This Westminster Bridge shot from The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964) is one of Doctor Who’s best-known images.
Think of a photograph: one single image to sum up the whole of Doctor Who, from 1963 to the present day. Just one photograph, that refers equally to the seriesin its teatime serial infancy and to the global entertainment brand of now. One single undoctored photograph – un-Doctored, even, because to show any one of the actors who played the lead character would rule out too much of the series. T hink of a photograph: one single image to sum up the whole of Doctor Who, from 1963 to the present day. Just one photograph, that refers equally to the series.
A picture of a police box in some incongruous, barren setting, perhaps? That would simply be a picture of a police box in some incongruous, barren setting. It wouldn’t tell you anything about the series; it wouldn’t tell you it was science-fiction, for example. On the other hand, a picture of a girl being menaced by an alien monster would only say science-fiction, and not Doctor Who specifically.