Day 293: Colony in Space Episode 1

It has been almost 100 episodes since something very important happened. Something that is at the very heart of Doctor Who. Something that happened for the first time in the first episode, and continues to happen to this very day.

The Doctor is busy tinkering with some TARDIS circuits and Jo, his companion, remains skeptical of the work that he actually does in that TARDIS of hus. So he invites her inside so that she can get an idea of the sort of things that he does. And we get to experience Jo's reaction to the TARDIS. She goes through the old clichés, that it's bigger on the inside, as well as general shock and awe at the state of it.

But what's important is that it's been a while since we've had a companion experience this moment. It's a by-product of having Doctor Who be Earth-bound for the forseeable future, that we lose some of the mystical other worldly nature of Doctor Who. But that's about to change, as we embark on an adventure to a Colony in Space.