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An Unearthly Child: The Firemaker
Broadcast: Saturday 17th July 1999
2:30pm-3:00pm AEST (04:30 GMT) < > « »
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Featuring: William Hartnell, Carole Ann Ford, Jacqueline Hill, William Russell

The Doctor and his companions use guile and cunning to escape death at the hands of their Stone Age captors. The Doctor decides that the only way to escape is to show the cave dwellers how to make fire.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: TWIDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 16th July 1999:
FOXTEL's UKTV http://www.foxtel.com.au/ and
http://www.varos.com/drwho/uktv/
July 1998: Sat 1PM, Sun 2 and 8AM - 1 or 2 complete stories in episode form; Mon through Fri 11:30PM - 1 episode a night
Now: Sat 1PM, Sun 2 and 7AM An Unearthly Child all 4 episodes (An Unearthly Child, The Cave Of Skulls, The Forest Of Fear, The Firemaker)
Sat 3PM, Sun 4 and 9AM Spearhead From Space all 4 episodes
Mon through Thu 11:30PM Robot episodes 1 through 4 of 4
Fri 11:30PM Castrovalva episode 1 of 4

(series not on air from mid-August to early October 1998 - may leave air again temporarily in August 1999)