Why I like the Hartnell Historicals

[cameca]

This last week has been Hartnell History Week, a celebration of the magnificent Historical episodes that characterize the First Doctor era. History is of course not the sole province of the Hartnell era - it is a show about time travel, after all - but the very early show has the bulk of the "pure" historicals, by contrast to later para-historical

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[betawho]

“They're a slice of life, and life is Big. Where modern parahistoricals will often focus on a single personality in order to tell a very human, personal kind of a story - Vincent Van Gogh, Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens, etc. - the earlier ones focus on an era or a culture