Tom Steward, Independent Scholar | When Doctor Who first aired in 1963, the BBC’s principal design focus for the series was education (Chapman, 2006; Haining, 1990). Much of pilot episode ‘An Unearthly Child’ takes place inside secondary school classrooms and features montages of lessons. Prior to broadcast, two publicity stills of the Doctor’s original companions, schoolteachers…
Chloé Monin, Lyon University | Since the first episode in 1963, Doctor Who has been an institution of British television. After a ten-year interruption, it has a new beginning with its own aesthetical and storyline evolutions. Because of its age, Doctor Who provides an enormous field for research for a student in the field of cultural…
Dr Marcus K Harmes, University of Southern Queensland | Early modern England, dated by historians as the period from c.1500 to 1700, permeates British television. The glittering and dramatic set pieces of Tudor, Elizabethan and Stuart history have long provided the dramatic substance of films and historical novels and, since the middle of the twentieth…