The pilot of my favorite TV show ever made, the original script from 1963, Doctor Who, An Unearthly Child. This script has some interesting elements to it, especially the fact that there are elements that carry over to modern-day scripts as well.
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Due to this script's age as well, there is a running schedule that sets what is going to happen across the day. This includes the crew's whole day and the fact that it takes all day before filming begins. A full twelve-hour shift is put in before the shoot begins, only for the whole thing to be shot over an hour and fifteen minutes.  |
There is also the fact that all the technology needed for the episode was put into the script, which is very interesting considering nowadays these would be separate documents, however, it makes a lot of sense considering this is a document likely given to all cast and crew before filming.
This is the character and cast list for this particular episode, the main characters are in order downward, and the school children are most certainly extras, having seen the episode. It's laid out with the characters on the left and the actor on the right, in a formal list.
Even in 1963, the same layout either inside or outside, then the location follows, in this case, a street, and then the time of day, which is just day in this case. It is short, it is clear and it is concise, hence why it is still used to this day.
Plenty of stage directions in here, very in-depth and go over a whole page, due to the nature of the way it ends up looking in the final product. It is a one-shot that goes across over a minute, and that works in line with the one-minute-per-page rule.
The dialogue is done by having characters capitalized and underlined, but also the text after it is formatted in the normal grammatically correct style.
FULL PILOT HERE
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