Day 10: The Ordeal

There's a moment in this episode that stands out, as the Doctor and Susan are investigating a fuse box that they find near the Dalek city. For a start, it introduces the concept of short circuiting circuits to a young audience, which is one of the rare times when this serial has felt any need to educate the audience, aside from educating them that Daleks are terrifying. It also shows the Doctor getting excited as he destroys the fuse box, and getting caught, not because the Daleks catch him whilst he's in the process of sabotaging their systems, but instead whilst he's in the process of excitedly telling Susan about how he managed to do this with only basic tools. It's actually quite funny, and comes across as something that wouldn't be out of place in later stories featuring other Doctors. It's nice to see that the Doctor is finally becoming more recognisable as the Doctor that we know and love today.