Overview: The Doctor is a renegade Time Lord: an eccentric, highly-intelligent scientist from a distant planet. He travels through time and space in the TARDIS, a curious device, larger on the inside than on the outside, which was designed to change its appearance to suit its surroundings. Unfortunately, the Doctor's TARDIS seems to be broken, and always appears as a blue British police box. The Doctor has a soft spot for the planet Earth, and often visits there, either to save it from various alien threats or to whisk a choice few inhabitants away to the distant parts of the galaxy to help him fight evil there.

DVD Verdict: What a way to celebrate 40+ years in time and space with the first 3 episodes! Presented here are the first three William Hartnell stories arcs in 1 set. This is a great way to be introduced to the longest running TV sci-fi series in (and of) history. When we first meet the Doctor's "granddaughter" SUSAN, through her concerned and curious school teachers, IAN & Barbara. The Doctor, very the ANTI-HERO, almost frightening in this story, as he almost abducts the pair to protect his secret (not that he is a Timelord) that he is from "the future" and can travel in time and space. The outer shape of the time machine, A.K.A. the TARDIS remains stuck in the famous police-call-box disguise as it appears on the cusp of the "ice age." After a great 2 episode start, "Unearthly Child" becomes a fairly cliched tale of escape and capture running from and with cavemen. In 1963, Film and time was at a premium for the fledgling show, so many flubbed lines and missed cues remain in this remastered set. It is still a must see/own story for new and old Dr. Who fans. The next story introduces the Doctors 40 year nemesis, and easily he revial for pop culture popularity, The Daleks in the aptly title story arc, "The Daleks." For a series that was intended to introduce history to children, the show immediately gets off track in this 2nd story, introducing the Doctor's classic alien-cyborg foe, thank God. Overall, not a great story, but it is so monumentous a meeting that it is fun to watch on that merit alone! The 3rd story arc "The Edge of Destruction" is what the Trek writers refered to as a "bottle episode." In an attempt to cut costs on enough stories to save money for the big shows, we have a story contained completely in the Tardis control room. The "characters trapped in an elevator" story is a fast, cheap way of establishing and defining characters early in a series, 'Edge of Destruction' is highly successful in this way. Thank you BBC for putting out such a great package! This is a Full Screen Presentation (4:3) and comes with the Special Features of:

Includes the William Hartnell adventures "An Unearthly Child," "The Daleks," and "The Edge of Destruction"
Commentary by producer Verity Lambert, directors Waris Hussein, Christopher Barry and Richard Martin, actors Carole Ann Ford and William Russell and moderator Gary Russell
Pilot Episode - a 40-minute unedited studio recording, including outtakes The featurettes "Creation of the Daleks," "Doctor Who: Origins," "Over the Edge" and "Inside the Spaceship"
30-minute condensed version of the lost 7-part story Marco Polo
Episode 2 of The Edge of Destruction in Arabic
Production note subtitles
Still galleries