SIX OF THE BEST
Susan Scenes
OTHER WORLDS
This month, writer Peter Anghelides helps the Doctor’s granddaughter navigate the Time War – but which are his favourite Foreman moments?
“I understand these people better than you. Their minds reject things they don’t understand.”
100,000 BC: An Unearthly Child (1963)
There’s
good reason for naming Doctor Who’s very first episode after Susan. This awkward, out-of-place schoolgirl is the mystery that draws us to a police box in Totter’s Lane.
It’s Susan who names it the TARDIS. When two teachers get trapped inside it, she tries to persuade her distrustful grandfather to release them. And when the Doctor dematerialises the ship, it’s Susan’s shocked reaction that tells us everything’s about to change in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.