The BEST episodes written by Anthony Coburn

An Unearthly Child: An Unearthly Child (1)
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#1 - An Unearthly Child: An Unearthly Child (1)

Doctor Who - Season 1 - Episode 1

London, 1963. Schoolteachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright are perplexed by the behaviour of one of their pupils, Susan Foreman. Her knowledge of science and history exceeds theirs, yet she seems totally ignorant of many common aspects of everyday life. They follow her to her home address, a junkyard with a police telephone box standing in it, and encounter her grandfather, the enigmatic Doctor. When they force their way past him into the police box, Susan's secret is revealed: she and the Doctor are aliens, and the police box is a time machine, the TARDIS, capable of visiting any point in the universe at any moment in time…

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An Unearthly Child: The Forest of Fear (3)
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#2 - An Unearthly Child: The Forest of Fear (3)

Doctor Who - Season 1 - Episode 3

Prisoners of the earliest humans, the TARDIS crew are caught in a deadly power play for leadership of the tribe.

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An Unearthly Child: The Cave of Skulls (2)
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#3 - An Unearthly Child: The Cave of Skulls (2)

Doctor Who - Season 1 - Episode 2

Earth, 100,000 B.C. The enigmatic Doctor, afraid that schoolteachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright will reveal his secrets to the people of 20th century Earth, has taken them and his granddaughter Susan back to the dawn of human history. There, the four travellers are dragged into the savage politics of a tribe of cavemen who have lost the secret of making fire…

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An Unearthly Child: The Firemaker (4)
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#4 - An Unearthly Child: The Firemaker (4)

Doctor Who - Season 1 - Episode 4

The TARDIS crew must make fire for the early humans to stay alive. But once they do, they may not be allowed to leave!

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