RIP William Russell. You will be missed

RIP william russell you were a great companion thank you for starting doctor who in 1963 along with jackie hill william hartnell and jackie hill

Chesterton, my boy, .... we'll miss you. You and Barbara set the gold standard for companions!

Can still hear the young Ian in his voice.

Rest in Peace William Russell

And now Ian’s back again. God I’ve missed him so much, I hope we get to see him again if he wants to do it

Rest in glorious peace, William Russell

we made it.... LONDON 1965!!!

So glad he got the chance to come back one last time in the TV show. From the first to the latest, an icon, a legend!

RIP William Russell. Thank you for the films, the memories,and the adventures.

R.I.P. William Russell.

Despite the main show missing various opportunities to let him make a cameo, I thought it was fitting he had one in An Adventure in Time and Space. His line: "That's not how we do things at the BBC, sir," still cracks me up.

Ian and Barbara were amazing Companions and such a charming couple. Thanks for the ride, it was fun.

God bless this man - now 97 years young! I wish there was a way for all of Classic Who eps to be found/restored/uploaded into one streaming place. That's my ultimate pipe dream.

He’s back in the show!

34 years and he's still the best.

I'm happy to see William Russell looking so good! I really like him. Ian and Barbara added some much-needed dignity to some of the goofier episodes (such as The Web Planet), especially when the Doctor laughed through them. (Hoo-hoo! Hmm?)

Ian Chesterton should return for the 50th anniversary like this.

So Ian,Barbara and Susan a school girl vanish in 1963,and then the two School teachers reappear in 1965 with their pupil still missing.Think the Old Bill would want a word! 😀

RIP the first doctor companion William russell 🪦🕊🌿⚘️👤

It's good to see Chesterfield again...hmmm.

Ian was my favourite, I loved him! William Russell was so good and very kindly sent me a signed photo. Happy memories! Great to see him here...and looking so good.

Anyone else noticed that Ian is wearing the Seventh Doctors TV movie outfit

I would love just once to see one of the doctors meet Ian just one more time, maybe near the end if it ever comes.

As of Feb 2024, William (Ian) still alive. He will be 100 in November.

Ian would probably remember more since it was 50 year ago for him and about 500 ago for the doctor.

Wow Russell is the Morgan Freeman of Doctor Who I could just listen to him for ages talking about missing Who stories

you will always be Sir Lancelot to me and you are still looking good.. very good for an old fellah

Wonderful actor. What a marvellous legacy the two Bills, Carole Ann Ford and Jacqueline Hill have left for future generations with the birthing of Classic Who. The adventures of those four characters are still stimulating the imaginations of countless children and adults alike and long may they continue to do so.

Ian and Barbera remain among my favourite companions. They are so totally believable as ordinary people, they really could be the teachers from your local school, their reactions and behavior in the first few stories are completely authentic and exactly as you'd expect and as any of us would likely behave as well. I think this was an enormous asset to the early show - the companions, of course, are there as proxies for the viewer. A million miles away from the modern versions who walk into the TARDIS, take it all in their stride and start quipping jokes about Queen Victoria. I had trouble believing in any of the modern companions as real, ordinary people at all. They just don't react that way. Great casting choices and wonderful acting from William Russell and the sadly no longer with us Jacqeline Hill.

I love how william russell played ian on vhs release of the crusade

Please let there be a William Russell cameo in The Caretaker!!!

He’s always returning! In the power of the doctor and an adventure in space n time.

Ian Chesterton ( Wiiiiam Russell ) one of two companions of the first doctor he was a teacher and kept his cool most of the time but at first he didn't believe in time travel and aliens, much later he'll see the wonders of time travel but he always wants to return home he and the doctor never see eye to eye but he see the doctor as a crazy old man but in time that changes well in a small way, I think Ian is the only one who really sees the doctor as old traveler of many paths and he also thinks the doctors hiding something? I often wonder did the first companions ever wonder where this old time travel was going and what his part would play in earth's future or would he visit them again someday it would be fantastic to think Ian Chesterton could somehow meet his old friend who turned two people into time travelers the very first few of many children of time......

There is always a vague hope Ian could return this Christmas for a cameo, seeing as it is a First Doctor Regeneration story too.

CLASS is the perfect series to have William Russell make an appearance.

Great actor !!

This is how I think of Ian... even though this was 20 years ago. Posted even on here such a long time ago, back when William might have been capable of much more... :( So So So Amazing to see him in Power of the Doctor last year, but So So So Sad to hear that he very much struggled to be able to deliver the one line that he did. I'm glad that they did it... as he holds a very important place in my Whodom heart...

Fun fact, Ian references a couple off-screen adventures, one of which was shown in a book titled The Witch Hunters.

You can still see it's him. Thanks

That was really good. William Russell still looks like an overbearing school teacher. Well cast.

oh my god thank you for uploading this i loved Ian he was a good man in the show and it's awesome that he did this intro glad i saw it :D

I think travelling with The Doctor would have Ian & Barbara much better teachers.

I think he should return but not in a monologue. A 50th cameo featuring the Doctor asking about Barbara would be nice.

William Russell's video is only now showing in my video selection on youtube. However the rankings go, his character and Jacqueline Hill's set the bar for companions for years to come.

This is AWESOME!!!! 👍 It was a real treat and a delight to see the wonderful William Russell back as an elder Ian Chesterton! I love how he delivers his lines, such a great actor! 👋👋👋👋 Now that Russell T. Davies is in control again of Doctor Who, here's hoping that he will bring William Russell as Ian! 🤞 Anyway, I look forward to seeing more of your videos! You just earned a new subscriber! 🙂

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I just wished he had a better and bigger role in the adventure in time and space

It's a pity that the actress who played Barbara died from cancer in 1993 otherwise I think she would've been in this too.

London 1965

I hope he could come back or be the next Doctor

LONDON 1965!

Excellent!

Awesome!

Genuine feels with this. Genuine.

Loved his work in Big Finish.

I only found out recently the first companion was born in my hometown of Sunderland if he had any Mackem accent though, it is long gone

I hope that these segments get included on the newly announced Season 2 Collection boxset. I know they’ve announced recons with off air photos, but these would be nice to see too.

Recien me vengo a enterar que este actor en la vida real, es el padre del actor que interpretó a Dean Thomas en Harry Potter.

Ian and Barbara are what every other companion needs to live up to, and the new series has never even come close with companions.

Real cool he did this.

Former companions get together to talk about their adventures with the Doctor. For obvious reasons, very little alcohol is consumed, yet things get wild. And that's before the space-nasty crashes the party.

God I wish they'd bring him back in for an episode. What is this from? Makes me wanna cry, as Ian was one of my favorite companions (right behind Jamie, and right ahead of Steven)

Alfred enochs dad!!

Chetterton 😊

I hope he returns for series 8 :D

ella co wrote this so as a tribute get this on dvd

SecretTimeWarp I'm sure that THAT will never fall through...

Wow.... where it all began

It made me sad when I watched Ian and Barbara leave Doctor who on classic Doctor who

Why do the ending credits make me so sad?

Apparently no one in the comments knows where this footage is from

I love Ian in doctor who william russell was cast with grat characters ristick

"He was old when I was young"... That line gets me every time. Damn, if only they'd bought him on a reunion and adventure with Matt Smith's 11 (or any of the new ones*) for an (apparent) age reversal and for respect for the actor and character. *Not in any "Chibittaker" era episodes, though.

I feel like the whole the doctor was old when I was young I feel like I missed opportunity would’ve been Continuing with now, it seems like the doctor is young while I’m am now old but that’s the funny thing about Time travel when you think you know everything there is to know about the doctor about where we come from You come to realize that it’s only a matter of time before you finally can realize how very little we actually know about the universe and who we are as people

why didnt they have him make an appearance during times where we see coalhill school

How Time ages us all but was only Young l think I seen the last EPISODE of the 2nd doctor Patrick throuton mostly I watched Jon Pertwee EPISODES Right up to 2022still waiting to see WHO will play the next DOCTER

1:05 I've got that novel!! First published pure historical in ages! Is the talking stones a reference to another work?

What was this footage from - not the Lost In Time disc was it?

I just found out he is from my home city of Sunderland.

was this from a tv special? or a vhs release?

Is this what the based tales of the tardis on?

One dislike from a Dalek

Was this broadcast on TV?

Ian and Barbara the first two who discovered the tardis along with Susan who it was later to be revealed was the grand daughter of an old man with a smile that held so many secrets and unbelievable tales yet he spoke very little at first and had a issue with these to people who turned out to be teacher at Susan's school and very intelligent for the old man this was annoying and yet he went along with it. The companions Barbara and Ian had discovered that Suans grandsd wasn't the man they thought he was or perhaps from earth or their time a mystery that both were to find out as their times on the so called ship at the time would develoop into something considerably so unbelievably and yet he the old himself sometimes couldn't tell if he know, and it was only Suans who knows what the ship was really, and that was even odder and definitely puzzling? A Tardis she started to tell them but they seemed to think this unbelievable and they were shocked to discovered the truth and so they story of adventures began for them time onboard this amazing time machine was both fantastic and unique the saw things that could chill the blood or fry it, and fought alongside heroes in history and found ancient cultures on worlds that were so advanced and possibly terrifying and some so odd? Ian and Barbara sailed through time and space but eventually really wanted to go home to their time period of course their stories did end at home but they don't truly forget about their adventures totally it was if they had dreamt them a memory that is at the back of your mind a missing clue to solve or not, but sometimes a shadow or reflection in a window or mirror, and a face in a room of people? Doctor Who reunites with his old friends by accident or something draws them back to that moment of when and where they saw that figure inside the shadow of the Tardis " Hello!" a voice rings out bang old memories return?

What is this from

Me : Ian well my grandfather william Hartnell is dead William Russell: you have got to be kidding me you are the doctor now Finn and William Hartnell was your ancestor and you are his grandson

I suppose he'll have to do this again, now that the rest of "The Crusade" is now assumed to be recovered!

If they brought him back now it would be an episode where the female Dr and companions berate him for not being PC and referring to the Dr as 'my dear'.

Oh Ian, he's a she now. 😁

LONDON 1965!