An Unearthly Child, the first episode of the BBC's new science-fiction series Doctor Who was broadcast. At the time, no one ...

The first episode of Doctor Who was aired on 23 November 1963. The cover of the Radio Times that week announced "a new Saturday-afternoon television series of adventures in time and space".

First Doctor: William Hartnell (November 1963 – October 1966) Crotchety, eccentric, not always truthful with his companions, came to care deeply for them. Set the pattern for later companions. “There ...