So today is the first day of our year with the doctor and we’ve
decided to start off with a Jon Pertwee episode. This evening we sat down
to watch 'The Claws of Axos' which was originally broadcast in 1971 as part of
the 8th Season of Doctor Who. The episode was written by Bob Baker and Dave
Martin, directed by Michael Ferguson and was split into 4 broadcasts of equal
length with the first airing on 13/03/1971 at 17.15.
This episode, as was the case with many episodes from this
era, was mainly filmed around the Kent, England area. In the future we plan on
visiting some of the locations so look out for future blogs on the locations of
‘The Claws of Axos’.
Jon Pertwee’s time as the doctor was a really exciting and
interesting time for the show, they had taken a step away from the traditional storylines
and, for the first time, they had started to film Doctor who in colour. Early
colour television, though a far cry from the colour television we see today,
was very exciting and ‘Doctor Who’ was not afraid to test the boundaries of
what this new technology could do.
