The Coal Hill School is the setting of the first episode of "Doctor Who", "An Unearthly Child", first broadcast in November 1963. In the episode, two teachers at the school, science teacher Ian Chesterton and history teacher Barbara Wright, discover that one of their students, Susan Foreman, is a time traveller who has been attending the school as her grandfather, the First Doctor (the central character of the series), makes repairs on their time machine, the TARDIS. The school was a constructed set shot inside Studio D at Lime Grove Studios.