Doctor Who: industries, audiences and contexts

Industry: commissioned by the BBC's Head of Drama, Sydney Newman, as a new children's programme to fill a gap in the schedule, and produced by Verity Lambert; public service broadcasting funded by the licence fee.
Audiences: a family audience in 1963, watching at a fixed time with few channels, compared with on-demand viewing today, and how audiences now read the episode differently.
Contexts: Britain in the early 1960s, the space age, and ideas about education, class and gender at the time.
Refer to specific scenes in your own words, quoting no more than a few words of dialogue.

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