Doctor Who: The First Doctor Adventures Doctor Who: The First Doctor Adventures The First Doctor Adventures is a Big Finish Productions audio play series based on the British television programme "Doctor Who". It sees the return of David Bradley as the First Doctor, a role originated by William Hartnell from 1963 to 1966, as well as by Bradley on television in the episodes "The Doctor Falls" and "Twice Upon a Time". David Bradley also portrayed William Hartnell in the BBC bio-drama, "An Adventure in Space and Time". Also appearing are Claudia Grant as Susan Foreman, Jemma Powell as Barbara Wright and Jamie Glover as Ian Chesterton.
The Doctor (Doctor Who) Within the fictional narrative, the Doctor is a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels through time and space in a dimensionally transcendental – "bigger on the inside" – time machine: the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) which takes the exterior form of a 1963 police telephone call box, and retains the appearance throughout the programme. The Time Lords have dedicated themselves to overseeing all of time and space without interference. The Doctor chose to leave home by stealing an obsolete TARDIS model as revealed in the 1969 serial "The War Games" and depicted in the 2013