November 2nd, 2016
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The Flying Shark
January 13th, 2017 - 7:00pmGot this yesterday with Issue 33 and The Widow’s Curse, quite a good issue.
AllOfWho
November 2nd, 2016 - 4:23pmBrilliant! Not only 4 of the best Hartnell stories but 4 of the best of all time! Particularly The Keys of Marinus, love that one to bits 🙂
Danny
November 2nd, 2016 - 11:31amWonder why the have used “Inside the Spaceship” as oppose to “The Edge of Destruction”. Never heard the story referred to as this title before??
Tim M
November 2nd, 2016 - 1:00pmIt’s supposed to be the ‘real’ title of the story as a whole. I prefer ‘The Edge of Destruction’ as it’s full title, as that’s what it’s been called on the VHS and DVD release. Also ‘The Edge of Destruction’ is a better title than ‘Inside the Spaceship’. As the Tardis is a time and spaceship anyway.
Anonymous
November 2nd, 2016 - 1:21pmDWM always uses 100,000BC, The Mutants and Inside the Spaceship as the titles for the first three stories… for some reason.
Tim M
November 2nd, 2016 - 3:19pmI’m sticking with ‘An Unearthly Child’ , ‘The Daleks’ and ‘The Edge of Destruction’. But each to their own.
100,000BC
November 2nd, 2016 - 4:31pmBig title war because for most of the Hartnell era, DW had no overall story titles, simply individual names for each episode of the story. When story lists were eventually compiled, different people used different sources which created problems with the first three stories – ‘100,000BC’, ‘The Mutants’ (confusing because of the Pertwee serial of the same name), and ‘Inside the Spaceship’ were the overall titles given on BBC documents to do with exporting the show. ‘An Unearthly Child’ (a title which hasn’t got much to do with parts 2-4), ‘The Dead Planet’ and ‘The Edge of Destruction’ are the titles of each story’s ‘part one’ (a number of later serials, like ‘Planet of Giants’ and ‘The Web Planet’ are named after their first episodes as well). ‘The Daleks’ is just an obvious choice of a title I think, I don’t know if it has a specific origin.
There is also a line of argument to suggest that ‘An Unearthly Child’ (episode 1) and ‘100,000BC’ (episodes 2-4) are in fact two separate stories, given that they take place in different settings, and that the single plot strand that links the two (Ian and Barbara’s kidnapping) lasts until the penultimate story of season 2, or even, if you like, has lasted for the entirety of the show’s history!