Doctor Who - The Tenth Planet - Episode 4 [3/3]

[rockohulkdoctorwho]

2:15 regeneration!

[gato1107]

how i miss the first doctor <3

[patp464]

David Hartnell was the first and a very good doctor. However, all the doctors hae been good. You know it's funny how the Cyberman have changed over the decades. They're more armored now and look much better. Thanks for sharing.

[TheLOLCOPPER]

@patp464 William Hartnell, not David

[BillHartnelliscool27]

00:4 He's drunk!! LOL!!

[mcrfan343]

Doctor:1 Cybermen:0 they can never defeat the Doctor.

[Hunter007xD]

Creepy.

[CatFish21sm]

was this the very first seson i love dr who and i found out that these episeodes existed and i had to see them! ?

[LestatandBerial]

@CatFish21sm No, this was the end of the third season. Episodes 1,2,3 still exist, but large parts of episode 4, which features the doctors first regeneration, are missing.

[rojblake82]

It is a shame that episode four is missing, it could be made in animated form and released on dvd.

[MrClassicDoctorWho]

i think if i was watching this back in 66 i would have thought some hostile being had invaded the doctors body or something. i dont think i would have comprehended it at first

[Ronclown]

This episode was pretty good. However, didn't care for the stills in the last parts

[thefartydoctor]

Poor Doctor... and I hope they keep searching for these lost episodes... they are out there somewhere. I heard a rumour on a Doctor Who DVD that they think that there are some in Robert Mugabe's private collection from when they sent them to South Africa to be broadcast there and that he took them and never gave them back. :-( if this is true then he's a dickhead. :D

[frobinhood]

@thefartydoctor

did you know thats what happened with tomb of the cyberman?

it was lost for about 15 years (not 100% on exact years) ....

it turns out that the country i live in (Australia) had a copy. it was cencored from TV so they put it in a box and it just happens that they had found it and was nice enough to give it back to the bbc.

If i could go back in time i would go to the filming of Pat's era and get copies of all the tapes (as well as try to get zoe back here as well lol)

[1958debs]

@frobinhood Let's all hope they don't have another fire, now. Or, just lose it, the butter fingers.

[uncled39]

It's criminal that this episode, and many others are missing. The audience must have been very surprised at the time seeing this, it's a shame that we probably never will.

[DoctorD279]

Enter Patrick Troughton...the man who would keep Doctor Who alive

[CastChaos]

So, this is how it all started. If the First Doctor stays the only Doctor for long enough, the show is just closed with some huge, epic finale. But the early departure created the Regeneration's idea and put Doctor Who into an endless loop of AWESOME!

[DoctorRod422010]

Back then, nobody knew Doctor Who would be on tv forever.  I love this scene when William Hartnell transforms into Patrick Troughton. Troughton played the Doctor for 3 years. He left because he felt he was being typecast.

[longhairfan]

What bothers me is the Doctor knew nothing about the Daleks but he was TERRIFIED to death when he saw the planet Mondas and recongize them as the planet of the Cyberman.

[scurvymands]

Thanks for putting up this serial. Was great seeing Anneke Wills as Polly - I know her best as mother of Eighth Doctor companion, Charley Pollard. I love how Who keeps it in the family. It is so sad that Hartnell and Mighty Trout eras were so badly served by the BBC.

[KangiTanka1]

Very nice to finally see this in more or less its entirety. Well done :~D

[ponchoman49]

The first Doctor regenerated due to the fact that his old body wore out. The energy drain from Mondas didn't help matters either and seemed to exaust him even quicker. His body was in pre -regenerative state much like the 10th Doctor after he absorbed the radiation or the 3rd Doctor also absorbing the radiation in the cave of the spiders and forced him to make a hasty return to his ship just in time for the Tardis to aid him changing form. Sheer brillance if you ask me!

[m60a3ttsmilwaukee]

thankyou for posting I have never seen much of the first and second doctor who...poor bill hartnell lived until 1975 knowing that the bbc threw out his episodes in the trash forever! / @ milwaukee

[ectowhite]

Very well done. Thank you.

[LoveTimeLord]

What causes him to regenerate?

[haydos271]

@LoveTimeLord An energy drain from the planet Mondas weakened his already weak body and caused him to collapse.

[IHateThatMonkey]

@haydos271 i don't think so cause if it was the cause of the first doctor's regeneration the energy drain then it would effect ben polly and everyone else' right?

[haydos271]

@IHateThatMonkey But everyone else could probably handle it, but with the Doctor's weak body, he couldn't.

[JackOfBlades434]

Why, this episode went missing!

[jampox101]

@JackOfBlades434 maybe they will get it back just like tomb of the cybermen

[ARX78]

@JackOfBlades434 At the time the BBC got rid of alot of show tapes that contained these and many more awesome episodes. Most tapes were destroyed but a few have been found around the world. Some like this were lost forever.

[adiofir]

wow, the first regeneration.. thank you so much for uploading this. My first doctor was nine and I knew nothing about regeneration then, so I was shocked (I reacted a lot like rose did) when all of a sudden he changed his face. That regeneration was very special to me. But watching this is fantastic. After ten regenerated (my fav doctor) I decided to watch all of the classic doctor who episodes, and I'm glad I did! Looking forward to the second doctor.

[DoctorRod422010]

Very cool! William Hartnell transformed into Patrick Troughton's Doctor.

[StuartTheGamerNerd]

anyways...what I would really liek to know...WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED to his granddaughter, Susan Foreman?

[Kaagh178]

@StuartTheGamerNerd The Doctor met her twice again, as Peter Davison in 'The Five Doctors' and Paul McGann in the Audio 'An Earthly Child'. A line from Christopher Ecclestone in 'The Empty Child' implies that Susan perished with the rest of the Time Lords (except the Doctor and the Master) in the Time War.

[StuartTheGamerNerd]

so out of this whole classic series the BCC out of all episodes they just had to lose the one containing the Doctors regeneration cycle huh??..how strange..

[Allcanadian79]

how many were lost and how did they lose em?

[icemachine79]

@Allcanadian79 A few hundred were lost at first. The BBC wiped ALL of Hartnell & Troughton's episodes and a big chunk of Pertwee's. Then in the late 70's they figured out their mistake and started looking for copies. A lot were found overseas in the 70s and 80s. Then the well started going dry & unfortunately only 2 were found in the last decade. Right now there are 108 episodes from 27 different stories missing, and (bar maybe one or two turning up) it will probably stay that way for good.

[Allcanadian79]

@icemachine79 its to bad they lost some eps i would love to see the very first time he changed plus i think the 2nd doctor looked good for the role

[Shapedrifter]

I watched this as a child. The audience were not as naive or ignorant as some of you believe. The newspapers had been full of the imminent changover from Hartnell to Troughton. I was eight, and I didn't find it a mystery. The audience in 1966 was no more stuipd than audiences of today. I also recall that everyone I knew at school hated Troughton to begin with (because he was so different) but within a few weeks Hartnell was forgotten as we were swept up by the new episodes. Such are children.

[Malinth66]

*60s family goes to kitchen to get drinks while doctor is regenerating. Comes back once its done. Whole family drops their cups and shout WTF!!*

[SpiroEx]

I really hope the BBC can do a proper restoration/reconstruction job on this and other videos. Such a shame they decided to throw out/ destroy so much of the earlier footage.

[JTDawson013]

thank you i can finally watch my favourite episode ever i no its my favourite because i have seen the new series and read or watched the classic seres

[THEREALEMC]

?????

[luno44]

when he regenerates, did the audience have any idea what just happened?

[SuperHumperdinkle]

probs not

[Trayusstudent1]

No, I doubt it, there weren't spoilers in those days lol

[limekittylives]

Nah, he says something about he "renewed." At the time it made it seem like he just got young again and it wasn't clear exactly what had happened. The whole regeneration concept isn't explained until way way later in the series.

[bertpotty2006]

@luno44 I had no idea! I was only 6. I hated the new Doctor at first.

[Hancockified]

@luno44 I doubt it but it would of increased curiousity & ensured that Power Of The Daleks would be watched to see what happened

[doctorwhosuperfan11]

@luno44 nope