Orange skies and silver leaves

[parrot_knight]

There's something about this 1964 Radio Times cutting which reminds me that Susan and Doctor Who were indeed born in "another time, another world".

Comments

[phoebesmum]

How does modern Who canon account for Susan? A casual enquiry, it doesn't need an in-depth answer, I'm just curious.

[parrot_knight]

There have been several references in the post-2005 series to the Doctor having a family. He empathised with Dr Constantine over lost family members in 'The Empty Child', and in a series two story startled Rose with the admission that "I was a dad, once." So I think that from the point of view of the present series, Susan was his biological granddaughter - a view not shared by most of the production teams in the 1970s and 1980s, as far as they paid any attention to the matter.

[daniel_saunders]

Didn't he also say he'd been a Dad in The Doctor's Daughter?

I'm not sure the production teams of the 70s really cared about it and those of the eighties generally did not change things on screen, whatever they may have written in spin-offs (the exception being Susan referring to the Doctor as "Doctor" in The Five Doctors until Carole Ann Ford changed it to "Grandfather").

[daniel_saunders]

A bigger question is whether Susan was killed in the Time War, but that's a whole other can(on) of worms...

[strange_complex]

Would I be right in guessing that the instalment in question was part of The Aztecs?

[parrot_knight]

You would be right. There's a good Barbara and Susan scene in the first episode, as you probably know, which reminds me of your userpic.