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Doctor Who - William Hartnell (First Doctor 1963-1966)
At the inception of the series the Doctor was a mysterious character and little was known about him save that he had a granddaughter, Susan Foreman, and that they were from another time and another world. He had a time machine, the TARDIS, which was disguised as a police box and was bigger on the inside than on the outside. He and Susan were in exile as well, for unspecified reasons. It would not be until the last adventure of the Doctor's second incarnation that the name of the Doctor's people (the Time Lords) would be revealed, and the third before the name of his home planet (Gallifrey) was first spoken.
The series began with schoolteachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright investigating the mystery of Susan, a student who appeared to possess scientific and historical knowledge far beyond her years. Discovering the TARDIS in a scrapyard, they were involuntarily taken by the Doctor on a journey back to the year 100,000 BC, and spent two years adventuring through time and space with the Doctor.
It was during this incarnation that the Doctor first met the Daleks and the Cybermen, races that would become his most implacable foes. The TARDIS crew also observed many historical events such as the Reign of Terror in revolutionary France, meeting Marco Polo in China and The Aztecs in Mexico. When Susan fell in love with the human resistance fighter David Campbell, the Doctor left her behind to allow her to build a life for herself on 22nd century Earth (The Dalek Invasion of Earth), although he promised to return someday. The TARDIS crew were soon joined by Vicki, whom they rescued from the planet Dido.
At the conclusion of a chase through time, Ian and Barbara used a Dalek time machine to go home (The Chase), and their place in the TARDIS was taken by a space pilot named Steven Taylor. Together, they met another member of the Doctor's race for the first time in the form of the Meddling Monk and had an adventure in Galaxy 4. During the siege of Troy, Vicki decided to leave the TARDIS to stay with Troilus. The Doctor and Steven were next briefly joined by Katarina and Sara Kingdom, but both were killed during the events of The Daleks' Master Plan.
After narrowly missing the Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, the Doctor and Steven took on board a young girl named Dodo Chaplet. Dodo brought a cold virus to the far future, which nearly annihilated the humans and Monoids travelling on The Ark. One of the First Doctor's most deadly foes was the Celestial Toymaker, who forced him and his companions to play deadly games. Eventually, the Doctor managed to win the Trilogic Game allowing them all to escape the Toymaker's domain.
Eventually, Steven and Dodo left the Doctor as well, Steven remaining on an alien planet as a mediator (The Savages), and Dodo deciding to remain on Earth in 1966. The Doctor was then joined by Polly and Ben Jackson who would be the first companions to witness a most remarkable event.
The toll of years put strain on the Doctor's elderly frame. After defeating the Cybermen at the Antarctic Snowcap Station (The Tenth Planet), the Doctor collapsed inside the TARDIS, and before the astonished eyes of his then-companions Ben and Polly, his cells renewed themselves for the first time, giving him a completely new physical appearance and character — the Second Doctor.
An Unearthly Child
Season 1 Episode 1 Part 1 - An Unearthly Child
[::]In the first episode, "An Unearthly Child", the four main characters are introduced, the Doctor is given vague background information, and the first recorded instance of the TARDIS traveling through time airs.[/::]
Season 1 Episode 1 Part 2 - The Cave of Skulls
[::]In "The Cave of Skulls", the group encounters a Paleolithic tribe and are subsequently imprisoned by them in a large cave.[/::]
Season 1 Episode 1 Part 3 - The Forest of Fear
[::]In "The Forest of Fear", they are shown to escape from the settlement but are subsequently intercepted before reaching the TARDIS.[/::]
Season 1 Episode 1 Part 4 - The Firemaker
[::]The final episode, "The Firemaker", has the group mediating separate factions of the tribe before fleeing successfully to the TARDIS, leaving Earth and landing on the planet Skaro, leading in to the next serial.[/::]
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The Daleks
[::]This story introduces two plotlines in Doctor Who, that of the TARDIS' navigational circuits malfunctioning and that of the supposed destruction of the Dalek race. In this case, instead of bringing its crew back to Earth, the TARDIS lands in a petrified jungle, and the Doctor has to try to fix their position by taking a reading of the stars. The Doctor insists they explore a futuristic city they spot beyond the forest but Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright are not convinced. To force his companions to do so, the Doctor sabotages the TARDIS by emptying the mercury fluid links (a ruse he later admits to), forcing the crew to travel to the city in search of more mercury.[/::]
Season 1 Episode 2 Part 1 - The Dead Planet
Season 1 Episode 2 Part 2 - The Survivors
Season 1 Episode 2 Part 3 - The Escape
Season 1 Episode 2 Part 4 - The Ambush
Season 1 Episode 2 Part 5 - The Expedition
Season 1 Episode 2 Part 6 - The Ordeal
Season 1 Episode 2 Part 7 - The Rescue
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The Edge of Destruction
[::]The First Doctor, while attempting to correct the TARDIS's faulty navigation circuits, causes a small explosion. The Doctor, Barbara, Ian and Susan are all temporarily rendered unconscious. After they awake, Ian and Susan appear to have slight cases of amnesia and everyone begins to act strangely. Unexpected events are happening on the TARDIS, the travellers are becoming suspicious of each other's motives, and the Doctor even accuses Ian and Barbara of sabotage. Fearing that they have been taken over by some alien force — or that they have intentionally sabotaged the TARDIS in order to force the Doctor to return them to 1963 — he drugs Barbara and Ian unknowing that Ian is also suspicious and has not taken the drink given to him. The Doctor attempts to explore the problem without interference.[/::]
Season 1 Episode 3 Part 1 - The Edge of Destruction
Season 1 Episode 3 Part 2 - The Brink of Disaster
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Marco Polo
[::]The TARDIS crew lands in the Himalayas of Cathay in 1289, their ship badly damaged, and are picked up by Marco Polo's caravan on its way along the fabled Silk Road to see the Emperor Kublai Khan. The story concerns the Doctor and his companions' attempts to thwart the machinations of Tegana, who attempts to sabotage the caravan along its travels through the Pamir Plateau and across the treacherous Gobi Desert, and ultimately to assassinate Kublai Khan in Peking, at the height of his imperial power.[/::]
Season 1 Episode 4 Part 1 - The Roof of the World
Season 1 Episode 4 Part 2 - The Singing Sands
Season 1 Episode 4 Part 3 - Five Hundred Eyes
Season 1 Episode 4 Part 4 - The Wall of Lies
Season 1 Episode 4 Part 5 - Rider from Shang-Tu
Season 1 Episode 4 Part 6 - Mighty Kublai Khan
Season 1 Episode 4 Part 7 - Assassin at Peking
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The Keys of Marinus
[::]On a small island with a glass beach, surrounded by an acid sea, on the planet Marinus, stands a tower with many secret entrances. Within the tower is Arbitan, Keeper of the Conscience of Marinus, a vast computer developed two millennia earlier as a vast justice machine which kept law and order across the entire planet. For seven hundred years, the Conscience was absolute, radiating its power across the planet Marinus, and eliminating all thought of evil. But then Yartek, leader of the alien Voord, worked out how to resist its impulses.
When the First Doctor and his companions Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton and Susan Foreman arrive on the island, they are brought into the tower to an audience with Arbitan, who explains that the society of Marinus is in danger. Several submersibles containing Voord, humanoid creatures protected by amphibian-like black rubber wet suits, have washed up on the beach. Inspired by Yartek, the Voord are seeking to enter the tower and take control of the Conscience.[/::]
Season 1 Episode 5 Part 1 - The Sea of Death
Season 1 Episode 5 Part 2 - The Velvet Web
Season 1 Episode 5 Part 3 - The Screaming Jungle
Season 1 Episode 5 Part 4 - The Snows of Terror
Season 1 Episode 5 Part 5 - Sentence of Death
Season 1 Episode 5 Part 6 - The Keys of Marinus
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The Aztecs
[::]The TARDIS crew arrive in Mexico in the 15th Century. With the TARDIS trapped in a tomb, Barbara is mistaken for a reincarnation of the ancient high priestess Yetaxa, and assumes her guise and identity. In her new position of power Barbara sees her chance to bring an end to human sacrifice. She sees the good side of Aztec culture manifested in Autloc, the High priest of knowledge, and the gruesome side embodied in 'the local butcher' High Priest Tlotoxl. As somewhat of an expert on this period, she sees how advanced their culture really is and believes that if sacrifice were abolished, they would be spared destruction at the hands of the Spanish. The Doctor's warnings that she cannot change history fall on deaf ears.[/::]
Season 1 Episode 6 Part 1 - The Temple of Evil
Season 1 Episode 6 Part 2 - The Warriors of Death
Episode 6 Part 3 - The Bride of Sacrifice
Season 1 Episode 6 Part 4 - The Day of Darkness
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The Sensorites
[::]The TARDIS travellers land on a moving spaceship and find the crew apparently dead. However, one of the crew members, Captain Maitland, regains consciousness and Ian Chesterton fully revives him and another woman, Carol Richmond. These two tell the travellers that they are on an exploration mission from Earth and are orbiting Sense-Sphere. However, its inhabitants, the Sensorites, refuse to let them leave the orbit.[/::]
Season 1 Episode 7 Part 1 - Strangers in Space
Season 1 Episode 7 Part 2 - The Unwilling Warriors
Season 1 Episode 7 Part 3 - Hidden Danger
Season 1 Episode 7 Part 4 - Race Against Death
Season 1 Episode 7 Part 5 - Kidnap
Season 1 Episode 7 Part 6 - A Desperate Venture
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The Reign of Terror
[::]The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan arrive in what they believe to be England. However, it is soon clear that they have travelled back into Earth history yet again, this time to 18th Century France. They have arrived in a wood twelve kilometres from Paris, then venture to a nearby farmhouse which seems to have seen better days. When they venture inside they find the farmhouse is being used as a staging post in an escape chain for counter-revolutionaries and contains clothes – some of which are put to good use by the travellers - and fake papers, some of which bear the signature of Robespierre, the chief orchestrator of government during the Reign of Terror. Before long they are found by two counter-revolutionaries, D'Argenson and Rouvray, who knock the Doctor unconscious and hold the others at gunpoint.[/::]
Season 1 Episode 8 Part 1 - A Land of Fear
Season 1 Episode 8 Part 2 - Guests Of Madame Guillotine
Season 1 Episode 8 Part 3 - A Change of Identity
Season 1 Episode 8 Part 4 - The Tyrant of France
Season 1 Episode 8 Part 4 - A Bargain of Necessity
Season 1 Episode 8 Part 5 - Prisoners of Conciergerie
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Planet of Giants
[::]Following a malfunction on the TARDIS console and the bleating of a klaxon indicating something is amiss, the Doctor insists the fault locator shows nothing is wrong and it is safe to venture outside. He leads his companions Ian, Barbara and Susan to the world beyond and within minutes they find a dead giant earthworm followed by a large deceased ant. They seem to have died immediately. After some deduction the travellers realise they have arrived on Earth but have shrunk in size to mere inches.[/::]
Season 2 Episode 1 - Planet of Giants
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The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Season 2 Episode 2 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth
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The Rescue
[::]The TARDIS crew is still missing Susan Foreman when the ship lands on a planet the Doctor eventually recognises as Dido, a world he has visited before. The trio soon encounter two survivors of a space crash, Vicki and Bennett, who are awaiting a rescue ship, due to arrive in three days time. Vicki and Bennett live in fear of Koquillion, a bipedal inhabitant of Dido which is stalking the area. Koquillion encounters the time travellers and attacks, pushing Barbara over a cliff and temporarily trapping Ian and the Doctor. Vicki finds Barbara injured and rescues her from Koquillion, and they share reminiscences.[/::]
Season 2 Episode 3 Part 1 - The Powerful Enemy
Season 2 Episode 3 Part 2 - Desperate Measures
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