As part of an ongoing attempt to get more people checking out Doctor Who, and to answer a question asked on one of my previous posts (a five-part series ranking the top 12 actors to play the Doctor) I will be doing a series of posts with suggestions on stories to check out for each of the Doctors. This will be geared towards starting with the particular Doctor rather than a listing of best episodes. We will start this process with the first Doctor, William Hartnell. I will also include links to DVDs you can buy on Amazon.
This one is a bit of a cheat. The DVD is a set that includes several stories. The set is called Doctor Who: The Beginning. It has "The Unearthly Child" which is the original episode of Doctor Who. You get to meet the Doctor, his granddaughter Susan, and her teachers, Ian and Barbara. The teachers start snooping around to find out about this strange new student, Susan, and end up getting kidnapped by her grandfather. The quartet meet cavemen in this story. Next up is "The Daleks." This is the second story, and the first to feature the Daleks. Also you can watch "The Edge of Destruction" where the TARDIS has stalled someplace between time and space. This is a great episode to understand the interactions between the four main characters.
The DVD also has a recreation of "Marco Polo" that includes audio clips and still images from the production. (This story was lost in the BBC video purge.)
There are plenty of other episodes to check out, but this is just an introduction to the first Doctor. Later, I'll be doing lists on best episodes, but that is for another time.
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