An Unearthly Child

Story Code: A / Season 1	UK Airdate: 23 Nov to 14 Dec 1963	Doctor: William Hartnell
First airings by location	UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite	/ Next Story

(aka "100,000 BC") (We have identified this serial by the name we have, in preference to 100,000 BC, the title by which the BBC actively marketed the serial in 1964, because words work better in tables than numerals, and also to reflect that some countries screened the first episode only.)

This story aired in the following countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. If no month is noted, the actual airdate is not confirmed, and is a close approximate. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)

First-ever newspaper billing for Doctor Who outside the UK - 18 September 1964, Christchurch Press, New Zealand. Not exactly awe-inspiring, is it...

An Unearthly Child, Auckland debut, 30 October 1964 (NZ Listener)

New Zealand	Sep 64	b/w
Australia	Jan 65	b/w
Canada	Jan 65	b/w
Singapore	Apr 65	b/w
Gibraltar	Apr 65	b/w
Malta	May 65	b/w
Aden	Jul 65	b/w
Nigeria	Aug 65	b/w
Rhodesia / Zimbabwe	Sep 65	b/w
Zambia	Oct 65	b/w
Trinidad & Tobago	Oct 65	b/w
Bermuda	Dec 65	b/w
Uganda	Jan 66	b/w
Ghana	Feb 66?	b/w
Jamaica	Mar 66	b/w
Cyprus	Mar 66	b/w
Barbados	Apr 66	b/w
Hong Kong	Apr 66	b/w
Kenya	Jun 66	b/w
Thailand	Aug 66	b/w
Mauritius	Oct 66	b/w
Venezuela	Feb 67	b/w
Sierra Leone	Apr 67	b/w
Tunisia	Apr 67	b/w (ep1 only?)
Mexico	May 68?	b/w
Morocco	68?	b/w (ep1 only)
Saudi Arabia	68?	b/w (ep1 only)
Iran	Dec 68?	b/w
Chile	Jan 69	b/w
Jordan	69?	b/w (ep1 only?)
Libya	Dec 69?	b/w (ep1 only?)
Ethiopia	Oct 70	b/w
Algeria	Dec 73	b/w (ep1 only)

• Although the serial was fully dubbed into Arabic, only episode one of this serial screened in Arabic countries. (One possible reason for this is, a story set at the time of the cavemen, might have conflicted with religious beliefs in countries where Islam is practised.)
• New Zealand sent its prints to Denmark in 1968, but the serial did not play there.
• It has been reported that Cyprus sent its prints to Uganda - and yet, Uganda screened the serial two months before Cyprus!
• The series was to have debuted in Rhodesia on 5 September 1965, but the premiere was delayed until 26 September; Rhodesia then sent its films to Zambia, whose intended 19 September 1965 debut, was as a result, postponed until 17 October. (Rhodesia's prints may have been supplied by Nigeria...)

Reissue

• The serial was reissued by the BBC in late 1985, and sold to:

United States

from Sep 85

b/w

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