ORIGINAL BROADCAST: 05/03/1966
Forty-four years ago today, the first Doctor and his companions arrived ten million years into the future, on board a generation starship carrying the last of humanity away from the Earth as it was about to fall into the Sun. This adventure starred William Hartnell as the Doctor, Peter Purves as Steven Taylor, and Jackie Lane as Dodo Chaplet.
Although Lesley Scott is credited as a co-writer, she actually did very little work on the scripts. She was attempting to break into the screenwriting profession, so Erickson gave her a credit to help her along.
There are occasional slips by Jackie Lane where she speaks in the Cockney accent she had rehearsed in, before the production team were instructed that it was unacceptable for a regular character to speak in anything other than ‘BBC English’.
The Earth is seen trailing smoke as it heads towards the Sun at the end of Episode Two. However, it is said in the ninth Doctor’s adventure ‘The End of the World’ that the National Trust preserved it, and restored it into a ‘classic Earth’ before it was finally destroyed billions of years later.
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