Doctor who: Industry and audience.

1. Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Has it changed since 1963?

family,teenagers and kids. 

2) What audience pleasures are offered by Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child? Apply Blumler and Katz's Uses and Gratifications theory to the episode. Make sure you provide specific examples from the episode to support your ideas.

Personal Identity:
 Think about how different audiences may identify with Susan, her teachers or the Doctor
Personal Relationships: caring about characters and wanting to find out what happens to them. This is the first episode of four - which characters do you think the audience will want to follow on their journey.
Diversion (Escapism): escapism and being driven away from reality. Science Fiction is a classic genre for escapism

3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a modern 2020 audience?

The camera work and quality would be better quality and more clear if it was published in modern times. 

4) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to An Unearthly Child?

Physical thrill of watching something e.g  getting goosebumps when watching horror films, big explosions. 
 Experiencing something through the characters (e.g. time/space travel). 
 Watching something you wouldn't normally get a chance to see (e.g. inside TARDIS).

5) What kind of online fan culture does Doctor Who have? Give examples.

They have a fan fiction online base. 

Industries

1) What was the television industry like in 1963? How many channels were there?

There were only 2 tv channels in the UK in 196 which are BBC and ITV. 

2) How does An Unearthly Child reflect the level of technology in the TV industry in 1963?

videotape had only been in use for seven years when An Unearthly Child was made. It allowed the BBC to create the space and time travel effects we can see in the episode which were seen as good back then.

3) Why is Doctor Who such an important franchise for the BBC? 

It has been seen all over the world through BBC Worldwide and generates huge income for the BBC.

4) What other programmes/spin-offs are part of the wider Doctor Who franchise?

• K9

• Sarah Jane Adventures

• Torchwood

• Class 

These spin-offs allow the bbc to target  different audiences while still taking advantage of the huge Doctor Who fanbase.