The Best Episodes Written By Anthony Coburn

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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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   6.4/10(24 votes)

   #3 - 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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   6.1/10(24 votes)

   #4 - 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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   5.8/10(26 votes)

   #5 - 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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