Doctor Who: Language and Representation blog tasks
1) How does An Unearthly Child reflect the social and historical contexts of the 1960s? Read the notes below and answer this question in your own words: Social and historical context the show in the 1960s has a historical context as new because no one has gone into space this shows new "world" never seen be others in that time this shows evidence and exploring new things in the world we are living in and out this shows they are fear of change and difference in the 1960s since not a lot has been explored or viewed .How ever there is huge amount of interest even though there wasn't electronics to show it it was word of mouth because the first person to land on the moon was in 1961 so there was a lot of excitement surrounding Science fiction. First episode: Saturday, November 23rd, 1963 on the BBC. The plot was a narrative arc (a story over several episodes) involving the Doctor and his companions voyaging 100,000 years into Earth’s past to help some cavemen discov...