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SEASON ONE (23rd November 1963 to 12 September 1964)

Producer: Verity Lambert Associate Producer: Mervyn Pinfield Story Editor: David Whitaker

Regular Cast: William Hartnell (Doctor Who) William Russell (Ian Chesterton) Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright) Carole Ann Ford (Susan Foreman)

story A "An Unearthly Child"
By Anthony Coburn (4 episodes)
Episode titles:
1:An Unearthly Child
2:The Cave of Skulls
3:The Forest of Fear
4:The Firemaker
Two schoolteachers discover their pupil and her grandfather, the Doctor, to be wanderers in space and time, and the Doctor uses his time machine, the TARDIS, to plunge them all back to a prehistoric age where cavemen have lost the secret of fire. Directed by Waris Hussein

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story B "The Daleks"
By Terry Nation (7 episodes)
Episode titles:
1:The Dead Planet
2:The Survivors
3:The Escape
4:The Ambush
5:The Expedition
6:The Ordeal
7:The Rescue
-The TARDIS arrives in a petrified jungle near a metal city. The city is populated by mutated creatures that live in mobile machines, called Daleks, who wish to renew a nuclear war with their old race enemies, the Thals.
Directed by Christopher Barry (1,2,4,5) and Richard Martin (3,6,7)
Guest stars: Peter Hawkins and David Graham (Dalek Voices) Robert Jewell, Kevin Manser, Michael Summerton, Gerald Taylor, Peter Murphy (Daleks)

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story C "The Edge of Destruction"
By David Whitaker (2 episodes)
Episode titles:
1:The Edge of Destruction
2:The Brink of Disaster
-An explosion halts the TARDIS in its tracks and the crew exhibit strange, almost possessed behavior as they attempt to find the dangerous faults in the Ship.
Directed by Richard Martin (1) and Frank Cox (2)

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Story D "Marco Polo"
By John Lucarotti (7 episodes)
Episode titles:
1:A Journey to Cathay
2:The Singing Sands
3:Five Hundred Eyes
4:The Wall of Lies
5:Rider From Shang-Tu
6:Mighty Kublai Khan
7:Assassin at Peking
-The TARDIS crew meet Marco Polo whilst on a journey to China, who then takes the TARDIS from them as a gift to the Emperor Kublai Khan so that he may return to Venice.
Directed by Waris Hussein (1-3,5-7) and John Crockett (4) All seven episodes missing.

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story E "The Keys of Marinus"
By Terry Nation (6 episodes)
Episode titles:
1:The Sea of Death
2:The Velvet Web
3:The Screaming Jungle
4:The Snows of Terror
5:Sentence of Death
6:The Keys of Marinus
-The TARDIS puts down on an island surrounded by an acid sea. The only structure houses a solitary guardian and a machine that can irradiate a benevolent influence over the entire planet. Five keys are needed for its operation, however, and the man forces the Doctor and the others to search the planet for the missing four...
Directed by John Gorrie

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story F "The Aztecs"
By John Lucarotti (4 episodes)
Episode titles:
1:The Temple of Evil
2:The Warriors of Death
3:The Bride of Sacrifice.
4:The Day of Darkness
-Barbara attempts to change history by making the Aztecs change their sacrificial ways before the Spanish land, whilst the Doctor and Ian must work out a way to regain access to an entombed TARDIS.
Directed by John Crockett

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story G "The Sensorites"
By Peter R. Newman (6 episodes)
Episode titles:
1:Strangers in Space
2:The Unwilling Warriors
3:Hidden Danger
4:A Desperate Venture
5:A Race Against Death
6:Kidnap
-A crew of three Earth people are held mental prisoners in a spaceship fixed in orbit about the Sense-Sphere, whose inhabitants, the Sensorites, are afraid of exploitation and suspicious of a deadly disease that seems to have been brought by others from Earth.
Directed by Mervyn Pinfield (1-4) and Frank Cox (5,6)

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story H "The Reign of Terror"
By Dennis Spooner (6 episodes)
Episode titles:
1:A Land of Fear
2:Guests of Madame Guillotine
3:A Change of Identity
4:The Tyrant of France
5:A Bargain of Necessity
6:Prisoners of Conciergerie
-The TARDIS crew are split up during the Terror, the French Revolution, and the Doctor must work to reunite them all back to the TARDIS whilst negotiating through an English spy.
Directed by Henric Hirsch episodes 5 and 6 missing

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