How Hammer Horror Led To Doctor Who’s Most Popular Episodes
How did the works of Frankenstein help to spark life in the franchise?
Cast your minds back to the 1970s, where Doctor Who had just about been going for a decade and was already becoming a popular icon of Saturday evening Television. Dalekmania had taken the world by storm and had led to several movies, comic books, and children's toys that helped cement the imagery of Doctor Who as a staple of British culture.
Whilst the show had overcome many unique challenges to its production already, such as having changed the lead actors repeatedly and adapting to the world of colour, the overarching challenge that every member of the production team would have had to concern themselves was: "How do we keep Doctor Who relevant?"
So how did the production team of the 1970s manage to turn a show that was a fairly popular adventure series into the juggernaut of British Television that was the Tom Baker era of 1974-1981, with an iconic Doctor and episodes that continue to reach the top amongst fan polls? The answer lies in the popularity of the Horror Movie Industry at the time.
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