#there's BARBARA WRIGHT

[redeemed-wren]

Am I the only one who doesn't think that 60s era Doctor Who's trend/themes of 'protect women' isnt sexist?

Most of the complaints I see about 60s Who sexism, and the male characters of that era is largely due to the men being like 'girls stay back.' But a) there is nothing inherently sexist about that imo? Men protecting women is the most healthy masculine thing possible. And b) when the women are like 'no lol' the men are like 'okay fine let's go' and respect their decisions on the whole.

Like that isn't sexism? That's just recognising men and women are different?

[notyoujamie]

In 1963, I park the TARDIS in a junkyard and I live there with my granddaughter Susan.

[unwillingadventurer]

[bandaalarga]

Ian and Barbara in The Romans!

[carlandrea]

[headcanonsandmore]

Doctor Who companions summarised in ten words or less (classic edition)

Susan Foreman: Gallifreyan teenager abandoned on post-apocolyptic earth because love.

Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright: Married schoolteachers educate grumpy alien about morality.

Vicki Pallister: New granddaughter acquired!

Steven Taylor: Future Blue Peter presenter enjoys double act with adoptive sisters.

Katarina: She's lovely- oh, wait, now she's dead.

Sara Kingdom: She's cool- oh, wait, now she's dead.

Dodo Chaplet: Northerner loses accent due to BBC classism, more at ten.

Ben Jackson and Polly Wright: Opposites attract couple near-immediately overshadowed by new companion.

Jamie McCrimmon: Himbo highlander as gay as sixties television will allow.

Victoria Waterfield: Nineteenth century teenager has worst week of her life.

Zoe Heriot: Master martial artist knows one (1) throw.

Liz Shaw: Scientist is too competent for this nonsense.

Jo Grant: Cinnimon roll has no self-preservation instinct.

Sarah-Jane Smith: Feminist journalist surrounded by idiotic military men.

Harry Sullivan: Otherwise-sensible medical professional becomes world's biggest imbecile.

Leela of the Sevateem: Knife lady kicks ass, takes names.

K9: Robotic dog malfunctions for ninety minutes.

Romana: Sheltered Gallifreyan has surprisingly good fashion.

Adric: Math kid go boom!

Tegan Jovanka and Nyssa Of Traken: Hypercompetent space girlfriends have unintentional homoerotic subtext.

Vislor Turlough: Universes most incompetent assassin accidentally becomes friends with intended target.

Kamelion: BBC producer gets tricked into buying cursed prop.

Peri Brown: Dubiously-accented botanist struggles with sexism and BBC wardrobe department.

Mel Bush: Health nut weaponises volume of scream.

Ace McShane: Awesome butch bisexual pyromaniac hits things with baseball bat.

[natequarter]

literally them

[felicitykings]

BARBARA: Jenny, there's a whole bunch of them ahead of us. JENNY: Shall we jump for it? BARBARA: No.

DOCTOR WHO ↳ The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964)

[funeralgreys]

I can’t stop making fake dr who instagram posts and I’m making it everyones problem. Bonus goth opera:

[idkaguyorsomething]

A Doctor and their companion(s) are inserted into the plot of an episode which they did not experience in place of their counterparts who canonically experienced it. ¿Which of these would you like to see the most?

¡Please reblog and explain your answer in the tags!

[giddyaunt425]

5 after starting the Great Fire of London:

Bonus

1 after starting the Great Fire of Rome:

[smallerontheoutside]

i love the first doctor's era because they're so much more real / human somehow

people just eat snacks sometimes

barbara was making a dress for vicki

barbara and ian have the best banter with each other and one time spent a while just teasing each other about putting things in the fridge

a random man from alabama being very confused by the tardis, almost getting groped by a dalek, thinking they were filming something and failing to get a picture of any of it

people go wandering off and having their own adventures without the doctor all the time

the fact that they got the actual beatles to play music in an episode

barbara getting to run over some daleks in a lorry

a dalek falling off the mary celeste (yes, the famous ship) by complete accident

the doctor always laughs at his own joke (usually while ian and barbara roll their eyes at him)

sometimes ian and barbara are walking behind the doctor and they just smile fondly at each other

barbara: 'i feel like my hair's turned white', vicki: 'it has actually!' (spoiler alert: it has not)

there's just so much 'filler' content and I love it so much, and it never gets boring <3

[notyoujamie]

[unwillingadventurer]

[sarakingdom]

dumps these here out of boredom and runs away

[doorstovenus]

save me doctor who silly moments