given to Susan on her school form. This man, is a Doctor, prefers to be called this, he has been taken hostage by an outsider from another time. A stone age newcomer to the Tribe of stone-age inhabitants known as Gum. These few have lost the ability to make fire, the oldest man in the group, the savage leader Za is having trouble sustaining his power but the presence of an outsider; Kal, who has taken the Doctor from his "wooden tree". A tribe of religious beings, who worship the sun for its heat known to them as "Orb", they have lost the ancient means to cast fire and Kal dares challenge Za for leadership. The others have been captured by tribesmen, seen as outsiders, they are imprisoned with the Doctor inside a sacrificial cave; where the victims have suffered by having their skulls split open.
Helped by Za's mother; known only as "Old Mother", she wants things to remain peaceful, in return, the Doctor will teach them how to make fire. They however escape leaving Za and his friend Horg to stalk after them. Kal takes his vengeance on Old Mother, for Za could not create fire as he promised and Kal has been denied his right and as the travellers hide, a beast attacks Horg and Za. The shear arrogant cold nature of the Doctor is revealed as Za lies in agony, he pulls free a stone ready to club the the caveman dead, he is stopped by Ian, stating the moral attitude as this fish out of water starts to grow lungs. Aided back to his tribe, Old Mother has been slain and Za, innocent has been accused of her death. Kal is all too clear the villain possessing his blood-stained dagger; a simple but effective subplot culminating in Kal being banished and once more the Doctor is persuaded into making fire, he smoking a pipe outside when Kal first spotted him, As the others attempt to escape, Kal attacks Za but fails to succeed, dying with a cry to the ground, buying the time for the travellers to escape into the TARDIS just as the tribesmen riot with spears.
Aboard the ship, now moving effortlessly through space and time, the ship's computers aren't fixed, the outer shell fails to blend into its background and the year-ometer cannot be corrected. Ian and Barbara are lost between worlds and despite their pleas, the Doctor cannot take them back home. As the grating of the ship's engine fills their ears, the ship has landed, where it is not certain but no one has seen the radiation guage on the console move into the extreme red area.
QUOTES:
"Have you ever wondered what it's like to be wanderers in the fourth dimension? Have you? To be exiles?"
"I never once thought you were afraid"
"Is Za, son of the firemaker, afraid of an old man?"
"You're treating us like children!"
"Am I? The children of my civilisation would be insulted"
