Season 1 of Doctor Who ran between 23rd November 1963 and 12th September 1964. It starred William Hartnell as the Doctor.
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It consisted of eight serials (listed below) and 42 episodes, and a pilot episode which never aired on television. (More accurately, the production team made several version of the pilot episode.) The inaugural season established many of the concepts that continue to the present day, as well as introducing the hugely popular Daleks. Two of the three historical stories this season are presently considered lost, although audio recordings of all episodes remain.
| # | Title | Writer | Episodes | Notes |
| 1 | An Unearthly Child | Anthony Coburn | 4 | First appearances of the First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and the TARDIS |
| 2 | The Daleks | Terry Nation | 7 | First appearance of the Daleks |
| 3 | The Edge of Destruction | David Whitaker | 2 | |
| 4 | Marco Polo | John Lucarotti | 7 | First storyline based around an historical figure |
| 5 | The Keys of Marinus | Terry Nation | 6 | |
| 6 | The Aztecs | John Lucarotti | 4 | |
| 7 | The Sensorites | Peter R. Newman | 6 | |
| 8 | The Reign of Terror | Dennis Spooner | 7 | First story to feature location filming |
Season 1 was the last season before Season 6 to retain the same core cast members for an entire series.
The series was essentially the creation of a committee, with the following amongst the many who created the various parts that went into the series: Donald Wilson (time travel), Sydney Newman (the Doctor and Susan), C. E. Webber (Ian and Barbara, scenario for the first episode), Anthony Coburn (Susan's name, the TARDIS looking like a police box), David Whitaker (Susan as the Doctor's granddaughter).
Verity Lambert was chosen by Sydney Newman as Producer of the series and Mervyn Pinfield was assigned as Associate Producer, picking up on the mainly technical side of the series such as dealing with the in-camera SFX.
Initially, the series was only ordered for the first four episodes that made up 100 000 BC and came close to going no further. This was extended to thirteen episodes, but the production team had either eleven (100,000 BC and The Mutants) or eighteen (100,000 BC, The Mutants, Marco Polo). To solve this problem, David Whitaker wrote the two episode Inside the Spaceship, something that normally wouldn't have happened due to an existing rule that prohibited Script Editors writing for the series they were editing. (Otherwise they could simply have "hired" themselves and deprived other script writers of work.)
The first through to third season story titles have been a contentious issue for more information. See Disputed story titles.
Stories considered during this season, but ultimately going unmade included:
See episode articles for full detials
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| An Unearthly Child • The Daleks • The Edge of Destruction • Marco Polo • The Keys of Marinus • The Aztecs • The Sensorites • The Reign of Terror |
| Aliens and Enemies of Season 1 |
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| An Unearthly Child: Kal The Daleks: Daleks • Thals • Lake Monster Marco Polo: Tegana • Mongol Bandit • Malik • Acomat • Kuiju The Keys of Marinus: Yartek • Voords • Marinusians • Morpho Brains • Vasor Ice Soldiers • Kala • Aydan • Eyesen The Aztecs: Tlotoxl The Sensorites: Sensorites • Second Elder The Reign of Terror: Maximilien Robespierre • Léon Colbert |
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| Classic Series: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 26 |
| 1996 movie |
| New Series: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 2009 Specials • 5 |
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| Season premiere | November 10, 1969 (001) |
| Season finale | May 8, 1970 (130) |
| No. of episodes | 130 |
After five test shows and years of preparation, Sesame Street premiered on NET (National Educational Television, a precursor of PBS) on November 10, 1969.
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During this 1st season, Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird were the only Muppets to regularly appear in Street scenes, while Bert, Ernie, and other Muppets debuted in separate segments. Many of the Muppet characters had designs and/or character traits that would be changed or dropped later on. Big Bird had a much more naïve voice and a smaller head with fewer feathers, and was written as a sort of dopey adult character. Oscar, who would still retain much of his grouchy demeanor almost 40 years later, had orange fur. Monsters, who would become core characters by the second season, had fierce teeth, often destroyed anything in their path, and didn't have consistent names.
Bob, Mr. Hooper, Gordon, and Susan were the original human cast members. With the exception of Mr. Hooper, who died in 1982, the other original characters are still with the series as of 2008, making them some of the longest continually-running non-soap opera characters in American entertainment. Like the Muppets, the human characters would change over time. Bob, originally a shop teacher, would later teach music, and by the end of the first season Susan would become a nurse. The season also featured live-action segments starring Buddy and Jim, a human comedy duo that failed at such tasks as hanging a picture and making a sandwich. Jennie also made occasional appearances.
Sesame Street's format as established in 1969 would remain virtually unchanged for decades; live-action street scenes would alternate with Muppet comedy skits, musical numbers and short film segments, all known collectively as "inserts". Many of the Muppet scenes and films were created so that they could be replayed over and over (at least one segment would be repeated within any given episode); some of the segments made in 1969 would continue to be rebroadcast into the 1990s. (Many of these pieces are available for viewing at sesamestreet.org, and continue to be shown in various international co-productions.)
The original episodes had a much more literal, almost lecture-like tone to the Street scenes, closer in style to its original contemporaries like Mister Rogers' Neighborhood or Captain Kangaroo. With time, the Street-scenes became more natural with a definite plot thrust, with less breaking of the fourth wall. For example, in the first episode, Ernie once addresses the audience as those in "TV land".
While the Muppets would eventually become the biggest stars of the show, they did not appear as frequently as the cast. Cartoon segments aired more frequently than Muppet segments, and as such, some of the original illustrated promotional material featured the cast and Muppets interacting with animated characters, who also appeared in advertisements of the show. Animated segments and live-action inserts featured in the season included Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes, Jazz Numbers, Speech Balloons, Alphabet Bates and Number Song Series, most of which continued to air many years later.
The season introduced many original songs that have gone on to become beloved Sesame Street classics, including "Rubber Duckie",, "I Love Trash", "Bein' Green", "The People in Your Neighborhood" and "One of These Things". While all of those songs would have multiple performances on the show over the years, the last two would have many different versions during this season.
During the first season, many segments had some sort of connection with each other. It would be common for characters in the street scenes to introduce the next segments, various Muppet inserts would directly lead into the next film or cartoon, celebrities would appear in sort tag sequences commenting on the previous segments, and some Muppet inserts would have them commenting on the previous segments. Some episodes during this season would end with live animals appearing on the street set.
In 1968, the Children's Television Workshop established the original educational concepts that would prepare children for school. Over time these would be expanded into larger fields (such as women's career awareness, medical issues, and science and space). The original topics that were focused on during the first season included:
Episodes 0001 - 0130 (130 episodes)
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This article contains episode summaries for the first season of Lost.
In the U.S., original episodes of season one aired between September 22, 2004 and May 25, 2005. For airdates on other networks and in other countries, see: Airdates.
In order of character appearances
*Only listed in the episodes she appeared in through "Homecoming," and then became a full regular.
In order of character appearances
Emilie de Ravin was referred too as a guest star in press releases and only credited when she appeared from the introduction to her return in "Homecoming". She became a full regular after the show was picked up for a full season after "Outlaws", being credited even when she did not appear and being billed as a regular in press releases.
Season 1 concentrated on the middle-section survivors and their fight for survival and rescue. Major plot points included:
On September 22, 2004, a plane breaks apart in mid-air, scattering survivors on a remote island somewhere in the South Pacific. Forty-eight of these survivors, after the initial shock passes, attempt to set up a camp, and figure out where they are, but are disturbed by loud roaring noises and crashing trees emanating from the nearby jungle.
Three of the survivors, Jack, Kate and Charlie, set out to find the cockpit. An injured pilot tells them that the plane had lost radio contact six hours after take off, turned back for Fiji, and hit turbulence. The plane was a thousand miles off course when it crashed. The Monster rips the pilot from the cockpit, consequently killing him, and the remaining three run for the beach.
Jack, a spinal surgeon from Los Angeles, tries to save an injured survivor. However, he discovers a mugshot of Kate, with whom he has begun a close friendship. After initial mistrust and the death of the Marshal, both of them agree to start fresh.
One of the survivors, a former Iraqi Republican Guard communications officer named Sayid, attempts to repair a transceiver. A few survivors trek high into the mountains in an attempt to get a signal, and are attacked by a polar bear along the way. When they finally do turn on the transceiver, they learn that its signal is being blocked by a transmission of a woman's voice speaking in French, which Shannon translates as: "I'm alone now, on the island alone. Please someone come. The others are dead. It killed them. It killed them all." The message repeats, with a count implying that it has been repeating for over sixteen years and five months (according to Sayid's calculation). Coupled with the pilot's last words, this dampens the survivors' hopes of rescue and the news initially spreads through the camp throughout the first few days.
When food supplies run low, Locke leads the first hunting party for boar. As Kate's resourcefulness comes in handy, Michael and Walt, father and son, struggle to get along. On the sixth day, a woman drowns, and a young man named Boone tries to prove his worth. Jack goes on a spiritual quest when he begins to see visions of his deceased father on the island, and his Science versus Faith conflict with Locke is born. Eventually, the group of survivors split in half, whilst a few moved inland to a cluster of caves with fresh water and protection. Others stayed at the beach in hopes of rescue, and they moved once again when the tide began to carry the wreckage of the plane into the sea. Jack becomes the de facto leader. Intense rivalries emerge when disagreements on allocation of supplies becomes an issue, especially between Jack, Sayid and Sawyer. As conflict comes to head, Sawyer is accidentally stabbed in the arm by Sayid, who then leaves the camp to map the island in shame.
Sayid finds a cable running out of the ocean and into the jungle. When he follows it, he encounters Danielle Rousseau, the person who sent out the distress signal, and she tells her story of how she came to be on the island. Sayid eventually escapes, with potential knowledge of a group of hostile individuals on the island, who kidnapped Rousseau's baby daughter. Over the course of the season, Rousseau has other intermittent contact with the survivors.
Hurley (who tries his best to make life on the island as comfortable as possible) conducts a census of the survivors, and discovers that one of their castaways, Ethan Rom, is not on the passenger manifest. Ethan kidnaps Charlie and Claire, but then attempts to hang Charlie, since Claire was the one that "The Others" wanted. Two weeks later, Locke eventually finds her, completely distraught with amnesia. This starts many confrontations between the survivors and the Others, which in turn leads to the death of one other survivor and Ethan himself, whom Charlie kills for revenge.
There are fleeting confrontations with polar bears, the Monster and Danielle Rousseau. Violence is sporadic, but the survivors' close-knit society is held together due to the de facto leader Jack, the level-headed Kate, Sayid and Hurley, along with distant hunter Locke, who appears to have some supporters among the survivors despite disagreements with Jack, such as the young couple Charlie and pregnant Claire, and Boone. However, Locke and Walt begin to converse and he practices unorthodox activities with him with knives, angering his protective father Michael. Sun eventually reveals she speaks English, causing a momentary lapse of trust between her husband, Jin.
After two weeks, Locke discovers a mysterious hatch in the jungle with no handle, and becomes obsessed about what may be inside. Along with his accomplice, Boone, they spend many days digging it out of the ground, pondering over what it may contain. While exploring the island, Locke and Boone also discover a Beechcraft lodged on the side of a cliff. Boone climbs up the cliff and into the plane. Inside, he finds a radio and sends a distress call. A male voice answers, "Is someone out there?" to which Boone responds, "We are the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815." The voice replies, "We're the survivors of 815." The Beechcraft then falls from the cliff and badly injures Boone. Locke takes Boone back to the camp, but Jack is unable to save his life. At the same time, Claire goes into labour in the jungle and Kate delivers the baby.
Michael decides to build a raft to escape with his son Walt, and they are joined by Sawyer and Jin. In the first night after launching, they are surprised and initially delighted to encounter another boat, but it turns out to be a group of the Others who demand that Walt be handed over to them. In the ensuing chaos, the raft is destroyed, Sawyer is shot, and Walt is kidnapped.
Rousseau leads a party of survivors to the Black Rock, a wooden ship in the middle of the island, containing a cache of dynamite which can be used to open the hatch. Along the way, one of them is chased by a black cloud, the "monster", which Rousseau calls the island's "security system." Jack and Locke bring the dynamite back to the hatch, and use it to force open the hatch door to look inside. The season ends with them looking down into the darkness of the shaft below.
Many of the character's lives before the crash are explored, and they are detailed here;
Note 1: Shannon Rutherford, although a main character, was devoid of a flashback episode dedicated to her and her alone. Note 2: Many connections between the survivors before the island becomes increasingly apparent later in the season.
| 01 | "Pilot, Part 1" | 10 | "Raised by Another" | 19 | "Deus Ex Machina" |
| 02 | "Pilot, Part 2" | 11 | "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues" | 20 | "Do No Harm" |
| 03 | "Tabula Rasa" | 12 | "Whatever the Case May Be" | --- | "Lost: The Journey" |
| 04 | "Walkabout" | 13 | "Hearts and Minds" | 21 | "The Greater Good" |
| 05 | "White Rabbit" | 14 | "Special" | 22 | "Born to Run" |
| 06 | "House of the Rising Sun" | 15 | "Homecoming" | 23 | "Exodus, Part 1" |
| 07 | "The Moth" | 16 | "Outlaws" | 24/25 | "Exodus, Part 2" |
| 08 | "Confidence Man" | 17 | "...In Translation" | ||
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