13:21 re the Autons' hand-guns in "Rose" - we find out in the first Auton story (Spearhead from Space, 1970) that the Autons play the long game. They first make a whole army of mannequins which they sell to stores all around the country - or was it the world? - and only activate them when they know that they've achieved sufficient geographical coverage. So, whilst they look like ordinary shop window dummies, the guns are already installed inside the mannequins' wrists.
Jon Pertwee was actually a very well known radio comedy actor before he did Who. In Who he is almost playing against type - or perhaps more accurately closer to his real life persona. This Doctor is very interested in science, technology & gadgets which reflected Pertwee's own interests. He was also quite action orientated - much more active & physical than earlier Doctor's - the 3rd Doctor uses "Venusian Akido" - a form of martial arts developed on Venus!
The Master used hypnosis (or tried to) in most of Roger Delgado's stories. Oddly enough, I can't clearly remember him doing so in Classic Who after that time.
John Pertwee and Roger Delgado. Still probably the ultimate Doctor and Master pairing, though Tennant and Simm are a close second. And yes, the BBC still doesn't have ad breaks as it's paid for by tax-payers by way of their TV license, as it's our oldest and largest broadcaster, and essentially set up by the government. Our other two older broadcasters are ITV (which your Dad was referencing) and Channel 4, both of which have ad breaks as that's how they're funded.
The BBC was the world's first TV broadcaster, as it was the world's first radio broadcaster: that' why they also had a radio licence [£1] until there were so many other radio stations [mostly pirate at that time - even Radio Luxembourg, which later got its own label on radio tuning dials]. Roger D was the quintessential Master - those eyes of his … the others who played the Master tried, but they just didn't have his presence.
The first half of The Third Doctor's era was Earthbound because of budget reasons but sometimes if The BBC wanted him to go to another planet the Timelords would remote Control The Tardis
Terror of the Autons was broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 2nd to 23rd January 1971. "Blue screen" was actually "yellow screen" at the BBC - it was called Colour Seperation Overlay (CSO) or Chroma key - they used yellow as the "key" colour. If you ever get hold of the DVDs for the classic series they are filled with extras that go into great detail about production, script and history of the show plus commentaries by surviving cast, producers, directors and/or crew. They are totally worth it. This was Roger Delgado's first appearance as The Master. The character was absolutely conceived as the Moriarty to the Doctor's Sherlock Holmes.
@@Swenglish Correct, although I'm sure I recall Barry Letts saying that they used yellow a little more often than blue, and both of them a lot more often than green. It depended on which colour dominated in the foreground - for example, if the actors wore a lot of blue (quite common in the denim-crazed 70s) using blue screen would make bits of the actors dissolve into the background, so they'd use yellow instead.
During this period there was a stunt company called Havoc who played a lot of the extras who were destined to get shot, blown up, rolled down cliffs etc and their quality of work was very high.
The character was credited as "Doctor Who" until the Fourth Doctor's final story, 'Logopolis'. The first episode of the first Fifth Doctor story, 'Castrovalva', credited him as "The Doctor". This was in 1981.
There are two kinds of Doctor Who fans... Those who think Rodger Delgado is the best Master, and those who are wrong. :-) I loved every single appearance of his Master.
He is a good master for sure. I think him and Ailey are equal for me though. I hate the newest incarnation from the 12th doctors era. And can’t see them as the master
The first time you see into the interior of the TARDIS from the outside was in a documentary 'Thirty Years in the TARDIS', after Classic Who had ended.
The Master was experimenting with different plastic weapons each activated by different means. Hence the doll was activated by heat, the daffodils by radio waves, etc.
Jo Grant is one of my favourite companions. She's so adorable! Her getting hypnotized in this one has some great payoff in her final season, too, when the Master tries to hypnotize her again and she's able to resist him completely. The actress who played her - Katy Manning - also once posed nude with a Dalek, which, if you ask me, is one of the most hilarious Doctor Who-related things ever. Jon Pertwee and Roger Delgado were very good friends before they appeared on Doctor Who together, and Delgado's tragic death was one of the main reasons for Pertwee leaving the series. Michael Wisher, who played Farrel, did the Dalek voices in a number of episodes after this. He also appears in _Genesis of the Daleks._
I always loved Jo Grant as a companion. She was always so bright and keen even though very much the wide eyed innocent. Incidentally, the wide-eyed look was not unconnected to the fact that Katy Manning was very short-sighted but couldn't, or wouldn't, wear glasses while playing the role. This apparently lead to quite a few accidents on set.
So “little” backstory here know I’m sure you already know this Terror of the Autons is the first appearance of Jo Grant,Captain Mike Yates & of course The Master. Jo Grant is slightly dipsy but you’ll soon grow to love her utter adorableness It’s the 2nd time the Autons who were in 3s very first story Spearhead from Space appeared , they wouldn’t appear again (at least on TV) until New Who with Rose You’ve finally now met (Sir) Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart or most commonly referred to as The Brigadier (as he is). I don’t really like saying he’s a companion and he’s much more than that- he’s the Doctors biggest best friend !
The Master was specifically designed to be "the Moriarty to the Doctor's Sherlock Holmes" and so the decision to strand them both on Earth would allow them to encounter each other on numerous occasions - which they do, over the next couple of seasons.
The effects for the first 3 introductions were actually created by taking a camera, and pointing it down the monitor that the camera signal is being broadcasted to, this created an infinite loop of light patterns. The original director for Doctor Who had described the patterns as butterfly wings. And yes, your father was correct, the BBC was commercial free at the time, however, during the 80s (If I am correct) they started airing commercials due to budget problems, I’m not sure if this is still the case for the regular BBC network, however BBC America does air commercials on a regular basis.
The Nestene Consciousness is the gestalt creature which inhabits the plastic, animating it. The Autons are the humanoid shaped plastic shells which the consciousness creates to invade Earth. In the previous story with them it is stated that the Nestene have been colonizing planets for a 100 million years. The Nestene is quite similar to The Great Intelligence.
British Summers are generally warmer than what Richard experienced while he was here. The famously hot Summer of '76 reached 96.6 (36 celsius). 86 ish is probably normal for the warmer parts of Summer (though warmer temperatures are increasingly common). We do occasionally get Summers that never get that warm as Richard evidently had the misfortune to go through!
I come here for puns like "magical misery tour" and references to stuff like 'Silent Spring'. I always want to like this story a lot more than i actually do. It's often hailed as a classic, but despite having a lot of stuff going for it (the debut of the Master for one) it just doesn't quite do it for me. I think a lot of it is the direction and the pacing. Barry Letts had directed the Troughton story 'The Enemy of the World' which is really dynamic, but i think here he got bogged down with all the bluescreen stuff maybe. The atonal and intrusive score hurts my brain as well.
The master was originally intended to be revealed as the doctors brother and was set to sacrifice himself to save the doctor in pertwees last episode but he died prematurely in a car crash a season earlier. This also started the "unit family" break up and was part of the reason for Katy manning leaving and also pertwee... (the unit family was the small ensemble of regulars within the program that got on brilliantly on and off screen, the dr, jo grant, benson, Yates, the brigader and the master.
Yep, this is the Mater's first appearance in Doctor Who! And Roger Delgado is my favourite incarnation of him too. Jon Pertwee is my second favourite classic doctor behind Tom Baker. The 70's were really a golden era of classic who anyway.
The other network is itv ( independent television ) so we had BBC 1 , BBC 2 and itv up to 1980 when we got another called channel 4 . And the BBC still doesn't have adverts.
Just thought you might want to know the reason they didnt put the directors name is because the producer (Barry Letts) directed it and at that point it was against the bbc's policy to have more than one credit per person.But great video!
Jon Pertwee served in the Royal Navy during WW2, he was a member of the ship's company of HMS Hood up until 1941, but was posted ashore one month before the ship was lost in battle with the Bismarck. 1400 of his shipmates were lost with only three survivors. It was one part of his career he was reticent to discuss in interviews as he lost so many friends. Roger Delgado was born in the East End of London, so a true Cockney, and served in the British Army in WW2 as a Major, and post War became a well respected character actor. Watch almost any British TV show from the 60s (such as the Saint, the Avengers, etc) and he'll make an appearance sooner or later, often playing Hispanic or Arabic parts. Jon and Roger became very good friends on the show and enjoyed working together; Jon had a bad back and when it went 'out' Roger always knew exactly how to put it back in alignment, which often happened at rehearsals when they practiced fight scenes. Roger died in a car crash in 1974 whilst being driven to the set of a movie in Turkey when his chauffer went off a mountain road.
The _it's a kids show_ label always pops up. But you're actually correct about it being a family show. It was originally broadcast during what was specifically categorized by the BBC as the _"Family Period,"_ or _"Family Time."_ As an older fan that grew up with Doctor Who starting in the 70s, I don't recall Genesis of the Daleks episode being referred to as _the best ever._ All things being subjective, while I think it is a good episode, best not get your hopes up too high.
John Pertwee was my first Doctor (my parents thought I would be bored by the black-and-white episodes). The episode where he finally got the Tardis working was mind-blowing to me.
The Autons first appeared in the 3rd Doctors first story Spearhead from Space which was shot entirely on film which makes a huge difference. Jon Pertwee was definitely the dandy Doctor. I love Roger Delgado playing the Master and he and Jon Pertwee played the scenes really well. This is definitely the Masters first appearance but they do hint that there's some history between the Doctor and the Master. I love the death scenes in this story as there very inventive and amusing. Great to hear you and your dads opinions on the story. Its going to be good to see your reactions to the fourth incarnation as I love Tom Baker's mad eccentric Doctor.
re dad's remark about weathermen: I remember one who had a chart made of triangular abrs , and he'd click a swtich and all the bars would rotate to show another face which had a different map, and then a third. lol that was cool for those days. The BBC still doesn't have commercials, if you don't count the constant plugs for other BBC programmes. They were so anti-advertising that in one police drama where they had to break into a warehouse, every box on the shelves had bands of black tape around it to hide the brand name.
The first three Doctors, the titles are actually achieved through what's called a howlround effect, where you aim a video camera down its own monitor, creating a pool of degrading video feedback, like an electronic tunnel of mirrors. It's kind of fun in that it's created from the very fabric of the medium, much as the theme music is created by physically cutting and splicing fragments of audio tape, over and over again. Things like this have led some to describe Doctor Who as one of the first and most defiantly "native" TV shows, using the basic properties of the medium to define itself in an era when TV was still seen as disposable novelty (ergo the BBC chucking so much of the early material). There's a weird moment in An Unearthly Child where the Doctor goes on about how we humans have finally "discovered" television, like it was some natural force of the universe rather than a specific invention, that people flag as feeding into this. This is the first we see of the Master. I don't think it's any spoiler to say that he becomes... a familiar element of the show from here on. That final scene pretty well sets up the start of a story arc. Of which Pertwee's has several, not entirely unlike what we get in New Who. More basic, of course. Delgado was going to be in Pertwee's final serial, to wrap up the whole era, but he'd plunged off a cliff in South America by that point.
Notes : You can understand why people don’t really like Simm Master as he is so insane which (especially in this story) he’s much nicer over the sassy & rude Doctor For Pertwees era the entire format basically changed to be all earth based stories mostly and yeh the CSO (colour separation overlay-not CGI yet) is terrible but it’s used more in this story than most Pertwee Both Jo and Katy Manning (the actress) would totally carry around pennies Pertwee started in the 1970 in colour so this aired 1971 The Master is actually the baddie for this whole series This is the first appearance of the Master but some people like to think another time lord from 2s era is an incarnation before Delgado but that’s a fan theory The Autons most iconic appearance is actually Spearhead from Space know this story did cause outrage because of the doll and policemen scenes There’s a big Finish boxset which I won’t say much about but the Autons control 3D printers which is awesome 3 is the James Bond Dandy He is probably the most gentlemanly of them all but one of the most anti establishment- you could see him drinking in a gentleman’s club and insult them all The Time Lords took away his knowledge of how to fly it & the dematerialised circuit (the thing the doctor took from the masters Tardis) I assumed it was the microwaves from the heat ?? A lot of the writers would read the latest scientific papers & as it was a sci fi Show made use they were up to date The behind the scenes of 3s era is super fascinating Sarah Jane Smith appears in Pertwees last season
It's nice to see Toberman from Tomb again! The second and third Doctor are very much my two favorites of the original series As somebody previously said, the 3rd doctor and the Master are supposed to be to have a Sherlock Holmes/ Moriarty relationship... they are antithetical in so many core ways: -This Doctor has an explorer's heart(s), in contrast to his dress style a man of action (James Bond type), can be a little of a bully or at least crass, repelling and is repelled by fools and self-important people -This Master is very much a conqueror at heart(s) at least, aristocratic, uses a veneer of eloquence, and uses those who are intelligent or placating those who are in authority until he discards them after he gets what he wants... as a side note, it seems to be a continuous string throughout all the Master's stories (with the exception of Deadly Assassin & the Keeper of Traken) that he always makes a deal with another villain, realizes that he's way over his head and either winds up either helping the Doctor defeat them or he just up and escapes to save his own skin in the end. -The Autons are the embodiment of the unease of the 70s where everything was plastic from furniture, to tupperware, to even flowers as you see in this episode. What was once seen as a high tech synthetic material is starting to be seen as a pull-away from nature... as well as what your dad said about it. I think that was the undertone/ message of the story (the writers at this time didn't beat you over the head with their points of view, but they were there). -plastic chair was activated by the snap of the Master's fingers -full plastic doll needed heat to make it pliable to move -daffodil was activated by radio waves I'm sorry for the wordieness of this post 😳
I'm 40 and beginning to go grey, I hope my grey goes like your dad's grey. I really like the Third Doctor I find him to be quite suave, self assured, cheeky and extremely sassy
In “Rose” the Nestene consciousness also made a trash can into an auton.... remember the green trash can was what captured Mickey in the first place? So even then, they could take control of other plastic things....
The Third Doctor's finest outing is probably "The Green Death" or "The Daemons". You should recognize the eccentricity of the modern Doctors much more with the 4th Doctor next week. He's been the template ever since. Also "Genesis of the Daleks" is one of my all time favourites so I really hope you love it.
If and when you get round to watching other classic serials with the Master, you'll see that while he is excellent at disguises, he's terrible at picking subtle aliases. As for the sonic screwdriver, the Doctor does have it by this point, but it's not yet the do-anything plot device it later becomes.
Back then The Master was still on his first Regeneration Cycle and this version of the Master is actually the last of that Cycle, The Master of New Who is his Second Regeneration Cycle so John Sim Master is his 15th Life Technically from a regeneration stand point and Robert Delgato is his 13th Life which is the end of his first regeneration cycle.
Jon Pertwee is probably my 2nd favourite Classic Doctor - He has a lot of hits during his era, specifically stories like Inferno and Frontier in Space. If anything, his chemistry with the Brigadier is very amusing and you can tell that Pertwee and Nicholas Courtney had a great working relationship behind the scenes. As for the writing, meet Robert Holmes! He's responsible for many of the most popular Classic Who stories such as The Talons of Weng-Chiang. He started in the late 60s with "The Krotons" and after the 70s was an on and off writer until he died in the 80s after writing for the Sixth Doctor's final season :(.
Lots of actors appeared multiple times.Micheal Sheard for example appeared with the first, third, fourth, fifth and seventh Doctors on TV. He also worked with the 8th Doctor on an audio.
So Pertwee's more action-oriented Doctor leads to him being called the "James Bond" Doctor, which is apt. Jon Pertwee was an actual secret agent during the war, and Ian Fleming based his book character 007 on Pertwee. So it's not so much that 3 is the "Bond Doctor", it's that Pertwee's playing himself and Bond is just the poor man's Pertwee.
Although Pertwee technically worked for naval intelligence towards the end of the war, he wasn’t actually a Bond-style globetrotting agent. He had a London based office job, vetting radio scripts to make sure they didn’t contain anything defeatist or treasonous. Pertwee, being Pertwee, struck deals with the radio producers. If they cast him in their shows, he would turn a blind eye to most of the stuff they wrote! He was offered one overseas posting in this time, but turned it down because he feared it might be too dangerous. He later found out it would’ve been a safe, easy posting as attaché to an embassy in a neutral, tropical country, well away from the conflict! And the tea boy in Pertwee’s office at that time was one Jim Callaghan who later went on to become Prime Minister!
Your description of the 3rd Doctor is on point :) The First master is The best Master. Fun Fact Doctor Who actually had less money in the early 70s then they had during the Hartnell era. This Story was really controversial at the time it was considered to violent for children there where complaints from the police who where saying that this story would make children not trust them. My Dad was traumatized by the doll in particular when He saw this as a kid He couldn't go to bed with his toys because He thought thay would come to life and strangle Him! Along with what happened with this and the next story A member of parliament said "What Has Happened to Doctor Who!"
I forgot to mention, since you were talking about regeneration: The change from Hartnell to Troughton was described as a rejuvenation, caused somehow by the TARDIS. The change to Pertwee was the result of the Timelords altering the Doctor's appearance so that he wouldn't be recognised on Earth. It wasn't until 1974 that the idea of regeneration was invented, and this effectively retro-engineered the previous eleven years of the show. As for Genesis of the Daleks being the best Who story: I don't think you could actually call it that, although it's very high up on the list.
BBC (no Adverts) and ITV (Adverts) now we have BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 on ordinary TV and Hundreds more on non Terrestrial. Channel 4 and 5 are owned by ITV
Re the music. Yeah it was a bit obtrusive, but electronic music was still in its infancy and so much of it was experimental, they had still to work out what worked and what didn't. The BBC actually had a department - The Radiophonic Workshop - specifically to explore the possibilities of electronically generated music and sound effects. You're correct, the BBC don't run commercials, as they're funded by what we call a TV licence, which is in effect a subscription fee. The other network at the time Richard was here was ITV. ITN was actually ITV's news slot. The sonic screwdriver wasn't that much of a thing at this time. It's very much a new-Who maguffin, that I personally feel is way overused. Correct, Alex, they would have used blue screen at the time. Green screen, although it was used occasionally, works best for a number of technical reasons with digital video, which didn't really exist back then. Our coins are different than you'd remember, Richard. The ones you knew were replaced when our currency was decimalised in 1971, and they have gone through numerous redesigns since then. They've got progressively smaller to keep their metal and monetary values more or less equal. The number for emergencies here is 999, and it's free. You're probably close to the mark as regards plastic and environmental concerns. This particular incarnation of the show was very preoccupied with these matters, as the producer at the time was a buddhist and environmentalist. One of the most famous Who stories, The Green Death, is from this period and has a VERY strong environmental message. It also has some great giant maggots, made out of condoms! My theory is that the autons are controlled by radio, but heat is required to soften the plastic enough for them to become flexible.
Since you already seem to know about this I will confirm that the Doctor has been exiled to Earth by the Time Lords at this point. This was indeed broadcast in 1971 as you speculate in the video. In the 60's the show went out almost year round, those Hartnell/Troughton seasons averaged around 42 episodes (This was common in the US as well, shows like Gilligan's Island and The Andy Griffith Show have really high episode counts per season) in the 70's the show got cut back to around 26 episodes per season, this allowed for more budget to be spent on location filming as can be seen in this story. This is some of the earliest use of the blue screen process, the producers got a little too excited at how well this process had worked in the previous season and consequently use it a little too much in this story. While this is a popular story with hardcore fans and I like it myself, the pacing is rather rushed and it's a very busy story. It's trying to do a lot, introduce the Master, introduce Jo, bring back the Autons, plus the circus as a (not really necessary) setting, the multiple types of threat posed by the plastic, etc. I suspect you'll find some of the other Pertwee stories better paced and a little more digestible. I suspect this was originally intended to be a six parter and got cut down to four, causing some story problems. The killer doll and the daffodil spraying a quick hardening liquid plastic which suffocated people freaked out a lot of kids who watched this, leading to the BBC getting a lot of angry letters from parents and some harsh criticism in newspaper editorials, ultimately a question was raised in Parliament with regards to the level of acceptable horror/violence in television programming. For the record, the doll was activated by heat while the daffodils were activated by radio waves. It would be impractical to try and activate 450,000 daffodils by turning up the heat in houses around the country, but similarly the doll couldn't be activated with radio waves without triggering at least some of the daffodils prematurely, plus the Master needed to return to the radio telescope to use the radio waves and there were a number of other problems with using that approach to kill a single, specific person.
@@7thHourFilms Yeah, agreed :)....it has always struck me as odd as well. One thing I don't like, however, is when newer fans like myself correct the old guard for calling him 'Doctor Who,' when that's literally what the show and it's creators referred to him as for such a long time (outside of the show). Peter Capaldi, for instance, got a lot of flack for calling the character 'Doctor Who' in interviews. The show certainly has a rabid fan base :) Love your reviews, by the way! Always appreciate the interaction in the comments as well!
+7th Hour Films He was called Dr. Who on screen in 2 classic stories. It's another alias he does use. Tennant started the whole "It's the Doctor, not Dr. Who" thing. But in reality, it's both and it's interchangeable.
This was the first Doctor Who episode that I actually remember watching. I believe this serial aired in January of 1971, and I would have just turned 3 - the main things I remember were the man being eaten by the chair, and the evil strangling doll.
close it was ITV was the channel ITN was the news program on ITV, and i think by this point we had three channels BBC 1&2 + ITV ( independent television network )
The Timelords forced the 2nd Doctor to regenerate and removed the knowledge of the Tardis workings from his mind so he'd be trapped on Earth in one time. So as to prevent his time meddling while still letting him defend the planet he calls his second home. Or you could also say the BBC higher ups didn't want to spend so much money on alien set designs anymore. Ever notice how much Sean Pertwee looks like his dad? The nose is smaller, but otherwise he's a spitting image. But he says he doesn't want to step on his dad's legacy so he won't ever take on the role.
Jon Pertwee was the doctor from 1970 to 1974 and did five years, then Tom Baker took over with him being the longest serving doctor from 1974 to 1981. Roger Del Gado was the first master and his final story with Jon was Frontier in Space the character was created for the earthbound doctor who only got to use his Tardis when the Timelords wanted to use him to fix problems. The master makes an appearance in Tom Bakers story The Deadly Assassin and again in The Keeper of Trakan where he gets a new body in the form of Anthony Ainley and stars with Tom in his last story Logopolis and appears with Peter Davison in a few stories until his last with Sylvester McCoy until we see John Simm then take on the role. A good third doctor story you should watch is The Three Doctors it brings back Patrick Troughton and the very last time for William Hartnell to appear on screen as the first doctor.
The 3rd doctor was the one I grew up with and so love. There were many reflections of modern culture within the program for example throughout his run he was proficient in venusian aikido, a form of martial art. This was a reflection of the popularity of Bruce Lee etc in the cinema at that time. The nestene in this episode of course were the first alien threat in new who with the episode "rose" with christopher ecclestone.
Although Bessie didn't appear much during Tom Baker's era, it was still "WHO 1" - should've been "WHO 4" I guess. They finally got it right when Bessie was seen again in Sylvester McCoy's era, when it read "WHO 7".
Another fun reaction to a Classic Who story. Just a couple of observations/comments: Alex, the mannequins in story 1 of New Who weren't just mannequins, they were Autons put in place by the Nestene Consciousness. BBC has always been commercial-free, the second network your Dad refers to is called ITV (Independent Television) ... which is funded by commercials ... just for information, our free-to-air television services now comprise over 70 standard definition channels and 15 HD channels. Yes, when the Time Lords banished The Doctor to earth at the end of the Troughton era, they removed the de-materialisation circuit from the TARDIS and wiped the Doctor's knowledge of Time Travel from his memory ... they eventually return these to him. Apart from the arrival of The Master, this story doesnt really deliver much for me. If you want to check out another Third Doctor story, I'd recommend The Three Doctors (yes ... the first 3 Doctors, sort of, lol), Planet Of The Daleks, The Time Warrior (featuring the introduction of Sarah Jane Smith), Death To The Daleks or Planet Of The Spiders, his final story. Oh, and yes ... Genesis Of The Daleks is one of the greatest Doctor Who stories of all time :-)
Although folk count these as 'family viewing', the show was aimed at the kids and the scripts reflect that. Also, what seems as a padded script matters less when broken into its episodes and watched once a week. Don't forget at this time there was no on demand or even video. If you missed the show as far as you were concerned you missed it forever. In my opinion , it only became family viewing during Tom Baker's run when some argued that it was becoming too adult in its subject matter (Google Mary Whitehouse and Doctor Who together for the full story). The then louder minority unfortunately caused the scripts to become 'softer' later in his run. Jon Pertwee had his first appearance in 1970 in the story 'Spearhead from Space' against the same enemy as this story {minus the Master, its also a better story). As far as money is concerned, by the time this story was aired we had changed to a decimal system and a penny became much smaller.
To me, Pertwee is very underrated. I find his doctor and the stories kind of cheesy but like in the most fun way. I know that he’s known as the James Bond doctor where he is more into action and he’s likely to karate chop bad guys and get physical in ways that no other doctor does but he reminds me of Austin Powers as the doctor. All the stuff Powers spoofed are here with Pertwee
Your mic is very sensitive to table vibrations (due to standing on it). If your editing software has an equalizer or high pass filter, I recommend filtering out anything below 75Hz or so to get rid of the rumbles in the future. Alternatively, you could place something soft under the mic stand to absorb the vibrations. Through my subwoofer, it sounds like somebody is stomping around above me every time you click the mouse or move your arms. Sorry to give unsolicited advice, but I wouldn't give it if I wouldn't have been glad to receive it.
Yeah, BBC has always been commercial free. We still get ads for other BBC shows in between the different shows, but that's it. The way we do this is by paying for a television licence, which funds all of the BBC projects. Anyone who can receive BBC broadcasts (Basically everyone with a TV) has to pay for one (Although realistically speaking there is nothing they can legally do if you don't. For more info on this, watch the following: th-cam.com/video/Vv2ZqZmC7u0/w-d-xo.html). The other channel your dad was thinking of was ITV, which is still running, and has always used adverts. However, they are generally less frequent, and last for a shorter period of time, than American programming
Just letting you know (I'm sure there's other comments about it), but the Doctor was exiled to Earth by the Timelords and hisTardis was damaged by them and most importantly, his knowledge of how to repair the Tardis taken from him. 🤖🤓
Time Lords forced the Doctor to regenerate, exiled him to Earth, and took away his knowledge of the TARDIS dematerialization codes. The Master is a "master" of hypnosis since he and the Doctor were children, and he often uses "lesser" species to carry out his plots. This came out in 1971, and takes place in either 1971 or 1981. They originally intended for the UNIT years to be a decade in the future, but it ended up basically being the 70s. In later years it has become a recurring joke that the UNIT files for all of these events are misfiled between the 70s and 80s in their system, leading to confusion. Genesis is great, but it has plenty of competitors.
18:40 - I think Director has never been as high profile a job in television as it has become in cinema, perhaps because of faster turnaround and more of an assembly line approach to producing serial tv. TV is more of a writer's medium than a director's one.
Pertwee is a favourite of mine. His stories are superb.Delgardo is superb. The original and best Master. I remember people being scared of the Troll doll. If you want to watch more Pertwee try Carnival of Monsters
For the next time you do these I suggest: Dalek Invasion of Earth with Hartnell War Games with Throughton Inferno with Pertwee Terror of the Zygons and Invasion of Time with Baker Earthshock with Davison
You keep saying 'green screen', but you did correct yourself. In television/video, the term was 'chroma key' and involved a blue screen, mainly because that's how films did it. In film, 'blue screen' compositing (using a 'traveling matte', the name of a character in Fraggle Rock) had been in use (because human skin has little blue) for many years before that. The film that made green compositing popular was Superman (because, well, blue); in video, TV newspeople wore blue suits, making green keying better. Electronic Chroma-key goes back to about 1957. The Howdy Doody show in the late 1950s made clever use of it as 'magic paint'. A character would paint a canvas with the (blue) magic paint and we would see a video picture appear on the canvas. Since Howdy Doody was on NBC, which was broadcasting in color before anyone else (indeed, Wikipedia says that Howdy Doody was used by RCA, who owned NBC, to promote the sales of color TV), the few kids whose parents could afford color TV probably thought this was awesome. It looked good enough in black and white to remember it for sixty years… As for the comparison of the looks of the first three Doctors, eventually you should watch The Three Doctors (the 10th anniversary show in 1973) in which the first Doctor comments on his successors. Delgado was my favorite Master. He was never 'camp', and never cackled gleefully. He was menacing and classy all at the same time. Jo Grant was a well-loved companion. You might see her again. The Doctor is kind of grouchy not only because he is stuck on Earth, but he is working as the U.N.I.T. science consultant and he has very little patience with bureaucrats and soldiers. Nevertheless, the Brigadier was also a beloved friend of The Doctor, and appeared on screen, quite extraordinarily, with Troughton, Pertwee, Tom Baker, Davison, and McCoy, and in audio adventures with Colin Baker and the Eighth Doctor, Paul McGann. I will not spoil references or appearances which may or may not occur in 'modern Who'.
@@7thHourFilms Yeah I get that, I just meant as one off so he could contrast old who with new who - thought that would be very interesting. Thanks for the uploads.
Wasn't the point of watching classic right now was to pace out Torchwood and maybe Sarah Jane Adventures? I'm trying not to be demanding but the given torchwood/sja reaction isn't up or at least isn't appearing in your upload feed. Just curious as to what's happening on that front.
That is the purpose. Torchwood and Game of Thrones got mixed up and TW will be up on Friday. We're back to normal next week which will keep us on schedule.
Btw I thought your observations were good. It has always bothered me that the Tardis wasn't used as a lab but I think what may have happened is there was no Tardis set at the time. The show was heavily budget constricted so often, and continually, the cuts were brutal
Yep. That's the same actor as Toberman. I guess the BBC realised they needed a strong looking black guy and decided to use the same one as before.... Yeah. There are one or two more stories that haven't aged well from racism, mainly The Talons of Weng Chiang, which is a good story and perhaps the only 6 parter that is well paced, but badly racist.
Seeing as it takes place in late 1800s England, in which English people were known to be racist towards the Chinese in real life, it fits with historical accuracy, but I think the biggest issue is that the Doctor isn't seen really rebuking against it.
@@electricmastro That doesn't explain why they've got a European actor playing an east-Asian antagonist. Contrast it with the Mind of Evil, where Pertwee took the time to learn some real Chinese and the producers cast actual Asian actors.
@@DaveF. Yeah, in regards to the casting itself, and not what's going on in the story itself, that's an issue, but at that point, I think it goes to show how there are more TV/movie producers out there in the industry that are more ignorant than others in regards to casting actual ethnic actors. It's an issue that persists to this day beyond Doctor Who, like with 2017's Ghost in the Shell. Whether hatred of ethnic actors has got to do with it, I'm not always sure, but I think what's always sure is that there will always be people fighting for the rights of ethnic actors, including the right to act in major motion pictures.
electricmastro it’s so odd as they all knew it was an issue and were uncomfortable doing it but ... it’s just what you did at that time Know I guess cous it was Hinchcliffe last story him leaving probably overshadowed anyone at the bbc having a look at the other issues beside Mary Whitehouse
Yeah the BBC doesn't have any ads, that's almost the point of it, in a way. Doctor Who was definitely always incredibly topical. I can think of very few stories I've watched that don't have some sort of political or social message. Any chance of a two-part reaction to Genesis? A whole lotta stuff happens in it.
13:21 re the Autons' hand-guns in "Rose" - we find out in the first Auton story (Spearhead from Space, 1970) that the Autons play the long game. They first make a whole army of mannequins which they sell to stores all around the country - or was it the world? - and only activate them when they know that they've achieved sufficient geographical coverage. So, whilst they look like ordinary shop window dummies, the guns are already installed inside the mannequins' wrists.
Jon Pertwee was actually a very well known radio comedy actor before he did Who. In Who he is almost playing against type - or perhaps more accurately closer to his real life persona. This Doctor is very interested in science, technology & gadgets which reflected Pertwee's own interests. He was also quite action orientated - much more active & physical than earlier Doctor's - the 3rd Doctor uses "Venusian Akido" - a form of martial arts developed on Venus!
“I didn’t know The Master could do that” if you’re talking about him being hypotonic he did it in series 3 he hypnotised people into voting for him
The Master used hypnosis (or tried to) in most of Roger Delgado's stories. Oddly enough, I can't clearly remember him doing so in Classic Who after that time.
ftumschk he briefly uses hypnosis on Chang Lee in the TV movie when he compels him to hand over the Doctor’s belongings
@@EditedAF987 Thanks - you're quite right, but it slipped my mind. Either that, or Eric Roberts hypnotised me to wipe my memory of that scene :)
John Pertwee and Roger Delgado. Still probably the ultimate Doctor and Master pairing, though Tennant and Simm are a close second. And yes, the BBC still doesn't have ad breaks as it's paid for by tax-payers by way of their TV license, as it's our oldest and largest broadcaster, and essentially set up by the government. Our other two older broadcasters are ITV (which your Dad was referencing) and Channel 4, both of which have ad breaks as that's how they're funded.
Aidan's Channel *jon
The BBC was the world's first TV broadcaster, as it was the world's first radio broadcaster: that' why they also had a radio licence [£1] until there were so many other radio stations [mostly pirate at that time - even Radio Luxembourg, which later got its own label on radio tuning dials].
Roger D was the quintessential Master - those eyes of his … the others who played the Master tried, but they just didn't have his presence.
The first half of The Third Doctor's era was Earthbound because of budget reasons but sometimes if The BBC wanted him to go to another planet the Timelords would remote Control The Tardis
Terror of the Autons was broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 2nd to 23rd January 1971.
"Blue screen" was actually "yellow screen" at the BBC - it was called Colour Seperation Overlay (CSO) or Chroma key - they used yellow as the "key" colour.
If you ever get hold of the DVDs for the classic series they are filled with extras that go into great detail about production, script and history of the show plus commentaries by surviving cast, producers, directors and/or crew. They are totally worth it.
This was Roger Delgado's first appearance as The Master. The character was absolutely conceived as the Moriarty to the Doctor's Sherlock Holmes.
They used different color screens for CSO. Not always yellow.
@@Swenglish Correct, although I'm sure I recall Barry Letts saying that they used yellow a little more often than blue, and both of them a lot more often than green. It depended on which colour dominated in the foreground - for example, if the actors wore a lot of blue (quite common in the denim-crazed 70s) using blue screen would make bits of the actors dissolve into the background, so they'd use yellow instead.
During this period there was a stunt company called Havoc who played a lot of the extras who were destined to get shot, blown up, rolled down cliffs etc and their quality of work was very high.
The character was credited as "Doctor Who" until the Fourth Doctor's final story, 'Logopolis'. The first episode of the first Fifth Doctor story, 'Castrovalva', credited him as "The Doctor". This was in 1981.
Castrovalva went out in 1982
999 is our 911, there was also dial the operator. Also all coins are different than back then, that was pre-decimalisation, much smaller now.
There are two kinds of Doctor Who fans... Those who think Rodger Delgado is the best Master, and those who are wrong. :-) I loved every single appearance of his Master.
He is a good master for sure. I think him and Ailey are equal for me though.
I hate the newest incarnation from the 12th doctors era. And can’t see them as the master
The first time you see into the interior of the TARDIS from the outside was in a documentary 'Thirty Years in the TARDIS', after Classic Who had ended.
The Master was experimenting with different plastic weapons each activated by different means. Hence the doll was activated by heat, the daffodils by radio waves, etc.
Jo Grant is one of my favourite companions. She's so adorable! Her getting hypnotized in this one has some great payoff in her final season, too, when the Master tries to hypnotize her again and she's able to resist him completely. The actress who played her - Katy Manning - also once posed nude with a Dalek, which, if you ask me, is one of the most hilarious Doctor Who-related things ever.
Jon Pertwee and Roger Delgado were very good friends before they appeared on Doctor Who together, and Delgado's tragic death was one of the main reasons for Pertwee leaving the series.
Michael Wisher, who played Farrel, did the Dalek voices in a number of episodes after this. He also appears in _Genesis of the Daleks._
I always loved Jo Grant as a companion. She was always so bright and keen even though very much the wide eyed innocent. Incidentally, the wide-eyed look was not unconnected to the fact that Katy Manning was very short-sighted but couldn't, or wouldn't, wear glasses while playing the role. This apparently lead to quite a few accidents on set.
I love the stories of Katy being like “yeh I jumped of this thing which the crew were very concerned about but I couldn’t see the distance so”
So “little” backstory here know I’m sure you already know this
Terror of the Autons is the first appearance of Jo Grant,Captain Mike Yates & of course The Master.
Jo Grant is slightly dipsy but you’ll soon grow to love her utter adorableness
It’s the 2nd time the Autons who were in 3s very first story Spearhead from Space appeared , they wouldn’t appear again (at least on TV) until New Who with Rose
You’ve finally now met
(Sir) Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart or most commonly referred to as The Brigadier (as he is). I don’t really like saying he’s a companion and he’s much more than that- he’s the Doctors biggest best friend !
999 is UK emergency number and it was free to call from public phone boxes.
The Master was specifically designed to be "the Moriarty to the Doctor's Sherlock Holmes" and so the decision to strand them both on Earth would allow them to encounter each other on numerous occasions - which they do, over the next couple of seasons.
The effects for the first 3 introductions were actually created by taking a camera, and pointing it down the monitor that the camera signal is being broadcasted to, this created an infinite loop of light patterns. The original director for Doctor Who had described the patterns as butterfly wings. And yes, your father was correct, the BBC was commercial free at the time, however, during the 80s (If I am correct) they started airing commercials due to budget problems, I’m not sure if this is still the case for the regular BBC network, however BBC America does air commercials on a regular basis.
No adverts on BBC channels ever in UK, thank goodness
The Nestene Consciousness is the gestalt creature which inhabits the plastic, animating it. The Autons are the humanoid shaped plastic shells which the consciousness creates to invade Earth. In the previous story with them it is stated that the Nestene have been colonizing planets for a 100 million years. The Nestene is quite similar to The Great Intelligence.
British Summers are generally warmer than what Richard experienced while he was here. The famously hot Summer of '76 reached 96.6 (36 celsius). 86 ish is probably normal for the warmer parts of Summer (though warmer temperatures are increasingly common).
We do occasionally get Summers that never get that warm as Richard evidently had the misfortune to go through!
jo one of the best companions
ITV was the other channel, ITN was the branding of the news coverage by ITV. We got a third channel BBC 2 from 1964.
And ITV is STV in Scotland
I come here for puns like "magical misery tour" and references to stuff like 'Silent Spring'.
I always want to like this story a lot more than i actually do. It's often hailed as a classic, but despite having a lot of stuff going for it (the debut of the Master for one) it just doesn't quite do it for me. I think a lot of it is the direction and the pacing. Barry Letts had directed the Troughton story 'The Enemy of the World' which is really dynamic, but i think here he got bogged down with all the bluescreen stuff maybe. The atonal and intrusive score hurts my brain as well.
2:53 That logo you used is actually from the TV movie (with the 8th Doctor) ;) It doesn't matter obviously, but I thought that was pretty funny.
Well, the font is nearly identical. I think. Close enough to count!
The master was originally intended to be revealed as the doctors brother and was set to sacrifice himself to save the doctor in pertwees last episode but he died prematurely in a car crash a season earlier. This also started the "unit family" break up and was part of the reason for Katy manning leaving and also pertwee... (the unit family was the small ensemble of regulars within the program that got on brilliantly on and off screen, the dr, jo grant, benson, Yates, the brigader and the master.
That wasn't intended to be Pertwee's last episode actually. Pertwee himself said the death of Delgado is one of the reasons he quit.
Yep, this is the Mater's first appearance in Doctor Who! And Roger Delgado is my favourite incarnation of him too. Jon Pertwee is my second favourite classic doctor behind Tom Baker. The 70's were really a golden era of classic who anyway.
As promised, I found the picture of 4-year-old Alex in the British Call Box. Not sure how to upload it here however... Dad
The other network is itv ( independent television ) so we had BBC 1 , BBC 2 and itv up to 1980 when we got another called channel 4 . And the BBC still doesn't have adverts.
Dr Who was always at the forefront of environmental issues so some of the stories are really ahead of the curve
And if there was an environmental story today the pinheads would scream SJW and pretend those stories didn't exist.
Just thought you might want to know the reason they didnt put the directors name is because the producer (Barry Letts) directed it and at that point it was against the bbc's policy to have more than one credit per person.But great video!
Jon Pertwee served in the Royal Navy during WW2, he was a member of the ship's company of HMS Hood up until 1941, but was posted ashore one month before the ship was lost in battle with the Bismarck. 1400 of his shipmates were lost with only three survivors. It was one part of his career he was reticent to discuss in interviews as he lost so many friends.
Roger Delgado was born in the East End of London, so a true Cockney, and served in the British Army in WW2 as a Major, and post War became a well respected character actor. Watch almost any British TV show from the 60s (such as the Saint, the Avengers, etc) and he'll make an appearance sooner or later, often playing Hispanic or Arabic parts.
Jon and Roger became very good friends on the show and enjoyed working together; Jon had a bad back and when it went 'out' Roger always knew exactly how to put it back in alignment, which often happened at rehearsals when they practiced fight scenes. Roger died in a car crash in 1974 whilst being driven to the set of a movie in Turkey when his chauffer went off a mountain road.
The bbc still hasn't got commercials in the middle of shows, including when they put on movies.
The _it's a kids show_ label always pops up. But you're actually correct about it being a family show. It was originally broadcast during what was specifically categorized by the BBC as the _"Family Period,"_ or _"Family Time."_
As an older fan that grew up with Doctor Who starting in the 70s, I don't recall Genesis of the Daleks episode being referred to as _the best ever._ All things being subjective, while I think it is a good episode, best not get your hopes up too high.
John Pertwee was my first Doctor (my parents thought I would be bored by the black-and-white episodes). The episode where he finally got the Tardis working was mind-blowing to me.
The Autons first appeared in the 3rd Doctors first story Spearhead from Space which was shot entirely on film which makes a huge difference. Jon Pertwee was definitely the dandy Doctor. I love Roger Delgado playing the Master and he and Jon Pertwee played the scenes really well. This is definitely the Masters first appearance but they do hint that there's some history between the Doctor and the Master. I love the death scenes in this story as there very inventive and amusing. Great to hear you and your dads opinions on the story. Its going to be good to see your reactions to the fourth incarnation as I love Tom Baker's mad eccentric Doctor.
re dad's remark about weathermen: I remember one who had a chart made of triangular abrs , and he'd click a swtich and all the bars would rotate to show another face which had a different map, and then a third. lol that was cool for those days.
The BBC still doesn't have commercials, if you don't count the constant plugs for other BBC programmes.
They were so anti-advertising that in one police drama where they had to break into a warehouse, every box on the shelves had bands of black tape around it to hide the brand name.
The first three Doctors, the titles are actually achieved through what's called a howlround effect, where you aim a video camera down its own monitor, creating a pool of degrading video feedback, like an electronic tunnel of mirrors. It's kind of fun in that it's created from the very fabric of the medium, much as the theme music is created by physically cutting and splicing fragments of audio tape, over and over again.
Things like this have led some to describe Doctor Who as one of the first and most defiantly "native" TV shows, using the basic properties of the medium to define itself in an era when TV was still seen as disposable novelty (ergo the BBC chucking so much of the early material). There's a weird moment in An Unearthly Child where the Doctor goes on about how we humans have finally "discovered" television, like it was some natural force of the universe rather than a specific invention, that people flag as feeding into this.
This is the first we see of the Master. I don't think it's any spoiler to say that he becomes... a familiar element of the show from here on. That final scene pretty well sets up the start of a story arc. Of which Pertwee's has several, not entirely unlike what we get in New Who. More basic, of course.
Delgado was going to be in Pertwee's final serial, to wrap up the whole era, but he'd plunged off a cliff in South America by that point.
This Doctor once wore a dress while in disguise
Notes :
You can understand why people don’t really like Simm Master as he is so insane which (especially in this story) he’s much nicer over the sassy & rude Doctor
For Pertwees era the entire format basically changed to be all earth based stories mostly and yeh the CSO (colour separation overlay-not CGI yet) is terrible but it’s used more in this story than most Pertwee
Both Jo and Katy Manning (the actress) would totally carry around pennies
Pertwee started in the 1970 in colour so this aired 1971
The Master is actually the baddie for this whole series
This is the first appearance of the Master but some people like to think another time lord from 2s era is an incarnation before Delgado but that’s a fan theory
The Autons most iconic appearance is actually Spearhead from Space know this story did cause outrage because of the doll and policemen scenes
There’s a big Finish boxset which I won’t say much about but the Autons control 3D printers which is awesome
3 is the James Bond Dandy
He is probably the most gentlemanly of them all but one of the most anti establishment- you could see him drinking in a gentleman’s club and insult them all
The Time Lords took away his knowledge of how to fly it & the dematerialised circuit (the thing the doctor took from the masters Tardis)
I assumed it was the microwaves from the heat ??
A lot of the writers would read the latest scientific papers & as it was a sci fi Show made use they were up to date
The behind the scenes of 3s era is super fascinating
Sarah Jane Smith appears in Pertwees last season
Forty Five I know and I also didn’t include the actual first Master from the audios but for simplicity sake
Forty Five sorry you had to write the long comment but yes I know I just brought that master up as he’s a recent “before Delgado” one
It's nice to see Toberman from Tomb again!
The second and third Doctor are very much my two favorites of the original series
As somebody previously said, the 3rd doctor and the Master are supposed to be to have a Sherlock Holmes/ Moriarty relationship... they are antithetical in so many core ways:
-This Doctor has an explorer's heart(s), in contrast to his dress style a man of action (James Bond type), can be a little of a bully or at least crass, repelling and is repelled by fools and self-important people
-This Master is very much a conqueror at heart(s) at least, aristocratic, uses a veneer of eloquence, and uses those who are intelligent or placating those who are in authority until he discards them after he gets what he wants... as a side note, it seems to be a continuous string throughout all the Master's stories (with the exception of Deadly Assassin & the Keeper of Traken) that he always makes a deal with another villain, realizes that he's way over his head and either winds up either helping the Doctor defeat them or he just up and escapes to save his own skin in the end.
-The Autons are the embodiment of the unease of the 70s where everything was plastic from furniture, to tupperware, to even flowers as you see in this episode. What was once seen as a high tech synthetic material is starting to be seen as a pull-away from nature... as well as what your dad said about it. I think that was the undertone/ message of the story (the writers at this time didn't beat you over the head with their points of view, but they were there).
-plastic chair was activated by the snap of the Master's fingers
-full plastic doll needed heat to make it pliable to move
-daffodil was activated by radio waves
I'm sorry for the wordieness of this post 😳
I'm 40 and beginning to go grey, I hope my grey goes like your dad's grey. I really like the Third Doctor I find him to be quite suave, self assured, cheeky and extremely sassy
In “Rose” the Nestene consciousness also made a trash can into an auton.... remember the green trash can was what captured Mickey in the first place? So even then, they could take control of other plastic things....
The Third Doctor's finest outing is probably "The Green Death" or "The Daemons". You should recognize the eccentricity of the modern Doctors much more with the 4th Doctor next week. He's been the template ever since. Also "Genesis of the Daleks" is one of my all time favourites so I really hope you love it.
I know it should not be unexpected and all but god you look so much like a younger version of your dad its uncanny
If and when you get round to watching other classic serials with the Master, you'll see that while he is excellent at disguises, he's terrible at picking subtle aliases. As for the sonic screwdriver, the Doctor does have it by this point, but it's not yet the do-anything plot device it later becomes.
5:36 How DID they make the radio telescopes move quickly? It's not time lapse.
Back then The Master was still on his first Regeneration Cycle and this version of the Master is actually the last of that Cycle, The Master of New Who is his Second Regeneration Cycle so John Sim Master is his 15th Life Technically from a regeneration stand point and Robert Delgato is his 13th Life which is the end of his first regeneration cycle.
John Pertwee started playing the Doctor in 1970.
Jon Pertwee is probably my 2nd favourite Classic Doctor - He has a lot of hits during his era, specifically stories like Inferno and Frontier in Space. If anything, his chemistry with the Brigadier is very amusing and you can tell that Pertwee and Nicholas Courtney had a great working relationship behind the scenes.
As for the writing, meet Robert Holmes! He's responsible for many of the most popular Classic Who stories such as The Talons of Weng-Chiang. He started in the late 60s with "The Krotons" and after the 70s was an on and off writer until he died in the 80s after writing for the Sixth Doctor's final season :(.
I think it is Toberman the same actor at least. Doctor Who has reused actors even in modern Who Martha an example
Michael wisher also appears in the next story they react to
Lots of actors appeared multiple times.Micheal Sheard for example appeared with the first, third, fourth, fifth and seventh Doctors on TV. He also worked with the 8th Doctor on an audio.
So Pertwee's more action-oriented Doctor leads to him being called the "James Bond" Doctor, which is apt. Jon Pertwee was an actual secret agent during the war, and Ian Fleming based his book character 007 on Pertwee. So it's not so much that 3 is the "Bond Doctor", it's that Pertwee's playing himself and Bond is just the poor man's Pertwee.
Although Pertwee technically worked for naval intelligence towards the end of the war, he wasn’t actually a Bond-style globetrotting agent.
He had a London based office job, vetting radio scripts to make sure they didn’t contain anything defeatist or treasonous. Pertwee, being Pertwee, struck deals with the radio producers. If they cast him in their shows, he would turn a blind eye to most of the stuff they wrote!
He was offered one overseas posting in this time, but turned it down because he feared it might be too dangerous. He later found out it would’ve been a safe, easy posting as attaché to an embassy in a neutral, tropical country, well away from the conflict!
And the tea boy in Pertwee’s office at that time was one Jim Callaghan who later went on to become Prime Minister!
Your description of the 3rd Doctor is on point :) The First master is The best Master. Fun Fact Doctor Who actually had less money in the early 70s then they had during the Hartnell era. This Story was really controversial at the time it was considered to violent for children there where complaints from the police who where saying that this story would make children not trust them. My Dad was traumatized by the doll in particular when He saw this as a kid He couldn't go to bed with his toys because He thought thay would come to life and strangle Him! Along with what happened with this and the next story A member of parliament said "What Has Happened to Doctor Who!"
I forgot to mention, since you were talking about regeneration: The change from Hartnell to Troughton was described as a rejuvenation, caused somehow by the TARDIS. The change to Pertwee was the result of the Timelords altering the Doctor's appearance so that he wouldn't be recognised on Earth. It wasn't until 1974 that the idea of regeneration was invented, and this effectively retro-engineered the previous eleven years of the show. As for Genesis of the Daleks being the best Who story: I don't think you could actually call it that, although it's very high up on the list.
BBC (no Adverts) and ITV (Adverts) now we have BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 on ordinary TV and Hundreds more on non Terrestrial. Channel 4 and 5 are owned by ITV
Re the music. Yeah it was a bit obtrusive, but electronic music was still in its infancy and so much of it was experimental, they had still to work out what worked and what didn't. The BBC actually had a department - The Radiophonic Workshop - specifically to explore the possibilities of electronically generated music and sound effects.
You're correct, the BBC don't run commercials, as they're funded by what we call a TV licence, which is in effect a subscription fee. The other network at the time Richard was here was ITV. ITN was actually ITV's news slot.
The sonic screwdriver wasn't that much of a thing at this time. It's very much a new-Who maguffin, that I personally feel is way overused.
Correct, Alex, they would have used blue screen at the time. Green screen, although it was used occasionally, works best for a number of technical reasons with digital video, which didn't really exist back then.
Our coins are different than you'd remember, Richard. The ones you knew were replaced when our currency was decimalised in 1971, and they have gone through numerous redesigns since then. They've got progressively smaller to keep their metal and monetary values more or less equal.
The number for emergencies here is 999, and it's free.
You're probably close to the mark as regards plastic and environmental concerns. This particular incarnation of the show was very preoccupied with these matters, as the producer at the time was a buddhist and environmentalist. One of the most famous Who stories, The Green Death, is from this period and has a VERY strong environmental message. It also has some great giant maggots, made out of condoms!
My theory is that the autons are controlled by radio, but heat is required to soften the plastic enough for them to become flexible.
"There Autons man,,, Bullets can't stop them!!" But an Austin Maxi can !
Since you already seem to know about this I will confirm that the Doctor has been exiled to Earth by the Time Lords at this point. This was indeed broadcast in 1971 as you speculate in the video. In the 60's the show went out almost year round, those Hartnell/Troughton seasons averaged around 42 episodes (This was common in the US as well, shows like Gilligan's Island and The Andy Griffith Show have really high episode counts per season) in the 70's the show got cut back to around 26 episodes per season, this allowed for more budget to be spent on location filming as can be seen in this story. This is some of the earliest use of the blue screen process, the producers got a little too excited at how well this process had worked in the previous season and consequently use it a little too much in this story. While this is a popular story with hardcore fans and I like it myself, the pacing is rather rushed and it's a very busy story. It's trying to do a lot, introduce the Master, introduce Jo, bring back the Autons, plus the circus as a (not really necessary) setting, the multiple types of threat posed by the plastic, etc. I suspect you'll find some of the other Pertwee stories better paced and a little more digestible. I suspect this was originally intended to be a six parter and got cut down to four, causing some story problems. The killer doll and the daffodil spraying a quick hardening liquid plastic which suffocated people freaked out a lot of kids who watched this, leading to the BBC getting a lot of angry letters from parents and some harsh criticism in newspaper editorials, ultimately a question was raised in Parliament with regards to the level of acceptable horror/violence in television programming. For the record, the doll was activated by heat while the daffodils were activated by radio waves. It would be impractical to try and activate 450,000 daffodils by turning up the heat in houses around the country, but similarly the doll couldn't be activated with radio waves without triggering at least some of the daffodils prematurely, plus the Master needed to return to the radio telescope to use the radio waves and there were a number of other problems with using that approach to kill a single, specific person.
I mean...even Chris was billed as "Doctor Who" for his first few eps at least
I know but since Tennat took over it's been The Doctor. Which makes sense because that's his name.
@@7thHourFilms Yeah, agreed :)....it has always struck me as odd as well. One thing I don't like, however, is when newer fans like myself correct the old guard for calling him 'Doctor Who,' when that's literally what the show and it's creators referred to him as for such a long time (outside of the show). Peter Capaldi, for instance, got a lot of flack for calling the character 'Doctor Who' in interviews. The show certainly has a rabid fan base :) Love your reviews, by the way! Always appreciate the interaction in the comments as well!
7th Hour Films there’s a Pertwee story called
“Doctor Who & The Silurans” so I guess you’re gonna be peeved when you get around to that lol
+7th Hour Films He was called Dr. Who on screen in 2 classic stories. It's another alias he does use. Tennant started the whole "It's the Doctor, not Dr. Who" thing. But in reality, it's both and it's interchangeable.
The Time Lords Exiled him to Earth and Disabled The TARDIS so The Doctor could not leave the planet he did not forget how to fly it
This was the first Doctor Who episode that I actually remember watching. I believe this serial aired in January of 1971, and I would have just turned 3 - the main things I remember were the man being eaten by the chair, and the evil strangling doll.
close it was ITV was the channel ITN was the news program on ITV, and i think by this point we had three channels BBC 1&2 + ITV ( independent television network )
The Timelords forced the 2nd Doctor to regenerate and removed the knowledge of the Tardis workings from his mind so he'd be trapped on Earth in one time. So as to prevent his time meddling while still letting him defend the planet he calls his second home.
Or you could also say the BBC higher ups didn't want to spend so much money on alien set designs anymore.
Ever notice how much Sean Pertwee looks like his dad? The nose is smaller, but otherwise he's a spitting image. But he says he doesn't want to step on his dad's legacy so he won't ever take on the role.
Jon Pertwee was the doctor from 1970 to 1974 and did five years, then Tom Baker took over with him being the longest serving doctor from 1974 to 1981. Roger Del Gado was the first master and his final story with Jon was Frontier in Space the character was created for the earthbound doctor who only got to use his Tardis when the Timelords wanted to use him to fix problems. The master makes an appearance in Tom Bakers story The Deadly Assassin and again in The Keeper of Trakan where he gets a new body in the form of Anthony Ainley and stars with Tom in his last story Logopolis and appears with Peter Davison in a few stories until his last with Sylvester McCoy until we see John Simm then take on the role. A good third doctor story you should watch is The Three Doctors it brings back Patrick Troughton and the very last time for William Hartnell to appear on screen as the first doctor.
The 3rd doctor was the one I grew up with and so love. There were many reflections of modern culture within the program for example throughout his run he was proficient in venusian aikido, a form of martial art. This was a reflection of the popularity of Bruce Lee etc in the cinema at that time. The nestene in this episode of course were the first alien threat in new who with the episode "rose" with christopher ecclestone.
The Car(Bessie) should say Who 3 on it's License plate
Although Bessie didn't appear much during Tom Baker's era, it was still "WHO 1" - should've been "WHO 4" I guess. They finally got it right when Bessie was seen again in Sylvester McCoy's era, when it read "WHO 7".
Another fun reaction to a Classic Who story. Just a couple of observations/comments:
Alex, the mannequins in story 1 of New Who weren't just mannequins, they were Autons put in place by the Nestene Consciousness. BBC has always been commercial-free, the second network your Dad refers to is called ITV (Independent Television) ... which is funded by commercials ... just for information, our free-to-air television services now comprise over 70 standard definition channels and 15 HD channels. Yes, when the Time Lords banished The Doctor to earth at the end of the Troughton era, they removed the de-materialisation circuit from the TARDIS and wiped the Doctor's knowledge of Time Travel from his memory ... they eventually return these to him.
Apart from the arrival of The Master, this story doesnt really deliver much for me. If you want to check out another Third Doctor story, I'd recommend The Three Doctors (yes ... the first 3 Doctors, sort of, lol), Planet Of The Daleks, The Time Warrior (featuring the introduction of Sarah Jane Smith), Death To The Daleks or Planet Of The Spiders, his final story. Oh, and yes ... Genesis Of The Daleks is one of the greatest Doctor Who stories of all time :-)
The Beatles did dress up....just look at the cover of Sgt. Pepper...lol!
Although folk count these as 'family viewing', the show was aimed at the kids and the scripts reflect that. Also, what seems as a padded script matters less when broken into its episodes and watched once a week. Don't forget at this time there was no on demand or even video. If you missed the show as far as you were concerned you missed it forever. In my opinion , it only became family viewing during Tom Baker's run when some argued that it was becoming too adult in its subject matter (Google Mary Whitehouse and Doctor Who together for the full story). The then louder minority unfortunately caused the scripts to become 'softer' later in his run. Jon Pertwee had his first appearance in 1970 in the story 'Spearhead from Space' against the same enemy as this story {minus the Master, its also a better story). As far as money is concerned, by the time this story was aired we had changed to a decimal system and a penny became much smaller.
The Brigadier and Sarah Jane are the longest running companions in Classic Who.
Gametroller Prime No by episodes it’s either Jamie or Tegan, although Sarah is up there.
Nope that’s Jamie if we go by episodes which is 113
Clara if we go by years as companion
Forty Five let’s pick Benny and Fitz as they are perfect to represent the Doctor Who fandom 🤣
To me, Pertwee is very underrated. I find his doctor and the stories kind of cheesy but like in the most fun way. I know that he’s known as the James Bond doctor where he is more into action and he’s likely to karate chop bad guys and get physical in ways that no other doctor does but he reminds me of Austin Powers as the doctor. All the stuff Powers spoofed are here with Pertwee
really looking forward to your next classic reaction, you and yer dad are going to love the 4th Doctor.
That actually was Toberman. Same actor.
Your mic is very sensitive to table vibrations (due to standing on it). If your editing software has an equalizer or high pass filter, I recommend filtering out anything below 75Hz or so to get rid of the rumbles in the future. Alternatively, you could place something soft under the mic stand to absorb the vibrations. Through my subwoofer, it sounds like somebody is stomping around above me every time you click the mouse or move your arms. Sorry to give unsolicited advice, but I wouldn't give it if I wouldn't have been glad to receive it.
Yeah, BBC has always been commercial free. We still get ads for other BBC shows in between the different shows, but that's it. The way we do this is by paying for a television licence, which funds all of the BBC projects. Anyone who can receive BBC broadcasts (Basically everyone with a TV) has to pay for one (Although realistically speaking there is nothing they can legally do if you don't. For more info on this, watch the following: th-cam.com/video/Vv2ZqZmC7u0/w-d-xo.html). The other channel your dad was thinking of was ITV, which is still running, and has always used adverts. However, they are generally less frequent, and last for a shorter period of time, than American programming
Just letting you know (I'm sure there's other comments about it), but the Doctor was exiled to Earth by the Timelords and hisTardis was damaged by them and most importantly, his knowledge of how to repair the Tardis taken from him.
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Time Lords forced the Doctor to regenerate, exiled him to Earth, and took away his knowledge of the TARDIS dematerialization codes. The Master is a "master" of hypnosis since he and the Doctor were children, and he often uses "lesser" species to carry out his plots. This came out in 1971, and takes place in either 1971 or 1981. They originally intended for the UNIT years to be a decade in the future, but it ended up basically being the 70s. In later years it has become a recurring joke that the UNIT files for all of these events are misfiled between the 70s and 80s in their system, leading to confusion. Genesis is great, but it has plenty of competitors.
18:40 - I think Director has never been as high profile a job in television as it has become in cinema, perhaps because of faster turnaround and more of an assembly line approach to producing serial tv. TV is more of a writer's medium than a director's one.
John Pertwee's son Sean is a good actor he plays Alfred in Gotham .
Pertwee is a favourite of mine. His stories are superb.Delgardo is superb. The original and best Master. I remember people being scared of the Troll doll.
If you want to watch more Pertwee try Carnival of Monsters
You're gonna love Tom Baker, he'd fit perfectly into the new series with virtually no alteration to the character.
I love how scientific The Third Doctor was
For the next time you do these I suggest:
Dalek Invasion of Earth with Hartnell
War Games with Throughton
Inferno with Pertwee
Terror of the Zygons and Invasion of Time with Baker
Earthshock with Davison
You keep saying 'green screen', but you did correct yourself. In television/video, the term was 'chroma key' and involved a blue screen, mainly because that's how films did it. In film, 'blue screen' compositing (using a 'traveling matte', the name of a character in Fraggle Rock) had been in use (because human skin has little blue) for many years before that. The film that made green compositing popular was Superman (because, well, blue); in video, TV newspeople wore blue suits, making green keying better. Electronic Chroma-key goes back to about 1957. The Howdy Doody show in the late 1950s made clever use of it as 'magic paint'. A character would paint a canvas with the (blue) magic paint and we would see a video picture appear on the canvas. Since Howdy Doody was on NBC, which was broadcasting in color before anyone else (indeed, Wikipedia says that Howdy Doody was used by RCA, who owned NBC, to promote the sales of color TV), the few kids whose parents could afford color TV probably thought this was awesome. It looked good enough in black and white to remember it for sixty years…
As for the comparison of the looks of the first three Doctors, eventually you should watch The Three Doctors (the 10th anniversary show in 1973) in which the first Doctor comments on his successors.
Delgado was my favorite Master. He was never 'camp', and never cackled gleefully. He was menacing and classy all at the same time.
Jo Grant was a well-loved companion. You might see her again. The Doctor is kind of grouchy not only because he is stuck on Earth, but he is working as the U.N.I.T. science consultant and he has very little patience with bureaucrats and soldiers. Nevertheless, the Brigadier was also a beloved friend of The Doctor, and appeared on screen, quite extraordinarily, with Troughton, Pertwee, Tom Baker, Davison, and McCoy, and in audio adventures with Colin Baker and the Eighth Doctor, Paul McGann. I will not spoil references or appearances which may or may not occur in 'modern Who'.
Will your dad ever react to any modern Who?
Would love to see you rewatch Blink with him or something,
Not likely. He's really here for the classics. But I suppose it's not put of the question.
@@7thHourFilms Yeah I get that, I just meant as one off so he could contrast old who with new who - thought that would be very interesting.
Thanks for the uploads.
Wasn't the point of watching classic right now was to pace out Torchwood and maybe Sarah Jane Adventures? I'm trying not to be demanding but the given torchwood/sja reaction isn't up or at least isn't appearing in your upload feed. Just curious as to what's happening on that front.
That is the purpose. Torchwood and Game of Thrones got mixed up and TW will be up on Friday. We're back to normal next week which will keep us on schedule.
It was to get ahead of Torchwood as series 2 finished before series 4 aired
What platform are you watching Classic Who on? I'm curious
Dailymotion. I unfortunately can't afford other ways. Though, for An Unearthly Child, we used Archive.org.
Okay sweet thanks
Btw I thought your observations were good. It has always bothered me that the Tardis wasn't used as a lab but I think what may have happened is there was no Tardis set at the time. The show was heavily budget constricted so often, and continually, the cuts were brutal
Yep. That's the same actor as Toberman. I guess the BBC realised they needed a strong looking black guy and decided to use the same one as before.... Yeah. There are one or two more stories that haven't aged well from racism, mainly The Talons of Weng Chiang, which is a good story and perhaps the only 6 parter that is well paced, but badly racist.
Seeing as it takes place in late 1800s England, in which English people were known to be racist towards the Chinese in real life, it fits with historical accuracy, but I think the biggest issue is that the Doctor isn't seen really rebuking against it.
@@electricmastro That doesn't explain why they've got a European actor playing an east-Asian antagonist. Contrast it with the Mind of Evil, where Pertwee took the time to learn some real Chinese and the producers cast actual Asian actors.
@@DaveF. Yeah, in regards to the casting itself, and not what's going on in the story itself, that's an issue, but at that point, I think it goes to show how there are more TV/movie producers out there in the industry that are more ignorant than others in regards to casting actual ethnic actors. It's an issue that persists to this day beyond Doctor Who, like with 2017's Ghost in the Shell. Whether hatred of ethnic actors has got to do with it, I'm not always sure, but I think what's always sure is that there will always be people fighting for the rights of ethnic actors, including the right to act in major motion pictures.
electricmastro it’s so odd as they all knew it was an issue and were uncomfortable doing it but ... it’s just what you did at that time
Know I guess cous it was Hinchcliffe last story him leaving probably overshadowed anyone at the bbc having a look at the other issues beside Mary Whitehouse
so anybody want to give their thoughts on black actress having been cast as historical British queens known to be pale white?
the sonic wasn´t the deus ex machine it is in today´s Who
The third doctor is my favourite classic dorctor
Yeah the BBC doesn't have any ads, that's almost the point of it, in a way.
Doctor Who was definitely always incredibly topical. I can think of very few stories I've watched that don't have some sort of political or social message.
Any chance of a two-part reaction to Genesis? A whole lotta stuff happens in it.
Nope. I don't do two parters but the reaction part is about 23 minutes long.
You might want to tell that to all the people saying Whittaker’s era is super PC 😂
@@archive9796 Oh I've tried many times, to no avail.
This story was pretty sub-par to me. Pertwee had other stories that were much better. Watch Inferno! It’s very good.