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An Unearthly Child: The Firemaker
Broadcast: Saturday 5th August 2000
~8:30pm-9:00pm PDT (~03:30 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 notes:

Part of a pledge night, times are approximate.

Broadcast Source: TWIDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 4th August 2000:
KBTC/KCKA/K65BU 28,15,65 Tacoma/Centralia/Gray's River, WA
http://www.kbtc.org/
Sat 7-10PM PDT An Unearthly Child all 4 eps (An Unearthly Child, The Cave Of Skulls, The Forest Of Fear, The Firemaker)
The June pledge drive came in $4,000 short, so KBTC is trying again. The very first Doctor Who story, which begins in November 1963, when a schoolteacher voices her concerns about a bizarre pupil.

Late Sat 12:30AM PDT Planet of Evil eps 1+2 of 4
Might be pre-empted by pledge programming. The 4th Doctor and Sarah miss London by approximately 1 entire galaxy and 35,000 years, give or take a decade. Zeta Minor is a planet that blurs the lines between the universes of matter and anti-matter. A scientific expedition on the planet studying the anti-matter has been massacred, and the Doctor and Sarah could be next.