AN UNEARTHLY CHILD (***)
Season One / Serial A (4 episodes)
Written by Anthony Coburn and C.E. Webber
Directed by Waris Hussein
Continuity |
Long-form storytelling: plot and character events, details, changes, and notable consistencies or lack thereof
The Doctor is a bit of a bastard, isn't he. Also, note the French Revolution book. The cavemen all seem to speak English...
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Mythology |
The abstract concepts that make up the show's world
TARDIS! Police box! Granddaughter!
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Logbook |
Passing references to unseen adventures; places gone, people met
Previous TARDIS travels?
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Commentary |
Notes, statistics, analysis, tropes, drinking games
Against odds, the story does a lot of things right. The caveman stuff should, by rights, be risible, yet it's played straight enough and written dramatically enough that it seems pretty believable and real -- probably important for a first trip, that it doesn't seem utterly illusory.
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Originally broadcast 11/23/1963 - 12/14/1963
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