Doctor Who/The First Doctor

The First Doctor
Doctor Who
Actor	William Hartnell
First Appearance	Serial A - An Unearthly Child
Last Appearance	Serial DD - The Tenth Planet
Series Billing	Regenerated (Second Doctor)

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The First Doctor is the original incarnation of the Doctor on Doctor Who, portrayed by William Hartnell.

Trivia

• With the death of William Hartnell in 1975, Richard Hurndall and David Bradley would assume the role of the First Doctor later in the series with Hurndall in "The Five Doctors" (1983) and Bradley in "Twice Upon A Time" (2017). Bradley played Hartnell in the 2013 docudrama "Adventures in Time and Space."

Quotes

• The Doctor responding to Ian and Barbara's disbelief in serial An Unearthly Child:

If you could touch the alien sand, and hear the cry of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?

• The Doctor in The Sensorites:

I learned not to meddle in other people's affairs years ago.

• The Doctor showing companion Steven Taylor around the TARDIS control room in serial The Time Meddler:

That is the dematerializing control. And that, over yonder, is the horizontal hold. Up there is the scanner, those are the doors, that is a chair with a panda on it. Sheer poetry, dear boy.