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* [[4 October (production)|4 October]] - After viewing the pilot episode, [[Sydney Newman]] officially rejected the Pilot Episode in a lunch meeting with [[Verity Lambert]] and [[Waris Hussein]] and authorised a remounting of the episode.<ref name=":0" /> According to Howe and Walker, this was a contingency that had been planned for.<ref name=":1" /> Over the next couple of weeks, numerous revisions to the script and changes to costuming and characterisation were undertaken.
* [[4 October (production)|4 October]] - After viewing the pilot episode, [[Sydney Newman]] officially rejected the Pilot Episode in a lunch meeting with [[Verity Lambert]] and [[Waris Hussein]] and authorised a remounting of the episode.<ref name=":0" /> According to Howe and Walker, this was a contingency that had been planned for.<ref name=":1" /> Over the next couple of weeks, numerous revisions to the script and changes to costuming and characterisation were undertaken.
* [[9 October (production)|9]]-[[11 October (production)|11 October]] - Filming for "An Unearthly Child" restarted at [[Ealing Studios]] following September's false start.
* [[9 October (production)|9]]-[[11 October (production)|11 October]] - Filming for "An Unearthly Child" restarted at [[Ealing Studios]] following September's false start.
*[[10 October (production)|10 October]] - [[Donald Wilson]] wrote an extensive memo to [[Donald Baverstock]], [[Sydney Newman]], [[Joanna Spicer]] and [[Richard Levin]]. He passionately argued for a higher [[special effect]]s effort than the SFX department had apparently been prepared to give. He also pushed back against the apparent institutional sloth in deciding whether to go beyond the first four episodes. Wilson argued that the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' production team needed a longer commitment, due to extraordinary lead time necessary to produce the show.


== November ==
== November ==

Revision as of 09:45, 10 October 2022

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Timeline for 1963
20th century | 1960s

• 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969
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1963 was a year in which a number of events important to the production of Doctor Who and its spin-offs occurred.

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

  • 3 September - Title sequence assembled from the pre-existing and newly recorded elements by Richard Barclay at Ealing.[4]
  • 18 September - The incidental music for An Unearthly Child was recorded by Norman Kay at the Camden Theatre. (INFO: An Unearthly Child)
  • 20 September - William Hartnell, Carole Ann Ford, Jacqueline Hill and William Russell all meet together for the first time, for a publicity photo shoot at TV Centre.[4]
  • 21 September - Rehearsals for "An Unearthly Child" began at a Drill Hall on Uxbridge Road.[4]
  • 27 September - The first episode, "An Unearthly Child" is recorded.[4] This version of the first episode was beset by technical problems, and the BBC subsequently rejected it for broadcast, authorising a rare "do-over" for later in the year. The outcome of these filming sessions was later dubbed "the Pilot Episode".[8]

October

  • 4 October - After viewing the pilot episode, Sydney Newman officially rejected the Pilot Episode in a lunch meeting with Verity Lambert and Waris Hussein and authorised a remounting of the episode.[4] According to Howe and Walker, this was a contingency that had been planned for.[3] Over the next couple of weeks, numerous revisions to the script and changes to costuming and characterisation were undertaken.
  • 9-11 October - Filming for "An Unearthly Child" restarted at Ealing Studios following September's false start.
  • 10 October - Donald Wilson wrote an extensive memo to Donald Baverstock, Sydney Newman, Joanna Spicer and Richard Levin. He passionately argued for a higher special effects effort than the SFX department had apparently been prepared to give. He also pushed back against the apparent institutional sloth in deciding whether to go beyond the first four episodes. Wilson argued that the Doctor Who production team needed a longer commitment, due to extraordinary lead time necessary to produce the show.

November

December

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