Dr. Who and the the Daleks (1965)

 I had never watched any Dr. Who before and thought it would be funny to start with one of the non canonical feature films in which Dr. Who is not an alien, but rather an absent minded professor type played by Peter Cushing. Here the doctor takes his two granddaughters and the older ones boyfriend on an adventure in his newly constructed Tartis. They wind up on a ravaged planet where they help a blond haird pacifist people against the genocidal Daleks. This movie owes much to/ cribes much from H. G. Wells The Time Machine. Still I found it entirely satisfying as adventure serial type stuff. **1/2