Doctor Who - An Adventure in Space and Time - Behind the Scenes

An Adventure in Space and Time is a British television documentary drama commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the science fiction series Doctor Who.

It is written by the Doctor Who and Sherlock writer Mark Gatiss. Details of the 90-minute film were announced by the BBC on 9 August 2012, with the programme airing on BBC Two in the United Kingdom on 21 November 2013, on BBC America in the United States on 22 November 2013, and on ABC1 in Australia on 24 November 2013.

It tells the story of the team behind Doctor Who's creation. The TV programme was shown in a pre-screening at the British Film Institute in Southbank 12 November 2013.

A look behind the scenes of the making of An Adventure in Space and Time, a special one-off drama that travels back to 1963 to see how Doctor Who was first brought to the screen. Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles.

Wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.

Length: 10min 52sec.