REFLECTIONS OF THE PAST!

The past and present of the rejuvenated Doctor meet for the briefest of reflective moments in this great scene from The Power of the Daleks, which, though lost on film, was given special animated form a few years back.

This was a shot taken of Hartnell during filming of his final story- I wonder what happened to the rest of that shoot and the actual used image?

As seen from the original first episode,

IT'S GOOD TO TALK!

Perfectly at home in the universe talking to all kinds of diverse alien species, it's a pleasant change for our Time Lord hero not to encounter a malevolent race with the mysterious yet appealing Sensorites, meeting the intelligent and sophisticated race, mysterious yet appealing, and establishing strong communication ties with them in this great image that appeared colourized online a year or so ago. If anyone knows the colouring artist, please get in touch. Though slow paced at six episodes, The Sensorites was nonetheless a first season highlight.

For more on B/W Classic WHO brought to new life, check out this excellent colour clips footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMJEzf-ehlI

RINGSIDE PARTICIPATION GUARANTEED!

From their posters and advertising they seemed such a jolly bunch of space hippy types, but by the time The Doctor and Ace visit the infamous Psychic Circus, based on the desert world of Segonax, things have changed for the worse, and the murderous. A great posed image from the memorable mix of colourful visuals and building horror that is the classic Seventh Doctor tale, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

PRIMETIME SADISM!

Generating a positive audience response, much to the delight of the colony's sadistic overseers, the Doctor and Peri, teamed up with the freedom fighters Arak and Etta, brave the dangerous hallucinatory Forbidden Zone of the slave mining realm of Varos, in Philip Martin's clever and violent satire on the world of TV entertainment: Vengeance on Varos.

SHIFTING ARCS!

Unwillingly used as a bio data extract conversion weapon against both the Time Lords and the universe at large, The Doctor must once more confront the tragic villain who was once a hero of Gallifrey during its olden times: the stellar-engineer Omega, as well as clash with his own people in the process, during the enjoyable and fitting start to the show's Twentieth Anniversary, Johnny Byrne's Arc of Infinity, a solid-enough tale whose opening episodes would prove the most successful.

More lovely art that originally appeared in the Doctor Who - The Complete History Partwork series.

TACHYON GAMES AND PARANOID PURSUITS!

A marvel of its time now in tourist decline, the Tachyon games of learning and enlightenment revealed and nurtured by the dying Argolin race, at their luxury resort deep in the heart of a war radiated world, are soon turned to more violent means, as seen in the glorious and visually innovative science fiction eighteenth season opener that was The Leisure Hive.

FIFTY YEARS AGO! ENTER: THE THIRD 'DOCTOR WHO'

On location at a BBC training centre in late 1969, popular entertainer and actor Jon Pertwee is introduced to the press as the all-new third incarnation of the Time Lord hero, for a new set of January 1970 onwards airing adventures set on present day Earth. Alongside him would be newcomer actress Caroline John as his assertive scientific assistant, Elizabeth Shaw. Watching the proceedings is producer Derrick Sherwin, the producer for the first story of the new, grittier, Quatermass-inspired season, whose overall seventh year on TV would be widely considered one of the greatest of the entire classic run, launched by the all-filmic four-parter from writer Robert Holmes: Spearhead From Space. This story further notably introduced viewers to the memorable and very creepy plastic-loving alien foes- the Autons.

FURRY SENTINEL!

One of the Great Intelligence controlled Yeti robots stands guard at the TARDIS as the Doctor and Jamie take cover, in this great image from The Abominable Snowmen, taken on location in Snowdonia, the furthest location filming site then visited for the series. I've always loved this shot and recall excitedly seeing it for the first time in one of the early Doctor Who Monthlys.

Making of documentary (2020):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8LQlaknAOU&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0WC3ZlHyd7iR6DV2mzYeJKLK1W-CEsdITchxqESgwYsbymzJwXCKo-bW4

THE FIRST CASUALTY!

In Mavic Chen's captured ship, the Spar, the young and naive beauty of the Temple from the time of Troy, Katarina, contemplates her future surroundings, though her time with The Doctor (whom she admires with almost God-like reverence) will sadly prove short lived as the epic 12-parter The Daleks' Masterplan begins.