Doctor Who (1963) 1.01.04

The Firemaker

The Docotor, Susan, Ian, and Barbara are recaptured and taken back to the tribe's home. The Doctor and Ian lead a rebellion against Kal who tries to take over while Za is unconscious. Kal is driven from the home of the cave people.

Za assumes command and has the strangers put back in the Cave of Skulls. A guard is placed at the rear entrance so they cannot escape that way. Ian makes fire. Za shows up just in time to see the fire begin to burn. He takes the fire and shows it to the tribe. They are impressed. They do not let the Doctor and the others go.

Susan and Ian come up with a plan. They place four skulls on burning sticks of wood. When the tribe enters the cave they are scared of the burning skulls. The Doctor, Ian, Susan, and Barbara escape while the tribe is looking in awe at the burning skulls. Eventually the tribe realizes that they have been tricked and go after the strangers.

Doctor Who (1963) 1.01.03

The Forest of Fear

The Doctor and the others are unable to escape on their own. There is a big rock in front of the entrance to the Cave of Skulls. The Old Woman takes Za's knife. She gets into the cave via a secret entrance. She frees the Doctor and the others on condition that they agree not to teach the tribe how to make fire. They run into the forest.

Hur wakes up and tells Za that the old woman is going to free the captives. Za moves the great rock. Za and Hur are too late. The Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Susan have escaped. Za and Hur go after them. They have almost caught up to the time travelers when Za is attacked by a great beast. Ian thinks it is their chance to make a run back to the TARDIS but Barbara insists that they help Za.

Hur is suspicious of the time travelers' motives but she allows them to help Za. They make a stretcher with wooden poles and coats. The carry Za through the forest and back to the TARDIS. They find a gang of cavemen led by Kal waiting for them. 

Doctor Who (1963) 01.01.02

The Cave of Skulls

The Doctor argues with Ian who insists that what they are seeing on the screen in impossible. Ian thinks they are still in the junk yard. The Doctor opens the door and proves that they are not in the junkyard anymore.

The counter on the TARDIS indicates that they are in the year zero. The Doctor is convinced that it is malfunctioning and goes to look for evidence that will help him pinpoint the year in which they have arrived.

The Doctor disappears but the others find his gear. They go looking for him and find him in a cave that in inhabited by a group of cave people. Kal, one of the cave men, captured the Doctor and took him to the cave. Kal is arguing with Za, another cave man, when Susan, Barbara, and Ian arrive.

Za and Kal both want to lead the tribe but there is only room for one leader. Za claims he can make fire but so far he has yet to prove it. Kal is a great hunter who brings the group dead animals to eat. Kal saw the Doctor make fire with his hands and tries to use a threat of violence to convince the Doctor to make fire.

The Doctor says he will make fire but then realizes that he has misplaced his matches. The Doctor, Susan, Barbara, and Ian are tied up and placed in the Cave of Skulls.

Doctor Who (1963) 1.01.01

An Unearthly Child

There are some minor differences between this episode and the pilot but nothing major. Everything happens in the same order with some things changed slightly.

• Susan does not mess around with an ink blot test
• Susan's clothes in the second half of the episode are different from the pilot
• Ian does not try to wrestle the Doctor away from the controls of the TARDIS before it takes off

Doctor Who (1963) 1.01.01.a

An Unearthly Child - Pilot

Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, two teachers at Coal Hill School, compare their experiences with Susan Foreman, one of their students. They are both impressed by her and somewhat puzzled. She seems to know both more and less than they expect that a student her age would know.

Ian and Barbara offer her a ride home. She declines the offer. They know where she lives. Barbara has even been there but it is odd because it isn't a home but an old junk yard. Ian and Barbra return to the address where Susan is supposed to live. They watch her enter the yard. They follow her in but she has disappeared.

Ian and Barbara look around the junk yard. They find a police box. It seems out of place and there's a humming sound coming from it. They are thinking about leaving when an old man enters the yard. They confront him. They think they heard Susan's voice calling to him from inside the police box. They ask him to open it but he refuses.