An Adventure in Space and Time (TV story)

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An Adventure in Space and Time, released in 2013 in time for the programme's 50th anniversary, was a docudrama largely about William Hartnell's era as the First Doctor. Though marketed as the story of how Doctor Who was made, it was in fact much more of a limited biopic, giving much of its screentime to an investigation of Hartnell's portrayal of the Doctor. Because the script dealt with the entirety of Hartnell's reign on the programme, and ended with the regeneration in The Tenth Planet, Verity Lambert's struggles to produce the programme, though strongly featured, were a subplot.

The show was a labour of love by writer and executive producer Mark Gatiss, who had been trying to make it since before the 40th anniversary in 2003.

Synopsis
A young producer frustrated by British television's  glass ceiling, a new executive at the British Broadcasting Corporation, a young director of Indian descent,  and an older actor struggling for artistic legitimacy come together in 1963 to start a brand new television programme called Doctor Who. After initial difficulties, the show becomes a hit, leaving the actor alone to carry on the show's traditions — and to face his increasingly ailing health.

Plot
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Cast

 * William Hartnell - David Bradley
 * Sydney Newman - Brian Cox
 * Verity Lambert - Jessica Raine
 * Waris Hussein - Sacha Dhawan
 * Heather Hartnell - Lesley Manville
 * William Russell - Jamie Glover
 * Jacqueline Hill - Jemma Powell
 * Carole Ann Ford - Claudia Grant
 * Mervyn Pinfield - Jeff Rawle
 * Rex Tucker - Andrew Woodall
 * Douglas Camfield - Sam Hoare
 * Judith Carney - Cara Jenkins
 * Richard Martin - Ian Hallard
 * Delia Derbyshire - Sarah Winter
 * Peter Brachacki - David Annen
 * Donald Baverstock - Mark Eden
 * Maureen O'Brien - Anna-Lisa Drew
 * Jackie Lane - Sophie Holt
 * Peter Hawkins - Nicholas Briggs
 * Patrick Troughton - Reece Shearsmith
 * Harry - William Russell
 * Joyce - Carole Ann Ford
 * Cyril - Toby Hadoke
 * Arthur - Charlie Kemp
 * Len - Roger May
 * Alan - Reece Pockney
 * Reg - Ross Gurney-Randall

Uncredited cast

 * Matt Smith - Himself
 * Jean Marsh - Party guest
 * Anneke Wills - Party guest

Story notes
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Filming locations
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Differences with documented history of Doctor Who

 * The film artfully suggests that Sydney Newman was coming to grips with the scripts for The Daleks while Lee Harvey Oswald was shooting John F. Kennedy. However, on 22 November 1963, serial B was fully commissioned and well into production.  In fact, the day Kennedy was shot, "The Survivors", was recorded.
 * Hartnell holds up an annual on the set of The Reign of Terror. However, the the first Doctor Who annual wasn't released until September 1965, well over a year after Reign was filmed.
 * Though Daleks speak of extermination and people who need to be exterminated, they did not actually use their future catchphrase "Exterminate!" in The Daleks. In this production, the catchphrase is wrongly shown to have become popular just after the broadcast of Serial B. Indeed, Hartnell is shown to shout "Exterminate!" to kids in a park, which is unlikely because it wasn't in the script for The Daleks.
 * The speech with which Hartnell has trouble near the end of the story is from "The Bell of Doom". However, The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve was directed by Paddy Russell, and the apparent director speaking to Hartnell from the booth was male in this production.

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