User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Reference Desk/@comment-205.211.141.40-20150407182812/@comment-1432718-20150408034034

You can probably find some answers at the wiki article Doctor Who, and if you can get a copy of Doctor Who The Handbook: The First Doctor, which is out of print but maybe you can find it used somewhere, it gives a lot of detail about how the show started.