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An Unearthly Child: The Cave of Skulls
Broadcast: Wednesday 3rd November 1999
7:30am-8:00am EST (12:30 GMT) < > « »
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Featuring: William Hartnell, Carole Ann Ford, Jacqueline Hill, William Russell

Ian and Barbara are aboard the TARDIS uninvited. The Doctor ignores Susan's pleas to let them go. The TARDIS takes off and travels back to Stone Age times, where the crew make the mistake of venturing outside.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: TWIDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 29th October 1999:
SPACE: The Imagination Station
http://www.hwcn.org/~an933/spacedw.htm
http://www.spacecast.com/
Sat 7:30AM EDT The Ambassadors of Death ep 7 of 7
Sun-Mon 7:30AM EST The Sontaran Experiment eps 1-2 of 2
Tue-Fri 7:30AM EST An Unearthly Child eps 1-4 of 4 (An Unearthly Child, The Cave Of Skulls, The Forest Of Fear, The Firemaker)


One week - three Doctors. On Saturday, the 3rd Doctor races to try to stop General Carrington's address to the world about the 'alien menace'. As the clocks go back to Standard Time, the 4thDoctor finds himself on post-solar flare Earth, checking to see if the planet is ready to be re- inhabited. It already is. To finish the week, it's the original Doctor Who story from 1963. Two schoolteachers, concerned about their pupil Susan, follow her home to a junkyard. Inside the junkyard is a blue telephone box ...