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An Unearthly Child
| 001 - An Unearthly Child by Anthony Coburn and C. E. Webber | |
|---|---|
 Ian and Barbara discover the secret of Susan, the unearthly child. | |
| Doctor | First Doctor |
| Companions | Susan Foreman |
| Barbara Wright | |
| Ian Chesterton | |
| Information | |
| Director | Waris Hussein Douglas Camfield (film inserts, uncredited) |
| Series | Season 1 |
| Originally broadcast | November 23, 1963 November 30, 1963 December 7, 1963 14 December, 1963 |
| Chronology | |
| ← Preceded by | Followed by → |
| Time and Relative | The Daleks |
An Unearthly Child is the first Doctor Who serial. It features the First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton. An alternative earlier version of this story was released as The Pilot Episode, here referred to as An Unearthly Pilot.
Contents |
Synopsis
An Unearthly Child
The Cave of Skulls
The Forest of Fear
The Firemaker
Characters
Continuity
- Susan can read very fast, is a brilliant scientist and thinks and calculates in five dimensions.
- The children of the Doctor's race are very advanced, but the Doctor doesn't consider Susan a child.
- The Doctor and Susan have been in London for five months, presumably mending the TARDIS.
- Susan claims to have come up with the name TARDIS, which stands for Time and Relative Dimension in Space. Presumably either the name caught on or she was the first to use the acronym as the name of the ship.
- The ship taking off knocks out it's inhabitants. This never happens again.
Dialogue Triumphs
- "If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cry of strange birds and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?" -The Doctor, to Barbara