The First Photos of Doctor Who
The Doctor Who Team
William Hartnell: The First Doctor
The shoot took place in London at BBC Television Centre and the event was significant for another reason: It was the first time the four stars of Doctor Who’s first season had ever met!
William Hartnell, who played the Doctor, was introduced to Carole Ann Ford (who played Susan), Jacqueline Hill (Barbara) and William Russell (Ian). Filming for Doctor Who’s first episode had begun the previous day, but that shoot had entailed the shadow of a caveman falling across a landscape dominated by the TARDIS. In that respect it could be said that the TARDIS itself was the first star of Doctor Who!
You’ll find out more about those early days later this year in the brilliant drama, An Adventure in Space and Time.
Many photographs from that first shoot are now familiar to fans around the world, but it’s interesting to see how already, in those early images, the characters of the four main characters can be detected, from the strait-laced nature of Barbara to the enigma that is the Doctor!
Here
are some more of our favourite shots that can truly be called, the first
photographs of Doctor Who…
Carole Ann Ford and William Hartnell played Susan and her grandfather, the Doctor.
Jacqueline Hill played history teacher Barbara Wright.
William Russell played a science teacher called Ian Chesterton.
Carole Ann Ford as Susan.
