The
Doctor - William Hartnell
Ian Chesterton - William Russell
Barbara Wright - Jacqueline Hill
Susan Foreman - Carole Ann Ford
Za - Derek
Newark
Hur - Alethea Charlton
Old Mother - Eileen Way
Kal - Jeremy Young
Horg - Howard Lang
Designers -
Peter Brachacki, Barry Newbery
Costumes - Maureen Heneghan
Make-Up - Elizabeth Blattner
Incidental Music - Norman Kay
Special Effects - Visual Effects Department of the BBC
Fight Arranger - Derek Ware
Film Cameraman - Robert Sleigh
Studio Lighting - Geoff Shaw
Studio Sound - Jack Clayton
Production Assistants - Douglas Camfield,
Tony Lightley
Assistant Floor Manager - Catherine Childs
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(s):
100,000 BC, The Tribe of Gum
Things to look out for:
The Doctor is put off smoking for life!
Archive:
All 4 episodes exist. A pilot episode also exists, this was
transmitted in an evening of special programmes in 1991 to mark
the closure of Lime Grove Studios.
Bloopers:
Coming Soon
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The Beginning - box-set
Manufactured by: BBC DVD / 2|Entertain
(cat.#1882)
Format: DVD -
Region 2 & 4 - PAL UK Episodic
RRP: £34.99
Rating: 12
Released:
January 2006
Notes:
Released as part of The Beginning
box-set, together with An Unearthly Child &
The Edge of Destruction.
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.
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Doctor Who and An Unearthly Child
Manufactured by: Target
Format:
Paperback Book
Written by:
Terrance Dicks
Published:
1981
Notes:
No.68 in the Target Doctor Who Library.
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Doctor Who and An Unearthly Child
Manufactured by: Target
Format:
Paperback Book
Written by:
Terrance Dicks
Published:
1982
Notes:
No.68 in the Target Doctor Who Library.
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An Unearthly Child
Manufactured by: Target
Format:
Paperback Book
Written by:
Terrance Dicks
Published:
1992
Notes:
No.68 in the Target Doctor Who Library.
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