It was later known as the Unified Intelligence Taskforce. His companions were banished and he was forced to regenerate once more and exiled to Earth.īen and Polly remained from his first incarnation, and he was later joined by 18th century Scots warrior Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines), scientist's daughter Victoria Waterfield (Deborah Watling), 21st century scientist Zoe Heriot (Wendy Padbury) and one of the longest-running occasional accomplices, Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stuart (Nicholas Courtney), a commander in the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, or UNIT. Unable to defeat the War Chief alone, the Doctor asked the Time Lords for help, leading to his own capture. His most notable tussle was with the War Chief, a Time Lord who had been planning to conquer the galaxy. He once more encountered the Daleks and the Cybermen, but also had clashes with an abominable snowman (it turned out to be a robo-Yeti), the Great Intelligence (as returned in the Matt Smith era) and the Ice Warriors (another lot who would pop back up again in Smith's time). That more dangerous streak to the Doctor is something carries through many regenerations since. At the same time, however, he was deeper and darker, a side he usually kept hidden from the companions as he made he his plans. Younger, twinklier, funnier and definitely more musical (he liked to play the recorder), he was also warmer and a bit of a bumbler. The second portrayal of the Doctor couldn't be more different from his predecessor, something that has frequently been a trademark of the series. Say hello to the Cybermen, but prepare for some frustration as this represents one of the stories with missing episodes thanks to the Beeb’s re-use of recordings.
Quick poll: Vote for your favourite Doctor Who companion Later companions include Vicki Pallister (Maureen O’Brien), picked up because she reminds him of Susan, space pilot Steven Taylor (Peter Purves), who initially mistrusts him, liberated slave Katarina (Adrienne Hill), the weird Dodo (Jackie Lane) and his final two travellers, Polly (Anneke Kills) and Ben (Michael Craze, who he attempts to stay friendly with to ward off his loneliness.
He accidentally abducts her teachers, Ian Chesterton (William Russell) and Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill). When we first meet the Doctor, he’s travelling with his granddaughter Susan (Carol Anne Ford), though his family is never really explained. We were also introduced to the Doctor’s ability to ‘regenerate’ – a little trick that Time Lords use to change their molecular structure when their life is in mortal danger. This incarnation of the character was fuelled not just by adventure but also by learning: shows were geared about historical outings interspersed between encounters with villains. It should be able to disguise itself as anything, but is stuck looking like a 1960s police box because of a wonky circuit. Famously, the TARDIS is bigger on the inside thanks to some dimensional chicanery that means it exists in different places at once. It’s here that many of the iconic elements of the character and his world were established, most especially his vehicle known as the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space). That might explain why he’s a renegade, a thief and an explorer who has essentially stolen his ride.
Despite his aged appearance, the Doctor here is “only” about 400 years old, meaning he’s practically a spotty teenager by the standards of his home planet, Gallifrey. Our introduction to The Doctor came in the episode The Unearthly Child, which launched with the slightly stuffy, vaguely arrogant but still entertaining take provided by William Hartnell. But if you have only ever seen the current version, please make your own TARDIS dematerialisation noise and step back in time with us. Doctor Who had hit the airwaves and the world would never be the same again. It promised a window into a realm of monsters, aliens, history and mystery, all anchored by a strange man in an even stranger box. On November 23, 1963, an odd little show premiered on British television.
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