So, most of these two episodes are filmed with the cameras in tight, presumably because if they pulled back we would see all the ropes and cardboard boxes that made up the shonky sets. But back then they had little else to rely on other than clever editing and actors delivering lines. William Hartnell as The Doctor, in particular, is very good at the latter. Watch these two episodes alone and you can see where the idea for Yoda might have come from, a sort of giggling godhead grandpa who is bemused by the universe even as he sets about saving it once again.
Women don’t come out of 1965 television well. In Doctor Who they tend to be patronised, patted on the shoulder and told they are good girls who just don’t understand. Likewise, stalwart actor Kevin Stoney, who last time I checked was very much white, here stars as the slippery Guardian of the Solar System Chen in what appears to be a form of yellowface. There aren’t many jokes in these two episodes, but what comedy there is tends to be about the Doctor’s advanced age.