An Unearthly Child

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Story Code: A / Season 1 UK Airdate: 23 Nov to 14 Dec 1963 Doctor: William Hartnell
First airings by location UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite / Next Story

(aka "100,000 BC") (We have identified this serial by the name we have, in preference to 100,000 BC, the title by which the BBC actively marketed the serial in 1964, because words work better in tables than numerals, and also to reflect that some countries screened the first episode only.)


This story aired in the following countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. If no month is noted, the actual airdate is not confirmed, and is a close approximate. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)

First-ever newspaper billing for Doctor Who outside the UK - 18 September 1964, Christchurch Press, New Zealand. Not exactly awe-inspiring, is it...
An Unearthly Child, Auckland debut, 30 October 1964 (NZ Listener)
New Zealand Sep 64 b/w
Australia Jan 65 b/w
Canada Jan 65 b/w
Singapore Apr 65 b/w
Gibraltar Apr 65 b/w
Malta May 65 b/w
Aden Jul 65 b/w
Nigeria Aug 65 b/w
Rhodesia / Zimbabwe Sep 65 b/w
Zambia Oct 65 b/w
Trinidad & Tobago Oct 65 b/w
Bermuda Dec 65 b/w
Uganda Jan 66 b/w
Jamaica Mar 66 b/w
Cyprus Mar 66 b/w
Ghana Apr? 66 b/w
Barbados Apr 66 b/w
Hong Kong Apr 66 b/w
Kenya Jun 66 b/w
Thailand Aug 66 b/w
Mauritius Oct 66 b/w
Venezuela Feb 67 b/w
Sierra Leone Apr 67 b/w
Tunisia Apr 67 b/w (ep1 only?)
Mexico May 68? b/w
Morocco 68? b/w (ep1 only)
Saudi Arabia 68? b/w (ep1 only)
Iran Dec 68? b/w
Chile Jan 69 b/w
Jordan 69? b/w (ep1 only?)
Libya Dec 69? b/w (ep1 only?)
Ethiopia Oct 70 b/w
Costa Rica|Jun 71 b/w
Algeria Dec 73 b/w (ep1 only)
  • Although the serial was fully dubbed into Arabic, only episode one of this serial screened in Arabic countries. (One possible reason for this is, a story set at the time of the cavemen, might have conflicted with religious beliefs in countries where Islam is practised.)
  • New Zealand sent its prints to Denmark in 1968 as Audition Prints, but the serial did not play there.
  • It has been reported that Cyprus sent its prints to Uganda - and yet, Uganda screened the serial two months before Cyprus! (Did Uganda send the unwanted prints to Ghana?)
  • The series was to have debuted in Rhodesia on 5 September 1965, but the premiere was delayed until 26 September; Rhodesia then sent its films to Zambia, whose intended 19 September 1965 debut, was as a result, postponed until 17 October. (Rhodesia's prints may have been supplied by Nigeria...)
  • See Hartnell Junkings


Reissue

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  • The serial was reissued by the BBC in late 1985, and sold to:
United States from Sep 85 b/w


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