We, my friends, are about to go on a journey through time and space, beginning with the very first episode of Doctor Who, which aired back in 1964. Why? you may ask. I'll tell you why: Because you can't be a proper Doctor Who fan if you have never watched Classic Doctor Who. So I am going to start watching all the episodes there are, which I suspect shall take inordinataely absorbant swaths of time, considering how many years behind I am. This first episode I actually watched in September of 2009, but fortunately I have an excerpt of my origonal impressions:
"As I understand it, this episode was released late because of the death of President John F. Kennedy. It is more of a drama, with lots of eery black and white magic. The first Doctor is suspicious, cantankerous, and rather mean to the first humans we ever see him run across, primarily because they get really nosy about him and his granddaughter, Susan, whom they suspect is abused because he parked the TARDIS in a junkyard and they basically live there in it. So far I've only watched about half of it, but I'll work on it again tomorrow night..."
I have to assume that if you're reading this blog you already know what the TARDIS is - if not, you can always google it. But chances are I'll ramble about it at some point anyway, so no worries if you're patient.
I am not too favorably impressed with Susan, who is your typical overgrown adult posing as a teenager included in there for the sake of the teenybopper crowd.
Her schoolteachers happen upon the TARDIS out of concern for her, and end up on a spectacular journey through time and space of their own - this is where the adventure begins, and that is what makes the episode so important.
