Notes: The new Head of Drama at the BBC, Sydney Newman, decided to have a children's science fiction show take place on Saturday evenings in between the popular sports show Grandstand and the music show Juke Box Jury. The series went through many problems in it's early stages as unworkable scripts, budget problems and issues in the studio kept pushing the air date of the first episode back. The sixteenth of November was eventually decided upon and the first episode was recorded. However, Sydney Newman saw many problems with this episode and allowed it to be shot again, pushing the air date back another week to the twenty-third, making the original episode become known by fans as the "unaired pilot episode". The first episode was overshadowed by the assassination of President Kennedy so it was repeated the next week directly before the second episode.
Verdict: A flawless first episode leads into a tedious but unsettling final three parts. The set pieces are nice and the music unnerving, it's ultimately nothing more than the four travelers stuck in a cave with an annoying caveman tribe 6/10
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