an unearthly child episode 1 season 1 1963
First Transmitted
An Unearthly Child - 26/08/1991 14:15
Plot
Schoolteachers Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton become intrigued by one of their pupils, Susan Foreman, and visit her home address - a junkyard at 76 Totter's Lane - where they meet her grandfather, the Doctor. The Doctor and Susan are aliens who travel through time and space in their ship, TARDIS, which looks like an ordinary police box but actually houses a huge gleaming control room.
Episode Endings
TARDIS arrives on a Palaeolithic landscape, over which falls the shadow of a man
Dialogue Triumphs
Barbara Wright : "But you are one of us. You look like us, you sound like us."
Susan Foreman : "I was born in the 49th Century."
Ian Chesterton : "I know that free movement in the fourth dimension of space and time is a scientific dream I don't expect to find solved in a junkyard!"
The Doctor : "For your science, school-master. Not for ours. I tell you, before your ancestors had turned the first wheel, the people of my world had reduced movement through the farthest reaches of space to a game for children."
The Doctor : "I cannot let you go, school-master. Whether you believe what you have been told is of no importance. You and your companion would be footprints in a time where you were not supposed to walk."
Continuity
The Doctor and Susan are from the 42nd Century.
The TARDIS has a different interior and take-off noise.
The Doctor's character is noticeably harsher, and more "alien".
Instead of reading a book, Susan makes her own ink-blot test, drawing a hexagonal pattern across it.
Trivia
A number of aspects of the pilot that were changed for the transmitted version of the episode:
The opening theme music features a loud thuderclap noise at the beginning. (No such noise is present in the transmitted version.)
As the policeman does his rounds in the first scene, the air in Totter's Lane is clear. (In the transmitted version it is foggy.)
After saying goodnight to Ian and Barbara in the classroom, Susan splashes ink on a piece of paper, makes a Rorschach blot from it and then draws a hexagonal design before screwing up the paper. (In the transmitted version she reads a book about the French Revolution and spots a mistake.)
After putting his key in the TARDIS lock, the Doctor starts to withdraw the entire mechanism from the door. (In the transmitted version, he simply turns the key.)
Susan wears a formal long-sleeve dress in the TARDIS. (In the transmitted version she changes to informal, 1960's style fashions in the TARDIS.)
The Doctor wears an ordinary suit and tie. (This was superseded by what would become his familiar costume.)
As the Doctor activates the ship toward the end of the episode, Ian, Barbara and Susan try to pull him away from the controls. (In the transmitted version only Susan realises what is happening and tries to pull him away.)
The TARDIS's dematerialisation sound is a random selection of bleeps and tones intermixed with snatches of what would eventually become the standard effect. (In the episode as transmitted, the standard effect is heard.)
In addition, much of the dialogue, particularly in the junkyard and TARDIS scenes, was amended for the transmitted version.
Cast & Crew
Cast
The Doctor - William Hartnell
Barbara Wright - Jacqueline Hill
Ian Chesterton - William Russell
Susan Foreman - Carole Ann Ford
Crew
Director - Waris Hussein
Assistant Floor Manager - Catherine Childs
Associate Producer - Mervyn Pinfield
Costumes - Maureen Heneghan
Designer - Peter Brachacki
Designer - Barry Newbery
Film Cameraman - Robert Sleigh
Film Editor - John Griffiths
Film Editor - John House
Incidental Music - Norman Kay
Make-Up - Elizabeth Blattner
Producer - Verity Lambert
Production Assistant - Douglas Camfield
Special Sounds - Brian Hodgson
Story Editor - David Whitaker
Studio Lighting - Sam Barclay
Studio Sound - Jack Clayton
Title Music - Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, arranged by Delia Derbyshire
Visual Effects - Visual Effects Department of the BBC
Writer - Anthony Coburn
An Unearthly Child - 26/08/1991 14:15
Plot
Schoolteachers Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton become intrigued by one of their pupils, Susan Foreman, and visit her home address - a junkyard at 76 Totter's Lane - where they meet her grandfather, the Doctor. The Doctor and Susan are aliens who travel through time and space in their ship, TARDIS, which looks like an ordinary police box but actually houses a huge gleaming control room.
Episode Endings
TARDIS arrives on a Palaeolithic landscape, over which falls the shadow of a man
Dialogue Triumphs
Barbara Wright : "But you are one of us. You look like us, you sound like us."
Susan Foreman : "I was born in the 49th Century."
Ian Chesterton : "I know that free movement in the fourth dimension of space and time is a scientific dream I don't expect to find solved in a junkyard!"
The Doctor : "For your science, school-master. Not for ours. I tell you, before your ancestors had turned the first wheel, the people of my world had reduced movement through the farthest reaches of space to a game for children."
The Doctor : "I cannot let you go, school-master. Whether you believe what you have been told is of no importance. You and your companion would be footprints in a time where you were not supposed to walk."
Continuity
The Doctor and Susan are from the 42nd Century.
The TARDIS has a different interior and take-off noise.
The Doctor's character is noticeably harsher, and more "alien".
Instead of reading a book, Susan makes her own ink-blot test, drawing a hexagonal pattern across it.
Trivia
A number of aspects of the pilot that were changed for the transmitted version of the episode:
The opening theme music features a loud thuderclap noise at the beginning. (No such noise is present in the transmitted version.)
As the policeman does his rounds in the first scene, the air in Totter's Lane is clear. (In the transmitted version it is foggy.)
After saying goodnight to Ian and Barbara in the classroom, Susan splashes ink on a piece of paper, makes a Rorschach blot from it and then draws a hexagonal design before screwing up the paper. (In the transmitted version she reads a book about the French Revolution and spots a mistake.)
After putting his key in the TARDIS lock, the Doctor starts to withdraw the entire mechanism from the door. (In the transmitted version, he simply turns the key.)
Susan wears a formal long-sleeve dress in the TARDIS. (In the transmitted version she changes to informal, 1960's style fashions in the TARDIS.)
The Doctor wears an ordinary suit and tie. (This was superseded by what would become his familiar costume.)
As the Doctor activates the ship toward the end of the episode, Ian, Barbara and Susan try to pull him away from the controls. (In the transmitted version only Susan realises what is happening and tries to pull him away.)
The TARDIS's dematerialisation sound is a random selection of bleeps and tones intermixed with snatches of what would eventually become the standard effect. (In the episode as transmitted, the standard effect is heard.)
In addition, much of the dialogue, particularly in the junkyard and TARDIS scenes, was amended for the transmitted version.
Cast & Crew
Cast
The Doctor - William Hartnell
Barbara Wright - Jacqueline Hill
Ian Chesterton - William Russell
Susan Foreman - Carole Ann Ford
Crew
Director - Waris Hussein
Assistant Floor Manager - Catherine Childs
Associate Producer - Mervyn Pinfield
Costumes - Maureen Heneghan
Designer - Peter Brachacki
Designer - Barry Newbery
Film Cameraman - Robert Sleigh
Film Editor - John Griffiths
Film Editor - John House
Incidental Music - Norman Kay
Make-Up - Elizabeth Blattner
Producer - Verity Lambert
Production Assistant - Douglas Camfield
Special Sounds - Brian Hodgson
Story Editor - David Whitaker
Studio Lighting - Sam Barclay
Studio Sound - Jack Clayton
Title Music - Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, arranged by Delia Derbyshire
Visual Effects - Visual Effects Department of the BBC
Writer - Anthony Coburn
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