FEATURE BY IAN FARRINGTON
How the Radio Times tried to persuade viewers to tune in to Doctor Who’s very first episode on 23 November 1963.
In his flat in London, 20-year-old law student Colin Baker leaned over the bannister to catch a glimpse of the programme just starting on television. Before he knew it, he and his flatmates were riveted by the first episode of a new science-fiction adventure series on the BBC. The date was Saturday 23 November 1963. The programme was Doctor Who.