Alternative Season 1 (1963)/A Strange Child/Part 1

The Child
It's the end of a school day at Coal Hill School.

Ian knocks on Barbara's door.

Barbara: Come in.

Ian comes in and sits down.

Ian: I've come to talk to you about Susan Foreman. She hasn't handed in her homework for three weeks. And then makes silly mistakes in science. I was setting the class a sum with A, B and C as three dimensions.

Flashback:

Susan: You have to use D, E and F, Mr. Chesterton!

Ian: Why?

Susan: Without it, you can't do the sum!

Ian (sighs): Aah. Time as the fourth dimension, I presume. What are the fifth and sixth dimensions?

Susan: Space is the fifth and the sixth is the empty hole which puts them together.

End of flashback.

Barbara: I've had the same problems. She hasn't handed in her homework, she says her grandfather loses it in his files.

Ian: That excuse is just too good.

Barbara: I've got her adress from the office. 76 Totter's Lane.

Ian: Let's go there!

The Junkyard
Ian and Barbara step out of Ian's car.

Barbara: It can't be this junkyard. Her grandfather's a doctor. It pays well.

Ian and Barbara hear Susan going in the back entrence.

Ian (whispers): She's here. Let's see what this junkyard really is.

Barbara pushes open the doors and they walk through.

Inside is a collection of things such as match boxes, and comic books.

Barbara (whispers): We'll have to talk to the authorties. Susan's grandfather can't let her live in this condition.

Barbara and Ian walk over to find a policebox.

Ian: It's a police box. What's it doing here?

They walk around it.

Ian: It has to be connected through the floor.

Barbara: That's strange. It's humming.

Ian: Humming? It can't be.

The Doctor
An old man walks through the fog.

Ian: Excuse me.

Man: Are you talking to me?

Ian: Yes. I'm talking to you. I'll have to ask your name, and why you're here.

Man: Quite the detective, aren't you? I refuse to give my name.

Ian: You do know that makes us more supsicous of you.

Man: Us?

Barbara: Good evening.

Man: What do you want?

Ian: I'm Ian Chesterton, teacher of science at Coal Hill School. We heard of my students come through here.

The man laughs.

Ian: That's not funny. The only sensible option is to look inside the police box.

Man: Certainly not.

Barbara: May I ask why?

Man: I forbid it.

Ian: It isn't your property, is it? And I don't understand your anger.

Man: I wouldn't worship you, like your students.

Barbara: Our students don't worship us, but they certainly act better than you.

Man: Really? Are you accusing me of being childish?

Barbara: I am.

The door suddenly opens a crack.

Susan: Grandfather! There's a Beatles song on the radio.

Man: Shut the door.

Ian and Barbara run in.

The TARDIS
Susan is standing by the console.

Susan: Mr. Chesterton? Miss. Wright? What are you doing here?

The man comes in.

Barbara: Are you Doctor Foreman?

Man: What? Doctor who? As for you Susan, did you invite these people here?

Susan: No.

Ian: It's... It's... It's bigger on the inside!

Doctor: Quite correct.

Ian: How do you do it?

Susan: I'm forbidden to tell. Grandfather, these two are nice people. Why don't you let them go.

Doctor: No. Susan, my dear, if I let them go, then we must go as well. If not, we'll be the main attraction in the whole of London.

Barbara: I promise not to tell anyone your secret if you let us go.

Ian: Barbara! What are you doing? We'll have to tell someone.

The Doctor grabs a notebook and writes "On Earth, the females are less intelligent than the males.".

Barbara: Susan, you're a human. You don't talk alienease. You don't have three eyes and green skin.

Susan: I'm an alien. I am 267 years old.

Ian: So you're older than us? Why do you need to come to school?

Susan: By the standards of my home planet, I'm still a child.

Barbara: Doctor, please just let us go.

Doctor: No.

Susan: Please let therm go.

Doctor: We'll leave too.

Susan: No! I love 1963. I'll go with them.

Doctor: Really, are you sure?

Susan: Yes.

The Doctor trys to open the doors, but pushes the wrong button.

Susan: No! That's the randomiser!

Doctor: I didn't even know the TARDIS had a randomiser.

Barbara: TARDIS?

Susan: Time And Relative Dimension In Space.

Ian: Let us go back!

Ian pulls a lever, and everyone gets knocked out.

The TARDIS lands in Victorian London.

Part 2 coming soon!