November 23rd, 2012
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Doctor Who – 49 Years – The Countdown Begins
Doctor Who – 49 Years – The Countdown Begins
From The BBC Archives
23rd November 1963
5.15
DR. WHO
An adventure In space and time.
with
WILLIAM HARTNELL as Dr. Who
WILLIAM RUSSELL as Ian Chesterton
JAQUELINE HILL as Rarhara Wright and
CAROLE ANN FORD as Susan Foreman
An Unearthly Child
by Anthony Coburn
Title music by Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Incidental music by NORMAN KAY
Story editor. David Whitaker
Designer, Peter Brachacki
Associate producer, Mervyn Pinfleld
Producer, Verity Lambert
Directed by Waris Hussein
DR. WHO? That is just the point. Nobody knows precisely who he is, this mysterious exile from another world and a distant future whose adventures begin today. But this much is known: he has a ship in which he can travel through space and time – although, owing to a defect in its instruments he can never be sure where and when his ‘landings’ may take place. And he has a grand-daughter Susan, a strange amalgam of teenage normality and uncanny intelligence.
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BOOBOO JR
November 23rd, 2012 - 8:52pmHappy Birthday Doctor Who! Only one year and we’ll be celebrating the 50th; I cannot wait!!!
Zak
November 23rd, 2012 - 8:34pmHappy Birthday Doctor Who!
49 years of travelling through time and space in a police box! Undoubtedly one of the most successful shows of all time.
Dalek Jake
November 23rd, 2012 - 7:31pmHappy 49th Doctor Who!
doctorwhoone
November 23rd, 2012 - 6:19pmYour welcome 🙂
Susan left a year later in 1964’s ‘The Dalek Invasion of Earth’, 2 years before regeneration was first introduced in 1966’s ‘The Tenth Planet’, but she clearly did have the power to regenerate, just never shown, and since we don’t know of her exact fate wither she was with her grandfather during the Time War in his 8th incarnation, it’s unknown if she died or maybe still on earth in the 22nd Century, and the Doctor just claims to be the last Time Lord just to keep his granddaughter safe, but no one knows for sure.
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
November 23rd, 2012 - 6:14pmHappy 49th Birthday Doctor Who!
Anonymous
November 23rd, 2012 - 5:38pmOH JUST REALISED MY IPOD THINKS ITS 2006! WHICH ISNT THAT BAD AS IT USED TO THINK IT WAS 1970
booboo
November 23rd, 2012 - 5:31pmits whatever your computer in set to
Some bloke
November 23rd, 2012 - 5:11pmIt doesnt, it says its 365 days, 23 hours, 55 mins and counting
Anonymous
November 23rd, 2012 - 5:03pmWhy does the countdown say it’s 6 years untill the 50th anniversary??? It’s next year!
booboo
November 23rd, 2012 - 5:00pm5.16.20 to be precise
Twelth Cyber Legion
November 23rd, 2012 - 4:44pmI know i,ve been saying that all day.
crazy guy
November 23rd, 2012 - 4:38pmoh thanks for clearing that up i was quite confused as she is a timelord i guess she can also regenerate
charliec3po
November 23rd, 2012 - 4:04pmhappy birthday doctor who !!!!!!!
doctorwhoone
November 23rd, 2012 - 3:59pmMr Evil Fez – No, it was 5:15pm.
Mr Evil Fez
November 23rd, 2012 - 3:57pm5:16
doctorwhoone
November 23rd, 2012 - 3:55pmSusan is the Doctors granddaughter, and she is a Time Lord, or Time Lady as female Gallifrayans where normally called.
She has a son called Alex who was born after the original Dalek Invasion of Earth in an 8th Doctor audio called ‘An Earthly Child’ who is part Time Lord, Part human, and voiced by 8th Doctor Paul McGann’s real life son.
The only member of the Doctor’s family seen on screen since Susan is Jenny from the series 4 episode ‘The Doctors Daughter’, and is it believed his own mother is featured in ‘The End of Time’, normally seen with Wilfred Mott.
Mr Zarbi
November 23rd, 2012 - 3:49pmHappy Birthday Who! Watching An Unearthly Child at 5:15 like the original
Tardis’nt
November 23rd, 2012 - 3:42pmHappy birthday to who, happy birthday to who…
crazy guy
November 23rd, 2012 - 3:41pmhappy birhtday doctor who. today as it is friday i am gonna watch a few of my favrioute episodes.
also can someone awnser my question as if susan is
the doctors granddaughter who would be the doctors son or daughter and also is susan a timelord too.
CG
November 23rd, 2012 - 1:22pmHappy Birthday Doctor Who????
daleksean
November 23rd, 2012 - 11:19amhappy 49 years doctor who
McGann is the Doctor
November 23rd, 2012 - 10:06amThe anniversary always creeps up unnoticed till the night before, but next year, make no mistake about it, we will see it coming.
Next year is the GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY people ! 😀
matt smithy
November 23rd, 2012 - 7:52amhappy 49th doctor who! Can’t wait till next year!
Ryan
November 23rd, 2012 - 7:51amHappy 49th Doctor! I’m celebrating, at 5:15 today, I’ll be happily watching An Unearthly Child, and I am doing a marathon, of watching an episode/part a day, which reconstructions of the missing eps until the 50th! Happy birthday to Who!
doctorwhoone
November 23rd, 2012 - 7:21amHALF A CENTURY OF DOCTOR WHO NEXT YEAR IN 2013 – BRING ON THE GOLDEN JUBILEE !!!!.
For today thou, I’m just going to watch ‘An Unearthly Child’ and the most recent episode, ‘The Angels take Manhatten’.
HAPPY 49TH BIRTHDAY DOCTOR WHOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!! 😀
Adam
November 23rd, 2012 - 7:11amHappy 49th Birthday Doctor Who
Im Celebrating
The TARDIS
November 23rd, 2012 - 7:10amHappy 49th Doctor Who! One year ’till the big one… And a great count-down booboo!
Mr Evil Fez
November 23rd, 2012 - 7:08amHappy Birthday Doctor Who!
Doctor Who?
November 23rd, 2012 - 6:49amHappy 49th Anniversary Doctor WHO! 1 more year to go until Doctor Who goes 50!
Harold Saxon
November 23rd, 2012 - 12:06amHappy 49th Anniversary Doctor!