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| Ian Chesterton | |
| Continuity: | Doctor Who |
| Notability: | Supporting character |
| Type: | Teacher |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Human |
| Location: | London, England |
| Relatives: | Barbara Wright (wife); John Alydon Ganates Chesterton (son) |
| Status: | Alive |
| First: | "An Unearthly Child" |
| Actor: | William Russell |
Ian Chesterton is a fictional teacher and a main character featured on the original British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was played by actor William Russell and first appeared in the program's pilot episode, "An Unearthly Child".
Biography[]
Ian Chesterton lived in London, England and worked as a science teacher at the Coal Hill School in Shoreditch in the 1960s. In 1963 he met a fifteen-year-old student named Susan Foreman, who proved to be quite a peculiar young girl. Along with history teacher, Barbara Wright, Ian took it upon himself to look into Susan's home life. After finding the girl's street address, they followed her to 76 Totter's Lane where they saw her entering a police call box in the I.M. Foreman Junkyard. Ian was the first to notice that the box made a strange humming noise, as if it were alive. The guardian of this box, an elderly man they later learned was a Gallifreyan known as the Doctor, tried to get them to leave, but Ian and Barbara entered the box to discover that it was bigger on the inside than it was on the outside. In truth, it was actually a time machine called the TARDIS. They found Susan, who explained how she and her grandfather were refugee time travelers. Determined to keep their existence a secret from humanity, the Doctor forced Ian and Barbara to accompany him, and they became his first human companions. [1]