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The sound was done by Delia Derbyshire with the BBC Radiophonic Orchestra, it was really pioneering sound design. The tardis sound effect is a key being scraped across an amplified piano wire, a lot of the stuff especially the theme tune is early use of synthesis, really incredible stuff for the time.
To understand quite how ground-breaking Delia Derbyshire's work was you need to listen to it in the context of the pop music of the day when 'progressive' groups like The Beatles were recording relatively simple songs like "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"... when Brian Wilson made [very] similar use of a theremin for the hook on "Good Vibrations" THREE years later even that was considered ground-breaking!
@@johna5635 Brian Wilson was a pretty out of the box musician in his own way though. Wouldn't it be nice is the only song I can think of with a modulation in the first 10 seconds
@@peterknight3851 It was actually the effect they got when they pointed the camera at it's own video monitor, essentially creating the video equivalent of feedback.
When Ron Grainer heard what his tune had become, he said "Did I write that?" There's a couple of documentaries about Delia and the Radiophonic Workshop - not sure if there's any on TH-cam, but I have a couple of radio programmes on it, and her. Apparently they only worked at the Radiophonic Workshop on 3-month contracts, because the powers that be thought that longer would send people mad
A Police Box was a normal thing to see in London in 1963. But it was on street corners. Used by the Metropolitan Police to hold suspects or as a radio relay.
This was before the introduction of personal radios; the box housed a telephone that officers (or the public) could use to contact their station. The station could also contact the patrolling officers--the light on top flashed when they were to call. The box itself was used as a shelter, to complete reports, for the officers to take a break (remembering that they were on foot and could be some distance from the station) and as a temporary jail to hold prisoners until they could be collected by a vehicle. Many also held first aid equipment (hence the St John Ambulance sign on the door). Contrary to what is said from time to time in Who, the boxes weren't made of wood but rather constructed of concrete, other than the doors, although they may have had an impressed wood grain from the shuttering used in casting the sections.
The British version of the police box (it was actually an American invention) was basically a miniature police station, which made it cheaper to have more of them, and easy to put them wherever they were needed. At the time, police cars were expensive and crap, radios were expensive as hell, even more crap and really big and heavy, computers were inconceivably expensive, unbelievably crap (by modern standards) and the size and weight of a small building (plus most people barely knew what a computer even was, and would practically have needed a mathematics degree to operate one) and the internet didn't even exist, so the only way to have an effective police force was to simply have more policemen spread all over the place, and always within walking (or sprinting) distance of a base of operations with a hard-wired telephone. I think a few countries, possibly Japan for example, still use something a bit like them in certain places.
- and they were made of concrete slabs held together by metal brackets and bolts, not wood (perhaps the door), so the Doctor's copy isn't very accurate!
@@lukerose384 - granted! but I'd like to see any other tv series of that era today, to see how that stands up. Pretty dire, I'd imagine. And they never made Who for posterity. Even some shows from a mere twenty years ago are embarrassing to try to watch now
@@lukerose384 - I was thinking more along the lines of The Young Ones [UK] which was horribly dated even ten years later, or any other drama series or soap opera of that time - not counting costume drama. Even Classic Star Trek - proving that in the 23rd century men will still be dick-led and every woman is a "girl" who can't be trusted to do a real job.
They were almost paranoid about staying faithful to the original, to such an extent that little bits would be put in in case they might have slightly contradicted something in a classic ep. Don't think it would be such a hit now if they'd not been so dedicated.
Yes. I was impressed by how well the revived series followed the tone and characterizations of the original, with a beefed-up budget and 21st century visual effects. They really did capture the spirit of Classic Who.
You wondered at the beginning who might be the first villian. In a way you could say it was the Doctor himself as he kidnapped Ian and Barbara before they told the authorities.
Indeed, Hartnell's original portrayal was very much the Doctor as anti-hero. The audience didn't know whether they could really trust him. Ian's humane reaction when the Doctor appears to be on the verge of killing a caveman in a later episode of this story is quite telling.
It's funny how when characters are first introduced even the Writers don't know them. Like the scene where Mister Spock smiles in the Star Trek Pilot the Cage.
@@robalexander8065 I generally explain this away in my head canon by the Doctor originally not being a nice person, but then becoming one after travelling with Ian and Barbara.
@@shamsham1229 He laughs in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the first piece of uninterrupted (by church services) Star Trek I was ever permitted to see. It's the sickbay scene, where he's been rescued from having taken it upon himself to mind meld with the alien probe.
The reason they followed her home was because they went to see her house but it wasn’t where Susan said it was so they may have thought she was homeless or living in a bad condition so they followed her incase they needed to call child services or something
Definitely continue on with some Classic Who, the first two seasons in particular with the First Doctor, Barbara, Ian and Susan are honestly quite excellent with their character development and how they establish recognisable things from the modern era.
Ian and Barbara are peerless, but poor Susan got the shaft. The actress who played her said she was sold on the part by plans of her being a martial arts expert with weird mental powers and stuff, but by the time the show started in earnest all that had gone away and she was reduced to being the screamy one. Carole Ann Ford is still around - they need to bring her back. 🙂
Well, they actually did bring her back in The Five Doctors. Plus she has been in a lot of the Big Finish Audios. I think if they ever brought Susan back in the TV series, that they would have her already regenerated into a new actress.
Ahhh back to the beginning just remember this was November 23rd 1963 and this was revolutionary for its time damn can’t believe it’s nearly 60 years ago a time when the Beatles were becoming known worldwide and John F Kennedy had been assassinated less than 24 hours before the episode aired ... also the Tardis sfx is actually a key being dragged across the bare strings of a piano
SGlitz yeah ... it’s how the theme was created ??? Ummm I was talking about the sound effect for the Tardis I get what you mean though with the whole radiophonic workshop thing
@@franl155 Genesis is also a bit trippy for fans of legendary BBC sitcom "Allo Allo," because it has Guy Siner (Lt Gruber) playing effectively a straight version of the same role!
If you're looking for another classic story to watch, one story that I'd recommend is Spearhead from Space. It's the first story of the 1970s, and it acts as a reinvention of the show - it's the first story made in colour, it's the first to feature the third actor to play the Doctor, and it's the first to feature the Autons (mannequin men)!
@@aloysiuswhiteboat2934 I agree, terror of the autons is my favorite dr. who story, not the best, that's several in my opinion, but I really love it, it has my my favorite doctor along with the debut of my favorite companion and favorite villain. close second with that trio is frontier in space.
You know, William Russell, who plays the physics professor Ian Chesterton is still alive today, like Carole An Ford plaing Susans. Unfortunately, William Hartnell and Jacqueline Hill died in 1975 and 1993.
It was indeed the following day. In fact, it was about the first show when the BBC went back to 'normal' programming after continuous news coverage of that historic event. Consequently, they re-ran the first episode the following week to give it a better chance to find its audience. Note that there were two other notable deaths on November 22: C.S. Lewis ("Narnia", "The Screwtape Letters") and Aldous Huxley ("Brave New World").
5:38 "John Smith" was the name the Doctor usually chose if he needed an alias. The 2nd Doctor first used it in _The War Games_ (1969) and it was the 3rd Doctor's official name when he was employed as UNIT's Scientific Advisor, first using it in _Spearhead From Space_ (1970). Excellent reaction, by the way, and I'm glad you could see such similarities between Classic and Nu Who.
The way the old series use to work though is that the episodes were "series" of episodes, think of it like 2 or 3 episodes that combine to form one story, kinda like a mini-series each time, each story is several episodes long and all connected.
Yes, each story (except for one) consisted of multiple episodes each of which ended on a cliffhanger. the longest story ran to twelve parts over a period of nearly three months!
@@jacobhogan3208 In fact there are two stories that were originally aired as single episodes, 'Mission to the Unknown' in season 3 and the 20th anniversary special, 'The Five Doctors'. I tend to forget the latter as it was later rebroadcast as a four part story.
Mission to the Unknown, a prequel to The Daleks Masterplan, which didn't feature the Doctor or his companions. Must have seemed a bit odd at the time, with the audience effectively waiting 25 minutes for the protagonists to arrive, only to be greeted with the closing credits!
“Susan actually seems like a cool companion” Lol just wait until her screeching and falling starts Ian and Barbara are where it’s at tho 👌🏻 They have the most wholesome relationship and banter with the doctor They’re sooooo underrated
The original Tardis noise was a slowed down recording of a key scraping across a piano wire. The original intro was played on an instrument called a theremin.
Talk about deja vu - I was 14 and watched this twice in a week in 1963. You will see why if you eventually react to "An Adventure in Space and Time" when the time is right.
I too watched this on it's original air date. At the time it seemed really so, so impressive and advanced. And, to be honest, it still stands up well against other programs of the period. The theme tune and introductory visuals just hooked my young mind and I've been watching the show ever since. It's also interesting to notice that he is credited as Dr Who in the closing titles as if that is the name of the character....
Notable classic episodes that I think are reaction worthy are (I think you should see everyone but these are the most notable ones which are reaction worthy: . S01E01 An Unearthly Child - S01E13 The Brink of Disaster . S02E04 Worlds End - S02E09 Flashpoint . S03E41 The War Machines Episode 1 - S03E45 The War Machines Episode 4 . S04E05 The Tenth Planet Episode 1 - S04E14 Power Of The Daleks Episode 6 . S05E01 Tomb of the Cybermen Episode 1 - S05E04 Tomb of the Cybermen Episode 4 . S05E17 Enemy of the World Episode 1 - S05E28 The Web of Fear Episode 6 . S06E06 The Mind Robber Episode 1 - S06E18 The Invasion Episode 8 . S06E35 The War Games Episode 1 - S06E44 The War games Episode 10 . The entire of Series 7 . The entire of series 8 . Actually everything from series 7 all the way till the end. . Because the first 6 seasons can be very slow and have many missing episodes which the BBC no longer have
eleventh doctor: oh i'm just a mad man with a box you can't trust me with your life first doctor: i kidnapped two school teachers so they wouldn't call the cops on me
It's so cool that you're having a look at some of the older stuff! There's always something magical about this episode for me, the line "A police box, standing in a junkyard, it can move anywhere in time and space" gives me shivers no matter how many times I rewatch it, it's something about the wonder and disbelief in Ian's voice when he says it. I don't know if you're planning to watch more (or if you already have 😆), but if you are then my recommendations would be: The Deadly Assassin: Fourth Doctor story set entirely on Gallifrey, and it features a villain you will recognize too. The Tenth Planet: First Doctor story, and the first appearance of the Cybermen. Genesis of the Daleks: Fourth Doctor story.... does exactly what it says on the tin lol Loved the reaction btw!
Yeah, it's not just 'exposition' as our host puts it: it is, in a single sentence, the brilliantly flexible premise of the entire series, promising so many wonders to come…
One major difference is that Classic Who was more serialized. Instead of single 40-50 minute episodes they were several 20 minute episodes in a typical story. I think they usually combined all the episodes in a serial when I watched it on PBS as a kid.
Funfact: Coal Hill School is the same school where Clara were teaching, even that introduction with the mist and the policeman walking in front of the sign was recreated at the beginning of the 50th anniversary special.
The decimalisation plot point is actually pretty cool. At the time this was released, the money in the UK didn’t use a decimal system. £1 was 20 shillings and 1 shilling was 12 pence. The UK did eventually decimalise their currency, but it was about 10 years after this aired. It had been discussed for ages, so it was a very accurate guess that Susan, being a time traveler, would think it had already happened.
It is best to watch in order, when a person watch a series without an order, there is no character development, and you don't get much attached to the characters.
I saw it on first release back in 1963. It is easier to watch full length. The many bits cut out reduces the tension. It was wonderfully shot, and of course the first Doctor was always the most interesting, he was so multilayered with a dark side, and a good touch of the mad scientist about him. I seem to remember that the first episode was repeated before the 2nd was shown. It caused such a sensation, and so many people who missed it demanded it be repeated. And it seemed everybody wanted to know what that shadow was. The music was like nothing else ever heard at the time, and the TARDIS wheezing was extraordinary. And so much of the Doctor was utterly mysterious. In the first episode we learned key concepts, the extra dimensions inside and that it was Susan who named the TARDIS. In the first couple of minutes of the2nd episode we learn that the Police Box was a camouflage, that should be different at every destination, but that something is wrong with the TARDIS and it is stuck on the Police box. It quickly became a big hit, and Hartnell was the one responsible for developing so many of the quirky things that later Doctors would inherit.
I'd definitely like to see more Classic Who reactions. Maybe watch 1 story from each Classic Doctor, to see how the series evolved into what you know today. These are the ones I'd recommend: 1 - _The Tenth Planet_ (Part 4 is missing, but has been remade as an animation.) 2 - _The Enemy of the World_ 3 - _Terror of the Autons_ 4 - _Genesis of the Daleks_ (by far the most popular Classic Who story; worth watching for its historical value alone, but it's also a pretty solid episode). 5 - _Caves of Androzani_ 6 - _Vengeance on Varos_ 7 - _Remembrance of the Daleks_ (the 25th Anniversary celebration, and an all-around great story).
True, the interest Ian and Barvara showed in Susan would be considered borderline stalking these days. However, one may as well wonder how many kids might have been saved from horrible environments if more teachers took such an interest in their welfare. Also, if a student who previously performed well suddenly started tanking their grades, it could be a sign of either a disrupted home life or possible depression, so I never really had a problem with their actions.
Indeed. Imagine if John Smith and The Common Men, were actually an incarnation of the Doctor, living in 1963, who formed a band. The Second Doctor played recorder, the Fifth the harp and Twelfth Doctor plays guitar, so the Doctor is certainly musical!
November 23rd, 1963... Yes, that day... And it was actually brilliant that they talked about the decimal system (England did go on that system by the end of the 60s).
Loved it. Even earliest Who and I'm hooked. You should do a story arc for each Who. Do the next story arc from the first Doctor titled The Daleks. Yes it was the famous nemesis of the Doctors first story appearance. Loved the reaction.
The first Doctor is so good, one of my favourites. If you ever see the Doctor at a school in England, its most likely Coal Hill. This episode and location is also the reason why the Tardis is the police box. This is where the chameleon circuit gets broken. Probably a reason why the type 40 tardis was retired in the first place
I believe the Daleks first appeared in the serial after this one. The Cybermen first appeared alongside the second Doctor. The third Doctor had a bunch of introductions of new creatures and enemies such as the Nestene Consciousness (AKA Autons), Silurians, Sontarans and The Master. One of the most referenced-by-new-Who serials is probably Genesis of the Daleks, with the fourth Doctor.
@@eli_berdugo04 Oh, you're right. I stand corrected. My memory's a bit foggy, I guess. The second doctor did appear in it, though, didn't he? And I associate the Cybermen with him because he kept running into them.
@@Swenglish yep. The 1st doctor meet him in his last episodes where at the end he regenerated into 2. 2 then meet the cybermen 4 times (5 if you include the 5 doctors)
There are actually TWO version of An Unearthly Child. The Pilot and the Episode. I Loved watching both one after the other and trying to work out all the differences. Every time I did, I kept finding something I had missed.
6:55 the eerie thing is about 7 years after this episode came out, england went on the decimal system, so she was right in saying it hadn't started yet
I have to say I'm really enjoying watching your first-time perspectives on classic Who. I grew up with 80s Who and revisited all the old stuff during the 90s and beyond, so had that fore knowledge of Hartnell through McGann, so when I got to watching the originals - I knew who was who, and what to expect to some degree. Fascinating watching you watching it for the first time and making some jumps and guesses!
For super old shows worth watching, check out a soap opera called _Dark Shadows_ The series from way back that a Johnny Depp movie about a vampire was loosely based on
since you already seen an *adventure in time and space*, this was pointed out to before, the version you reacting to is the episode before they reshot it, you can tell because of the way the doctor is talking, and in the background one of the walls inside the tardis wasnt made so they just used a painted wall but after the reshoot they had the proper wall.
I finally met William Russel last year and this was just such an unbelievable moment for me. 😊 I totally had a cruch on Ian Chesterton from the very beginning and William Russel is really one of the sweetest, most endearing person in this universe. 😍
I think you should do a poll on what episodes to watch per Doctor. There are some amazing stories for each one. It’s understandable you wouldn’t watch them all.
@@SGlitz the only episodes i cant realy watch and can only watch recons/animation are the lost ones but any year now we will have like all the trougtons (cant spell)on dvd which will be wierd
Its so funny the John Smith name fell in the very first episode as unintentional foreshadowing almost, but then also it took a few years for the name to be used as the Doctors nom de plume
Here are my top ten classic dr. who stories, in no particular order, spearehead from space, terror of the autons, inferno, enemy of the world, the mind robber, the time meddler, the aztecs, the pyramids of mars, genises of the daleks and the caves of andorzanie
Actually there were two versions of An Unearthly Child. The Aired version and the Unaired version. I loved watching both and comparing all the differences.
I believe the word you were looking for to describe the red hat is fez. Also, you have to remember that nothing definitive about where the Doctor came from was revealed until the end of the 2nd doctor's run.
I would strongly recommend watching classic Who in order. Several episodes from the 60s are sadly missing to this day (though some have been reconstructed by telesnaps or animations), but every story that have been released on DVD is reaction worthy. If you picked stories from random, you wouldn't have the same emotional connection to the characters, and there are MANY shocks that are reaction worthy.
One of the problems is that a lot of the early episodes, with the first and second Doctors, were destroyed. The audio for all of them was recovered, and some of them were remade with animation, which is pretty cool. But a lot of them are gone forever. There are some hard core fans who made fan reconstructions with the audio and old still photos and such.
Would love to see your reaction to classic who episodes, like the first regeneration, first episodes of every doctor and of course first appearance of the daleks, cybermen and Master Great video as always
Thanks for that! I saw it the first time round, in 1963, but that was a while ago and it was good to see it again as an adult, so that I could appreciate it on new levels. Also good to see the reactions of someone who'd never seen it before. If you watched all the end credits you'd understand why the Doctor's parents in Family of Blood were named Sydney and Verity - an homage to Who's origins. When they brought Who back they were determined to keep as true to the original as possible - they certainly succeeded with the TARDIS noise. And the theme, written by Ron Grainer but created by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - all electronic sounds, crafted note by note. All new Who has done to it is to add an orchestra and more clatter [to quote Murray Gold] which wasn't available at the time. ps; to answer your question: if they hadn't been so nosy there wouldn't have been a story!
Mate, you need to keep in kind, they stole a FAULTY TARDIS to escape in, so it's misbehaving regularly, and unreliable. By the time you started on the series, he'd had ages to work most of the kinks out. ALso, this fresh reaction to this old gem is hell fresh. Nice
7:12 As a prospective teacher myself, I have to inform you that it's part of our job to worry about our students. Maybe not to the point of stalking them, but still. What happens in the home also _is_ our business for two reasons 1. Their homework and schoolwork can be affected, and 2. We're responsible to some extent for their health, for example we're mandatory reporters in the case of suspected abuse, if we even suspect it to be a possibility we're supposed to report it to the administration.
Before Star Trek, Star Wars or most other sci-fi genre and you'll notice it was a much shorter episode too. Maybe you aught to do the last and first story of each Dr Who transition? That's still quite a lot of material.
finally someone reacting to classic dr. who, oh btw, it was meant to start off as semi educational, to the point that the original creator didn't want the daleks in it at all, that is until how popular their first story was at the time, eventually the educational angel was dropped.
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finally cracked open my first classic! This was me REACTING to the FIRST Episode of Doctor Who EVER! What'd you think, want more classics? To watch the next episode RIGHT NOW, UNEDITED to 8x2► www.patreon.com/failwhale34
Ah, you’re onto the Capaldi Era. He’s my favourite Doctor, so I can’t to see what you think of him :)
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Weirdly, I really want to watch the next episode?/? Good reaction
The sound was done by Delia Derbyshire with the BBC Radiophonic Orchestra, it was really pioneering sound design. The tardis sound effect is a key being scraped across an amplified piano wire, a lot of the stuff especially the theme tune is early use of synthesis, really incredible stuff for the time.
Also I think the time vortex effect was an accident when they shined a stage light into one of the cameras
To understand quite how ground-breaking Delia Derbyshire's work was you need to listen to it in the context of the pop music of the day when 'progressive' groups like The Beatles were recording relatively simple songs like "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"... when Brian Wilson made [very] similar use of a theremin for the hook on "Good Vibrations" THREE years later even that was considered ground-breaking!
@@johna5635 Brian Wilson was a pretty out of the box musician in his own way though. Wouldn't it be nice is the only song I can think of with a modulation in the first 10 seconds
@@peterknight3851 It was actually the effect they got when they pointed the camera at it's own video monitor, essentially creating the video equivalent of feedback.
When Ron Grainer heard what his tune had become, he said "Did I write that?"
There's a couple of documentaries about Delia and the Radiophonic Workshop - not sure if there's any on TH-cam, but I have a couple of radio programmes on it, and her.
Apparently they only worked at the Radiophonic Workshop on 3-month contracts, because the powers that be thought that longer would send people mad
A Police Box was a normal thing to see in London in 1963. But it was on street corners. Used by the Metropolitan Police to hold suspects or as a radio relay.
This was before the introduction of personal radios; the box housed a telephone that officers (or the public) could use to contact their station. The station could also contact the patrolling officers--the light on top flashed when they were to call. The box itself was used as a shelter, to complete reports, for the officers to take a break (remembering that they were on foot and could be some distance from the station) and as a temporary jail to hold prisoners until they could be collected by a vehicle. Many also held first aid equipment (hence the St John Ambulance sign on the door).
Contrary to what is said from time to time in Who, the boxes weren't made of wood but rather constructed of concrete, other than the doors, although they may have had an impressed wood grain from the shuttering used in casting the sections.
The British version of the police box (it was actually an American invention) was basically a miniature police station, which made it cheaper to have more of them, and easy to put them wherever they were needed. At the time, police cars were expensive and crap, radios were expensive as hell, even more crap and really big and heavy, computers were inconceivably expensive, unbelievably crap (by modern standards) and the size and weight of a small building (plus most people barely knew what a computer even was, and would practically have needed a mathematics degree to operate one) and the internet didn't even exist, so the only way to have an effective police force was to simply have more policemen spread all over the place, and always within walking (or sprinting) distance of a base of operations with a hard-wired telephone. I think a few countries, possibly Japan for example, still use something a bit like them in certain places.
- and they were made of concrete slabs held together by metal brackets and bolts, not wood (perhaps the door), so the Doctor's copy isn't very accurate!
@@stevetheduck1425 The doors were absolutely made of wood. Teak, if I recall correctly. Concrete doors would be hard as hell to open.
@@stevetheduck1425 they were initially made of wood. The concrete ones came later.
It's amazing how well it holds up as a TV pilot, even 55+ years later.
Well, not all of it holds up
@@lukerose384 - granted! but I'd like to see any other tv series of that era today, to see how that stands up. Pretty dire, I'd imagine. And they never made Who for posterity. Even some shows from a mere twenty years ago are embarrassing to try to watch now
@@franl155 they don't have much dialogue, but things like bugs bunny and Tom and jerry
@@lukerose384 - I was thinking more along the lines of The Young Ones [UK] which was horribly dated even ten years later, or any other drama series or soap opera of that time - not counting costume drama.
Even Classic Star Trek - proving that in the 23rd century men will still be dick-led and every woman is a "girl" who can't be trusted to do a real job.
@TJ - you're entitled to you r opinion of my opinion - which does nothing to change mine
Classic Who is not similar to New Who, it's New Who that is similar to Classic Who ;)
They were almost paranoid about staying faithful to the original, to such an extent that little bits would be put in in case they might have slightly contradicted something in a classic ep. Don't think it would be such a hit now if they'd not been so dedicated.
Kinda like. “You look human.” “No, you look Time Lord.”
its a bit more than that. hard to explain due wibbley wobbly timy whimy. so you know how it is :P
Yes. I was impressed by how well the revived series followed the tone and characterizations of the original, with a beefed-up budget and 21st century visual effects. They really did capture the spirit of Classic Who.
@@zemoxian "He is me" "No, he is me" - The Three Doctors, 1973
You wondered at the beginning who might be the first villian. In a way you could say it was the Doctor himself as he kidnapped Ian and Barbara before they told the authorities.
Indeed, Hartnell's original portrayal was very much the Doctor as anti-hero. The audience didn't know whether they could really trust him. Ian's humane reaction when the Doctor appears to be on the verge of killing a caveman in a later episode of this story is quite telling.
It's funny how when characters are first introduced even the Writers don't know them. Like the scene where Mister Spock smiles in the Star Trek Pilot the Cage.
@@loanaoftheshellpeople5627 Spock also smiles in Charlie X and plays a harp. just a fun fact
@@robalexander8065 I generally explain this away in my head canon by the Doctor originally not being a nice person, but then becoming one after travelling with Ian and Barbara.
@@shamsham1229 He laughs in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the first piece of uninterrupted (by church services) Star Trek I was ever permitted to see. It's the sickbay scene, where he's been rescued from having taken it upon himself to mind meld with the alien probe.
*TARDIS lands on Alien World*
Whale: ‘are we in Canada?’
That would be Stargate.
He wasn’t half wrong. They landed somewhere on prehistoric Earth. It might’ve been Canada.
The next story takes place on a now familiar alien planet.
@DeanStrickson I've always interpreted.
It that they're still in The same spot a bazillion years in the past
😅😊
The reason they followed her home was because they went to see her house but it wasn’t where Susan said it was so they may have thought she was homeless or living in a bad condition so they followed her incase they needed to call child services or something
Definitely continue on with some Classic Who, the first two seasons in particular with the First Doctor, Barbara, Ian and Susan are honestly quite excellent with their character development and how they establish recognisable things from the modern era.
Ian and Barbara are peerless, but poor Susan got the shaft. The actress who played her said she was sold on the part by plans of her being a martial arts expert with weird mental powers and stuff, but by the time the show started in earnest all that had gone away and she was reduced to being the screamy one. Carole Ann Ford is still around - they need to bring her back. 🙂
and the first Daleks ...
Well, they actually did bring her back in The Five Doctors. Plus she has been in a lot of the Big Finish Audios. I think if they ever brought Susan back in the TV series, that they would have her already regenerated into a new actress.
Should have let her keep mental powers...
@@chrissonofpear1384 they have subtle hints at those powers in the senosorites... Which if I'm not mistaken, are closely related to the ood.
Ahhh back to the beginning just remember this was November 23rd 1963 and this was revolutionary for its time damn can’t believe it’s nearly 60 years ago a time when the Beatles were becoming known worldwide and John F Kennedy had been assassinated less than 24 hours before the episode aired ... also the Tardis sfx is actually a key being dragged across the bare strings of a piano
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SGlitz yeah ... it’s how the theme was created ??? Ummm I was talking about the sound effect for the Tardis I get what you mean though with the whole radiophonic workshop thing
The key scrape sound was then slowed down to achieve the TARDIS sound.
Remembrance Of The Daleks is an incredible story, Genesis Of The Daleks too
The whole Davros collection.
Agreed !
Genesis of the Daleks is a must if you want to see where Sarah Jane Smith met ...
@@franl155 Genesis is also a bit trippy for fans of legendary BBC sitcom "Allo Allo," because it has Guy Siner (Lt Gruber) playing effectively a straight version of the same role!
Caves of Androzani, Earthshock, the Draconian multiparter...
If you're looking for another classic story to watch, one story that I'd recommend is Spearhead from Space. It's the first story of the 1970s, and it acts as a reinvention of the show - it's the first story made in colour, it's the first to feature the third actor to play the Doctor, and it's the first to feature the Autons (mannequin men)!
i'm just watching that same story for the first time and the Third Doctor is hilarious omg lol
Yes my fave classic episode first ever classic in colour
Spearhead from Space and Terror of the Autons are absolutely MUST-SEE!
I'd rather him not know why Terror is a must-see though. :)
in many ways it acts similar to the way that new who started.
@@aloysiuswhiteboat2934 I agree, terror of the autons is my favorite dr. who story, not the best, that's several in my opinion, but I really love it, it has my my favorite doctor along with the debut of my favorite companion and favorite villain. close second with that trio is frontier in space.
yep the first doctor did kidnapped his first human companions
The first story arch actually wasn’t well reviewed, but the second one made the show a sensation.
It also dropped the edutainment idea with the Daleks
Slanted Frames Productions aye
@@slantedframes2334 No, I'd say it was carried out in Marco Polo, The Aztecs, and The Reign of Terror
You know, William Russell, who plays the physics professor Ian Chesterton is still alive today, like Carole An Ford plaing Susans. Unfortunately, William Hartnell and Jacqueline Hill died in 1975 and 1993.
not anymore :(
13:53 The word you're looking for is Fez
Indeed. Here's a bit of fez-related trivia: the 7th Doctor, Sylvester McCoy, was the first to wear a fez in Part One of _Silver Nemesis_
Hartnells hat is called a Astrakhan
1:15 if I’m not mistaken, the premier was interrupted by a news broadcast of the Assassination of JFK
No, it was the following day.
It was indeed the following day. In fact, it was about the first show when the BBC went back to 'normal' programming after continuous news coverage of that historic event. Consequently, they re-ran the first episode the following week to give it a better chance to find its audience.
Note that there were two other notable deaths on November 22: C.S. Lewis ("Narnia", "The Screwtape Letters") and Aldous Huxley ("Brave New World").
Delayed by 80 seconds because of ongoing coverage.
5:38 "John Smith" was the name the Doctor usually chose if he needed an alias. The 2nd Doctor first used it in _The War Games_ (1969) and it was the 3rd Doctor's official name when he was employed as UNIT's Scientific Advisor, first using it in _Spearhead From Space_ (1970). Excellent reaction, by the way, and I'm glad you could see such similarities between Classic and Nu Who.
Actually, he used the name "John Smith" earlier in _The Wheel in Space,_ but it was Jamie who came up with the name.
@@Alfwin Thanks for that!
The tenth doctor also used the name in the revival
The way the old series use to work though is that the episodes were "series" of episodes, think of it like 2 or 3 episodes that combine to form one story, kinda like a mini-series each time, each story is several episodes long and all connected.
Yes, each story (except for one) consisted of multiple episodes each of which ended on a cliffhanger. the longest story ran to twelve parts over a period of nearly three months!
What “one” are you referring too?
@@jacobhogan3208 In fact there are two stories that were originally aired as single episodes, 'Mission to the Unknown' in season 3 and the 20th anniversary special, 'The Five Doctors'. I tend to forget the latter as it was later rebroadcast as a four part story.
Mission to the Unknown, a prequel to The Daleks Masterplan, which didn't feature the Doctor or his companions. Must have seemed a bit odd at the time, with the audience effectively waiting 25 minutes for the protagonists to arrive, only to be greeted with the closing credits!
I think the word you are looking for is "serial". The classic series was a season of serials. Nu Who is a series of episodes.
“Susan actually seems like a cool companion”
Lol just wait until her screeching and falling starts
Ian and Barbara are where it’s at tho 👌🏻 They have the most wholesome relationship and banter with the doctor
They’re sooooo underrated
The original Tardis noise was a slowed down recording of a key scraping across a piano wire.
The original intro was played on an instrument called a theremin.
Talk about deja vu - I was 14 and watched this twice in a week in 1963.
You will see why if you eventually react to "An Adventure in Space and Time" when the time is right.
He's reacted to it on patreon and you'll probably be getting it on youtube just before the 50th anniversary
I too watched this on it's original air date. At the time it seemed really so, so impressive and advanced. And, to be honest, it still stands up well against other programs of the period. The theme tune and introductory visuals just hooked my young mind and I've been watching the show ever since. It's also interesting to notice that he is credited as Dr Who in the closing titles as if that is the name of the character....
Ragnarok we have BritBox in the UK too, £5.99 a month and worth every penny in my opinion.
These early episodes were always part of a short multi-episode story. There are other parts to this
actually with one or two exceptions ALL of classic who was multi chapter stories
Notable classic episodes that I think are reaction worthy are (I think you should see everyone but these are the most notable ones which are reaction worthy:
. S01E01 An Unearthly Child - S01E13 The Brink of Disaster
. S02E04 Worlds End - S02E09 Flashpoint
. S03E41 The War Machines Episode 1 - S03E45 The War Machines Episode 4
. S04E05 The Tenth Planet Episode 1 - S04E14 Power Of The Daleks Episode 6
. S05E01 Tomb of the Cybermen Episode 1 - S05E04 Tomb of the Cybermen Episode 4
. S05E17 Enemy of the World Episode 1 - S05E28 The Web of Fear Episode 6
. S06E06 The Mind Robber Episode 1 - S06E18 The Invasion Episode 8
. S06E35 The War Games Episode 1 - S06E44 The War games Episode 10
. The entire of Series 7
. The entire of series 8
. Actually everything from series 7 all the way till the end.
. Because the first 6 seasons can be very slow and have many missing episodes which the BBC no longer have
eleventh doctor: oh i'm just a mad man with a box you can't trust me with your life
first doctor: i kidnapped two school teachers so they wouldn't call the cops on me
It's so cool that you're having a look at some of the older stuff! There's always something magical about this episode for me, the line "A police box, standing in a junkyard, it can move anywhere in time and space" gives me shivers no matter how many times I rewatch it, it's something about the wonder and disbelief in Ian's voice when he says it.
I don't know if you're planning to watch more (or if you already have 😆), but if you are then my recommendations would be:
The Deadly Assassin: Fourth Doctor story set entirely on Gallifrey, and it features a villain you will recognize too.
The Tenth Planet: First Doctor story, and the first appearance of the Cybermen.
Genesis of the Daleks: Fourth Doctor story.... does exactly what it says on the tin lol
Loved the reaction btw!
Yeah, it's not just 'exposition' as our host puts it: it is, in a single sentence, the brilliantly flexible premise of the entire series, promising so many wonders to come…
This was my Doctor
One major difference is that Classic Who was more serialized. Instead of single 40-50 minute episodes they were several 20 minute episodes in a typical story.
I think they usually combined all the episodes in a serial when I watched it on PBS as a kid.
He's going to be so disappointed in learning who the shadow was from at the end lol
I love thinking about the hero we know today, and going back to watch this asshat kidnap his first companions. (He's my favorite Doctor, though).
ah, how they have grown over the years.
Haha we do use the decimal system now, fantastic!
NOW you know why it has lasted 55 years (and counting).
Funfact: Coal Hill School is the same school where Clara were teaching, even that introduction with the mist and the policeman walking in front of the sign was recreated at the beginning of the 50th anniversary special.
The decimalisation plot point is actually pretty cool. At the time this was released, the money in the UK didn’t use a decimal system. £1 was 20 shillings and 1 shilling was 12 pence. The UK did eventually decimalise their currency, but it was about 10 years after this aired. It had been discussed for ages, so it was a very accurate guess that Susan, being a time traveler, would think it had already happened.
to my knowledge metic came in in 66 at the END of Hartnells run
Watch "The Three Doctors" at some point.
It is best to watch in order, when a person watch a series without an order, there is no character development, and you don't get much attached to the characters.
@@loufortes7574 That's why I said at some point.
@@smashstuff86 Oh, I see
im hopeing for more classic reactions in the future
edit: it is reaction worthy
Me too
"It is reaction worthy"
Heck yes! Jess from Sesskasays is proving that statement true already.
@@ElectroTherapyFTSoul yeah shes on season 2 episode 5 already which bewared isnt a good episode
Yay finally a reaction to the one that started it all! Love your vids! Also, first view and comment
I saw it on first release back in 1963. It is easier to watch full length. The many bits cut out reduces the tension. It was wonderfully shot, and of course the first Doctor was always the most interesting, he was so multilayered with a dark side, and a good touch of the mad scientist about him. I seem to remember that the first episode was repeated before the 2nd was shown. It caused such a sensation, and so many people who missed it demanded it be repeated. And it seemed everybody wanted to know what that shadow was. The music was like nothing else ever heard at the time, and the TARDIS wheezing was extraordinary. And so much of the Doctor was utterly mysterious.
In the first episode we learned key concepts, the extra dimensions inside and that it was Susan who named the TARDIS. In the first couple of minutes of the2nd episode we learn that the Police Box was a camouflage, that should be different at every destination, but that something is wrong with the TARDIS and it is stuck on the Police box. It quickly became a big hit, and Hartnell was the one responsible for developing so many of the quirky things that later Doctors would inherit.
I'd definitely like to see more Classic Who reactions. Maybe watch 1 story from each Classic Doctor, to see how the series evolved into what you know today. These are the ones I'd recommend:
1 - _The Tenth Planet_ (Part 4 is missing, but has been remade as an animation.)
2 - _The Enemy of the World_
3 - _Terror of the Autons_
4 - _Genesis of the Daleks_ (by far the most popular Classic Who story; worth watching for its historical value alone, but it's also a pretty solid episode).
5 - _Caves of Androzani_
6 - _Vengeance on Varos_
7 - _Remembrance of the Daleks_ (the 25th Anniversary celebration, and an all-around great story).
Actually, silver nemesis is the- never mind.
@@jacobhogan3208 That's why I used the word "celebration."
Good list!
i'm surprised that you were expecting it to be like a different show. the current show is a direct continuation of what was started here
Fun fact, the sound of the TARDIS in flight is a slowed-down recording of a key being scraped against some piano wire.
True, the interest Ian and Barvara showed in Susan would be considered borderline stalking these days. However, one may as well wonder how many kids might have been saved from horrible environments if more teachers took such an interest in their welfare. Also, if a student who previously performed well suddenly started tanking their grades, it could be a sign of either a disrupted home life or possible depression, so I never really had a problem with their actions.
John Smith that's a reverse Easter egg
Indeed. Imagine if John Smith and The Common Men, were actually an incarnation of the Doctor, living in 1963, who formed a band. The Second Doctor played recorder, the Fifth the harp and Twelfth Doctor plays guitar, so the Doctor is certainly musical!
Those actual coat stands are in every Tardis since 1963 to now.
November 23rd, 1963...
Yes, that day...
And it was actually brilliant that they talked about the decimal system (England did go on that system by the end of the 60s).
My parents' wedding day, too. :)
Loved it. Even earliest Who and I'm hooked. You should do a story arc for each Who. Do the next story arc from the first Doctor titled The Daleks. Yes it was the famous nemesis of the Doctors first story appearance. Loved the reaction.
The first Doctor is so good, one of my favourites. If you ever see the Doctor at a school in England, its most likely Coal Hill. This episode and location is also the reason why the Tardis is the police box. This is where the chameleon circuit gets broken. Probably a reason why the type 40 tardis was retired in the first place
I believe the Daleks first appeared in the serial after this one. The Cybermen first appeared alongside the second Doctor. The third Doctor had a bunch of introductions of new creatures and enemies such as the Nestene Consciousness (AKA Autons), Silurians, Sontarans and The Master. One of the most referenced-by-new-Who serials is probably Genesis of the Daleks, with the fourth Doctor.
The Cybermen actually first appeared in the First Doctor's last story
@@eli_berdugo04 Oh, you're right. I stand corrected. My memory's a bit foggy, I guess. The second doctor did appear in it, though, didn't he? And I associate the Cybermen with him because he kept running into them.
@@Swenglish yep. The 1st doctor meet him in his last episodes where at the end he regenerated into 2. 2 then meet the cybermen 4 times (5 if you include the 5 doctors)
false they're in 10th planet!
There are actually TWO version of An Unearthly Child. The Pilot and the Episode. I Loved watching both one after the other and trying to work out all the differences. Every time I did, I kept finding something I had missed.
damn, I legit want more
YAY! Classic Who! This is so amazing! Please do continue with these reactions.
Now would be a great time to watch An Adventure in Time and Space, the special that shows how the show was created.
I would love for you to react to more Classic Who!
6:55 the eerie thing is about 7 years after this episode came out, england went on the decimal system, so she was right in saying it hadn't started yet
I have to say I'm really enjoying watching your first-time perspectives on classic Who. I grew up with 80s Who and revisited all the old stuff during the 90s and beyond, so had that fore knowledge of Hartnell through McGann, so when I got to watching the originals - I knew who was who, and what to expect to some degree.
Fascinating watching you watching it for the first time and making some jumps and guesses!
For super old shows worth watching, check out a soap opera called _Dark Shadows_
The series from way back that a Johnny Depp movie about a vampire was loosely based on
Barnabas Collins was the greatest vampire who ever lived, or who was undead.
Suprised he didn't say much about The Doctor having a grandchild
If you were to watch more classics, which ‘serial’ would be the next one?
He already has done...and you'll find out soon :)
@@iansmith4023 which doctor tho
@@thewhovianwithasmallcollec7319 One of the first 8 :)
since you already seen an *adventure in time and space*, this was pointed out to before, the version you reacting to is the episode before they reshot it, you can tell because of the way the doctor is talking, and in the background one of the walls inside the tardis wasnt made so they just used a painted wall but after the reshoot they had the proper wall.
the first cliffhanger! what a great opener
Granddaughter implies a wife and children.
Theory - the woman covering her eyes in the end of time part 2, is Susan Foreman - the doctor's granddaughter.
She’s so adorable
Susan is pretty much confirmed not to be her at this point with the expanded media.
i dont wanna say your wrong or spoil it on why you are wrong so just watch the classics so i dont spoil why this theory can never be
@@thewhovianwithasmallcollec7319 oh :( would be cool tho
Or another Time Lady of The Doctor's acquaintance (Classic Who Spoiler deleted)
I finally met William Russel last year and this was just such an unbelievable moment for me. 😊 I totally had a cruch on Ian Chesterton from the very beginning and William Russel is really one of the sweetest, most endearing person in this universe. 😍
Agreed.
Also had the pleasure of meeting him myself and he is indeed a lovely guy.
I think you should do a poll on what episodes to watch per Doctor. There are some amazing stories for each one. It’s understandable you wouldn’t watch them all.
*cut to me watching them all in 3 months* i need help and a life
@@thewhovianwithasmallcollec7319 It took 37 years for me...on the slow path...
@@SGlitz the only episodes i cant realy watch and can only watch recons/animation are the lost ones but any year now we will have like all the trougtons (cant spell)on dvd which will be wierd
Its so funny the John Smith name fell in the very first episode as unintentional foreshadowing almost, but then also it took a few years for the name to be used as the Doctors nom de plume
You for sure have to watch Episode 5 next, ‘The Dead Planet’
This was 1963 don’t judge the quality.
Why not?
Still so great. At least E1. Afterwards it's hard to keep my attention.
Doctor: I love all my companions equally. Barbara and -looks at smudged writing on hand- Chesterfield...
If you enjoyed this then you should watch the Time Meddler - which is Bill Hartnell at his best.
"What do you think it is, a space helmet for a cow!?" :D
Here are my top ten classic dr. who stories, in no particular order, spearehead from space, terror of the autons, inferno, enemy of the world, the mind robber, the time meddler, the aztecs, the pyramids of mars, genises of the daleks and the caves of andorzanie
Actually there were two versions of An Unearthly Child. The Aired version and the Unaired version. I loved watching both and comparing all the differences.
I believe the word you were looking for to describe the red hat is fez. Also, you have to remember that nothing definitive about where the Doctor came from was revealed until the end of the 2nd doctor's run.
"Are we in Canada?" 😂
I would strongly recommend watching classic Who in order. Several episodes from the 60s are sadly missing to this day (though some have been reconstructed by telesnaps or animations), but every story that have been released on DVD is reaction worthy.
If you picked stories from random, you wouldn't have the same emotional connection to the characters, and there are MANY shocks that are reaction worthy.
The second story is pretty short but really good. One of the best imo.
I have the biggest crush on Susan, she’s so adorable
She is in her late 70s and makes appearances occasionally at Gallifrey One. So does William Russell (Ian) who is him mid to late 80s.
@@SGlitz William Russell is 95 this year.
Carol Anne Ford will be 80 next year. William Russell is 95 in November.
One of the problems is that a lot of the early episodes, with the first and second Doctors, were destroyed. The audio for all of them was recovered, and some of them were remade with animation, which is pretty cool. But a lot of them are gone forever. There are some hard core fans who made fan reconstructions with the audio and old still photos and such.
YES! My boi with that Majesty Maiden. Always knew you ran a real deck.
Am happy your watching these 😁
Omg you're watching classic now please continue
Would love to see your reaction to classic who episodes, like the first regeneration, first episodes of every doctor and of course first appearance of the daleks, cybermen and Master
Great video as always
Thanks for that! I saw it the first time round, in 1963, but that was a while ago and it was good to see it again as an adult, so that I could appreciate it on new levels. Also good to see the reactions of someone who'd never seen it before.
If you watched all the end credits you'd understand why the Doctor's parents in Family of Blood were named Sydney and Verity - an homage to Who's origins.
When they brought Who back they were determined to keep as true to the original as possible - they certainly succeeded with the TARDIS noise.
And the theme, written by Ron Grainer but created by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - all electronic sounds, crafted note by note.
All new Who has done to it is to add an orchestra and more clatter [to quote Murray Gold] which wasn't available at the time.
ps; to answer your question: if they hadn't been so nosy there wouldn't have been a story!
Watch the Mind Robber serial with the second Doctor!
I believe the hat you were talking about is a Fez. 11 wore a Fez.
The first doctor also was traveling with his granddaughter.
A wild dad appears... Oh no, it ran away!
Well you just earned a sub from me all the way from England
Coal Hill school? Wow I saw this episode a long time ago but I never realized it was the same school as we see later.
I always hoped they would do a story in new who. Have Peter capaldi find/rescue Susan.
Mate, you need to keep in kind, they stole a FAULTY TARDIS to escape in, so it's misbehaving regularly, and unreliable. By the time you started on the series, he'd had ages to work most of the kinks out. ALso, this fresh reaction to this old gem is hell fresh. Nice
7:12 As a prospective teacher myself, I have to inform you that it's part of our job to worry about our students. Maybe not to the point of stalking them, but still. What happens in the home also _is_ our business for two reasons 1. Their homework and schoolwork can be affected, and 2. We're responsible to some extent for their health, for example we're mandatory reporters in the case of suspected abuse, if we even suspect it to be a possibility we're supposed to report it to the administration.
Coal hill school happens to be the school Clara taught at nice little call back
Before Star Trek, Star Wars or most other sci-fi genre and you'll notice it was a much shorter episode too.
Maybe you aught to do the last and first story of each Dr Who transition? That's still quite a lot of material.
finally someone reacting to classic dr. who, oh btw, it was meant to start off as semi educational, to the point that the original creator didn't want the daleks in it at all, that is until how popular their first story was at the time, eventually the educational angel was dropped.
I believe in season 10 the doctor has pictures of River Song and a pic of the actress that plays the granddaughter...
PLEASE DO TORCHWOOD!
Classic Who, best Who
I was not expecting to see a True Draco deck here of all places
This is the first pilot not the second they took out the references to another world.
Watch EARTHSHOCK OR THE CAVES OF ANDROZANI both from the 5th doctor era
The sound of the tardis now is exactly the same sound, same recording as then, made by keys on piano strings.