Two alternate edits were released to home video on The Hartnell Years and as a bonus with the UK VHS release of DW: The Edge of Destruction. The version initially broadcast in 1991 incorporates several of the dialogue and technical errors that occurred during filming (Carole Ann Ford muffing her line about John Smith and the Common Men, Jacqueline Hill getting caught in the door, William Russell knocking over a prop, the TARDIS doors banging, etc. Several versions of the pilot have been circulated. Part 3 - The scene from the teachers first entering the TARDIS until the end of the episode, complete with end credits of "An Unearthly Child." There is no "Next Episode" caption.
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This effect was not used in the final transmitted version or in any stories of the original series though it has become standard in the new series. A noticeable difference between this and the final version is that the interior of the TARDIS is visible as Barbara forces her way through the doors. This version has several technical problems and problems with the dialogue.īarbara forces her way into the quite visible TARDIS interior.Īdded by Freethinker1of1Part 2 - Begins with the teachers and Doctor entering the TARDIS, there is some kind of problem and the take is abandoned. Part 1 - The scenes set inside the TARDIS Console room. A few dialogue and technical problems occur during this section. It was also said by some to look like a strange alien creature. For example, rather than read the book Barbara has loaned her, Susan plays with dropping ink on a sheet of paper, then doodling with the resulting inkblot, creating a hexagonal image (the same shape as the TARDIS control console, and a shape which is later used frequently in reference to Time Lords). They are very similar to the broadcast version but with a few minor differences. Section 1 is the near-identical scenes of An Unearthly Child set in the School, Ian's car and the Junkyard.Fearful that the schoolteachers will tell others of what they have seen, the mysterious old man, First Doctor, activates the machine's controls and whisks them away from the world they know. Soon after meeting the girl's irascible grandfather the First Doctor, they find that the police box is in fact a fantastic vessel, the TARDIS, capable of travelling through space and time. They follow her home one evening to discover that she seems to live in a police box in a junkyard. School teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright are curious about their student Susan Foreman, who is brilliant in many areas of science and history but is ignorant of such mundane matters as how many shillings make a Pound Sterling.
No edit of "the pilot" was broadcast until 1991, and fans could not easily compare the various edits of "the pilot" until multiple versions were released on a single DVD in 2006. Consequently, it's not generally believed to be canonical by most fans. Only a handful of lines of dialogue are actually different between the pilot and "Child", but they suggest things about the character and back story of the Doctor which would be hard to reconcile against the general characterization which later obtained. Nevertheless, all of "the pilot"'s subsequent edits had obvious differences with "An Unearthly Child" as broadcast, especially with respect to performance and technical recording flaws. The actual plots of the two recordings of "Unearthly" are insignificantly different.
which was not allowed to be broadcast because Sydney Newman thought it possessed of too many technical flaws and misjudged characterizations.įive different edits of this initial take on "Unearthly" have been made available to the public through the years, creating some ambiguity over what is meant by the phrase "the pilot". It is merely a different version of the first episode of Doctor Who. It is sometimes imprecisely called "the first episode of Doctor Who", but this suggests a level of difference to "An Unearthly Child" which can't fairly be said to exist. The term is not strictly accurate, however, as pilots did not exist in the British television industry of 1963.
The Pilot Episode is a name used to market the first recording of the individual episode, An Unearthly Child.
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