The First Doctor

An Unearthly Child wherein we are introduced to the Doctor, his grand daughter and their first travelling Companions Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, two teachers from Susan's school. The four travellers find themselves all the way back in Earth's past where they are imprisoned by a stone age tribe.

In The Daleks the Doctor and his Companions find themselves on an apparently lifeless planet. In an attempt to force an investigation, the Doctor sabotages the TARDIS which leads to near fatal consequences when the inhabitants of the strange city finally reveal themselves. In introducing the daleks, the Doctor Who series produced one of the most iconic aliens in Science Fiction. During the sixties, they were as big, or possibly even bigger than, the Doctor himself. The mutant remnants of the Kaled race, the daleks had little in the way of pity or desire to live in peace with the remnants of their opponents in what had been a millennia long war. Their opponents, the Thals, had achieved a sort of immunity against the massive radiation involved in that war.

In The Edge of Destruction the crew of the TARDIS find themselves plunging back to the beginning of the Universe and have to find a way of escaping their fate.

Marco Polo sees the Doctor and his companions travel to the Court of the Great Khan in the company of the eponymous Venetian explorer. Remember that the original remit for Doctor Who was to provide historical stories in a fresh context. This story covers the longest period that the Doctor and his companions spend in a single time period - mostly portrayed by their progress being plotted on a map.

The Keys of Marinus sees the Doctor and his Companions travel to Marinus where they find themselves being forced to search for the eponymous keys.

In The Aztecs Barbara is taken for the re-incarnation of the late High Priest when the Companions escape from his burial chamber. Ian has to fight a duel and Susan is offered up in marriage while the Doctor finds love, of a kind. Barbara learns the futility of trying to change history.

In The Sensorites we learn that Susan is a pretty decent telepath, to the surprise even of her Grandfather. The Doctor's (and Susan's) home planet is mentioned if not actually named yet.
Neither side of the conflict have all the right on their side, with the Terrans looking for a new place to loo... er, live while the Sensorites are a caste ridden society.

The Reign of Terror sees the Companions travelling to Revolutionary France, where they're lucky to escape with their heads.

In the Planet of Giants something goes wrong with the TARDIS and the crew find that everything at their destination was outsized as they try to survive amongst the giant sized wildlife.

The Dalek Invasion of Earth. When the TARDIS landed in London, it looked even more battered and deserted than the unrepaired damaged from WW2 in the 1960s. When the daleks took the party prisoners, it quickly becomes obvious that Earth had been occupied by the evil pepperpots. Susan finds a true love that lets the Doctor leave her behind. The Doctor expands a bit on his philosophy of non-violence; 'I don't hurt people, except where they're trying to hurt me!'.

The Rescue sees the Companions land on an alien planet and finding a couple of survivors from a crashed starship. Hiding from the mysterious Koquillion and the angry Didonians Bennett and Vicki are delighted to see the crew of the TARDIS...

In The Romans the Doctor and his companions find themselves in Nero's Rome for a break. The Doctor finds himself confused for a poet that Nero wants dead.

The Web Planet. What harm can butterflies and moths cause people? Quite enough if they're mansized!
This proved to be quite a good story despite the obvious problems of having to have real people play the parts of the Menoptra, and even that was reasonably well handled in some of their scenes. It would be interesting to see what modern technology would make of them.

In The Crusade, on Earth in the twelfth century, the forces of Christendom and Islam are testing each other in their first great confrontation. This time it's Saladin and Richard Cour de Lion. The Doctor and his companions are involved in a plan to end the conflict that founders on a Lady's unwillingness...
Barbara is put at risk and Ian is knighted for his efforts while the Doctor is acused of being a magician! Vicki is hidden in plain sight.

In The Space Museum, when the Companions find that they're part of a museum exhibit, they realise there's something wrong with Time.

In The Chase the daleks reckon that they ought to deal with the Doctor once and for all, but they'll have to catch him first.
Ian and Barbara get to go home at long last and the Doctor is joined by a new companion.
These were the days when a 'Christmas Special' merely meant being broadcast on Christmas Day.

The Time Meddler. When the Doctor tells his new conpanion that they are in 11th century England, Stephen is sceptical, especially when they find a twentieth century wristwatch on the beach...
This story is of particular interest in that this is the first time we meet another member of the Doctor's people.

Galaxy 4 wherein it is seen that the prettiness of a species is no indication of their natures.

Mission to the Unknown. No Doctor, TARDIS or Companions. No explanation!

The Myth Makers. When the TARDIS apperas in Ancient Greece, the Companions are surprised to be confronted by Agamemnon's forces. The Doctor is mistaken for Zeus and is asked to help the Greeks breach the walls of Troy so he suggests a wooden horse to a guy called Odysseus thereby influencing history directly. Vicki finds true love and decides to leave the TARDIS. A new companion is introduced.

The Daleks' Master Plan sees the Daleks coming up with a plan to take control of the Galaxy, and in a bid to become the supreme power, they have allied themselves with other races in a collossal game of double bluff. The Guardian of the Solar System, Mavic Chen, has come in on the Daleks' side in his own attempt at Ultimate Power. The Doctor and his companions have to frustrate the attempts of the Daleks to complete their Time Destructor, but with both sides chasing each other through time and space it proves difficult.

The Massacre. The Doctor is mistaken for another significant Personage in history. Or, rather, the Important Personage was mistaken for the Doctor by Stephen. This Personage was none other than the abbot who was about to order the executon of the Huegenots. Despite falling into a slough of despond, the arrival of Dodo in the TARDIS allows the Doctor to continue on with his voyages.

In The Ark the TARDIS travels very far into the future and found itself aboard the last refuge of humanity as they fled the dying Solar System
In the eons since mankind had given refuge to the Monoids, who appeared satisfied in their role as Mankind's servants.
Dodo's cold changed the balance of power, however...

The Celestial Toymaker

The Gunfighters. With the Doctor suffering from toothache, the Companions travel to a small mid-western town called Tombstone and a dentist going by the name of Holliday.

The Savages sees Stephen leaves the TARDIS

In The War Machines, Dodo is delighted to be back in 1960s London where she and the Doctor find that the Post Office Tower has been completed. When the Doctor visits it to see what was causing the pricking of his thumbs, they find WOTAN, an all-knowing computer who appears to know more about the Doctor than it probably should...
The Doctor and Dodo make friends with Polly and Ben Jackson in the happeningest club in London (this is the 60s after all...). But WOTAN has other thoughts for humanity's continued existence and few people remain immune from its effects...

The Smugglers. The Doctor and his companions find theselves involved in a purely historical endevour when they run afoul of smugglers in the late 17th century.

In The Tenth Planet we are introduced to another group of silver bodied alien beings intent on taking over the Solar System.
The First Doctor's body finally wears out and the series changes its nature for ever... Up until this story, the Doctor was rather ambiguously alien, but after his regeneration, his aliennes is encoded into the very fabric of the series.

The Three Doctors. When the great stellar engineer Omega proves not have been as dead as the Time Lords might have hoped, the First Doctor is taken out of his usual time by the Time Lords and sent to help his future incarnations in solving the problem...

The Five Doctors. The first five incarnations of the Doctor are all kidnapped by rogue elements on Gallifrey in order to breach the Tomb of Rassilon.
This incarnation of the Doctor is accompanied by his granddaughter Susan.