TITLE SEQUENCES (and a bit about assorted starscapes.)

This is a new post for the 40th anniversary, although it contains some material previously published in the posts for ‘Aftermath’ and ‘The Way Back’.

It’s November 1983, and it’s raining outside.  And on a dining room window ledge overlooking the back garden is a copy of a magazine that my Mum and Dad have thought I might like.  It is the Radio Times 20th anniversary celebration of Doctor Who.  For this 5-year-old it was just full of pictures, and really captured my imagination.  In the days before I could get my hands on VHS cassette tapes of the series, it gave me both a sense of what I had never seen before, and an even greater sense that I was missing out on so much.  But the page I turned to again and again was the first double spread, containing screen shots of the title sequences featuring the first…