60 years ago today, on Saturday 27 July 1963, the BBC broadcast the first of a now mostly forgotten 13 part sci-fi TV serial,
#DoctorWho.
Producer Rex Tucker thought that the show had suffered from starting in the Summer, when children were still playing outside. “Maybe we’d have done better going out in November.”
Here’s an extract from Glenn Nastafaev’s book Tomorrow Never Came: British TV SF in the 1950s and 60s.
#DrWho #SidewaysInTime