Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)

Peter Cushing is the Doctor in this first feature-length outing based on the time-hopping Time Lord's adventures, except he's not a Time Lord yet because his Gallifreyan origins had yet to be invented in 1965. Cushing's Who is a dithering Grandpa that I suspect was a high-school physics teacher at one point in his life. How else could he build a TARDIS in his spare room?
It's a kind of H.G Wells version of the Doctor, which makes it sound better than it is. It's hampered by being a British TV production with a non-threatening menace that feels completely set-bound and lacks any kind of impetus. It was fun for me to see Cushing in this kind of role, though, and I was surprised to see that even Daleks liked lava lamps.

2 soft centres out of 5