Monday, 29 August 2016

An Unearthly Child

(Series 1, Episode 1)

Summary: Demonstrating a flagrant disregard for safeguarding policy, two school teachers follow a pupil home because she seems a little bit odd.  Arriving at a junkyard, they meet a dodgy old man whom they suspect of locking said pupil inside a police telephone box.  When they attempt to investigate, they are swiftly abducted through time and space.

Watch it because: This is where it all began…


Original Air Date: 23 November 1963.
Doctor: William Hartnell.
Companions: Susan (Carole Ann Ford), Ian Chesterton (William Russell) and Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill).
Writer: Anthony Coburn.
Director: Waris Hussein.
Producer: Verity Lambert.

Available on DVD? Yes.

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