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The Pilot Episode is a name used to market the first recording of the individual episode, An Unearthly Child. The term is not strictly accurate, however, as pilots did not exist in the British television industry of 1963. It is sometimes imprecisely called "the first episode of Doctor Who", but this suggests a level of difference to "An Unearthly Child" which can't fairly be said to exist. It is merely a different version of the first episode of Doctor Who. which was not allowed to be broadcast because Sydney Newman thought it possessed of too many technical flaws and misjudged characterizations.

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  • An Unearthly Child (pilot episode)
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  • The Pilot Episode is a name used to market the first recording of the individual episode, An Unearthly Child. The term is not strictly accurate, however, as pilots did not exist in the British television industry of 1963. It is sometimes imprecisely called "the first episode of Doctor Who", but this suggests a level of difference to "An Unearthly Child" which can't fairly be said to exist. It is merely a different version of the first episode of Doctor Who. which was not allowed to be broadcast because Sydney Newman thought it possessed of too many technical flaws and misjudged characterizations.
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  • 1500.0
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doctor
  • William Hartnell
Executive Producer
  • None
Date
  • 1963-09-27(xsd:date)
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Producer
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  • Pilot
Caption
  • William Hartnell and Carole Ann Ford in the original pilot episode.
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serial name
  • An Unearthly Child
Show
  • DW
Companion
  • Carole Ann Ford
  • William Russell
  • Jacqueline Hill
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  • An Unearthly Child
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  • The Pilot Episode is a name used to market the first recording of the individual episode, An Unearthly Child. The term is not strictly accurate, however, as pilots did not exist in the British television industry of 1963. It is sometimes imprecisely called "the first episode of Doctor Who", but this suggests a level of difference to "An Unearthly Child" which can't fairly be said to exist. It is merely a different version of the first episode of Doctor Who. which was not allowed to be broadcast because Sydney Newman thought it possessed of too many technical flaws and misjudged characterizations. Five different edits of this initial take on "Unearthly" have been made available to the public through the years, creating some ambiguity over what is meant by the phrase "the pilot". The actual plots of the two recordings of "Unearthly" are insignificantly different. Nevertheless, all of "the pilot"'s subsequent edits had obvious differences with "An Unearthly Child" as broadcast, especially with respect to performance and technical recording flaws. Only a handful of lines of dialogue are actually different between the pilot and "Child", but they suggest things about the character and back story of the Doctor which would be hard to reconcile against the general characterization which later obtained. Consequently, it's not generally believed to be canonical by most fans. No edit of "the pilot" was broadcast until 1991, and fans could not easily compare the various edits of "the pilot" until multiple versions were released on a single DVD in 2006.
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