Random Movie Review - An Adventure in Space and Time

So in the mist of the 50th anniversary celebrations last year, the BBC decided to create a docudrama to tell the story of how the biggest and one of the best sci-fi shows out there, began. Now I've been an avid fan of Doctor Who since the revival in 2005 and have loved (and hated) the show ever since. I may not have seen every single classic Doctor Who episode from William Hartnell to Paul McGann, but I have seen and read enough to call myself a fan. I may not be the biggest fan out there, but I am defiantly a fan. So with that said, let's take a look at this film and I apologize for the delay in this as I was unable to watch it when it first came on so I instead waited until the 50th collectors edition came out and I then watched it on there, but anyway let's get to it:

The year is 1966 and William Hartnell (played by Argus Filch from Harry Potter, better known as David Bradley who also played a character in an actual episode of the show) is in preparation for filming his final scenes as the Doctor. He insults a stagehead at the BBC (because back then, the show was mostly filmed in the BBC Studios) who calls him to the set because his absence has caused a delay. We then travel to 3 years earlier where former BBC Head of Drama Sydney Newman (played by Brain Cox and yes people, the actual man himself was Canadian as the actor plays him) has been asked to create a show to fill up the gap between the shows Grandstand and Juke Box Jury. The idea he has is to be a science fiction show with the main character being a doctor, but a doctor of what, he did not know. He asks Verity Lambert (played by Call the Midwife regular, Jeccica Raine) to assist him in making this show, but she is hesitant to do so, but when he offers her the role of producer instead of assistant, she joins the project. Lambert and the show's director, Waris Hussein (played by Sacha Dhawan) then meet Hartnell to cast him as the role of the doctor which after a bit of trepidation, he accepts. Then the rest of the film just talks about Hartnell's time as the doctor in the show that would later be called Doctor Who.

Now I have been reading up on this film for a while now and when I was eventually able to sit down and watch it, I liked it a lot. I think its very accurate to the real life events and everyone plays their parts well. It's able to give us a good idea of how the show was made and how we all came to love the show that Doctor Who is today and I'm sure we will still enjoy it for many more years to come. 10/10