An Unearthly Child

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An Unearthly Child

Summary

An Unearthly Child is a Doctor Who serial[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of doctor_who_serial entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,102 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • An Unearthly Child authored Terrance Dicks[3].
  • An Unearthly Child's instance of is recorded as Doctor Who serial[4].
  • An Unearthly Child was directed by Waris Hussein[5].
  • An Unearthly Child was directed by Douglas Camfield[6].
  • Anthony Coburn wrote the screenplay for An Unearthly Child[7].
  • C. E. Webber wrote the screenplay for An Unearthly Child[8].
  • An Unearthly Child was published by Target Books[9].
  • An Unearthly Child's genre is speculative fiction[10].
  • An Unearthly Child was followed by The Daleks[11].
  • A cast member of An Unearthly Child was William Hartnell[12].
  • A cast member of An Unearthly Child was William Russell[13].
  • A cast member of An Unearthly Child was Jacqueline Hill[14].
  • A cast member of An Unearthly Child was Carole Ann Ford[15].
  • An Unearthly Child was produced by Verity Lambert[16].
  • An Unearthly Child was produced by Mervyn Pinfield[17].
  • An Unearthly Child's part of the series is recorded as Doctor Who[18].
  • The original language of An Unearthly Child was English[19].
  • An Unearthly Child's language of work or name is recorded as English[20].
  • An Unearthly Child's original broadcaster is recorded as British Broadcasting Corporation[21].
  • An Unearthly Child's color is recorded as black-and-white[22].
  • An Unearthly Child's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[23].
  • An Unearthly Child comprises An Unearthly Child[24].
  • An Unearthly Child comprises The Cave of Skulls[25].
  • An Unearthly Child comprises The Forest of Fear[26].
  • An Unearthly Child comprises The Firemaker[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • MusicBrainz ID: 421348c8-0d9a-4253-a85c-97d4f67fa801[28]

Body

Designation and Status

An Unearthly Child's instance of is recorded as Doctor Who serial[4].

Why It Matters

An Unearthly Child ranks in the top 1% of doctor_who_serial entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,102 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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