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

An Unearthly Child (serial A) (aka 100,000 BC)

(We have identified this serial by the name we have, in preference to 100,000 BC because words work better in tables than numerals!)

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

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
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
Ghana	Jul 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
Mexico	May 68?	b/w
Morocco	68	b/w
Saudi Arabia	68	b/w
Dominican Republic	68	b/w
Chile	Jan 69	b/w
Iran	69	b/w
Jordan	69	b/w
Libya	69	b/w
Ethiopia	Oct 70	b/w
Algeria	Dec 73	b/w

• 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!

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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