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- AN UNEARTHLY CHILD. Written by Anthony Coburn. 4 Episodes.
- 23rd November - 14th December 1963.
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- An UnEarthly Child, The Cave of Skulls, The Forest of Fear, The Firemaker.
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- COMPANIONS:- Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Susan.
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- Susan Foreman is a very strange pupil of Ian and Barbara's at Coal Hill
- School. After making enquiries into her home background the two teachers
- decide to check on her themselves. They follow Susan to her "home", an
- old junkyard and watch as she enters. When they go into the yard to see
- what she is up to, there is no sign of the girl. Ian examines an old police
- telephone box which vibrates to the touch. Then they are disturbed.
- An old man shuffles into view and begins to open the door of the box. The
- teachers, hiding behind a packing case, are heard by the old man who then
- tries to bluster his way around their statement that they know Susan and
- want to discover what he has done to her. Susan opens the TARDIS door and
- the teachers force their way into the ship. Susan tries to explain the
- situation to her incredulous tutors but they refuse to believe her story
- that she and her grandfather are travellers in time and space.
- After some argument, the old man states that he will not allow the two
- adults to leave and he starts the ship moving.
- The TARDIS comes to land in prehistoric times where the crew are captured
- by a tribe that has lost the secret of making fire. The Doctor shows the
- leader how to make fire by rubbing sticks together but he will not release
- them. The crew put burning sticks into skulls found in their cave prison
- and escape when the tribe see the skulls and are overcome with fear.
- This story is available as a BBC Video.
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