The instant and incredible success of the Daleks in the very next adventure, however, would move things around a bit). (The plan, legend has it, was to teach kids about history. Early Doctor Who is a very mixed bag, but this first episode, with so much to introduce and no guarantee of the audience getting their heads round any of it, does so in a brilliantly enticing manner.īut while An Unearthly Child is acknowledged as a classic episode for good reason, the four-episode story it kicked off about a Palaeolithic tribe and their quest for fire, is definitely not the most memorable tale in the canon. It's startling quite how many of the key elements of Doctor Who were there from the very start: the Tardis, both its sound and design concept the music the havoc wreaked upon the lives of everyday earthlings and of course, escaping the baddies. But now, on with this week's choice … An Unearthly Child (23 November 1963) We know that our choices won't necessarily be the ones you would have picked – so towards the end of the run, we will be taking requests. We'll be using the same format as our episode-by-episode Doctor Who blog for current broadcasts, and leaving comments open until the 50th anniversary celebrations in November. Over the coming months we'll be revisiting 20 key episodes from the Doctor Who canon classic stories that demand in-depth discussion.Įvery episode we'll let you know which we'll be looking at next, and when to expect the blog – roughly once a fortnight – so you can refresh your memory or discover the episode for the first time in advance.
And for our adventure through the history of Doctor Who, the beginning is a very good place to start.
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In November 1963, one of the greatest stories British TV ever told began.
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