The Firemaker – Doctor Who – S01E01p4

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I have finally reached the fourth and final episode of the four parts of An Unearthly Child or 100,000 BC. Thank goodness. I really don’t think I could take much more of this story arc.

At the end of the previous episode the Doctor and his companions had escaped and were trying to find [...]

The Forest of Fear – Doctor Who – SO1E03

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This episode starts with captivity and the strange shaman/witch/cavewoman/Old Mother wanting to kill The Doctor and his companions and ends with a scream. Guess who screams. That’s right, Susan. I don’t care for the character but she does excel at screaming.

The Doctor and companions are captives in a cave killed with skulls [...]

The Cave of Skulls – Doctor Who – S01E02

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After the wonderful first episode, I was disappointed to discover that our first journey in the Tardis would take us to a paleolithic landscape inhabited by prehistoric man. Have we traveled back in time on Earth, traveled through space to planet in an earlier stage of development, or is it something else? The [...]

The Unearthly Child – Doctor Who – S01E01

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The very first episode of Doctor Who aired November 23, 1963 and features William Hartnell as the Doctor. Other cast members are Carol Ann Ford as Susan Foreman (the Doctor’s granddaughter?), William Russell as Ian Chesterton and Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright.
Ian and Barbara are teachers at Susan’s school (rather nosy ones too). [...]