This is what I love about Pertwee's era. The shows budget was practically cut in half like the round things wallpaper used as the TARDIS wall. They couldnt have the doctor travel through time and space. But, they made up for it with great writing and characters. Especially in Pertwee who is my favorite classic doctor!
The round things wallpaper was used in the 2nd doctor's era as well. In fact early doctor who uses this trick a lot. Parts of Skaro in The Daleks story uses the trick.
Actually, the wallpapered wall was evident in the very first episode, "An Unearthly Child"...but you had to look closely. 😊 Of course, you can still see the reduced budget in this clip when you notice the TARDIS interior is much smaller than it was back then...
It wasn't The Doctor's fault. The Time Lords remote control the TARDIS and send The Doctor to an unknown destination without an message or an explanation.
Yes, it was probably more a lack of experience on the director's part. But _Colony in Space_ is still a tough one to get through to be perfectly honest. The plot really didn't warrant six episodes, Pertwee looks bored as can be, and all of the sets and alien designs looked terrible which, altogether, made for a huge disappointment considering this was Pertwee's first truly off-world adventure. Even the TARDIS interior set looked tired and worn-out. Luckily, Michael E. Bryant had vastly improved his skills by the time he made _The Robots of Death_ a few years later and the show had much better quality control than it had during the Barry Letts era.
Travelling TARDIS I think it's because that version of the dematerialisation circuit wasn't used to fading but got used to it after a while. Cos the time lords obviously made it as they would brake one of there own tardis'
icemachine79 Sorry, but I completely disagree. Colony in Space was an excellent Doctor Who story. Robots of Death had a weak, predictable plot. Cliché Doctor Who with underdeveloped villains, a trademark of the Robert Holmes era. As for the Tardis instantly disappearing, I like to imagine that was intentional. Back in the early days the Tardis was a lot newer and still functioned normally. Then as it got older with more use, you could see some remnant of the exterior dimensions during dematerialization. And by the time of the new show, the Doctor has been with the Tardis so long and it's so broken down that it actually fades in and out multiple times during dematerialization. Think about it from a technological perspective. Why would you want a Tardis to still be in the old place? Wouldn't it be more efficient to instantaneously dematerialize? But an older Tardis with many parts worn out and some broken down might not operate at maximum efficiency and instantly dematerialize.
+Gallifreyan Buccaneer Granted, there were some interesting ideas in _Colony in Space,_ but nowhere near enough to pad out 6 episodes. The overt moralizing (a trademark of the Pertwee era) was grating, as usual, and as much as I'm willing to forgive budget-wise when it comes to classic Who, the sock puppet alien "overlord" was a true nadir during a period of the show's history when high production values already _weren't_ at the top of the list. Regarding the story itself, I didn't particularly find the colonists themselves to be very compelling characters, nor was I all that sympathetic to their plight, and the IMC staff (with the notable exception of Caldwell) were the epitome of overly-simplistic villains. As far as the green-skinned natives... the less said, the better. The idea that an intergalactic empire with the most destructive weapon in the _universe_ could devolve that far while leaving almost _no_ trace of their civilization on the surface of the planet is laughable, at best. As far as _The Robots of Death_ being predictable... *of course* it was predictable. In fact, that is part of what makes it so much fun to watch in the first place, and l find that "predictability" and "weakness", as you call it, eminently more watchable, thoughtful, and entertaining than anything served up in Pertwee's dreadful middle years. In retrospect, _Colony in Space_ was the template for a succession of dull, po-faced, and entirely predictable anti-colonialism tales which filled up much of Series 8-10 and seem hopelessly naive by today's standards... with the exception of Robert Holmes' excellent _Carnival of Monsters,_ a true diamond in the rough.
Well, the Doctor DID come back a few minutes later (after several days of doing the Time Lords' dirty work). And, since the Brig was standing where the TARDIS had been, in a different corner.
Courtney was wonderful.. He played the epitome of a British Army officer. In real life he was always worried someone would find out he wasn't really a very good actor and his gig would end, full of bluster but underneath just a big teddy bear. I think his fears were unfounded, he could have been a great actor, that soft spot under the hard nosed Brigadier exterior is what endeared us all to that character. The scene in the Tardis when Matt Smiths doctor finds out he died just gutted me.
The director Michael Briant admitted that he didn't know the TARDIS was meant to fade, using a roll back & mix effect, which is why it just vanishes so abruptly.
Just looking at the set, you can see how low budget this episode is. And yet, as a 19-year-old in 2019, I watch this scene and I'm filled with wonder. And that's all down to the acting. I feel the Doctor's utter enjoyment at being able to travel once again, I feel Jo's panic at being immediately out of her depth, I feel the Brig's exasperation at the Doctor's antics... and the set isn't fancy and there are certainly no effects. It's just some actors and the wonder of travelling through space-time. This is Doctor Who at its purest.
Technically the set looks like that because that's how the TARDIS had always looked, rather than any specific budgetary reasons. Random dish console room for 1 story aside, the TARDIS didn't get a revamp until Season 10.
Well said. This is pure Doctor Who. As understandably apprehensive as Jo is, you can still believe Jon Pertwee's Doctor was reassuring enough to convince her to explore an alien world with him. Pure Doctor Who, pure magic!
Working on a show he probably grew up watching (or that his kids watch, so he's officially Coolest Dad Ever). But if you watch, this isn't a full-size vehicle at the quarry: that's a small, remote-operated, model on a table-top set. That's not the wobble of, say, a cardboard-covered mechanized cart with a driver.
Hey man you say that but I'd feel honored to have worked on Doctor Who, regardless of whether or not I'm inside a rubbish robot costume made out of cardboard.
In the actual future when machine-learning AI operated mining exploration machines are actually roaming around on exoplanets - there's probably a subroutine that's thinking exactly that "This is my career..."
@@DomWeasel I’ve been binge watching classic doctor who, I haven’t made it to the 80s yet. But I’ve watched remembrance of the daleks and that seemed really good
@@shadowmaster8684 I believe they spent the majority of that series budget on it; particularly for the pyrotechnics. It looks much better than many of the stories of Davison and Baker's eras.
@@DomWeasel One thing that probably helped hide some budget problems in the McCoy era was the increase in location filming. A lot of the studio stuff looks really cheap (Battlefield certainly has this problem), but the location stuff doesn't because there aren't any overlit crappy sets. The difference is very noticeable if you compare season 24 (mostly studio bound) to season 26 (mostly on location). It also helps that while Ghost Light was shot entirely in studio, it's set in a Victorian house, so the sets look quite good.
@@jokkemursula8731 Some of the location filming looks terrible because it's 80s Britain. All those abandoned industrial plants and quarries used in the 70s have a distinct look too. But the overlit sets in the 80s really killed the show. Warriors of the Deep was meant to be set in a darkened set, like the caves and freighter in Earthshock or the dull grey and dark bunker of Genesis of the Daleks and instead it's neon white; making the really awful production of that story painfully obvious.
"When you travel throughout time and space as I have, you'd be amazed at how much of it does actually looks like a quarry in the south of England". Colin Baker.
First Doctor and Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, Katarina of Troy and Vicki Pallister, Steven Taylor Second Doctor and Bret Vyon, Sara Kingdom and Ben Jackson, Polly Wright and Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield Third Doctor and Zoe Heriot, Jo Grant Fourth Doctor and Romana II and Leela and Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan Fifth Doctor and Vislor Turlough Sixth Doctor and Adric of Alzarius and Nyssa of Traken and Tegan Jovanka and Peri Brown and Mel Blush
Jo: Don’t believe it. It’s bigger inside then out. Doctor: Yes. That’s because the TARDIS is dimensionally transcendental. Jo: What does that mean? Doctor: It means that it’s bigger inside then out. *EXPLANATION 100*
She was a brilliant character, naïve, scattered brained, clumsy but clever and brave, with a strong moral compass. Capable of ruining anything she touched but also capable of rescuing the doctor on several occasions.
It was so low budget for it's time though the actor's spirit and great stories filled that gap. Today's has the reverse in many respects. Sorry...I'm so old school.
Liam Cahill Meh. I’d say 50/50. The classic series started it all and had some really good and, if not, really ambitious stories that just trying to pull off on such a small budget deserves applauds. However, when the stories were too slow paced and the dialogue too heavy on technobabble, they could send you right into a bloody coma. The bigger budget of the new series allows the creators to finally make it as fast paced and action packed as it was always meant to have been but couldn’t. Although, sometimes that does leave the stories feeling rushed and the characters underdeveloped, cardboard cutouts. Though, I’m partial to the RTD era myself. Due to RTD being able to create fun, realistic and interesting characters within a short time frame as well as plots that are fun and inventive, with that trademark Dr who daftness (SPACE RHINOS!!!), while still feeling grounded in reality.
It was the same sound effect they used for the opening of the Sidrat doors in the War Games story. For those who haven't seen the War Games. The Sidrats ( tardis spelt backwards) were the space time machines that the people who ran the games used to transport personnel to the various zones. The story is well worth a look if you ever get the chance.
The sound the doors of the TARDIS made when they opened were heard in 2 Doctor Who stories in Patrick Troughton‘s era. They are The Power of The Daleks and The War Games.
It probably did. I have a feeling they spent it on the Master's TARDIS set we see later in the story. And the new TARDIS console they'd just commissioned (Seen here and in the master's TARDIS with some alterations) So they just yanked 2 roundeled walls from storage, and the photographic blow up wall from the Hartnell era and made due with that.
No it's because back then they didn't constantly revamp the Tardis just to look newer. They used it because that's the same way it looked for the past 7 years. If you notice the console has a slight green tint to it. That's because it's the same original console used since 1963. That green tint looked nicer on the black and white cameras.
This is actually the 1st new console. It's a rebuild based on the original console. The last story the original 1963 console appeared in was "Inferno" after that it was taken apart, and some of the pieces were used in the construction of this new one. One of the major differences in this newer version is the central column. The original had B&W shapes and the core could rotate during "Scanning mode" and this one's got vertical colored tubes and lights and no spinning section.
Because the first season with Pertwee was out of budget for sets for planets and the past, so the idea was that he was stranded in present-day Earth most of the time woking with UNIT in that season except being in a parallel Earth that was cheaper to use than another planet. Not until the season in this episode they had enough budget for them to write the Doctor to go places to go so he wouldn't be stuck in Earth all the time.
TARDIS control room - black and white photograph blow-up of wall with circles. Alien planet - muddy quarry. Special effects - a jump cut to make a box vanish. Dr Who somehow impressed its ideas on the imagination of the audience with such lasting power that people are still watching this cheap and cheerful stuff half a century later. What a triumph of storytelling!
It has been suggested that this is due to it not really 'dematerialising' in the conventional way, but being controlled by the Time Lords. As good an explanation as I can think of - although, in reality, it was due to the BBC special FX people not being familiar with the usual demat - remat effect.
Blastfrom thepast the real reason was the director having never have a tardis fly hadn't known about the fade effect. I do t know why but apparently, but anyway so yeah
In star trek alien world's looked just like the desert about 50 miles outside of LA . In doctor who alien world's look just like a quarry in the south east of England .
Sure is. The whole set, or most of it, hasn't been replaced since 1963, until it was time to do the next Pertwee story that involved a TARDIS interior.
If Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart had banged on the doors of the TARDIS as it was taking off, he would've fallen to the floor after the Doctor's craft dematerialized in the blink of an eye.
the doctor has on a t-shirt, a shirt, a jacket, and a coat. mabye a cape or two. dude could probably take a meteor strike straight to the mid section and walk it off like it was, ''business as usual.''
It didn't matter because the typical British viewer watched this on a 19 inch black and white TV. Even if you could afford a color set, the government would hit you with a huge tax for owning one.
That IS the replacement wall. The original TARDIS interior set took up too much of their limited studio space, so they canned half of it and put up the printed wall. To be fair, it looked fine on 1970s cathode ray tube TVs and the sub-VHS quality broadcasts of back then.
The printed wall was part of the TARDIS interior from the first episode. It occupied the space between the large roundelled wall and the opposite end of the console room which held the fault locator instrumentation. When they shrank the interior set, it became the wall opposite the main doors.
Another favourite of mine. I love the TARDIS dustbin in the foreground. Or is it a washing machine? Seriously, I read the book in the mid '70s and was blown away. Although not quite as I had imagined it, when I saw the actual serial, it also impressed me. I always loved seeing inside the 'Pertwee' TARDIS, as we never saw it nearly enough. I think my favourite TARDIS interior of all time has to be the one from 'The Time Monster' - also a story that I enjoy more than popular opinion suggests I should.
I love the Time Monster console room. It's such a clever idea to be able to see the vague shapes of trees outside through the roundels. Reminds me of when Susan was alone in the TARDIS during the Daleks, there was a flash of lightning and all the roundels lit up.
Even if The Doctor had tried to get Jo Grant out of the TARDIS when it was being operated by remote -control by the Time Lords,he wouldn't have been able to because they needed the Doctor on an urgent mission to stop the Master from getting a weapon he doesn't deserve to have.
Oh let's not get into which assistant/companion was the sexiest. Jo, Sarah Jane, Ace, Amelia, Clara...my nether region just can't handle all of that stimulation!
Jo: “Why is the TARDIS appearing and disappearing like that, Doctor?” The Doctor: “It would seem that the video fader circuits need to be calibrated.” JP was the first Doctor I encountered but it was TB who was my Doctor…
I think I was only about 11 when I saw this show for the first time and it just filled me with wonder, man I wanted to get out there and travel the universe!
Caroline John, Katy Manning and Elizabeth Sladen. All three were attractive. Never thought so at the time but then I was only 5 to 12 yrs old. 1970 to1977. Caroline John ( Liz Shaw ) passed away in 2012 at the age of 71 (cancer) Katy Manning (Jo Grant in this video ) is alive and well and 76. Elizabeth Sladen ( Sarah Jane Smith ) passed away in 2011 at the age of 65 (pancreatic cancer) Jon Pertwee (Doctor in this video) passed away in 1996 aged 76 (heart attack) Nic Courtney (the Brigadier ) passed away in 2011 aged 81 (cancer)
The Doctor: "I don't want it to work for them! I want it to work for ME!" And the Brigadier would have a slight problem if the Doctor had control and immediately came back because he might have been squashed like a bug!
I say the Masters TARDIS in this story been disguised as a dark red spaceship, like the spaceships seen in Thunderbirds and Joe 90 is awesome in millions and billions of ways.
It really bugged me how the interior doors of the "classic" Tardis were absolutely nothing like the exterior doors: not the dimensions of the passage, not the color, not the width, not even the number of doors open (always two open inside and one open outside). I was really pleased when they cleaned it up in the modern series.
THANK YOU. That’s actually why I came to this video. Ordinarily, they don’t show the exterior through the internal doors but this is one of the rare times that they did and I can’t wrap my head around it. What would it look like when entering and exiting? I suppose we got the best explanation from Grace in the Doctor Who Movie; she described it as a spatial displacement when stepping over the threshold. Essentially, the inside of the police box looks dark from the outside and then you step inside, unknowingly step over the threshold in the dark and then the interior doors buzz open and show you the interior. That makes sense for ingress but I’m confused about egress. Any scene where you see passengers exiting the TARDIS with the Type 40 doors, they just walk straight out. But from the outside, you see them interact with the police box door and pull it open and then close it behind them. That boggles my mind.
@@duderyandude9515 It's explained somewhere in the series, although cant remember where. But there is an outer shell (the police box) and then the inner shell (console room doors). Essentially there is two sets of doors. SO you enter the police box and then you walk to the back of the police box and there will be the doors for the console room. This design is in mind for the chameleon circuit too, if working, it allows for the outer shell to change based on environment while the inner shell doors remain unaffected. Hopefully this makes sense. Upon googling, its called the Outer Plasmic Shell.
I wonder how Liz would react, there would be a whole episode of arguing and Liz would leave at the end of episode 1 and the Tardis doesn't travel again til the next episode. In fact, no, Episode 1 is just one story called, the argument, the refusal and the farewell of the scientist, Liz leaves and Colony in space is a five parter.
@@mirkofloris9910 Except there plainly isn't - as you can see the exterior starts immediately - as it did with the first Doctor. I agree - logically - there should be an antechamber, but I don't think the effects were up to it.
Did Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart really expect the Doctor to hear him saying "Doctor,come back at once" after The TARDIS quickly dematerialized with him and Jo Grant inside,being controlled by the Time Lords for an urgent mission?
Even if the Doctor tried calling the Time Lords to ask them where they're sending him and Jo and why when the TARDIS started to travel in space & time for the 1st time since his exile on 20 Century Earth began more than a year earlier, the Doctor wouldn't hear their answer.
@@davidmckirdy4063 This was director Michael E. Bryant's first Doctor Who episode, and he was unaware that the usual transition sequence was done with an A/B fade roll rather than an abrupt jump-cut. He would not make that mistake in his subsequent assignments for the series.
The Time Lords thought that the Doctor wouldn't help them foil an evil plan of the Master's on an alien planet because they punished him for interfering in the affairs of the Universe in a stolen TARDIS,hence they gave him temporary freedom for their own purpose along with his assistant Jo Grant.
Fun fact, although the lack of a fade effect was down to the director, the fan explication is that the TARDIS was still locked by the Time Lords, and therefore couldn't dematerialize and rematerialize properly.
Man, this show loved plot armor/deus ex machina, the worst example of which may be here, or maybe it was when the TARDIS suddenly and unavoidably for no reason at all transitioned into e-Space for a series-long cycle there. The writers thus avoided companion Romana having to be returned to Gallifrey (just then). Lalla Ward was Tom Baker's lover at the time, so maybe it was Baker himself who insisted on an extension of her appearances.
Even if the Doctor & Jo heard Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart‘s voice as the TARDIS was taking off for the 1st time in more than a year,they wouldn‘t be able to tell him in time that for some reason,the Time Lords are controlling the TARDIS and sending them to do a mission for them.
This is what I love about Pertwee's era. The shows budget was practically cut in half like the round things wallpaper used as the TARDIS wall. They couldnt have the doctor travel through time and space. But, they made up for it with great writing and characters. Especially in Pertwee who is my favorite classic doctor!
The round things wallpaper was used in the 2nd doctor's era as well. In fact early doctor who uses this trick a lot. Parts of Skaro in The Daleks story uses the trick.
@@Zephhy Yeah, it's one of those things that's harder to notice in B&W than in Color. But once you notice it...
Actually, the wallpapered wall was evident in the very first episode, "An Unearthly Child"...but you had to look closely. 😊 Of course, you can still see the reduced budget in this clip when you notice the TARDIS interior is much smaller than it was back then...
@@TaikoNoTetsujin Not to mention the way the TARDIS just poofs in and out of existence rather than the slow fade-out and -in in Spearhead from Space.
when the TARDIS dematerialized and rematerialized WITHOUT its trademark fade effect I half expected to hear a “pop/boop” sound effect
Da Big Man _Guy much like the Oerter Cushing era
"Doctor, come back at once."
When the Brigadier has had enough of his shit XD
It wasn't The Doctor's fault. The Time Lords remote control the TARDIS and send The Doctor to an unknown destination without an message or an explanation.
The humour in this just went right over your head
xDD
Haha he's like that dad who just can't be bothered yelling at his kid
@@francisbartoszewski2284 Daniel's right. It wasn't the doctor's fault.
The Brigadier's relationship with the Doctor was by far the best part of the Third Doctor's run. XD
the brig was, and is, the doctors true companion, always there when needed
I like to think that his name is Briger and that everyone just calls him Dear lol!
Briger Dear!!!
When you don't have enough money for a fade effect.
They did have "enough money" for the fade effect, it was just a mistake with the Director.
Yes, it was probably more a lack of experience on the director's part. But _Colony in Space_ is still a tough one to get through to be perfectly honest. The plot really didn't warrant six episodes, Pertwee looks bored as can be, and all of the sets and alien designs looked terrible which, altogether, made for a huge disappointment considering this was Pertwee's first truly off-world adventure. Even the TARDIS interior set looked tired and worn-out. Luckily, Michael E. Bryant had vastly improved his skills by the time he made _The Robots of Death_ a few years later and the show had much better quality control than it had during the Barry Letts era.
Travelling TARDIS I think it's because that version of the dematerialisation circuit wasn't used to fading but got used to it after a while. Cos the time lords obviously made it as they would brake one of there own tardis'
icemachine79 Sorry, but I completely disagree. Colony in Space was an excellent Doctor Who story. Robots of Death had a weak, predictable plot. Cliché Doctor Who with underdeveloped villains, a trademark of the Robert Holmes era.
As for the Tardis instantly disappearing, I like to imagine that was intentional. Back in the early days the Tardis was a lot newer and still functioned normally. Then as it got older with more use, you could see some remnant of the exterior dimensions during dematerialization. And by the time of the new show, the Doctor has been with the Tardis so long and it's so broken down that it actually fades in and out multiple times during dematerialization. Think about it from a technological perspective. Why would you want a Tardis to still be in the old place? Wouldn't it be more efficient to instantaneously dematerialize? But an older Tardis with many parts worn out and some broken down might not operate at maximum efficiency and instantly dematerialize.
+Gallifreyan Buccaneer Granted, there were some interesting ideas in _Colony in Space,_ but nowhere near enough to pad out 6 episodes. The overt moralizing (a trademark of the Pertwee era) was grating, as usual, and as much as I'm willing to forgive budget-wise when it comes to classic Who, the sock puppet alien "overlord" was a true nadir during a period of the show's history when high production values already _weren't_ at the top of the list.
Regarding the story itself, I didn't particularly find the colonists themselves to be very compelling characters, nor was I all that sympathetic to their plight, and the IMC staff (with the notable exception of Caldwell) were the epitome of overly-simplistic villains. As far as the green-skinned natives... the less said, the better. The idea that an intergalactic empire with the most destructive weapon in the _universe_ could devolve that far while leaving almost _no_ trace of their civilization on the surface of the planet is laughable, at best.
As far as _The Robots of Death_ being predictable... *of course* it was predictable. In fact, that is part of what makes it so much fun to watch in the first place, and l find that "predictability" and "weakness", as you call it, eminently more watchable, thoughtful, and entertaining than anything served up in Pertwee's dreadful middle years. In retrospect, _Colony in Space_ was the template for a succession of dull, po-faced, and entirely predictable anti-colonialism tales which filled up much of Series 8-10 and seem hopelessly naive by today's standards... with the exception of Robert Holmes' excellent _Carnival of Monsters,_ a true diamond in the rough.
"Doctor, come back at once". Gotta love the Brigadier 😅
Well, the Doctor DID come back a few minutes later (after several days of doing the Time Lords' dirty work). And, since the Brig was standing where the TARDIS had been, in a different corner.
Kieran Lees That was the best line in the storu.
XD
Courtney was wonderful.. He played the epitome of a British Army officer. In real life he was always worried someone would find out he wasn't really a very good actor and his gig would end, full of bluster but underneath just a big teddy bear. I think his fears were unfounded, he could have been a great actor, that soft spot under the hard nosed Brigadier exterior is what endeared us all to that character. The scene in the Tardis when Matt Smiths doctor finds out he died just gutted me.
i accidentally read that as come back at nonce
3:51 "..exploring new worlds and seeking the wonders of the universe." That sounds like a decent premise for a sci-fi show.
I can't see it lasting very long
I love how John Pertwee is so careful with the console and like using the palm of his hands to flick switches instead of his fingers
I like the simplicity, and lack of clutter.
Pertwee always made sure to take care or the console unlike the set building staff that the bbc had
Ah, the old slate quarry. So that's our destination.
ITS ALL QUARRY'S
"Endless Gravel Quarries."
That was the only destination possible in Doctor Who.🤣🤣🤣
"Wait it's all quarries?"
*"Always has been"*
I loved in a Tom Baker episode where he opened the view screen and said "Oh look. Rocks!" and immediately closed it again!
The Brigadier acts like a parent giving a stern telling-off to a small child. Love it.
The director Michael Briant admitted that he didn't know the TARDIS was meant to fade, using a roll back & mix effect, which is why it just vanishes so abruptly.
Just looking at the set, you can see how low budget this episode is. And yet, as a 19-year-old in 2019, I watch this scene and I'm filled with wonder. And that's all down to the acting. I feel the Doctor's utter enjoyment at being able to travel once again, I feel Jo's panic at being immediately out of her depth, I feel the Brig's exasperation at the Doctor's antics... and the set isn't fancy and there are certainly no effects. It's just some actors and the wonder of travelling through space-time. This is Doctor Who at its purest.
As a fellow 19-year-old in 2019 myself, I must say I agree!
Spot on. I agree 100%. Great comment.
Technically the set looks like that because that's how the TARDIS had always looked, rather than any specific budgetary reasons. Random dish console room for 1 story aside, the TARDIS didn't get a revamp until Season 10.
I think people are still going to be appreciating this show and era of the show 1000 years from now.
Well said. This is pure Doctor Who. As understandably apprehensive as Jo is, you can still believe Jon Pertwee's Doctor was reassuring enough to convince her to explore an alien world with him. Pure Doctor Who, pure magic!
The 3rd Doctor, The Brigadier and Jo Grant. One of the great Whovian combos of the 70's
Indeed. This scene of Jo's first adventure via the TARDIS is among the most special. Happy 60th Anniversary for Doctor Who.
I love how Jo didn't actually really _believe him_ until she went outside and found that she _really was_ on another World!
Me, too! 😄
Hey, I don't Remember leaving that comment.
Amazing how that old slate quarry was a different planet every time.
🤣
Talk about utilising your location to its fullest potential 🤣
Well when they were not using the sand pit or a random British Location
2:11 You just know there's a guy in there thinking "This is my career..."
Working on a show he probably grew up watching (or that his kids watch, so he's officially Coolest Dad Ever).
But if you watch, this isn't a full-size vehicle at the quarry: that's a small, remote-operated, model on a table-top set. That's not the wobble of, say, a cardboard-covered mechanized cart with a driver.
Hey man you say that but I'd feel honored to have worked on Doctor Who, regardless of whether or not I'm inside a rubbish robot costume made out of cardboard.
In the actual future when machine-learning AI operated mining exploration machines are actually roaming around on exoplanets - there's probably a subroutine that's thinking exactly that "This is my career..."
@@Kryojenix It looked like one of those crane things that are in those arcade prize machines.
I'm not completely sure why but that made me laugh....thank you lol
Even when doctor who was at its lowest budget, they still managed to bring us some of the best stories and characters!
This wasn't the lowest. That came later, during the 80s, when the improvement in video and film quality made the low budget very obvious.
@@DomWeasel I’ve been binge watching classic doctor who, I haven’t made it to the 80s yet. But I’ve watched remembrance of the daleks and that seemed really good
@@shadowmaster8684
I believe they spent the majority of that series budget on it; particularly for the pyrotechnics.
It looks much better than many of the stories of Davison and Baker's eras.
@@DomWeasel One thing that probably helped hide some budget problems in the McCoy era was the increase in location filming. A lot of the studio stuff looks really cheap (Battlefield certainly has this problem), but the location stuff doesn't because there aren't any overlit crappy sets. The difference is very noticeable if you compare season 24 (mostly studio bound) to season 26 (mostly on location). It also helps that while Ghost Light was shot entirely in studio, it's set in a Victorian house, so the sets look quite good.
@@jokkemursula8731
Some of the location filming looks terrible because it's 80s Britain. All those abandoned industrial plants and quarries used in the 70s have a distinct look too.
But the overlit sets in the 80s really killed the show. Warriors of the Deep was meant to be set in a darkened set, like the caves and freighter in Earthshock or the dull grey and dark bunker of Genesis of the Daleks and instead it's neon white; making the really awful production of that story painfully obvious.
Don't you want to set foot on another world and seek the wonders of the universe?
*Lands in a quarry lol*
The BBC quarry. Those things do look pretty uncanny.
It would explain a lot, this lifelong obsession with quarries.
"When you travel throughout time and space as I have, you'd be amazed at how much of it does actually looks like a quarry in the south of England". Colin Baker.
XD
It's NOT A QUARRY... it's an ALIEN QUARRY! LOL
I always love how Jo dresses. My favorite is her outfit in "The Three Doctors"!
The third doctor and Jo are among my favorite duos in doctor who. I just love them both
They're the first Tardis crew I remember.
Nice 👍
First Doctor and Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, Katarina of Troy and Vicki Pallister, Steven Taylor
Second Doctor and Bret Vyon, Sara Kingdom and Ben Jackson, Polly Wright and Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield
Third Doctor and Zoe Heriot, Jo Grant
Fourth Doctor and Romana II and Leela and Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan
Fifth Doctor and Vislor Turlough
Sixth Doctor and Adric of Alzarius and Nyssa of Traken and Tegan Jovanka and Peri Brown and Mel Blush
'Among your favourites'. Praise indeed.😊
Jo: Don’t believe it. It’s bigger inside then out.
Doctor: Yes. That’s because the TARDIS is dimensionally transcendental.
Jo: What does that mean?
Doctor: It means that it’s bigger inside then out.
*EXPLANATION 100*
Brilliant line.
*than
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@@r0bw00d Why do some people always feel they have to correct typos
@@Trev359 Beats me. Helping people isn't a requirement.
Jo Grant is honestly the sweetest companion. Lovely girl.
She was a brilliant character, naïve, scattered brained, clumsy but clever and brave, with a strong moral compass.
Capable of ruining anything she touched but also capable of rescuing the doctor on several occasions.
She's cute too
and hot af. that famous pictorial of hers, is still one of my favorites.
Kidnapped by the Time Lords and told off by the Brigadier. Not a good day.
Jon Pertwee is one of my favorite doctors :)
Pertwee was my favourite Doctor when I was a child.
Jon pertwee was many peoples favourite
Uxarieus, one of the many planets that looks like a quarry, possibly in Wales.
They wouldn't need a map.
Not Wales, not yet - at this point in time, the Home Counties. Still got to get all the equipment back to TV Centre at the end of the day.
I loved it when tardis lands at a weird angle,never happens in modern who
And actors thought that the BBC would never make cuts! But the poor TARDIS got a couple in that scene.
Jo Grant is the cutest companion
Doctor: Yes. That's because the TARDIS is dimensionally transcendental.
Jo: Is that why that one wall looks like it's two-dimensional?
It was so low budget for it's time though the actor's spirit and great stories filled that gap. Today's has the reverse in many respects. Sorry...I'm so old school.
Agui007 you're so true though. I started as a New Who fan and the classics are so much better :)
Liam Cahill Meh. I’d say 50/50.
The classic series started it all and had some really good and, if not, really ambitious stories that just trying to pull off on such a small budget deserves applauds. However, when the stories were too slow paced and the dialogue too heavy on technobabble, they could send you right into a bloody coma.
The bigger budget of the new series allows the creators to finally make it as fast paced and action packed as it was always meant to have been but couldn’t. Although, sometimes that does leave the stories feeling rushed and the characters underdeveloped, cardboard cutouts.
Though, I’m partial to the RTD era myself. Due to RTD being able to create fun, realistic and interesting characters within a short time frame as well as plots that are fun and inventive, with that trademark Dr who daftness (SPACE RHINOS!!!), while still feeling grounded in reality.
I love the classic series I grew up watching it. The monsters now do look better I wish the monsters looked that good back then
Exactly. High budget, but nothing from the acting and stories except SJW, Woke pandering.
Love the classic series 1963-1989 especially the first 4 Doctors era
me too, especially 4th
julie everett my favorites are 2, 3 and 4 but if I had to pick just one Tom Baker is Doctor Who period
@@jimmyjambhere agreed
The sound of the doors opening from inside the Doctor‘s TARDIS were heard in the stories The Power Of The Daleks & The War Games.
It was the same sound effect they used for the opening of the Sidrat doors in the War Games story. For those who haven't seen the War Games. The Sidrats ( tardis spelt backwards) were the space time machines that the people who ran the games used to transport personnel to the various zones. The story is well worth a look if you ever get the chance.
The sound the doors of the TARDIS made when they opened were heard in 2 Doctor Who stories in Patrick Troughton‘s era. They are The Power of The Daleks and The War Games.
Can’t believe the BBC couldn’t spring for another Roundel wall instead of a photograph. The budget must have been very low.
i think the budget ran out for a third wall.
It probably did. I have a feeling they spent it on the Master's TARDIS set we see later in the story. And the new TARDIS console they'd just commissioned (Seen here and in the master's TARDIS with some alterations) So they just yanked 2 roundeled walls from storage, and the photographic blow up wall from the Hartnell era and made due with that.
Purefoldnz and a decent dematerialization effect
No it's because back then they didn't constantly revamp the Tardis just to look newer. They used it because that's the same way it looked for the past 7 years. If you notice the console has a slight green tint to it. That's because it's the same original console used since 1963. That green tint looked nicer on the black and white cameras.
This is actually the 1st new console. It's a rebuild based on the original console. The last story the original 1963 console appeared in was "Inferno" after that it was taken apart, and some of the pieces were used in the construction of this new one. One of the major differences in this newer version is the central column. The original had B&W shapes and the core could rotate during "Scanning mode" and this one's got vertical colored tubes and lights and no spinning section.
Because the first season with Pertwee was out of budget for sets for planets and the past, so the idea was that he was stranded in present-day Earth most of the time woking with UNIT in that season except being in a parallel Earth that was cheaper to use than another planet. Not until the season in this episode they had enough budget for them to write the Doctor to go places to go so he wouldn't be stuck in Earth all the time.
TARDIS control room - black and white photograph blow-up of wall with circles. Alien planet - muddy quarry. Special effects - a jump cut to make a box vanish. Dr Who somehow impressed its ideas on the imagination of the audience with such lasting power that people are still watching this cheap and cheerful stuff half a century later. What a triumph of storytelling!
Here’s a lesson for all the kids, when you travel with Pertwee bring your own coat because he won’t give you one.
Jon did. He would give Katy his cape during outdoor filming sessions.
the tardis just popped out of nowhere
It has been suggested that this is due to it not really 'dematerialising' in the conventional way, but being controlled by the Time Lords. As good an explanation as I can think of - although, in reality, it was due to the BBC special FX people not being familiar with the usual demat - remat effect.
Blastfrom thepast the real reason was the director having never have a tardis fly hadn't known about the fade effect. I do t know why but apparently, but anyway so yeah
In star trek alien world's looked just like the desert about 50 miles outside of LA . In doctor who alien world's look just like a quarry in the south east of England .
I think that Tardis wall on the right is a leftover from the Hartnell era
Sure is. The whole set, or most of it, hasn't been replaced since 1963, until it was time to do the next Pertwee story that involved a TARDIS interior.
The console is different though. The original console was destroyed after Inferno
It is.
If Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart had banged on the doors of the TARDIS as it was taking off, he would've fallen to the floor after the Doctor's craft dematerialized in the blink of an eye.
the doctor has on a t-shirt, a shirt, a jacket, and a coat. mabye a cape or two. dude could probably take a meteor strike straight to the mid section and walk it off like it was, ''business as usual.''
Just a shirt, jacket and cape.
Jo is modeling the very early prototype of the Fanny Pack .
i know it was all low budget but i love the clear wallpaper for the tardis wall compared with the real roundels on the wall
To be fair, the wallpaper bit was a part from the original TARDIS set
It didn't matter because the typical British viewer watched this on a 19 inch black and white TV. Even if you could afford a color set, the government would hit you with a huge tax for owning one.
I don’t. Cheap and nasty.
@@danivariuslike i said, low budget, unfortunately Dr Who had a real low point in the budget for the 3rd doctor
That old back wall realy needed to get replaced
Nah, the original Tardis wall is authentic. Everything afterwards is fake.
That IS the replacement wall. The original TARDIS interior set took up too much of their limited studio space, so they canned half of it and put up the printed wall.
To be fair, it looked fine on 1970s cathode ray tube TVs and the sub-VHS quality broadcasts of back then.
The printed wall was part of the TARDIS interior from the first episode. It occupied the space between the large roundelled wall and the opposite end of the console room which held the fault locator instrumentation. When they shrank the interior set, it became the wall opposite the main doors.
That back wall really stands out against the proper roundalls XD
xD
Love how the brigadire tells the dr to come back. Classic
I like it when the Time Lords use the Doctor as there agent because it takes him away from earth.
"Oh look! Rocks!"🤠
My favorite Tom Baker era quote!
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That was supposed to be a rock. It looks more like. Curling Stone!
Another favourite of mine. I love the TARDIS dustbin in the foreground. Or is it a washing machine? Seriously, I read the book in the mid '70s and was blown away. Although not quite as I had imagined it, when I saw the actual serial, it also impressed me. I always loved seeing inside the 'Pertwee' TARDIS, as we never saw it nearly enough. I think my favourite TARDIS interior of all time has to be the one from 'The Time Monster' - also a story that I enjoy more than popular opinion suggests I should.
My favorite Pertwee console room is the one from the Three Doctors. But the Time Monster version is certainly interesting.
I love the Time Monster console room. It's such a clever idea to be able to see the vague shapes of trees outside through the roundels.
Reminds me of when Susan was alone in the TARDIS during the Daleks, there was a flash of lightning and all the roundels lit up.
Doctor! Come back at once! Like he would listen........
Like he would have heard him?
Love Jon and Tom baker just good stuff.cleane.
4:10 dont worry little girl, dracula wont hurt you... hehehe... not until dinner
I think you mean Count Docula.
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Jo doing her best Victor Meldrew impression at the start there
I am sure Richard Wilson based his performance on Jo Grant...
Believe it !!!!
On paper the 3rd Doctor's era should have been the most boring. It was anything but!
Angela McCafferrty agreed
and none of them sound boring
@Stefano Pavone you forgot to mention day of the daleks.
Except for The Mutants and The Carnival of Monsters.
@Stefano Pavone just realised how similar our icons are
Even if The Doctor had tried to get Jo Grant out of the TARDIS when it was being operated by remote -control by the Time Lords,he wouldn't have been able to because they needed the Doctor on an urgent mission to stop the Master from getting a weapon he doesn't deserve to have.
Doctor recognizes planet by name after only briefly glimpsing an image of it, but still needs to check to confirm if the air is safe to breath.
Well, he didn't bother to check if Skaro was safe and subsequently everyone got radiation poisoning.
Guess he learned his lesson.
Katy Manning still the sexiest Dr Who assistant of all time😁😁
Ace!
Until someone melted her....
Oh let's not get into which assistant/companion was the sexiest. Jo, Sarah Jane, Ace, Amelia, Clara...my nether region just can't handle all of that stimulation!
Have you seen her lately? She looks like a fucking mummy. A giant prune.
Hans Teichmann She has got old and possibly plastic surgery
He probably wouldn't have so much trouble with his TARDIS if he remembered to feed it more often.
Never mind the lack of fading for dematerialisation, why does the Tardis door have the Skaro sound effect from The Daleks?
Jo: “Why is the TARDIS appearing and disappearing like that, Doctor?”
The Doctor: “It would seem that the video fader circuits need to be calibrated.”
JP was the first Doctor I encountered but it was TB who was my Doctor…
R.I.P. Dudley Simpson (4 October 1922 - 4 November 2017).
I think I was only about 11 when I saw this show for the first time and it just filled me with wonder, man I wanted to get out there and travel the universe!
So, Katy Manning, that they weren't ready to write you as courageous just yet.
Scanner on the opposite side, different control to open the doors, immediate dematerialisation. That robot was actually quite impressive
Caroline John, Katy Manning and Elizabeth Sladen. All three were attractive. Never thought so at the time but then I was only 5 to 12 yrs old. 1970 to1977.
Caroline John ( Liz Shaw ) passed away in 2012 at the age of 71 (cancer)
Katy Manning (Jo Grant in this video ) is alive and well and 76.
Elizabeth Sladen ( Sarah Jane Smith ) passed away in 2011 at the age of 65 (pancreatic cancer)
Jon Pertwee (Doctor in this video) passed away in 1996 aged 76 (heart attack)
Nic Courtney (the Brigadier ) passed away in 2011 aged 81 (cancer)
The Doctor: "I don't want it to work for them! I want it to work for ME!"
And the Brigadier would have a slight problem if the Doctor had control and immediately came back because he might have been squashed like a bug!
actually he would be teleported inside the tardis, the nuwho shows it often
"Professional Kidnapping"
2:17 That robot dreams of one day, when it can fight the Six Million Dollar Man.
just like big foot did
Hey...this isn’t Venus!
@@ericmoore6498 No that was Fireball XL5.
@@ericmoore6498 😁
Is it just me, or the walls look like it was used in past episodes from the Hartnell or Troughton Era?
It was
Just redressed up a bit
I miss the short rotor on the console and i also miss the round things
I say the Masters TARDIS in this story been disguised as a dark red spaceship, like the spaceships seen in Thunderbirds and Joe 90 is awesome in millions and billions of ways.
It really bugged me how the interior doors of the "classic" Tardis were absolutely nothing like the exterior doors: not the dimensions of the passage, not the color, not the width, not even the number of doors open (always two open inside and one open outside). I was really pleased when they cleaned it up in the modern series.
I actually prefer it the classic way.... Makes the TARDIS seem more alien.
It was in another dimension. You don't need to see the doors match. Classic series is better.
THANK YOU. That’s actually why I came to this video. Ordinarily, they don’t show the exterior through the internal doors but this is one of the rare times that they did and I can’t wrap my head around it. What would it look like when entering and exiting? I suppose we got the best explanation from Grace in the Doctor Who Movie; she described it as a spatial displacement when stepping over the threshold. Essentially, the inside of the police box looks dark from the outside and then you step inside, unknowingly step over the threshold in the dark and then the interior doors buzz open and show you the interior. That makes sense for ingress but I’m confused about egress. Any scene where you see passengers exiting the TARDIS with the Type 40 doors, they just walk straight out. But from the outside, you see them interact with the police box door and pull it open and then close it behind them. That boggles my mind.
@@duderyandude9515 It's explained somewhere in the series, although cant remember where. But there is an outer shell (the police box) and then the inner shell (console room doors). Essentially there is two sets of doors. SO you enter the police box and then you walk to the back of the police box and there will be the doors for the console room. This design is in mind for the chameleon circuit too, if working, it allows for the outer shell to change based on environment while the inner shell doors remain unaffected. Hopefully this makes sense.
Upon googling, its called the Outer Plasmic Shell.
I wonder how Liz would react, there would be a whole episode of arguing and Liz would leave at the end of episode 1 and the Tardis doesn't travel again til the next episode. In fact, no, Episode 1 is just one story called, the argument, the refusal and the farewell of the scientist, Liz leaves and Colony in space is a five parter.
I miss the Brigadier, I wish The Doctor could have had that drink with The Brigadier.
I wonder how long "a quick look around" is for a nearly immortal time-traveler?
Doctor ! What happened to our budget ? ...its been spent Jo...on the Who mobile ..
The third doctor and his era was the best
'Its bigger inside than out'... not really lol. We couldn't find the other wall.
I rather miss those doors on the T.A.R.D.I.S maybe one day they'll show them again on a new incarnation
it always confused me how they look different from the inside than they do on the outside
@@landfish7a There is an anteroom between inside doors and outside doors
@@landfish7a Like the 13th Doctor's TARDIS whitout inside doors
@@mirkofloris9910 Except there plainly isn't - as you can see the exterior starts immediately - as it did with the first Doctor. I agree - logically - there should be an antechamber, but I don't think the effects were up to it.
They did - in Hell Bent & Twice Upon a Time? Or am I misunderstanding?
“We’re outside the space time continuum”
Look....
....I’m loading an Spectrum game I got from the 1980s.
Did Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart really expect the Doctor to hear him saying "Doctor,come back at once" after The TARDIS quickly dematerialized with him and Jo Grant inside,being controlled by the Time Lords for an urgent mission?
I don't think he did, I think he just had to keep up appearances that he was in charge at his own base...
Even if the Doctor tried calling the Time Lords to ask them where they're sending him and Jo and why when the TARDIS started to travel in space & time for the 1st time since his exile on 20 Century Earth began more than a year earlier, the Doctor wouldn't hear their answer.
Let me guess: the TARDIS takes off shortly after they step outside.
I Hope Sean Pertwee Should Play His Father In Doctor Who
One thing I didn't like about this story was the way the TARDIS simply vanished and then reappeared. The fade in and out was far better
0:57
Worst dematerialization EVER!
I agree don't know why the did it like that the TARDIS is supposed to fade in and out of existence not pop like Marty hopkirk.
@@davidmckirdy4063 This was director Michael E. Bryant's first Doctor Who episode, and he was unaware that the usual transition sequence was done with an A/B fade roll rather than an abrupt jump-cut. He would not make that mistake in his subsequent assignments for the series.
So it's true! Peter Capaldi took inspiration from Jon Pertwee's Doctor! (The suit!)😀👍
Yeah. I also see a bit of Hartnell and Baker(6th) in 12 as well
Not that much bigger inside. 🙂 And that's the grooviest space-time continuum I've ever seen.
The Time Lords thought that the Doctor wouldn't help them foil an evil plan of the Master's on an alien planet because they punished him for interfering in the affairs of the Universe in a stolen TARDIS,hence they gave him temporary freedom for their own purpose along with his assistant Jo Grant.
I just love the way the Doctor describes the TARDIS.
I wonder if Liz ever saw inside the TARDIS? She must have helped the Doctor remove the console
Its bigger inside then out
Yes. That’s because the TARDIS is Dimensionally Transcendental.
@@skylar_gray What does that mean?
Joe Duffy it means it’s bigger inside than out.
I once went outside the space-time continyyium too, it looked just like this.
My favorite show of all time
D O C T O R C O M E B A C K A T O N C E !
Ah yes, the 'nicotine stain' Tardis interior!
Fun fact, although the lack of a fade effect was down to the director, the fan explication is that the TARDIS was still locked by the Time Lords, and therefore couldn't dematerialize and rematerialize properly.
Man, this show loved plot armor/deus ex machina, the worst example of which may be here, or maybe it was when the TARDIS suddenly and unavoidably for no reason at all transitioned into e-Space for a series-long cycle there. The writers thus avoided companion Romana having to be returned to Gallifrey (just then). Lalla Ward was Tom Baker's lover at the time, so maybe it was Baker himself who insisted on an extension of her appearances.
The Doctor does have in-universe abilities that are essentially plot shields.
are we forgetting the fact the TARDIS is alive and sometimes sends the doctor where he NEEDS to be and not only where he WANTS to be
Even if the Doctor & Jo heard Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart‘s voice as the TARDIS was taking off for the 1st time in more than a year,they wouldn‘t be able to tell him in time that for some reason,the Time Lords are controlling the TARDIS and sending them to do a mission for them.