Alternative Season 1 (1963)/A Strange Child/Part 2

The Ghosts
The four wake up and stand up.

Barbara: Have we just time travelled?

Susan: Yes, Miss. Wright.

The Doctor turns on the scanner and has a look outside.

Doctor: We're in the Victorian era, about 1864.

Ian: OK, Doctor, brief timeslip. Now take us home!

Susan: We can't take you home. The ship's partly broken. The randomiser is one of the few things that is working.

Ian: What?

Doctor: Yes. We could be back in 1963 in a few hours or a few hundred years.

Ian: I don't know about you but I don't have a spare three hundred years. Anyway, time travel isn't possible. I expect that I'll step out, in the junkyard, where we started.

Ian steps out, then runs back inside.

Ian: We've time travelled.

Doctor: Oh well, let's go and explore.

Ian: No, Doctor. We're going to get back to 1963.

Doctor: Well you can stay in the ship if you choose. But me and Susan are going to see the sights. Are you coming Miss. Wright?

Barbara: Yes, and please just call me Barbara.

The three walk out of the TARDIS.

As they walk, they talk.

Barbara: So Doctor, what are you a doctor in?

Doctor: I cheated. I am a renegade. When it came to my final exams, I swapped my paper for someone else's paper. Really I'm a doctor in nothing. Susan has a bright future ahead of her. She was top of the class for all 60 years she was at her first school, on her home planet. She knows more than the Lord President himslef. She didn't like the way things were done then. So we ran away.

Barbara: Do you have parents Susan?

Susan: Yes.

Barbara: Do they know where you are?

Doctor: No. My daughter, her mother is on the High Councill. And her father left 25 years ago to travel the stars.

Barbara: How old are you Doctor?

Doctor: 957.

Barbara: I'm only 23.

Susan (laughs): What? On my planet, you'd only be a small baby.

Doctor: What's your job Barbara?

Barbara: I'm the history teacher at Coal Hill School.

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