Read about our approach to external linking. In the early stages of writing An Adventure In Space And Time, Gatiss struggled to narrow his focus to a degree which would balance the goals of informing and entertaining audiences, while also providing depth to his characters. Waris Hussein directed Doctor Who’s first ever adventure as well as the show’s pilot episode. Raine in particular was the perfect combination of force, self-assurance and vulnerability as Lambert An Adventure in Space and Time was not averse to a little time-traveling of its own: it opened with the filming of The Tenth Planet, the 1966 serial that featured both the death of the first Doctor and the first appearance of the iconic Cybermen, before heading back in time. Directed by Terry McDonough, and written by regular Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss, it premiered on BBC Two on 21 November 2013, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the science fiction television series. An Adventure in Space and Time proposes that the figure of The Doctor, while totally made up and fictional, still became a redemptive figure who changed people's lives in real life. “He is quite a specific character and I wanted to make sure that I played him as truthfully as possible,” explains Sacha. Little wonder it became the first Doctor Who serial to claim the front page of the Radio Times, for the issue dated 22-28 February, 1964. An Adventure in Space and Time (2013) Film: Basically, Doctor Who is a third parent of mine. He was back the following year to direct the majority of Marco Polo – an epic historical adventure that sadly no longer exists in the BBC archives. Following on from Doctor Who, Hussein went on to have a long career directing a variety of projects from ‘A Passage To India’ to ‘Shoulder To Shoulder’. Except, perhaps, when you embark on an adventure in space and time…” This TV movie, made for the BBC in 2013 as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations for Doctor Who, is about that show’s origins and the people both aboard the Tardis and behind the scenes who made it what it was. In 1963 Sydney Newman, progressive head of BBC TV's drama department, wants to fill a Saturday tea-time slot with a show with youth appeal and hits on the idea of an august figure, like a doctor, leading a group of companions on time travel adventures. He even became a character (played by Sacha Dhawan, below) in Mark Gatiss’s “origins of Who” drama, An Adventure in Space and Time (2013). He came to the UK with his family in 1946, when his father, Ali Bahadur Habibullah, was appointed to the Indian High Commission. Sacha Dhawan takes on the role of the director of the first episodes of Doctor Who, Waris Hussein. Hussein attended one of the first scenes Sacha filmed showing Lambert and Hussein in the BBC club. An Adventure in Space and Time . Here Sacha Dhawan talks about how An Adventure In Space And Time deals with the challenges Waris faced as the first Indian-born drama director at the BBC and using music from the Sixties to get his swagger. As shown in Mark Gatiss’ excellent An Adventure in Space and Time, Waris Hussein was an invaluable part of Sydney Newman’s “misfit dream team” in the early days of creating Doctor Who. An Adventure in Space and Time is written by Mark Gatiss, executive produced by Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat and Caroline Skinner and directed by Terry McDonough. Thoroughly exasperated and fed up, … As well as touching on the issues of being an Indian director at the BBC in the 1960s, the drama explores the bond between Hussein and the producer Verity Lambert, who struck up a strong friendship and who became a committed team. Sacha Dhawan Waris Hussein. They love us. Gatiss always knew that he wanted to confine himself to the three years that Hartnell had played the Doctor, but initially he tried to incorporate many of the side stories of those … Surrounded by Idiots: Long after the original production crew have moved on, Hartnell is contending with a new crew he doesn't know very well and who don't know the ins and outs of the show they're producing. He engages inexperienced young producer Verity Lambert to expand the idea. Wells meets Father Christmas. David Bradley William Hartnell. He also worked again with Verity Lambert (Doctor Who’s first producer) on dramas including Shoulder to Shoulder and the acclaimed Edward and Mrs Simpson, for which he won a BAFTA. Originally conceived along the lines of a series that dramatised history for children, this was soon abandoned and the science-fiction elements took over. “We were a bit kind of weird with each other; we were both studying, looking at one another. A young producer frustrated by British television's glass ceiling, a new executive at the British Broadcasting Corporation, a young director of Indian descent, and an older actor struggling for artistic legitimacy come together in 1963 to start a brand new television programme called Doctor Who. The next live Doctor Who Twitter watchalong will be An Adventure in Space and Time, the one-off drama from 2013 which recreated the programme’s origins as part of that year’s 50th anniversary celebrations.. An Adventure in Space and Time. Read about our approach to external linking. “There were definitely challenges for Waris at the time, but I think in the longer term it made him a better director,” explains Sacha. ”I hope that was in a good way and not a bad one, but I think he seemed happy.”, Sacha was excited to tackle a period setting he’d never done before. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Where to Watch. Born in India, Waris Hussein was the first Indian director at the BBC. Further, international broadcasts of the television film were made after its premiere on British television. An Adventure in Space and Time. Wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. In An Adventure in Space and Time, Hussein was played by Sacha Dhawan. Cast See All. He went on to work with Lambert on several other productions after Doctor Who. If you haven't been slavishly devoted to the enigmatic Time Lord, you'll get a sentimental crash course in the beginnings of the series with "An Adventure in Space and … “And I think Doctor Who was one of those projects that gave him immense confidence.”. Hussein’s other work is startling in its breadth, so his CV includes Lynda La Plante’s Supply and Demand, Divorce His – Divorce Hers (starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor) and Copacabana (starring Barry Manilow), a 1986 musical for which Hussein scooped a Primetime Emmy. A dramatized account of how Doctor Who was brought to the screen in 1963 by a young producer frustrated by TV's glass ceiling and an actor unhappy with a career of hard-man roles. “He started welling up and getting quite moved by it,” says Sacha. After studying at Eton, Cambridge and the Slade School of Fine Art, Hussein found work acting before deciding to operate on the other side of the camera… He was placed on the BBC directors’ training course and made his directorial debut on the long-running Compact before being handed the responsibility of directing Doctor Who’s first four episodes. ‘I walked into her [Verity Lambert’s] office having read these [first] four scripts and I was shocked because I didn’t know what to do with them,’ he ruefully recalled, adding with a smile, ‘Little did she or I know what we were about to launch!’. An Adventure in Space and Time is a 2013 British biographical television film, starring David Bradley, Brian Cox, Jessica Raine and Sacha Dhawan. Sacha Dhawan talks about his role as Waris Hussein in new drama An Adventure In Space And Time for BBC Two. He directed the premiere Doctor Who story, An Unearthly Child, and returned to the series in 1964. But stills and audio from the piece reveal it was another imaginatively directed story – bold in its fusion of period drama and cliff-hanging adventure. I’d never done anything in this kind of genre. The opening episode in particular has a smooth confidence that immediately set Doctor Who – and Waris Hussein – apart. Lewis meets H.G. Waris Hussein was born in India, less than a year before the outbreak of the Second World War. Play now. In this documentary, it was said that he left to direct A Passage to India, when in fact he directed The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling. By the end of the 1940s his family had moved to England where his mother, writer Attia Hussein, joined the BBC as a radio broadcaster. Jessica Raine Verity Lambert. “I think it appeals to those who aren’t necessarily Doctor Who fans. Waris Hussein Waris Hussein directed Doctor Who’s first ever adventure as well David Bradley (Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Broadchurch) plays the lead role of William Hartnell while Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife, The Woman in Black) co-stars as the first ever producer of Doctor Who, Verity Lambert. This docudrama travels back in time to 1963 to see how Doctor Who was first brought to the screen. It was challenge he met with striking panache. The 1960s is so cool; I love the set and the clothes. Doctor Who is the longest running science-fiction tv series in the world. Here he talks about how An Adventure In Space And Time deals with the challenges Waris faced as the first Indian-born drama director at the BBC and using music from the Sixties to get his swagger. And to get in to the right frame of mind Sacha dipped in to his music collection: “I listened to loads of Sixties music on the way to work, to get a certain kind of swagger,” he explains. Waris Hussein has been a leading light in film and television since the early 1960s, and will probably be most familiar to our readers as the very first, and very influential, director of Doctor Who. An Adventure in Space and Time “We need someone like Frank Morgan in the Wizard of Oz” “C.S. Hussein continues to direct and occasionally appears at Doctor Who conventions where he is able to give a fascinating insight into the creation of the world’s longest running sci-fi show. A graduate of Cambridge, Hussein was faced with a number of tests when he joined the BBC and like Hartnell, was not particularly enthused by the idea of directing a show for children. I don’t mean my mum was once an intern in the 60s at the BBC, but instead, he took care of me by being my after school babysitter and also taught me a general sense of right and wrong when I watched him on the ABC as a kid. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, … As soon as you wear them, you act in a certain way; you walk in a different way.”. He was looking at me thinking ‘You’re watching everything I’m doing aren’t you?’, but we hit it off straight away,” he says. Still, I might have preferred a little less emphasis on Sacha Dhawan (gorgeous though he was) as Waris Hussein, as the script seemed to give the impression that he directed most of the first year’s stories rather than the one-and-a-bit he actually did. They don't even know how to make the glass cylinder in the TARDIS console move up and down. Sacha Dhawan takes on the role of the director of the first episodes of Doctor Who, Waris Hussein. 1 Comment. An Adventure in Space and Time is a 2013 television film centered around the creation of the science-fiction television series Doctor Who in 1963, and the subsequent run of the First Doctor, William Hartnell (portrayed by David Bradley) from 1963 to 1966. Nonetheless, Newman's contribution is acknowledged in Mark Gatiss's drama An Adventure in Space and Time in which Brian Cox plays him as a huckstering but visionary creative. Movie. Part 2 of our interview with Doctor Who's first director Waris Hussein covers the trials of directing Burton and Taylor, racism and An Adventure in Space and Time. 2013; 2 hr 0 mins Drama NR Watchlist. “When I first read the script, it was the era that really excited me. An Adventure in Space and Time was a tv movie special made for the fiftieth anniversary of tv’s Doctor Who (1963-89, 2005– ). After initial difficulties, the show becomes a hit, leaving the actor alone to carry on the show's traditions — and to face his increasingly ailing hea… This is the official interview with actor Sacha Dhawan who takes on the role of Waris Hussein, the first director of Doctor Who, in the one off tv drama An Adventure In Space And Time. Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles. … Waris Habibullah was born in Lucknow, British India, into a family of the aristocratic Taluqdar class, and spent his early years mainly in Bombay. An Adventure in Space and Time is a 2013 British biographical television film, starring David Bradley, Brian Cox, Jessica Raine and Sacha Dhawan. For nerdy, long-term fans like me, it’s a delight. I was very moved by the script, particularly William Hartnell’s journey, which I relate to as an actor myself,” he concludes. He was one of the team responsible for convincing William Hartnell to take his most famous role and was back at the helm for 1964’s Marco Polo. In November 2013, Dhawan portrayed director Waris Hussein in An Adventure in Space and Time, a BBC Two biographical television film on the creation of the popular science fiction television series Doctor Who as part of its 50th Anniversary celebration. Nov 25, 2013 - 'An Adventure In Space And Time' Promo Pic - Waris Hussein And Verity Lambert He achieved another first in 1978 when he directed the first story in the fondly remembered Armchair Thriller anthology series. Straight Gay: Waris Hussein, appropriately for the time period. “He has a particular way of speaking as well, which I really wanted to hone in on.”. To research the role, Sacha spent a lot of time with Waris, first meeting him at a public screening of the episodes he directed. An Adventure in Space and Time isn't meant to be taken as a historical document. 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