Doctor Who: Audience and Industries

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Audience

1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Do you think it has changed since 1963?

The target audiences are families and kids above the age of 12.

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: We can relate to Susan as she is a young teenager who goes school.

Personal Relationships: We want to make sure the teachers are safe.

Diversion (Escapism): We go to different time periods and dimensions.

Surveillance (Information / Facts): We learn about space.

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

Personal Relationships : Grandfather and surveillance to show how technology has progressed.

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

Visceral pleasure is when the TARDIS is taking and going to a difference dimension, vicarious pleasure is when the teachers are getting worried and voyeuristic pleasure are when Susan had an argument with her grandfather to stay on earth.

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

Fan fiction
Events
Fan animation.

Industries

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

There was only two channels called 'BBC' and 'ITV'.

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

The technology back in 1963 was black and white and had very bad video editing.

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

Doctor Who collaborated with Disney which now has a bigger budget and worldwide distribution as it only could have been showed in the UK and banned in other countries now it viewed worldwide.

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

Sarah Jane Adventures
Class

5) Why does the Doctor Who franchise have so much merchandise available? Give examples. 

It helps them get more recognised, examples for this is

T-Shirts
Toys
Collectables.

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