Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

An Unearthly Child

23/11/63

23.10

4.4

2

The Cave of Skulls

30/11/63

24.35

5.9

3

The Forest of Fear

07/12/63

23.38

6.9

4

The Firemaker

14/12/63

24.23

6.4

Season:

Doctor:

Producers:

Script Editor:

Writer:

Director:

One

William Hartnell

Verity Lambert,

Mervyn Pinfield

David Whitaker

 Anthony Coburn

Waris Hussein

 

  

William Hartnell - The Doctor

William Russell - Ian Chesterton

Jaqueline Hill - Barbara Wright

Carole Ann Ford - Susan

 

  

Derek Newark - Za

Alethea Charlton - Hur

Jeremy Young - Kal

Howard Lang - Horg

Eileen Way - Old Mother)

 

  

Two school teachers are perturbed by one of their pupils, Susan Foreman. In some cases she is exceptionally bright, sometimes to the point of overshadowing her teachers. But on occasion she has shown a lack of knowledge of the basics, such as the currency that England was using.

 

Worried by this the two teachers, Ian and Barbara, decide to follow her to her home in order to talk to her grandfather. Instead they see her enter a junkyard. When they follow her inside there is no sign, Although there is a strange, vibrating police telephone box.

 

They hear Susan inside, and when her grandfather returns they barge past him and into the police box - where they find a large, brightly lit, room with a mushroom shaped console in the centre. The Doctor is not happy at the intrusion, and says that if he lets them go free they will inevitably tell someone about what they saw. Before anyone can stop him the Doctor dematerialises the TARDIS.

 

It re-materialises around 100,00 B.C. where they have to battle to escape from primitive man. The Doctor attempts to take the teachers back to their own time, but materialises on an unknown world.

 

  

Working Title:

100,000 BC

 

Things to look out for:

  • The Doctor is put off smoking for life!

Archive:

All 4 episodes exist. A pilot episode of episode 1 also exists, this was transmitted in an evening of special programmes in 1991 to mark the closure of Lime Grove Studios.

 

Bloopers:

Coming Soon

 

  

 

 

Title Information:

  • An Unearthly Child
  • Episodic format
  • UK PAL - Released 1990
  • BBC Video cat.#4311

 

 

Title Information:

  • An Unearthly Child
  • Episodic format
  • UK PAL - Re-released 2000
  • BBC Video cat.#6959

 

 

 

Title Information:

  • The Edge of Destruction - (released as part of "The Beginning box-set")

  • Released together with The Daleks & The Edge of Destruction

  • Episodic format

  • UK PAL - Released January 2006

  • BBC DVD cat.#1156

Special Features:

  • Commentaries on various episodes by William Russell and Carol Ann Ford plus the show's producer Verity Lambert and directors Waris Hussein and Christopher Barry.

  • Unedited studio footage of the pilot episode.

  • Documentary detailing the origins of the show.

  • Condensed version of the (missing) fourth story Marco Polo.

  • Comedy sketches from the Doctor Who night broadcast on BBC 2.

 

Not yet released on Audio.

 

 

 

Title Information:

  • Doctor Who and An Unearthly Child
  • Written by Terrance Dicks
  • Manufactured by Target
  • Published 1981
  • No.68 in the Target, Doctor Who Library.

 

 

Title Information:

  • Doctor Who and An Unearthly Child
  • Written by Terrance Dicks
  • Manufactured by Target
  • Published 1982
  • No.68 in the Target, Doctor Who Library.

 

 

Title Information:

  • An Unearthly Child

  • Written by Terrance Dicks

  • Manufactured by Target

  • Published 1992

  • No.68 in the Target, Doctor Who Library.

**For further information on the Target Books, please visit On Target.


 

 

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