Agreed

That's the reason the show shined, he really loved working in Doctor Who, and he gave his best for it.

This story is ok. It's not amazing nor is it terrible. It's one of those stories which has some good moments, like the scene from this video, but for the most part is a forgettable one. I will say that the Sensorites are quite bland though, they didn't really feel threatening enough for them to base a 6-part story on them. If it had been shrunk down to a 4 part story, I think it would have been a bit better and easier to sit through.

Ι liked the story, but I can see why people consider it a ok story, it has the slowest pacing it could have. Yet again from the first 3 doctors, Hartnell was the one I fisinshed faster. He had a charm as the Doctor who nobody else replicated again. And I say that as my favorite Doctors are Troughton, Baker and Pertwee (who I believe also had a charm that can't be replicated even how much they try (I look at Smith's doctor now)).

This was a good story tho

William Hartnell was and still is class. Definitely one of the best and underrated these days.

New Who is crap.

@@fjccommish ok boomer

@@nerdturas I am older than that.

@@fjccommish off courpse

@@watchingthemicroworld2081 I can run circles around you physically and mentally and spiritually.

Up to then, more than a few glimpses. The Doctor does not back down when threatened. It may look like it, but he always takes action.

i got chills

Since day 1

Don't forget, the Doctor was quite ready to smash one of the cave peoples' head in with a rock in the very first story. Also in that, his fear and anger with Barbara and Ian for entering the TARDIS is chilling. I always have the suspicion that, had he been able to control the TARDIS properly, he'd have been quite happy to drop them off somewhere distant and remote, to preserve his secret.

Quite a few lost serials (or individual episodes) have come from former British territories. It looks as though everything that survives has been recovered in one way or another.

Gamelover254 that's true 17 stories of 29 of the Hartnell era are completed around 58% . A lot compared to Patrick Troughton with only 7 of 21 stories about 33%.

Got that right. The Marco Polo episode, The Power of the Daleks, The Evil of the Daleks, the Macra Terror, all these episodes lost. A tragedy of science fiction television.

The regin of terror is also missing two episodes

DragonRiderW16 power of the Daleks? Not ENTIRELY lost. Rebuilt. Yes yes with inferior animation, but the audio is genuine and little details still taken into account. It still beats the heart of a Doctor Who story...a landmark one at that as Troughton’s first stretch of his legs into his era as the Doctor.

FedoraTime David Bradley would be a perfect fit

+Jeremy Xu Yes please!

David Warner would also make a good fit. Although he has appeared before, so did Colin Baker and Peter Capaldi before they became the 6th and 12th Doctors respectively.

Got your wish now! :D

Ayy

The Gunslingers??? Awful Dross.

Whaaat The Gunslingers was so silly and fun. I really enjoyed Steven's singing, although I think I'm in the minority there.

Hm. I see what you're saying, but I suppose the difference between us is, I don't mind if it's a little silly. Doctor Who was never marketed as a dark series, but started out as a kids' show with some more melancholy and self-reflecting themes. And believe me, I love when there's a darker arc or theme behind a story that makes you stop and think, but again, that wasn't the original point of the series. I don't think there's anything wrong with a story that says 'this is about a time traveler and his friends getting into mischief and that's it'. And while I know The Gunfighters wasn't a fan favorite for its singing and somewhat silly plot, I don't think its lack of 'humanity is dark and bad and you should think about it' is what makes people dislike it.

The Web Planet is one of those that would benefit from modern special effects. Its reach exceeded its grasp, but in a good way.

The main problem with the Hartnell era is that they lacked time, money and technology to get the episodes the way they imagined.

Or the fourth with his jelly babies

Or my seventh incarnation with Mel.

As I recall, everything's sorted by the end with peace between the Sensorites and the humans. This is in the beginning, before we know everything that's happened.

Well, even without any 'flubbing' of lines, that does make sense for the Doctor to say that -- After all, as Eleven says to Amy, when she first enters the TARDIS: "In *my* terms, *you're* an alien ... in quite a few people's terms, probably..."

It's one of those sentences where both ways round would have validity, and where flubbing adds semantics that you'd wish were there otherwise.

Hartnell was notorious for botching his lines

@@thekidfromiowa That's what vascular dementia does. It's amazing that he did as well as he did.

*lock doors. ;P

@@drudle Lol; Said pick; Fixed now :)

Just admit that this episode is trash

Well the doctor makes it really good

I don't know about that, but the Sense Sphere and Ood Sphere do share the same star system.

When 10 and Donna help the Ood break free of their slavery.

I'd imagine him shouting 'OKAY?!' at the end of that

And the combat eyebrows would up the awesome to -- (nervous cough) -- 12.

Or guitar. Intensity or guitar.

I think Ten also mentioned that in passing when they arrived on the Ood Sphere

It's a bit like Yoda. You take one look at him and assume he's harmless. Then he casually tosses his cane aside and you don't mistake it for a surrender. You realise he's rolling up his sleeves in preparation for a brutal ass whooping.

It’s FWITE hair you idiot

Weirdly I can’t picture Tom Baker or Eccleston saying it, and they are up there with the best

@@xx-footcmpsf.c3693 I could see the 9th saying it. The fourth wouldn’t really need to though.

@@AceOfHeartz4 ninth would just scrap them

@@xx-footcmpsf.c3693 9th would give the same warning but shorter. Not as grandiose. He gave people a chance at least.

@@AceOfHeartz4 9's version: I don't make threats, I make promises. And I promise you'll be in more trouble than you're asking for if you don't give me back my ship.

Most idiotic comment ever.

Most idiotic comment ever.

Most idiotic comment ever.

Hartnell was awesome as was troughton. Deffo need more airtime on tv, surviving episode wise. I love collecting the old DVDs :) I cant stand any of the new era stuff

This serial exists in full.

They CAN communicate using telepathy but only when necessary like if they want to keep something secret or they have to contact a sensorite that's far away.

Gamelover254 Oh, I see. Thanks!

actually, the planet of the ood are in the same solar system as the planet of the sensorites

BELIEVE THEM! THEY KNOW!

ROUND AND ROUND

It might be on DVD, now.

He made a promise.

@@julietfischer5056 Doctor Corleone 😉

That's why his audio adventures are so darn good.

@@mainstreetsaint36 I really need to get more of them. I've only heard a couple of Colin's.

You're incorrect. Other than Marco Polo, the whole of his first season (which was 48 weeks long!) exists in full. Of the second season, two episodes of The Crusade are missing. The rest is fine. Only the third season was badly affected by the BBC's junking policies - The Myth Makers, The Massacre, and The Savages are entirely lost; Galaxy 4 and The Celestial Toymaker only have one episode each surviving. The Daleks' Masterplan only has episodes 2, 5 and 10 intact of its 12 episodes (plus the prologue Mission To The Unknown is lost also). The two Hartnell stories at the beginning of season 4 are affected too - The Smugglers is lost, and sadly The Tenth Planet lacks its final episode (the regeneration sequence was saved by being copied onto another tape for inclusion in other BBC programmes). All these stories are available on DVD if you want (unfortunately stretched and distorted to fit on widescreen). I look forward to them eventually being reissued on blu-ray as the BBC wisely chose to make those proper 4:3 aspect ratio. The chances of the BBC ever showing them again is minimal because they're black and white, and strangely some people have a fit if something not colour comes on their telly (the same ones who freak out at black bars onscreen I guess!)

Silly me. I forgot that episodes 4 & 5 of 'The Reign of Terror' (season one) are also missing.

The Sensorites mental abilities were something. Unfortunately they were more than compromised by their fear of the dark and loud noises. So, all that was necessary to overcome them was to turn the lights off and shout.

@@ShanghaiRooster I quite like that they turned out to be timid and nervous creatures pretending to be tough and dangerous.

@@zacmumblethunder7466 Yes, they're not unlike certain animals which mimic more dangerous ones as a defence mechanism.

Crankier Doctor. He got old and angry in the new show.

For Colin I think Dr Who was in the last chance saloon during his tenure and was about to be thrown out. Changing the Doctor may have bought it another couple of years but the final nail was when the BBC moved it to the suicide slot - in direct competition with Coronation Street. That is when you knew the BBC was determind to kill it off

@@madabbafan Coronation Street can't beat Doctor Who.

@@timrob12 whilst I agree with you, the majority at the time didn't.

@@madabbafan I guess the Doctor Who fandom will alway have two sides. Then it was with Coronation Street, now it's with the Timeless Children. It's just part of the show's history.

Colin Baker's stories are 45 minutes an episode except for the first one which is standard length.

In Series 4, the Tenth Doctor actually mentions the similarity between the Sensorite Sphere and the Ood Sphere. A great way to show the continuity of the show. Jesus Christ, I am answering a comment written 7 years ago

​@@lepimond4605 I believe they exist in the same Star System

He was in a way. This doctor gets slack for not talking about gallifrey/timelords etc. Also he was less of a hero and more of a child like explorer.

@@AceOfHeartz4 That's a pretty daft thing to give him slack for. I mean they haven't even thought of any of that yet at the time of writing, the time lords neve appeared until the end of the second doctor's run and Gallifrey was never mentioned until sometime late during the Third Doctor's era

@@kylephantom4 thats my point. Ive heard quite a few people complaining because of that. Not saying i dont understand. Just what ive heard from people.

Early days of the show, before the TARDIS was anything other than a machine or they'd even thought of Gallifrey and Time Lords. As far as anybody knew, the Doctor had invented the TARDIS and was traveling with his granddaughter and his kidnap victims. Jon Pertwee's Doctor was the first to refer to the TARDIS as alive, and Tom Baker's Doctor was the one who started stroking it and talking to it (there's a very funny bit in one episode when Romana thinks he's talking to her and learns he was talking to the TARDIS). Its near-indestructible nature came later on.

@steve gale - All anyone knew is that he had the TARDIS, but until 'The Time Meddler' there was no mention of any other TARDISes. Susan did once describe the red skies and silver-leaved trees of her homeworld, but 'Time Lords' and 'Gallifrey' weren't mentioned until 'The War Games.' Some viewers might have thought the Doctor invented the TARDIS (reinforced by the non-canonical movies).

@steve gale - I don't recall that from the novelization.

There was much less emphasis on continuity when the show began. It was made to be seen once and that was it. This was broadcast nine months into the first season, so anything said in the first few weeks (like the self destruct built into the lock) would have been forgotten about in the hectic bustle of getting the shows made in time. It's unlikely most of the audience would have noticed the discrepancy No story was repeated until into Patrick Troughton's time. Throughout the sixties the TARDIS acquired and lost several abilities and strengths according to the requirements of the story. To answer the specific question of how they physically did it: They had gadgets that looked very much like the handle off my grandmother's cake stand that they could wave around and achieve different clever things with.

Sure, as long as the conditions of the two species worlds were similar.

The cliffhanger for an episode of 'The War Machines' has him stepping into the path of one of the devices -- after the massacre of a platoon.

Ed Miliband... O.o

Sajjad K ----what if the Doctor met Ed Miliband...maybe the Doc would just ignore him

While the name didn't exist, yes. This is one of the many scenes I point to when people say that the Doctor wasn't a dark character in Classic Who (a minority, of course.) The Doctor has had a dark side since series one.

@@vdesatch6273 - He kidnapped Ian and Barbara, and tried to kill a primitive human in that first serial. Yeah, the people who only know the show from its return speak from ignorance.

@@julietfischer5056 Exactly, that's precisely my point. That people who only acknowledge the show since its return refuse to consider the Classic Series and/or the Classic Doctors to have any depth, darkness or ambiguity. So I tend to point to this scene as a summation that the Doctor is capable of morally ambiguous boasts a la the revival counterparts.

There are moments with the 2nd Doctor that make him seem a much more dangerous character than the 1st.

William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton were the Doctors that the fans owe everything to. David Tennant, Matt Smith and Tom Baker might be more popular but they weren't under the insane pressure that Hartnell and Troughton were dealing with, although Smith came close due to the spectacular success of Tennant and no returning companions to ease the transition. But that was still after Doctor Who was a well established brand. William Hartnell wasn't even sure that it would get off the ground, needing the Daleks to swoop in and save it from getting cancelled. As for Patrick Troughton, he was the very first test of regeneration so if he screwed it up, Doctor Who was finished.