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An Unearthly Child: The Firemaker
Last updated 02 January 2017
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BBC UKTV (adverts during broadcast)
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 9th July 1999:
FOXTEL's UK-TV http://www.foxtel.com.au/ and
http://varos.simplenet.com/drwho/uktv/
Saturday at 1PM, Sunday at 2 and 8AM Trial Of A Time Lord: Mindwarp all 4 episodes (episodes 5 through 8 of 14)
Monday at 11:30PM An Unearthly Child - The Firemaker episode 4 of 4
Tuesday through Friday at 11:30PM Spearhead From Space episodes 1 through 4 of 4
Over the weekend, the Valeyard presents the more damaging part of his evidence in the Doctor's trial, an incident where the Doctor seemingly sacrificed everything he cared about to save his own neck. On Monday, the original Doctor Who story concludes with the savages recapturing the Doctor and company, planning to kill them if the Doctor does not create fire. The rest of the week covers the events surrounding the beginning of the 3rd Doctor's reign, when an alien invasion was brought about through the use of plastic.
FOXTEL's UK-TV http://www.foxtel.com.au/ and
http://varos.simplenet.com/drwho/uktv/
Saturday at 1PM, Sunday at 2 and 8AM Trial Of A Time Lord: Mindwarp all 4 episodes (episodes 5 through 8 of 14)
Monday at 11:30PM An Unearthly Child - The Firemaker episode 4 of 4
Tuesday through Friday at 11:30PM Spearhead From Space episodes 1 through 4 of 4
Over the weekend, the Valeyard presents the more damaging part of his evidence in the Doctor's trial, an incident where the Doctor seemingly sacrificed everything he cared about to save his own neck. On Monday, the original Doctor Who story concludes with the savages recapturing the Doctor and company, planning to kill them if the Doctor does not create fire. The rest of the week covers the events surrounding the beginning of the 3rd Doctor's reign, when an alien invasion was brought about through the use of plastic.
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