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Doctor
Who: An Unearthly Child - Pilot (1963)
Country of Origina: UK
Date of Original Broadcast: 26 August 1991
Average Episode Running Times: 25m
Format:
Colour Format: black and white
Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound: mono
DIRECTION
Directed by: Waris
Hussein
CREW
PRODUCTION
Copyright: not given
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Verity
Lambert
Associate Producer: Mervyn
Pinfield
SCRIPT
Written by: Anthony
Coburn
Story Editor: David
Whitaker
PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Sam
Barclay (uncredited)
Film Camera: Robert
Sleigh (uncredited)
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: John
Griffiths, John
House (both uncredited)
MUSIC
Incidental Music by: Norman
Kay
Title Music by: Ron Grainer with The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
SOUND
Studio Sound: Jack
Clayton (uncredited)
Special Sound: Brian
Hodgson (uncredited)
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Elizabeth
Blattner (uncredited)
Costumes: Maureen
Heneghan (uncredited)
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects by: The Visual Effects Department of the BBC
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designers: Peter
Brachacki, Barry
Newbery (uncredited)
OTHER CREW
Production Assistant: Douglas
Camfield (uncredited)
Assistant Floor Manager: Catherine
Childs (uncredited)
CAST
William
Hartnell (Dr Who)
William Russell (Ian Chesterton)
Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright)
Carole Ann Ford (Susan Foreman)
UNCREDITED CAST
Fred Rawlings (policeman)
PLOT SUMMARY
School teachers Ian and Barbara are puzzled by one of their pupils,
the unusually intelligent Susan. Following her home one night they find
themselves in a junkyard where they meet a strange old man who not only
claims to be Susan's grandfather, but also to be not of this Earth...
CAPSULE REVIEW
A notably scarier version of the opening story than the version eventually
broadcast, creator Sydney Newman felt that this cut was too dark and
mysterious and ordered the retakes that we saw in November 1963. It's
restoration in the mid-1990s was a welcome addition to the Doctor
Who canon and showed a glimpse of what might have been.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC (BBCV 4608 - The Hartnell Years); BBC (BBCV 6877
- The Edge of Destruction/Dr
Who: The Pilot Episode)
USA
Video Distributor: CBS/FOX (3403)
TIMELINE
1963
September
27: UK - Filmed at Lime Grove Studio D (one-day shoot)
1991
August
26: UK - first television broadcast (on BBC2)
1995
February
13: UK - video release (BBC (BBCV 4608 - The Hartnell Years))
2000
May
2: UK - video release (BBC (BBCV 6877 - The
Edge of Destruction/Dr Who: The Pilot Episode))
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child
(1963)
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.6-7
credits, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker), synopsis
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
aliens, schoolgirls, schools, teachers, time travel, junkyards
Last Updated:
7 March, 2009
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