Season 1 (1963-1964)
An Unearthly Child
Last Updated 15 Mar 2013 by Harry Ward
An Unearthly Child
Story Number: 1 (A)
Writer: Anthony Coburn
Director: Waris Hussein
Starring: William Hartnell, Carole Ann Ford, Jacqueline Hill, William Russell
No of Episodes: 5
First Broadcast: Sat 23 Nov 1963 - Mon 26 Aug 1991
Running Time: 121 minutes 11 seconds
Average Audience: 5.06 Million Average AI: 58
In London 1963, schoolteachers Ian and Barbara discover that their extraordinary pupil Susan and her grandfather, known only as the Doctor, are visitors from "another time, another world", and that their home, camouflaged as a police box, is in fact a space/time ship called the Tardis. The Doctor decides his only option is to abduct the teachers. They are all transported back to a freezing Palaeolithic landscape where a tribe of cave dwellers is desperate to rediscover the secret of fire.
