An Unearthly Child (also referred to as 100,000 BC) is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 23 November to 14 December 1963. Written by the Australian writer Anthony Coburn, it is the first serial of the series and introduces William Hartnell as the First Doctor, Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman, Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright and William Russell as Ian Cheste...
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An Unearthly Child (also referred to as 100,000 BC) is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 23 November to 14 December 1963. Written by the Australian writer Anthony Coburn, it is the first serial of the series and introduces William Hartnell as the First Doctor, Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman, Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright and William Russell as Ian Chesterton.
The first episode deals with Ian and Barbara's discovery of the Doctor and his time-space ship TARDIS in a junkyard in contemporary London. The remaining episodes are set amidst a power struggle between warring Stone Age factions.
In the first episode, "An Unearthly Child", the four main characters are introduced, the Doctor is given vague background information, and the first recorded instance of the TARDIS traveling through time airs. In "The Cave of Skulls", the group encounters a Paleolithic tribe and are subsequently imprisoned by...
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