Two worried teachers whose curiosity leads them to a deserted junk yard, and extraordinary police box and a mysterious traveller known only as the Doctor ...

A fantastic journey through Space and Time ending in a terrifying adventure at the dawn of history ...
 

A police box in a fog-shrouded junk-yard.

A mysterious pupil who knows more than her teachers.

A white-haired old man in an Edwardian frock-coat.

These were the key elements in the first episode of what was to become the World's longest running television science-fiction series. Read for the first time the complete script of the first-ever Doctor Who story together with background and technical information.

First of a new series.
 

A Time Lord from another civilization, the Doctor has travelled through time and space bringing thrilling cosmic adventures to millions of fans for over 25 years. Now the most familiar mystery figure in science fiction, a traveller from another world and a distant future first captured a generation of viewers on November 23rd 1963. With a much missed William Hartnell and the first incarnation of the Doctor, this original unedited classic adventure returns us to the days when he first seized our imaginations and begged the question "Doctor Who?"

Visiting Britain in 1963 the Doctor's grand-daughter has become a pupil at an ordinary school. A strange amalgam of teenage normality and uncanny intelligence she whets the curiosity of two school teachers who become inextricably involved in the Doctor's strange travels. Proving that time goes round in circles, the Doctor blasts them back to a pre-civilized age of the Great Cold where tribal leaders battle for supremacy in a race to make fire. Thrown into the cave of skulls the Doctor and hius companions soon realize that their lives depend on two alternatives: making fire without matches or escaping through the forest of fear ...