An Unearthly Child (also known as 100,000 BC, among other titles, see below) is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 23 November to 14 December, 1963. It is the first serial of the series and introduces William Hartnell as the First Doctor, Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman, Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright and William Russell as Ian Chesterton. The first episode deals with Ian's and Barbara's discovery of the Doctor and his TARDIS in a junkyard in contemparary London. The remaining episodes are set in 100,000BC, amongst a power struggle between warring Stone Age factions. Plot In the first episode "An Unearthly Child", the four main characters are introduced, the Doctor is given vague background information. and the TARDIS is shown to travel through time for the first time. In "The Cave of Skulls", the group

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