Doctor Who fans it's been quite a long time since i've covered a classic of classic Doctor Who and well with the final episode of Doctor Who series 13 airing this Sunday I thought that now was the right time to dip my toes back into the world of classic Doctor Who and well i've chosen a literal classic episode to review for you all today. So join me as I review the very first ever episode of Doctor Who with the episode in question being called freaking simply just "An Unearthly Child" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is The Doctor , Susan , Ian and Barbera find themselves in the stone age and are caught up in the middle of a power struggle between two warring stone age factions both of whom claim that they and they alone can make fire with there bare hands. Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot of this very episode in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot of this very episode was at best decent since the plot doesn't really get going until episode 2 which for a four episode storyline isn't a good thing at all in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is William Hartnell as The Doctor , Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman and Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright. Also starring in this William Russell as Ian Chesterton , Derek Newark as Za , Alethea Charlton as Hur , Eileen Way as Old Mother , Jeremy Young as Kal and Howard Lang as Horg. In all honesty I in all honesty really did think that this episode had a much larger cast list but nope it turns that every single actors that i've listed is every single actors whom is appearing / starring in this very episode and that alone makes this episode feel completely different from the more modern episodes of Doctor Who where we now have more then enough cast members to fill out the cast of a feature length film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Now then as for / in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was shockingly really good. I say that because on paper a concept like / such as Doctor Who really doesn't require actually good acting from it's main actors and actresses and so it's good to see that all of the actors and actresses that are appearing in / starring in this freaking episode really did turn some really freaking good performances in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
So now then for anybody whom is expecting this incarnation of The Doctor to start out all friendly and welcoming well then you all should be in a for a bit of a freaking shock then wont you. Simply because this version of The Doctor isn't friendly at all and he hates everybody that he considers to be beneath him which is a far of cry from the version of the The Doctor that we now have on our screens but that just goes t show you how far he character has developed in the intervening fifty eight years since this episodes initial freaking broadcast in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Now then this is to my knowledge the only episode of Doctor Who to make use of flashback sequences but i could be wrong tho so please don't hold me to that. However if true tho then I have to wonder why they were included in this episode since you very easily / well could have gotten the exact same information across without having to include not one but two flashback sequences in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
So now then I really do have to talk about Susan because I really didn't like the character in this episode since she comes across as quite whining and annoying character. Which hopefully gets dialled down quite a bit in her later episodes / appearences but you only get one chance to make a good first impression and well she didn't make a very good first impression on me personally in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Now then it really is hard for me personally to figure out who the main bad guy / villain of this episode was simply because literally everybody in the stone age faction / tribe act as villains towards all four of our main heroes. Which does make it hard to tell who the main villain / bad guy of this episode is but at the same time maybe everybody whose in / apart of the stone age faction / tribe are meant to be villains but if that is the case then why have our main heroes only run away from one set of the stone faction / tribe and not from the entire stone age faction / tribe which would make alot more sense story wise since all of the members of the stone age faction / tribe are being presented to us as villains in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
So now then this episode / serial lasts for four episodes with each episode lasting roughly around twenty three to twenty four minuets long in length which means that this whole serial lasts no longer roughly one hour and thirty minuets and well if anything this serial should have been at the very least five or even six episodes long in length. Since then all of our main heroes would then get the chance to fully fleshed out and our villains would then get the chance to actually show us why there actually villains and why we should be scared for our main heroes to be coming up against them in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Now then since there is some action in this serial / episode that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode / serial and well in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode / serial was at best OK. Which is in all honesty the best thing that I can say about the action that we got in this episode since this serial / episode was made in the early to mid nineteen sixties and so of course the action that we got in this episode isn't going to be that good because of that one simple fact in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while this serial / episode wasn't a bad episode / serial for this iconic franchise to start out on it's clear as day to anybody with eyes that this show is still finding it's footing / feet with this particular episode / serial in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now i've talked about all of the good and all of the bad things that are in this episode / serial in this very review and as such that means that this particular episode / serial earns itself a freaking grand old freaking score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page and from Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.