Doctor Who (season 1)
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| Doctor Who season 1 | |
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 Title card as used in this season |
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| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 42: 8 serials |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC One |
| Original run | 23 November 1963 – 12 September 1964 |
| Home video release | |
| DVD release | |
| Region 1 | 4 March 2003 - present |
| Region 2 | 21 October 2002 - 28 January 2013 |
| Region 4 | 2 December 2002 - present |
| Season chronology | |
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The first season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 23 November 1963 with the story An Unearthly Child and ended on 12 September 1964 with The Reign of Terror.
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Casting [edit]
Main characters [edit]
Prolific actor William Hartnell was cast as the Doctor, a mysterious alien traveller; his interpretation of the character has since come to be known as the First Doctor. In the series, the Doctor is accompanied by three companions: his granddaughter Susan Foreman (Carole Ann Ford), and her schoolteachers Ian Chesterton (William Russell) and Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill).
Serials [edit]
Verity Lambert was producer with David Whitaker serving as story editor and Mervyn Pinfield as associate producer.[1]
Season 1 is one of the more complete seasons of Doctor Who from the 1960s, as all bar two of the serials are complete in the BBC archive. The only serials that have episodes missing are Marco Polo (all 7 episodes) and The Reign of Terror (2 episodes). Marco Polo is one of three serials that has no surviving footage at all from any source (the others are "Mission to the Unknown" and The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, both from Season 3). The Reign of Terror has had its two missing episodes reconstructed using animation for its release on DVD.
| Story No. | Episodes | Serial title | Episode titles | Directed by | Written by | UK viewers (million) |
AI (%) |
Original air date | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | "Pilot" | "An Unearthly Child" | Waris Hussein | Anthony Coburn | 1.7 | – | 26 August 1991 | A |
| The first pilot episode of The Unearthly Child. For the summaries of this episode, see below. | |||||||||
| 001 | 4 | An Unearthly Child | "An Unearthly Child" "The Cave of Skulls" "The Forest of Fear" "The Firemaker" |
Waris Hussein | Anthony Coburn | Ep. 1: 4.4 Ep. 2: 5.9 Ep. 3: 6.9 Ep. 4: 6.4[2] |
Ep. 1: 63 Ep. 2: 59 Ep. 3: 56 Ep. 4: 55[2] |
23 November - 14 December 1963 | A |
| Schoolteachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright are concerned about one of their pupils, Susan Foreman, who seems to have a very alien outlook on England. They have come to her listed address to investigate. They arrive in a junkyard and find a police box, which proves to be no ordinary police box. When Ian and Barbara enter, they discover it to be much bigger on the inside than the outside. In the TARDIS is Susan and her grandfather, the Doctor. Fearing that Barbara and Ian will give away the secret of the TARDIS, he kidnaps them and takes the machine to the Stone Age, where they will have to fight for their lives. | |||||||||
| 002 | 7 | The Daleks | "The Dead Planet" "The Survivors" "The Escape" "The Ambush" "The Expedition" "The Ordeal" "The Rescue" |
Richard Martin & Christopher Barry |
Terry Nation | Ep. 1: 6.9 Ep. 2: 6.4 Ep. 3: 8.9 Ep. 4: 9.9 Ep. 5: 9.9 Ep. 6: 10.4 Ep. 7: 10.4[3] |
Ep. 1: 59 Ep. 2: 58 Ep. 3: 63 Ep. 4: 63 Ep. 5: 63 Ep. 6: 63 Ep. 7: 65[3] |
21 December 1963 - 1 February 1964 | B |
| The TARDIS lands in a petrified jungle, where they find an advanced city and decide to explore it. Barbara becomes separated from her colleagues, threatened by an unseen creature. Before long, the entire crew is captured by the Daleks, and learn they are in the middle of a war between the Daleks and the Thals. | |||||||||
| 003 | 2 | The Edge of Destruction | "The Edge of Destruction" "The Brink of Disaster" |
Richard Martin & Frank Cox |
David Whitaker | Ep. 1: 10.4 Ep. 2: 9.9[4] |
Ep. 1: 61 Ep. 2: 60[4] |
8–15 February 1964 | C |
| The Doctor, while attempting to correct the TARDIS's faulty navigation circuits, causes a small explosion. The Doctor, Barbara, Ian and Susan are all temporarily rendered unconscious. After they awake, Ian and Susan appear to have slight cases of amnesia and everyone begins to act strangely. | |||||||||
| 004 | 7 | Marco Polo | "The Roof of the World" "The Singing Sands" "Five Hundred Eyes" "The Wall of Lies" "Rider from Shang-Tu" "Mighty Kublai Khan" "Assassin at Peking" |
Waris Hussein & John Crockett |
John Lucarotti | Ep. 1: 9.4 Ep. 2: 9.4 Ep. 3: 9.4 Ep. 4: 9.9 Ep. 5: 9.4 Ep. 6: 8.4 Ep.7: 10.4[5] |
Ep. 1: 63 Ep. 2: 62 Ep. 3: 62 Ep. 4: 60 Ep. 5: 59 Ep. 6: 59 Ep.7: 59[5] |
22 February - 4 April 1964 | D |
| The TARDIS crew meet the real Marco Polo. | |||||||||
| 005 | 6 | The Keys of Marinus | "The Sea of Death" "The Velvet Web" "The Screaming Jungle" "The Snows of Terror" "Sentence of Death" "The Keys of Marinus" |
John Gorrie | Terry Nation | Ep. 1: 9.9 Ep. 2: 9.4 Ep. 3: 9.9 Ep. 4: 10.4 Ep. 5: 7.9 Ep. 6: 6.9[6] |
Ep. 1: 62 Ep. 2: 60 Ep. 3: 61 Ep. 4: 60 Ep. 5: 61 Ep. 6: 63[6] |
11 April - 16 May 1964 | E |
| After arriving on a small island, the TARDIS crew go on a quest to find the five keys to Marinus. | |||||||||
| 006 | 4 | The Aztecs | "The Temple of Evil" "The Warriors of Death" "The Bride of Sacrifice" "The Day of Darkness" |
John Crockett | John Lucarotti | Ep. 1: 7.4 Ep. 2: 7.4 Ep. 3: 7.9 Ep. 4: 7.4[7] |
Ep. 1: 62 Ep. 2: 62 Ep. 3: 57 Ep. 4: 58[7] |
23 May - 13 June 1964 | F |
| The TARDIS crew arrive in Mexico in the 15th Century. With the TARDIS trapped in a tomb, Barbara is mistaken for a female reincarnation of the ancient high priest Yetaxa, and assumes her guise and identity. From her new position of power, Barbara sees her chance to bring an end to human sacrifice. | |||||||||
| 007 | 6 | The Sensorites | "Strangers in Space" "The Unwilling Warriors" "Hidden Danger" "A Race Against Death" "Kidnap" "A Desperate Venture" |
Mervyn Pinfield and Frank Cox |
Peter R. Newman | Ep. 1: 7.9 Ep. 2: 6.9 Ep. 3: 7.4 Ep. 4: 5.5 Ep. 5: 6.9 Ep. 6: 6.9[8] |
Ep. 1: 59 Ep. 2: 59 Ep. 3: 56 Ep. 4: 60 Ep. 5: 57 Ep. 6: 57[8] |
20 June – 1 August 1964 | G |
| The TARDIS travellers land on a spaceship and find the crew apparently dead. However, other crew members regain consciousness and Ian Chesterton fully revives them. These two tell the travellers that they are on an exploration mission from Earth and are orbiting Sense-Sphere. However, its inhabitants, the Sensorites, refuse to let them leave the orbit. | |||||||||
| 008 | 6 | The Reign of Terror | "A Land of Fear" "Guests of Madame Guillotine" "A Change of Identity" "The Tyrant of France" "A Bargain of Necessity" "Prisoners of Conciergerie" |
Henric Hirsch & John Gorrie |
Dennis Spooner | Ep. 1: 6.9 Ep. 2: 6.9 Ep. 3: 6.9 Ep. 4: 6.4 Ep. 5: 6.9 Ep. 6: 6.4[9] |
Ep. 1: 58 Ep. 2: 54 Ep. 3: 55 Ep. 4: 53 Ep. 5: 53 Ep. 6: 55[9] |
8 August – 12 September 1964 | H |
| The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan arrive in what they believe to be England. However, it is soon clear that they have travelled back into Earth history yet again, this time to 18th Century France, during The French Revolution. | |||||||||
Missing episodes [edit]
See also: Doctor Who missing episodes
- Marco Polo - All 7 episodes
- The Reign of Terror - Episodes 4 & 5 (of 6 total)
DVD releases [edit]
| Serial name | Number and duration of episodes |
R2 release date | R4 release date | R1 release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Beginning: An Unearthly Child (4 episodes) The Daleks (7 episodes) The Edge of Destruction (2 episodes) Marco Polo (reconstruction) |
13 × 25 min. 1 × 30 min |
30 January 2006 | 2 March 2006 | 28 March 2006 |
| The Keys of Marinus (6 episodes) | 6 × 25 min. | 21 September 2009 | 7 January 2010 | 5 January 2010 |
| The Aztecs (4 episodes) | 4 × 25 min. | 21 October 2002 | 2 December 2002 | 4 March 2003 |
| The Aztecs - Special Edition Includes Galaxy 4: Airlock |
5 x 25 min. | 11 March 2013[10] | TBA | TBA |
| The Sensorites (6 episodes) | 6 × 25 min. | 23 January 2012 | 2 February 2012[11] | 14 February 2012[12] |
| The Reign of Terror (episodes 1-3 & 6 of 6, animation of 4 & 5) | 6 × 25 min | 28 January 2013[10] | TBA | 12 February 2013 |
In print [edit]
Main article: List of Doctor Who novelisations
| Serial name | Novelisation title | Author | First published |
|---|---|---|---|
| An Unearthly Child | Doctor Who and An Unearthly Child | Terrance Dicks | 1981 |
| The Daleks | Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks |
David Whitaker | 1964 |
| The Edge of Destruction | The Edge of Destruction | Nigel Robinson | 1988 |
| Marco Polo | Marco Polo | John Lucarotti | 1985 |
| The Keys of Marinus | Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus | Philip Hinchcliffe | 1980 |
| The Aztecs | The Aztecs | John Lucarotti | 1984 |
| The Sensorites | The Sensorites | Nigel Robinson | 1987 |
| The Reign of Terror | The Reign of Terror | Ian Marter | 1987 |
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ "Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - Season 1". BBC. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ a b "A Brief History Of Time (Travel): 100,000 BC". Shannonsullivan.com. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
- ^ a b "A Brief History Of Time (Travel): The Daleks". Shannonsullivan.com. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
- ^ a b "A Brief History Of Time (Travel): Inside The Spaceship". Shannonsullivan.com. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
- ^ a b "A Brief History Of Time (Travel): Marco Polo". Shannonsullivan.com. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
- ^ a b "A Brief History Of Time (Travel): The Keys Of Marinus". Shannonsullivan.com. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
- ^ a b "A Brief History Of Time (Travel): The Aztecs". Shannonsullivan.com. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
- ^ a b "A Brief History Of Time (Travel): The Sensorites". Shannonsullivan.com. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
- ^ a b "A Brief History Of Time (Travel): The Reign Of Terror". Shannonsullivan.com. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
- ^ a b Doctor Who Magazine 453
- ^ "Filmink listings". Filmink.com.au. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ "Doctor Who - 1st Doctor Story 'The Sensorites' Among 5 Classic DVDs Slated for February and March". tvshowsondvd. 5 October 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
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