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Doctor Who

Season 1

42 listed hours · 1963– · BBC

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How this season is filed

Filed by Max Sterling · Streaming Confidential

A Time Lord, a police box bigger on the inside, and regeneration as infinite franchise life: Doctor Who launched from the BBC in 1963 and never really parked. Early black-and-white serials built the mythology; Hartnell-to-Troughton proved the lead could change without ending the show. The longest experiment in serialized reinvention — woolly, weird, endlessly renewable.

TV Flash files Season 1 of Doctor Who (1963–) on BBC as the first listed season of 26 — 42 listed hours, 1963-11-23–1964-09-12 from “An Unearthly Child (An Unearthly Child, Part One)” (S01E01) to “Prisoners of Conciergerie (The Reign of Terror, Part Six)” (S01E42). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S01E01 An Unearthly Child (An Unearthly Child, Part One)

    An Unearthly Child, Part One — November 1963, the police box as bigger-on-the-inside contract and Hartnell's first step into myth.

  2. S01E05 The Dead Planet (The Daleks, Part One)

    The Dead Planet opens The Daleks: the creature brand that proved the show could outlive a single Time Lord.

  1. S01E01 An Unearthly Child (An Unearthly Child, Part One)
  2. S01E02 The Cave of Skulls (An Unearthly Child, Part Two)
  3. S01E03 The Forest of Fear (An Unearthly Child, Part Three)
  4. S01E04 The Firemaker (An Unearthly Child, Part Four)
  5. S01E05 The Dead Planet (The Daleks, Part One)
  6. S01E06 The Survivors (The Daleks, Part Two)
  7. S01E07 The Escape (The Daleks, Part Three)
  8. S01E08 The Ambush (The Daleks, Part Four)
  9. S01E09 The Expedition (The Daleks, Part Five)
  10. S01E10 The Ordeal (The Daleks, Part Six)
  11. S01E11 The Rescue (The Daleks, Part Seven)
  12. S01E12 The Edge of Destruction (The Edge of Destruction, Part One)
  13. S01E13 The Brink of Disaster (The Edge of Destruction, Part Two)
  14. S01E14 The Roof of the World (Marco Polo, Part One)
  15. S01E15 The Singing Sands (Marco Polo, Part Two)
  16. S01E16 Five Hundred Eyes (Marco Polo, Part Three)
  17. S01E17 The Wall of Lies (Marco Polo, Part Four)
  18. S01E18 Rider From Shang-Tu (Marco Polo, Part Five)
  19. S01E19 Mighty Kublai Khan (Marco Polo, Part Six)
  20. S01E20 Assassin at Peking (Marco Polo, Part Seven)
  21. S01E21 The Sea of Death (The Keys of Marinus, Part One)
  22. S01E22 The Velvet Web (The Keys of Marinus, Part Two)
  23. S01E23 The Screaming Jungle (The Keys of Marinus, Part Three)
  24. S01E24 The Snows of Terror (The Keys of Marinus, Part Four)
  25. S01E25 Sentence of Death (The Keys of Marinus, Part Five)
  26. S01E26 The Keys of Marinus (The Keys of Marinus, Part Six)
  27. S01E27 The Temple of Evil (The Aztecs, Part One)
  28. S01E28 The Warriors of Death (The Aztecs, Part Two)
  29. S01E29 The Bride of Sacrifice (The Aztecs, Part Three)
  30. S01E30 The Day of Darkness (The Aztecs, Part Four)
  31. S01E31 Strangers in Space (The Sensorites, Part One)
  32. S01E32 The Unwilling Warriors (The Sensorites, Part Two)
  33. S01E33 Hidden Danger (The Sensorites, Part Three)
  34. S01E34 A Race Against Death (The Sensorites, Part Four)
  35. S01E35 Kidnap (The Sensorites, Part Five)
  36. S01E36 A Desperate Venture (The Sensorites, Part Six)
  37. S01E37 A Land of Fear (The Reign of Terror, Part One)
  38. S01E38 Guests of Madame Guillotine (The Reign of Terror, Part Two)
  39. S01E39 A Change of Identity (The Reign of Terror, Part Three)
  40. S01E40 The Tyrant of France (The Reign of Terror, Part Four)
  41. S01E41 A Bargain of Necessity (The Reign of Terror, Part Five)
  42. S01E42 Prisoners of Conciergerie (The Reign of Terror, Part Six)

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