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Revision as of 06:01, 14 June 2020
| 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 and David Graham
Guest
- Za - Derek Newark
- Hur - Alethea Charlton
- Old Mother - Eileen Way
- Kal - Jeremy Young
- Temmosus - Alan Wheatley
- Alydon - John Lee
- Dyoni - Virginia Wetherell
- Marco Polo - Mark Eden
- Tegana - Derren Nesbitt
- Ping-Cho - Zienia Merton
- Kublai Khan - Martin Miller
- Arbitan - George Coulouris
- Voords - Martin Cort, Peter Stenson, Gordon Wales
- Altos - Robin Phillips
- Sabetha - Katharine Schofield
- Yartek - Stephen Dartnell
- Autloc - Keith Pyott
- Tlotoxl - John Ringham
- Ixta - Ian Cullen
- Cameca - Margot Van der Burgh
- John - Stephen Dartnell
- Carol - Ilona Rodgers
- Maitland - Lorne Cossette
- Fourth Sensorite - Arthur Newall
- First Elder - Eric Francis
- Second Elder - Bartlett Mullins
- Sensorites - Anthony Rogers, Gerry Martin
- First Scientist - Ken Tyllsen
- Second Scientist - Joe Greig
- Warrior - Joe Greig
- Commander - John Bailey
- Rouvray - Laidlaw Dalling
- D'Argenson - Neville Smith
- James Stirling - James Cairncross
- Jean - Roy Herrick
- Jules Renan - Donald Morley
- Léon Colbert - Edward Brayshaw
- Maximilien Robespierre - Keith Anderson
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
Creation
The series was essentially the creation of a committee, with the following amongst the many who created the various parts that went into the series: Donald Wilson (time travel), Sydney Newman (the First Doctor and Susan), C. E. Webber (Ian and Barbara, scenario for the first episode), Anthony Coburn (Susan's name, the TARDIS looking like a police box), and David Whitaker (Susan as the Doctor's granddaughter).
Production overview
Verity Lambert was chosen by Sydney Newman as producer of the series and Mervyn Pinfield was assigned as associate producer, picking up on the mainly technical side of the series such as dealing with the in-camera SFX.
Initially, the series was only ordered for the first four episodes that made up 100,000 BC and came close to going no further. This was extended to thirteen episodes, but the production team had either eleven (100,000 BC and The Mutants) or eighteen (100,000 BC, The Mutants, Marco Polo). To solve this problem, David Whitaker wrote the two episode Inside the Spaceship, something that normally wouldn't have happened due to an existing rule that prohibited script editors writing for the series they were editing. (Otherwise they could simply have "hired" themselves and deprived other script writers of work.)
The first to third season story titles have been a contentious issue. For more information, see disputed story titles.
Stories considered during this season, but ultimately unmade, included:
- The Masters of Luxor (a.k.a. The Robots) by Anthony Coburn
- The Hidden Planet (a.k.a. Beyond the Sun) by Malcolm Hulke
- The Red Fort by Terry Nation
- Farewell Great Macedon by Moris Farhi
- The Miniscules by C. E. Webber (a variant on this idea appeared as Planet of Giants, aired during Season 2)
Crew
To be added.
Filming
To be added.
Aliens and Enemies
- Kal
- Daleks
- Thals
- Tegana
- Arbitan
- Voord
- Yartek
- Morpho
- Vassor
- Ice Soldiers
- Aydan
- Kala
- Eyesen
- Tlotoxi
- Lxta
- Sensorites
- City Administrator
- Fourth Sensorite
- Maximilien Robespierre
- Léon Colbert
Home Media
Physical Media
Download/Streaming
|
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.