This one surprised me quite a bit. I always had a big heart for the Companion Chronicles and I expected this one would be a fun one, but I was wrong.

The first part is super unsettling (maybe the late time when I listened this helped) but the whole Idea of recording and something hidden is quite creepy in my eyes. How it ends is utterly amazing. Meanwhile, the second part isn't as strong as the first one, but offers quite some nice concept (just how they pull off getting three in this without manning doing her impression surprised me (for a bit at least)).

Easily one of the best of the range, it really does the atmospheric part of this range so well! And especially plays well with the Audio Medium.

This was terrible.
The First Episode is decent and the idea behind it is probably solid, but I have no Idea what they thought with the other three Episodes. I do think the concept is very solid and could have worked perfectly, but even if you look aside the terrible CSO Effects, the Story doesn't offer much. Not even our two brilliant leads can save this rather boring and uninspired story.

An Improvement over the OG Dalek Story. Susan's Departure is iconic for a Reason. The Myth of the Daleks gets explored very well with Things like the Roboman. Overall, I enjoy it a lot, especially the Parts with the Doctor and Susan.

It's Pyramids of Mars, what needs to be said more? 4 is on his best, Sarah is on her best and the Villain is just *chef kiss*, such a good story. One of my favorites from the whole show!

A nice little segment to ease new viewers into the classic that "Pyramids of Mars" is. Both Millie and Ncuti give a solid Performance and make you curious how they defeat Sutekh in the big Finale of Series 13/Season 1.

Overall an enjoyable little extra but more so on the lower end for the Tales Segments. Your Opinion may vary depending on how much you like the Payoff of "Empire of Death". But as its own little thing? It works! Solid charming Minisode!

In many ways this is yet another approach to get people, mainly used to new who into classic who (similar to the Tales of the Tardis Episodes) and well did it worked?

Obviously I can't answer that, I may have properly started with new who (I watched Season 24 first, as well as the TVM and later started the first 5 Series of the revival, before I returned years later to properly watch all of televised Who). I will say personally, as a huge classic Fan, this doesn't work.

But before I get into my negatives, I will say I have massive respect for anybody involved. I can only praise the great colorization work we got here, while I may not agree with every choice they went with, it would be very nitpicky of me to use that as an actual criticism point. I will also say there are some fun moments and clever choice to edit, but that's where my praise stops.

The Daleks in Colour in many ways brought me near to the Original Serial, one which I wasn't huge about (and still not am), yet it showed me that despite my issue and criticism its runtime, while still a bit too long, in my books, shouldn't have been brought down so much. As I said before this very much feels like an approach to get newer viewers into the classic series and that's fine of course, but really when I watched it, I scratched my head at some choices of this cut down-version. The biggest issue that plagues this Version of the classic Story really comes down to the massive parts of context missing. Some rather charming scenes or even more important Scenes are missing here to achieve a shorter runtime that doesn't pass the longest revival episode (Power of the Doctor) for example. And that I find is a big shame. I'd argue at points it can feel rather confusing, especially for viewers who haven't seen the Original, making me question who this was made for?

I, of course, cant speak on behalf of anybody other than me. But I really doubt most classic fans would prefer this Version over the Original. Similarly, I feel like fans mainly of the revival could possibly still be put off by this, especially when it comes to the Parts with the Thals, before that the Story flows pretty nicely.

At the end, I can recognize that this wasn't made for me, which is totally valid! But I'd wonder who this was for? As I put in my reasoning, I'd struggle to see the benefits for any side and I am sure some loved it or even prefer this, which I am happy about of course! But I really do hope when we get more of those colorizations in the Future, that they maybe chose to cut less out, I am not against cutting stuff out, but I think when it comes to a 7-Parter or some bigger ones, more is a bit better. (I do understand that this process takes time but I happily wait a bit more if it means that the end result feels more cohesive. Again no dig at the team, they did a good job with what they were given, I just hope we improved onwards with those new Versions of old classics!)

The first ever Serial of Doctor Who, as well as the first ever Doctor Who Story.

What else is there to say? Historically speaking, this is Doctor Who's most important Story and of course it is, it's the first one! But as a Story on its own right can it hold itself much?

I think so, yeah.

While super different from any other starting point in the Show's History... An Unearthly Child has all the Things a good Pilot Episode should do. Good directing, a good enough Set Up, a hook that gets you interested and a wonderful Choice how to introduce those otherworldly Things. The Moment when Barbara steps in the Tardis, and we see this big, strange Room in a Police Box, is magical. And yet this whole Scene is mainly telling than showing, which for a lot of Stories could be a downfall, but not this one. An Unearthly Child knows exactly what it needs to do. It gives us a hook, a Mystery to latch on too, opens the door and gives us even more Mysteries and then ending it with a Shadow Figure walking closer to the Ship.

And even the infamous disliked Cavemen Episodes are great to building this Foundation. While this Story as a whole is by no means a Masterpiece, it perfectly tells you what you need to know and more importantly shows you how our Leads interact with their environment. There is this saying that any good Characters, if they work, can be thrown in any Setting and Doctor Who is a perfect Example for it. This Story alone shows the strength and weakness each of our Leads have. Sadly, while of course it never reaches the Highs of the very first Episode and while the Story is still very solid, I do find myself having some Issues with some Choices they made. Especially Susan gets sadly as with many other Stories in her televised Tenure the short stick, what she brought in the first Episode was wonderful. A strange teenager girl played wonderfully by her. The Rest of the Stories kinda sidelines her and doesn't give her much to do. Instead, we focus mainly on those two Cavemen wanting to achieve the simple Goal of making fire. The Focus here is very much the Doctor, still Ian and Barbara still get some decent stuff to do, and I wish I could have said the same with Susan's Role in it, but sadly I cannot.

Still, this Story reaches big High points and shows the strength that this Show already has in its very early days. Highlights include Hartnell's stunning rough and cruel Performances at times, which while showing him at his grumpiest, still never reaches the Point of feeling like this strange alien doesn't have some sort of Sparkle in his eyes. Which is something Hartnell very much has in almost all of his Performances as the Doctor.

Overall, the Good Parts overshadow the bad ones. I enjoyed the Story greatly, while I wish some Stuff was handled a bit differently, **I still think you should give the whole Serial a Go and not skip right after Episode 1**. It does feature some wonderful Moments and basically does the heavy lifting slowly introducing the Characters to us and their Relationship to one another, which would greatly change over the course of the next Stories! But that's a Review for another Time.