The Best Episodes Directed By Waris Hussein

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   10.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - An Unearthly Child (Unaired Pilot)

   S0:E18/26/1991

   The first episode, "An Unearthly Child", was originally recorded a month before full recording on the series began. However, the initial recording was bedevilled with technical problems and errors made during the performance. Two versions of the scene set in the TARDIS were recorded, along with an aborted first attempt to start the second version.

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   7.9/10(37 votes)

   #2 - An Unearthly Child

   S1:E111/23/1963

   After discussing a strange pupil, Susan Foreman, teachers Ian and Barbara follow her to a junkyard. They meet her grandfather, the Doctor, and force their way inside a police box with frightening results.

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   6.8/10(8 votes)

   #3 - The Roof of the World

   S1:E142/22/1964

   The TARDIS experiences a total power failure and is stranded in the Himalayas in the 13th century. The travellers are forced to join the caravan of the famous explorer, Marco Polo, in order to survive -- but Polo, fascinated by their claims that the TARDIS can fly through the air, seizes it on behalf of Kublai Khan in the hope that presenting the Khan with such a fabulous gift will convince him to let Polo return home to Venice. The travellers are forced to accompany Polo on his long trek across Asia to the Khan's court, but their many attempts to reclaim their property are foiled -- not just by Polo, but by the war lord Tegana, who is apparently on a mission of peace but has entirely different plans for dealing with Kublai Khan...

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   6.5/10(6 votes)

   #4 - Assassin at Peking

   S1:E204/4/1964

   Tegana finally makes his move to assassinate the Khan, giving the Doctor and his friends an opportunity to thwart his plans and regain the TARDIS.

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   6.4/10(24 votes)

   #5 - The Firemaker

   S1:E412/14/1963

   The TARDIS crew must make fire for the early humans to stay alive. But once they do, they may not be allowed to leave!

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   6.3/10(7 votes)

   #6 - Five Hundred Eyes

   S1:E163/7/1964

   The Doctor and Susan are able to supply Marco with condensation that has formed inside the TARDIS, saving the group from dying of thirst. When the group are reunited with Tegana, the travellers begin to suspect he is up to something.

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   6.3/10(8 votes)

   #7 - The Singing Sands

   S1:E152/29/1964

   Tegana sabotages the party's water bags, leaving them in dire need of fresh supplies.

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   6.1/10(24 votes)

   #8 - The Forest of Fear

   S1:E312/7/1963

   Prisoners of the earliest humans, the TARDIS crew are caught in a deadly power play for leadership of the tribe.

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   6.0/10(7 votes)

   #9 - Rider from Shang Tu

   S1:E183/21/1964

   The Doctor and his friends elect to warn Marco of Acomat's attack even though it means losing their chance to gain access to the TARDIS.

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    6.0/10(6 votes)

    #10 - Mighty Kublai Khan

    S1:E193/28/1964

    The Doctor, Ian and Barbara are forced to surrender to Tegana and Marco, leaving both of them the opportunity to gain possession of the TARDIS.

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    5.8/10(26 votes)

    #11 - The Cave of Skulls

    S1:E211/30/1963

    The enigmatic Doctor, wary that Ian and Barbara will reveal his secrets to the people of 20th-century Earth, takes them and his granddaughter Susan back to the dawn of human history. There, the four travellers are dragged into the savage politics of a tribe of cavemen who have lost the secret of making fire...

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