Tag Archives: William Hartnell

Daleks Invade London Again, For ‘An Adventure In Space And Time’

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on February 18th, 2013

More details have emerged concerning An Adventure In Space and Time, Mark Gatiss’s dramatisation of the early years of Doctor Who, starring David Bradley as the First Doctor, William Hartnell.

‘Doctor Who’s Day Roundup: Matt Smith Gets Behind The Camera

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on January 22nd, 2013

Matt Smith makes his TV directorial debut this spring with Cargese, a Sky Arts production written by the award-winning playwright Simon Stephens, as part of their Playhouse Presents programming, which stars Craig Roberts and will be ...

‘Doctor Who’s Day Roundup: You’ve Seen The Stamps, Now Read The Books

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on January 8th, 2013

The Doctor and the new-look TARDIS interior

Today we’ve seen the launch of a rather splendid Whovian initiative. Eleven authors have been commissioned to write ebooks for the British publisher Puffin, based on the eleven Doctors, and these will have a staggered release ...

GALLERY: The Royal Mail Issues A Special Set Of ‘Doctor Who’ Stamps

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on December 26th, 2012

Royal Mail stamp of Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor

This March, a new collection of Royal Mail stamps will be issued to mark the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. There will be eleven first class stamps, featuring each of the Doctor’s incarnations to date, and four second class ...

Happy 49th Birthday, Doctor Who!

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on November 23rd, 2012

Carole Ann Ford and William Hartnell in An Unearthly Child, 1963

49 years ago today, families all over Britain were sitting at their black and white TV sets, preparing to watch a new TV show that, according to the TV listings, didn’t seem especially sure what its name was. It was one of only ...

‘Doctor Who’: The Fury Of A Time Lord

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on October 24th, 2012

There are two personality quirks that unite all eleven Doctors to date. One is that they all share a whimsical sense of humor (although some are less keen to display it than others), and the other is their respective tempers.

Mark Gatiss Writes New BBC Drama About The Origins Of ‘Doctor Who’

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on August 9th, 2012

A special one-off drama for BBC Two has been commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who next year, and it will be a 90-minute dramatization of the behind-the-scenes events leading up to the broadcast of the first episode, ...

Doctor Who’s Day Roundup: We Chat with Director of First-Ever ‘Doctor Who’ Episode!

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on May 1st, 2012

On November 23, 1963 (the day after the Kennedy assassination), the very first episode of Doctor Who premiered on the BBC. And the man behind the camera was Waris Hussein, then only 24 years old, completely unaware of the phenomenon the ...

Life Outside The TARDIS: William Hartnell

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on April 18th, 2012

Welcome, Whovian friends, to a new series in which we examine the career of the actors who’ve made their name in Doctor Who, before and after entering that blue box and disappearing into the ether. And what better place to start ...

Two Long-Lost ‘Doctor Who’ Episodes Recovered

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on December 12th, 2011

It’s one of the more shaming aspects of the BBC’s past, that they could see no value in hanging on to their own archive of astonishing programs during the 1960s, particularly as transmissions changed from black and white to ...