“A frail old man lost in space and time. They give him this name because they don’t know who he is. He seems not to remember where he has come from; he is suspicious and capable of sudden malignance; he seems to have some undefined energy; he is searching for something as well as fleeing from something. He has a ‘machine’ which enables them to travel together through time, through space, and through matter.”
A funny thing, Dr. Who. What originally started as a way to tell short science fiction arcs, that could be set anywhere and anytime lucked them out to create, almost by accident, some of the finest storytelling on TV.
But then again, maybe not so fully formed- after all, it wasn’t until the fourth doctor that they hit gold…
