This modest little three and a half minute animated short may have the distinction of being the first Doctor Who Fan Film ever.

What have we got?   An extremely stylized and short Tom Baker Doctor, accidentally pokes a hole in the Tardis, sending it flinging out of control.   He and Leela end up in Egypt, where they go to a Dalek Disco and encounter the Bay City Daleks, Davros, Robot, Quark, a Sea Devil, and of course Sutekh, who it turns out was sitting on a flush toilet all around.  There’s no live sound, so it’s accompanied by the song “Doctor Who” by a group called ‘Mankind.”  It’s a simple little thing, juvenile but charming in its brevity.  There’s not a lot to say about it, just watch it.

This little gem  was shot on Super 8,  with a budget of 5 pounds (film processing) by Kevin Jon Davies at the age of sixteen, together with his friends, Andrew Harlow, Steven Harlow, David Beasely, Mark Fuller, Ning Lee and Gary Saunders, at Tottenham School, London, and was premiered at the World’s First Doctor Who Convention, at Battersea London, August 1977.

Kevin Jon Davies went on to grow up and direct ‘Thirty Years in the Tardis’   ‘Dalekmania’ and ‘Shakedown’ as well as having a pretty diverse career in the industry.  Here’s to you, Kevin Jon.

Watch it here (3 minute version)

Or here (four minute version)