The Doctor, one of the most beloved characters in television history, has never been portrayed by a woman or a minority.
While the TV movie An Adventure in Space and Time, about the making of the original Doctor Who series, doesn’t make up for that oversight, it at least stresses the importance that a female producer and a minority director had in laying the groundwork for what would become a sci-fi juggernaut.
That producer is Verity Lambert, who is portrayed in the film with a very realistic balance of naivete and bravado by Jessica Raine, and it is by focusing primarily on her story that many of the details of the show’s creation that Who-fanatics might be craving get completely overlooked and neglected. Thank God for that, too, as this leads to a much more emotionally resonate film than just a dry rescitation of facts that the film could have taken.
