Message #44845

[Nyki]

Yes, I agree with TDD too.  Through the 60s and 70s (especially in the first couple of years) there was a definite thread of character development, but the stories themselves were very much discrete entities.  There wasn't even that much recurrence during the 60s - during the whole period of the first two Doctors, the only monsters who recurred were the Daleks, the Cybermen, The Yetis/Great Intelligence and the Ice Warriors, and the only non-companions who reappeared were the Monk, Professor Travers and Lethbridge Stewart.  Most of even these didn't happen till the later 60s.  I'd say they were pretty good at giving enough background info for a new viewer without boring the regulars.