TEXT: Broadcast 30 November 1963 Duration: 24 minutes 35 seconds [SCENE_BREAK] 1: EXT. DESERT (Outside, a new element has entered the rocky wastes - the odd image of the police box, it's lantern still flashing, standing ungainly on the uneven ground. Part of the wasteland is suddenly obscured by a shadow - what looks like the shadow of a humanoid. It is in fact the shadow of a bearded caveman dressed in the furs. He stares at the TARDIS uncomprehendingly.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2: INT. CAVE (The interior of a large cavern, A whole group of cavemen and women are gathered around what looks like an unlit campfire. A caveman, ZA, is hunched over the wooden pile is flinging some dust on the sticks, and waving a bone over them. He rubs the bone between his hands furiously. A young caveboy walks out of the cavern; an old woman sat some distance away regards them all coldly.) OLD MOTHER: Where is the fire Za makes? HUR: (By Za.) In his hands! (To Za quietly.) It will not go into the wood. ZA: (Determined.) My father made fire... OLD MOTHER: They killed him for it. It is better that we live as we have always done. ZA: (Still rubbing) He showed me how to sharpen the stones...and trap the bear and the tiger. He should have shown me this too! OLD MOTHER: So that everyone would bow to you, as they did to him? (Infuriated, ZA picks up the pace of bone rubbing, snarling with growing frustration. Finally, he gives up and leaps to his feet, shouting into the OLD MOTHERS face.) ZA: Tell me what my father did to make fire! OLD MOTHER: I never saw him make it. That is all I know. (ZA brings his arm back to strike her - and stops with a growl.) ZA: Out of my sight,
SUMMARY:
Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton, two humble teachers during 1963, are surprised by a bright student named Susan Foreman. Feeling inquisitive of her upbringing, they seek out her residence to learn who nurtured such a genius. There, they discover a junkyard inhabited by her grandfather, simply known as "the Doctor", and he doesn't want them lurking about. When the teachers refuse to leave, they discover that an ordinary police box is actually bigger on the inside. The Doctor decides they know too much about his and Susan's otherworldly origins and takes them on a journey across space and time in his TARDIS, the place he and Susan now call home.