Early Dr Who

GOOD GOD these early episodes are annoying. For some reason the pilot episode is on the third disk, and I ordered the first disk from netflix (thinking, silly me, that it would contain the first episode) so I'm watching episodes out of context. And I do mean out of context, because these episodes are all "to be continued" types. Practically nothing happens in them, and the "plot" just stretches on through at least three episodes, but I believe it might be through seven. I can't imagine anyone ever enjoying these episodes, but then again, I suppose just the spectacle of seeing things on TV was exciting back in 1963. The main problem is that the episodes don't appear to be ABOUT anything. I mean... it's not funny or frightening, and I can't imagine what aspects of humanity it's supposed to be exploring, or even what fears of the unknown it is exploiting. It's just several episodes of four people (the doctor, who appears to be some sort of human, Susan, Ian, and Barbara?) languishing from radiation sickness being manipulated by non-humanoid robots. YAWN.