Season 1 (Doctor Who)

Season 1 - 1963-64
Doctor	First Doctor
Companion(s)	Ian Chesterton Barbara Wright Susan Foreman
Key Crew
Showrunner(s)	Verity Lambert
Producer(s)	Verity Lambert
Script Editor	David Whitaker
Series Details
Start Date	23 November 1963
End Date	12 September 1964
Premier Network	BBC tv
Format	42x25 minute episodes
Next →	Season 2 (Doctor Who)

The following article is written from an Out of Universe perspective.

Season 1 of Doctor Who premiered in November 1963 and was the first season of the show. It was later classified as the first season of Doctor Who: Chapter One.

It starred William Hartnell as the First Doctor, Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman, the Doctor's granddaughter, and William Russell and Jacqueline Hill as the companions Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. The season opened with An Unearthly Child and concluded with The Reign of Terror.

Overview

It consisted of eight serials and forty-two episodes, and a pilot episode which was never aired on television until 1991. (More accurately, the production team made several versions of the pilot episode.) The inaugural season established many of the concepts that continue to the present day, and also introduced the hugely popular Daleks. Two of the three historical stories of this season are presently considered lost, in total (as is the case of Marco Polo) or partially (The Reign of Terror), although audio recordings of all episodes remain.

Cast

Regular

• Dr. Who - William Hartnell
• Ian Chesterton - William Russell
• Barbara Wright - Jacqueline Hill
• Susan Foreman - Carole Ann Ford

Recurring

• Daleks - operated by Robert Jewell, Kevin Manser, Michael Summerton, Gerald Taylor, and voiced by Peter Hawkins, David Graham

Guest

To be added.

Television Stories

Main Season

Serial	#	Serial Title	Episode Title	Writer	Director	Air Date
1	1	An Unearthly Child	An Unearthly Child	Anthony Coburn	Waris Hussein	TBA
	2		The Cave of Skulls			^ cont
	3		The Forest of Fear
	4		The Firemaker
2	5	The Daleks	The Dead Planet	Terry Nation	Christopher Barry
	6		The Survivors
	7		The Escape		Richard Martin
	8		The Ambush		Christopher Barry
	9		The Expedition
	10		The Ordeal		Richard Martin
	11		The Rescue
3	12	The Edge of Destruction	The Edge of Destruction	David Whitaker
	13		The Brink of Disaster		Frank Cox
4	14	Marco Polo	The Roof of the World	John Lucarotti	Waris Hussein
	15		The Singing Sands
	16		Five Hundred Eyes
	17		The Wall of Lies		John Crockett
	18		Rider of Shang-Tu		Waris Hussein
	19		Mighty Kulai Khan
	20		Assassin at Peking
5	21	The Keys of Marinus	The Sea of Death	Terry Nation	John Gorrie
	22		The Velvet Web
	23		The Screaming Jungle
	24		The Snows of Terror
	25		Sentence of Death
	26		The Keys of Marinus
6	27	The Aztecs	The Temple of Evil	John Lucarotti	John Crockett
	28		The Warriors of Death
	29		The Bride of Sacrifice
	30		The Day of Darkness
7	31	The Sensorites	Strangers in Space	Peter R. Newman	Mervyn Pinfield
	32		The Unwilling Warriors
	33		Hidden Danger
	34		A Race Against Death
	35		Kidnap		Frank Cox
	36		A Desperate Venture
8	37	The Reign of Terror	A Land of Fear	Dennis Spooner	Henric Hirsch
	38		Guests of Madame Guillotine
	39		A Change of Identity
	40		The Tyrant of France
	41		A Bargain of Necessity
	42		Prisoners of Conciergerie

Production

TBA from here onwards. Please help finish.

Crew

To be added.

Filming

To be added.

Home Media

 Physical Media

Title and Episodes included	Cover	Format	Number and duration of episodes	Release Date
				Region 1	Region 2

Country	Netflix	Amazon Video	Google Play	iTunes	Britbox	BBC iPlayer
United Kingdom	-	✓	-	-	✓	-
United States	-	-	-	-	✓	-
Canada	-	-	-	-	✓	-
Ireland	-	✓	-	✓	-	-
Australia	-	✓	-	✓	-	-

BBC Player is only available in the UK. iTunes only carry Doctor Who in the US, Canada, Ireland and Australia. Amazon Video can stream Doctor Who through BritBox in the US, and holds it as a paid series in all other countries, but Australia where it's included with Prime.