The BBC does not have the rights to the first episode of Doctor Who, "An Unearthly Child", and the reason stems from the show's original development.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The BBC seeks to celebrate Doctor Who’s roots with its 60th anniversary celebration, but the show’s first episode will not be available. The series, which follows the eponymous Doctor’s travels through time and space in his inconspicuous ship, the TARDIS, first aired in 1963. In its classic iteration, the show ran for 26 seasons between 1963 and 1989.
The Son Of Doctor Who's First Writer Is Withholding The First Story's Rights From The BBC While the BBC plans to go ahead with making 800+ episodes of Doctor Who available via iPlayer, they have run into a roadblock with the first 4 episodes of the show. The episodes were written by Anthony Coburn, a staff writer for the BBC who came aboard Doctor Who during the early stages of the show’s development.
Anthony Coburn's Son Has A History Of Doctor Who Rights Issues With The BBC This recent public dispute is not the first time Stef Coburn has raised grievances with the BBC. In 2013, when the IP rights were first passed on to him, Stef Coburn challenged the BBC for breach of copyright pertaining to ownership of the Doctor’s time machine, the TARDIS.
“If Anthony Coburn was employed by the BBC and the idea was developed in the course of that employment then, unless his contract stated otherwise, the copyright would automatically belong to the BBC.”
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