#Hartnell Era

[mekanikaltrifle]

Me and the gf have been watching classic doctor who and I love that the literal best companions are right there from the get-go. Ian and Barbara really are the blueprint the other characters sprung from, imo. (also Susan but she's just a bit wilder than them)

[lost-doctor-who]

Official confirmation on an animation for The Celestial Toymaker.

[devotedlittlefreak]

How I look at the presenter when they're completely blowing up the timing :

[nipuni]

THE DOCTOR We had a pact, him and me. Every star in the universe, we were going to see them all.

My version of The Master and The Doctor in their Academy days 😊

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on april 1st!

[geronimomo-spd]

i have made my very hyper delusinal and spasific The Giggle Bingo!

took insparation from @geolato's bingo and @the-worms-in-your-bones's bingo

[demigodofhoolemere]

I’m dying over Steven and Vicki seeing each other again, especially after never having had a proper goodbye to one another. They both probably spent all their lives wondering if the other was okay. But now Steven has his little sister back and referred to her as such onscreen and I’m a wreck over it. It’s been ten years since I first watched the Hartnell era and it’s always stayed very close to my heart, I’m always rewatching something, and Steven and Vicki both have such a special place in my affections. I feel ten years younger seeing something new of them again. I never imagined getting something like this, and at that to see it treated with such reverence for those characters, their Doctor, and that era of the show generally. The Hartnell era is one of the most tragically overlooked and to see them really care about it, to have them speak of their Doctor the same way a modern companion would speak of theirs, to have them acknowledge the depth of their relationship for what it clearly was, to care enough to give two very underappreciated companions a moving return and reunion that will mostly only mean anything to those who are dedicated to that specific era of the show… I feel so loved and I’m a wreck.

[rukaaxu]

3th Doctor [DOCTOR WHO: 60 YEARS]

[orangefiend1]

It’s been a while, but when I saw this image (Ian and Barbara) on the booklet in the 1st Doctor Blu-ray box set, I had to redraw them.

[mekanikaltrifle]

I bought some vintage doctor who books on ebay and they turned up today :3 I now have the novel of the first serial and the Doctor is even more of an arse in writing than he was on screen. Good for him. :3

(Also it refers to Ian as responding 'obediently' and 'stupidly' far more often than I expected)

[lost-doctor-who]

Nice to get some confirmation for the intent to continue animating missing episodes and to get around to more Hartnell stories.

[mariocki]

Double Doctors! William Hartnell has a terrible time as wounded robber Jeff Richards, while Patrick Troughton is the unnamed (and uncredited!) tramp who finds Jeff's hiding place in Dial 999: 50,000 Hands (1.16, ABC, 1959)

[howlerbat]

watching the entirety of Dr Who in chronological order and cataloguing every piece of lore feels like that one girl watching in horror as every peg gets shoved through the square hole

[micahdotgov]

i think that they should start experimenting more with the animated versions of missing doctor who serials. the massacre of st bartholomew's eve in 90s shoujo anime style. the power of the daleks in claymation. bbc and big finish feel free to contact me i think i've got something here

[demigodofhoolemere]

Watching the Behind the Sofa features for the season 2 Hartnell episodes (surprisingly they’re on YouTube but who knows when that could get taken down) is a weird experience because a lot of the time it’s really enjoyable seeing the various reactions and they’re often very complimentary towards things that you don’t see people appreciate enough, which makes me quite happy, and then other times out of nowhere you’ll get odd comments of a few of the actresses perceiving certain lines as sexist or something. Specifically in The Time Meddler, which was otherwise a crowd favorite among them, Steven complimenting Vicki on being clever was apparently patronizing, and they acted as if the Doctor telling Vicki to keep her nose away when he was messing with the Monk’s TARDIS was him brushing off her questions as if she needs to stay in her place or something, when in context he’s dealing with precarious electrical wires and was telling her not to get her face so close because it could give her a shock — he says as much, but they talk over it. I enjoy very much that they were often appreciating things that people look over and really getting into a lot of it, but every now and again something like that would take me out of it. Don’t like when people attribute their own assumptions or biases as the meaning of something that was totally innocent.

[rukaaxu]

15Th Doctor [DOCTOR WHO: 60 YEARS]