To celebrate a year of podcasting Toby Hadoke's Time Travels - not to mention 58 years of Doctor Who - here is one of the best bits of the Patreon exclusive podcast (Far) Too Much Information. This minisode is a re-recording - with loads of updates including new clips and interviews - of Toby's quest to find out everything about the Coal Hill Kids (the schoolchildren extras in the first episode), first released as part of the An Unearthly Child deep dive in (Far) Too Much Information. 

 

 

This is quite a ridiculous thing to have done but that's just the sort of thing these podcasts are for. Look at that first episode, we know it so well - but who was the guy who does the funny Kenneth Williams noise? Who is the cool dark haired mystery girl with the arched eyebrow? And was one of this lot really the sister-in-law of Phil Collins? Oh yes. This is a work of lunacy that puts the lie to much of what is out there online, and speaks exclusively to one of the kids, the daughter of another and the widow of yet another. 

 

Put it like this, it's unlikely you'll find anything this arcane anywhere else. It's time for a school reunion, with the Class of '63...