For the very first time, the veteran director shares his personal journals from 1963. In part one, the troubled birth of the sci-fi classic 60 years ago.
Sat Nov 23 2013 at 17:35:54
In 1963, an expatriateCanadian, the BBC s only female producer, and a gay Anglo-East Indian director hire a veteran character actor to star in a low-budget series about an alien who travels through space and time in a small wooden box that s bigger inside.
It becomes history s longest-running SF series. True story.
An Adventure in Space and Time first aired November 22, 2013, and served as the appetizer for the
Doctor Who main course, the fiftieth anniversary episode that explains what happened between the 1996 TV movie and the 2005 revival. Rather than expand upon the Doctor s adventures, however, this movie explores the television series origins. While much of the material has been covered before, it hasn t been recreated on film until now.