10 Historicals That Show What Modern Doctor Who Is Missing

It might seem like a cheat to put the very first episode of Doctor Who at the end of this list, as it wasn't created to be a historical. While this is partially true (we’ll get to that), a few decades have passed since we were introduced to the space-time adventures of the Doctor, and looking back with modern eyes, it does fit within the established criteria.

In this story, we see schoolteachers Ian and Barbara talk about a curious student named Susan, who seems to know things she shouldn’t and not know things she should. Unable to get in touch with her guardian, they decide to follow her home one night, trailing her to an old junkyard where they lose track of her, and find an old police box. They are surprised by the Doctor who is none-too pleased to find them there, and after a few threats of calling the police, they manage to force themselves into the TARDIS.

Angry that their cover has been blown, the Doctor makes the only logical decision: to kidnap them and bring them on an uncontrolled journey through space and time.

There are three more episodes about tribal cavemen and the discovery of fire and they technically make this serial a historical, but they are almost entirely separate from the story told in the first episode. And frankly... they're also not as good!