The Doctor is ridiculed - Classic Doctor Who - BBC

A doubting Ian Chesterton challenges the Doctor as to whether the TARDIS has indeed travelled through time. The opening of the doors of the time machine reveals not the junkyard of 76 Trotter's Lane, but a Palaeolithic landscape of another world. Classic clip taken from the very first Doctor Who story, An Unearthly Child starring William Hartnell. Watch more high quality videos on the new BBC Worldwide YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/bbcworldwide

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• Doctor Who
• Time Travel
• Sci-Fi
• Adventure
• Space
• William Hartnell
• Jacqueline Hill
• William Russell
• Carole Ann Ford

[TheLastLoneWolf]

AHA!! This was the moment the Chameleon Circuit broke!! ^__^

[kavtoM]

"Time doesn't go round and round in circles!"

Right, Ian! It's more like big bowl of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff!

[DoctorWho8395]

Watch my trailer for 'The Tenth Planet' (if you would like):

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[mts1977]

Remember loving this as a kid when it was shown in 1981 as part of the "five faces" season.

[Plottoberry]

Now i want to watch classic Who.

[mspeter97]

@mollytherealdeal sorry?

[KendrixTermina]

Don't worry, Doctor, you'll get used to it soon enough XD

[antaloliver]

@1969captainron He said:"It's still a police box! Why hasn't it changed? Dear dear, how very disturbing!"

[mollytherealdeal]

The real reason that the TARDIS did not change is because Doctor Who did not have a big budget in the early episodes Later producers could afford to have a TARDIS that did transform, but the public expected it to remain a police box. During the Colin Baker incarnation of the Doctor, the Chameleon Circuit was fixed temporarily.

[bobfromthenorth]

@Endomorth And the BBC wanted a symbol for doctor who. They couldn't symbolise something that changed every episode

[InsideCellardoor]

Haha all is so adorably retro ^^

[ETSubmariner]

I wonder if the TARDIS Chameleon circuit really did go bad, or if the TARDIS decided that Ian needed at least some continuity of some kind, so opted to overload the circuit. Ha!