The Introduction (TV story)

The Introduction was the introductory opening scene of the 2003 documentary The Story of Doctor Who.

It featured Jon Culshaw as the Fourth Doctor a role he’d previously played officially in Children in Need 2003.

Synopsis
The Doctor is back with an offering of jelly babies.

Plot
The Doctor’s TARDIS dematerialises in a workshop. Stepping out of the faithful blue box is the Doctor in his familiar fourth incarnation. He states to himself that he was hoping to find the Kwik Fit vehicle repair centre to fix the TARDIS shock absorber.

The Doctor then tells his name to someone out of sight, but states that they probably knew it. He then offers them a jelly baby and beings to utter that he’d been avoiding Earth recently due to speed cameras perhaps spotting the TARDIS. The Doctor then says that the person out of sight is here to watch his story and that so was he because at his age he’d become forgetful. Then stating there wasn’t much time and a great deal to learn.

Cast

 * The Doctor - Jon Culshaw

Crew

 * Writer - Jon Culshaw
 * Camera - Sean Carswell, Jeremy Hewson, Stuart Nimmo, Jon Wood
 * Sound - Keith Branch, Jean-Francois Legouriellec, Joe Walters, Lucy Pickering, Alistair Widgery
 * Dubbing Mixer - Luke Williams
 * Production Executive - Jez Nightingale
 * Finance Co-Ordinator - Robin Hester
 * Make-Up - Sarah Grispo, Deborah Taylor
 * Runner - Naoma Nagahawatte
 * Co-Ordinators - Lucy Crayford, Michelle Singer
 * Production Manager - Wendy Clarke
 * Editors - Joyce Gentle, Rob Platt
 * Executive Producer - Caroline Wright
 * Producer - Claire Finnett

Story notes

 * As the name suggests, the story introduced the documentary The Story of Doctor Who.
 * The Doctor’s reference to avoiding Earth is a meta joke to the lack of televised adventures since 1990.
 * Jon Culshaw would go on to be cast as the Fourth Doctor again in the Big Finish Productions audio drama The Kingmaker.