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An Unearthly Child: The Firemaker
Broadcast: Friday 5th November 1999
7:30am-8:00am EST (12:30 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 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)


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