An Adventure in Space and Time (TV story)

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
Dramatised account of how Doctor Who was brought to the screen in 1963 by a young producer frustrated by TV's glass ceiling and an actor unhappy with a career of hard-man roles. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.

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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
 * Matt Smith - himself (uncredited)

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