…. that Doctor Who first appeared on a TV screen.

The episode was entitled An Unearthly Child and starred the wonderfully tetchy William Hartnell as the Doctor and Carole Ann Ford as his granddaughter Susan.

It wasn’t until four weeks later that the enemy who became synonymous with the series, the Daleks, entered the natons’ consciousness.

The title music was composed by Ron Grainer and its haunting, and at the time futuristic, nature was realised by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

The friends we were visiting in Lancashire last year took us to Blackpool. We went on a tram trip (all the way to Fleetwood) and on the way passed these daleks, and a TARDIS; part of the Illuminations. Photo is a bit blurred due to being taken through the tram window:-