Feature by JONATHAN MORRIS
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The Timeless Children (2020) revealed a possible new origin for the Time Lords. Below: Dr Who, his companions and his ‘ship’ are described in a three-page outline dated 16 May 1963, over six months before the series began on BBC Television. Inset below, left to right: William Hartnell as the Doctor in a publicity shot for the . rst episode, An Unearthly Child (1963); story editor David Whitaker; his successor, Dennis Spooner.