Doctor Who: Audience and Industries

 Audience


1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Do you think it has changed since 1963?
The target audience for Doctor who were traditionally male sci-fi fans around the ages 10-40 when doctor who was released. However the target audiences have changed overtime since 1963 as The target audiences shifted in 1970-2010 when female sci-fi fans grew by 22 percent during the years.

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: Susan is presented as a typical 1960s girl as her presentation in the doctor who episode fit within the beauty standards during the 1960s. The first impressions of her in this episode supports her being titled an unearthly child. This is because she appears as confused in  her classes and the discussions her teachers have upon her suspects Susan as abnormal as they noticed she answered a question without the question being heard.

Personal Relationships: In this episode us as an audience have a personal relationship towards Susan as we are getting to understand her characteristics in this episode and what she is like. Another use of personal relationships is the use of the relationship of Barbara and Ian. This is because Barbara and Ian fit in towards the stereotypes of how a man and women are presented. This is seen when Barbara passes out on the chair and Ian and protects her reinforcing gender stereotypes.

Diversion (Escapism): In doctor who the genre of sci-fi is presented as quite unique than other shows with diversion escapism. This is because doctor who lets the audience have a perspective on 2 different worlds at once.

Surveillance (Information / Facts): In doctor who, this episode provides certain details in different scenes. This is seen when Susan was giving her answer in her science lessons. This is very contrasting as although doctor who is presented as a dystopian show, there episodes are quite educational with the lack of facts they put on. But it may not have the containing information to Susan's answer from an extent

3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a modern 2020s audience? The additional uses and gratifications that this episode would provide to a modern 2020 audience is  that they can see how society was during the 1960s and how society has shifted around the years. This episode also reinforces how racism wasn't noticed as much when one of the lines says ''The red Indian Savages mind was blown''. This reinforces that if this line occurred in todays society doctor who would get cancelled.

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


5) What kind of online fan culture does Doctor Who have? Give examples.
The online culture that doctor who has are called 'Whovians'. There include an fiction, fan-edited trailers and more. The BBC also produces merchandise to sell to this audience (Whovians). 

Industries

1) What was the television industry like in 1963? How many channels were there?
During the 60s the television industry was limited as there were only 2 available
 channels and one of them was BBC which is still well known today.

2) How does An Unearthly Child reflect the level of technology in the TV industry in 1963?
The level of technology presented in this episode shows how technology was starting to adapt slowly and that people in the 60s had very limited technology to use back then. But compared to now our society and generation has the access of using different technology devices like smartphones smart watches computer etc.

3) Why is Doctor Who such an important franchise for the BBC? 
Because BBC has a significant representation from launching there first colour tv and being well known over the years. In addition doctor who came out at the same time as BBC which shows both of there starting points.


4) What other programmes/spin-offs are part of the wider Doctor Who franchise?
-K9
-Torchwood
-The Sarah Jane adventures
-Class

5) Why does the Doctor Who franchise have so much merchandise available? Give examples. 
There merchandise include water bottles, books, clothing, collectables and action figures.

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