I am a huge nerd, and a Doctor Who fan. I'm also slightly obsessive, and like to do things in order. So I decided to watch all of the Doctor Who episodes, from the very first one onwards. I expect this to take a while, but it seemed like a fun thing to do. So I began with the
First Doctor, William Hartnell.
An Unearthly ChildThis cluster of four
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I can assure you, it only gets better from here. Bill Hartnell's Doctor has to learn to like being around humans, once that gets going, it's full speed ahead. Patrick Troughton's Doctor's time with UNIT and the Brigadier, John Pertwee's discovery of Sarah Jane, Tom Baker's jelly babies.
The special effects are horrible, but the characters and stories are amazing. There's lots of political allegory to the Pertwee-Baker era, specifically around labor politics in Britain and the rise of Margaret Thatcher. You'll see what I mean when you get to the Baker->Davidson regeneration.
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A good chunk of the Second Doctor episodes were lost in some archival incident (fire maybe? I forget the details) but you can still read those in the books.
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