doctor who season 1 episode 2 the cave of skulls

Several changes were made to the show's costuming, effects, performances, and scripts throughout production. Following several delays, the first episode was recorded in September 1963 on 405-line black and white videotape, but was re-recorded the following month due to several technical and performance errors.

Production was led by Verity Lambert, the BBC drama department's first female producer, and the serial was directed by Waris Hussein. Newman conceived the idea of the TARDIS, as well as the central character of the Doctor. Canadian producer Sydney Newman, recently made Head of Drama at the BBC, was tasked with creating the show, with heavy contributions from Donald Wilson and C. The show was created to fill a gap between children's and young adult programming. The remaining episodes are set amid a power struggle between warring Stone Age factions who have lost the secret of making fire. The first episode deals with Ian and Barbara's discovery of the Doctor and his time-space ship, the TARDIS, in a junkyard in contemporary London. Scripted by Australian writer Anthony Coburn, the serial introduces William Hartnell as the First Doctor and his original companions: Carole Ann Ford as the Doctor's granddaughter, Susan Foreman, with Jacqueline Hill and William Russell as school teachers Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton. It was first broadcast on BBC TV in four weekly parts from 23 November to 14 December 1963. An Unearthly Child (sometimes referred to as 100,000 BC) is the first serial of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Doctor who season 1 episode 2 the cave of skulls