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Understanding Doctor Who: Who is the First Doctor?
Today, the British TV show "Doctor Who" is more succesful than ever before, however, a lot of newer converts to the show don't know much about the origins of the show, which aired its first episode in the early 1960s.
The mystery of Doctor Who was originally played by 1st Doctor William Hartnell from September 1963 until October 1966.
The Doctor originally was an old man with no name, a strange wanderer who who said he was an exile, who traveled through the universe in a time machine which he barely seemed to understand, and which was stuck in the guise of a police box.
The first Doctor was irritable, forgetful, rude, and sometimes untrustworthy..~Early on, the Doctor was irritable, forgetful, rude, and sometimes untrustworthy, or so he seemed to his first travelling companions, Ian and Barbara.
The first Doctor was an old man without a name, a traveller who who was an exile from his own people, who traveled through time and space in a time machine which it almost seemed he didn't understand, and which was cloaked in the guise of a police box.}
To stop Ian and Barbara from running to the police about what they'd discovered, the Doctor kidnaps them, taking his ship off, sending it tens of millennia into the past, knowing full well he might never be able to take them home in his his barely functional time machine.
The Doctor shows pretty questionable morals in the first episodes of the show, and in fact at one point in the first story, the Doctor seems ready to bash in the head of a caveman to aid in his and his companion's escape. Ian ended up having to prevent him from murdering the caveman, a startling fact to viewers used to the way the character is portrayed in newer stories.
In the next story, The Daleks, he deliberately damages the TARDIS so he can make up a reason to explore outside the safety of the ship, putting not just his own life in danger, but risking the others' as well. This overpowering desire to gain knowledge, regardless of the consequences is established here as a central part of the Doctor's character. This same {drive that made him leave his own world in the first place, and which leads to the end of his third regeneration, many centuries later.}
Bill Hartnell's final story was The Tenth Planet, which was broadcast in 1966. He maintained a love for the show for years after his delcining health forced him to retire.
He was able to make a limited appearance again for an episode celebrating the tenth anniversary of the show, The Three Doctorshowever, he died just a short time later.
The character of the first Doctor would appear in one more story: The Five Doctors, recast as Richard Hurndall.
Of the twenty-nine stories starring William Hartnell, only seventeen are still complete due to a short-sighted policy of the BBC in the early '70s. One of these losses was, unfortunately, the final episode of The Tenth Planet. The first three episodes of this four-part story are intact, only a few clips still exist from the final part of this final Doctor Who story to star William Hartnell as the first Doctor.
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