On the 23rd of November 1963, the day after John F. Kennedy was

assassinated. A new British drama aired its first episode on BBC Television at a quarter past

five Greenwich Mean Time. This show was about a young schoolgirl and her strange grandfather

who travelled through time and space in a vehicle called the TARDIS, which on the outside looks

like a small regular police box but on the inside is much bigger.

The show began life as something educational, using stories of time travel as a means to explore

scientific ideas and famous moments in history. But the show wasn't just interested in science and

history. Even by its second serialised story, Dr Who introduced a group of terrifying Nazi-like

alien mutants called Dalix, which terrified and thrilled a whole generation of families.

It wasn't long before Dr Who gained the reputation for being the most thrilling,

exciting and terrifying show on television. A show that would go on for the next 60 years and

air over 800 episodes to date and would become one of the most influential and important

works of sci-fi and horror ever made. Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of

alien horror as we journey through time and space and explore the world of Dr Who.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munster and as ever I am your host.

If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome. In this podcast, we explore and dissect

the history and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-jumeras one series

at a time. We are currently in the middle of our journey through the evolution of alien horror,

and this is part 8. This week's episode is sponsored by $20 Patreon subscriber David Emerson

and his partner Eloise Plant. And in this week's episode, as that intro suggested, we're going

to be doing something pretty big, pretty ambitious. We're going to be talking about Dr Who.

That is a TV show with over 800 episodes that have spent nearly 60 years and we're going to try

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