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 Doctor Who: Reign of Terror
[1964]
Date(s)
of Broadcast: 8 August 1964 - 12 September 1964
Number of Episodes: 6
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Verity
Lambert
Associate Producer: Mervyn
Pinfield
SCRIPT
Script: Dennis Spooner
Story Editor: David
Whitaker
DIRECTION
Directors: Henric Hirsch, John Gorrie, Timothy Combe
[uncredited]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Howard
King
Film Camera: Peter Hamilton
EDITING AND POST
PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Caroline Shields
MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranged By: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Stanley Myers
SOUND
Studio Sound: Ray
Angel, Chick Anthony
Special Sounds: Brian Hodgson
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Make Up: Jill Summers, Sonia Markham
Costumes: Daphne Dare
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Roderick Lang
MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Timothy Combe
Assistant Floor Manager: Michael Cager
CAST
EPISODE 1. A Land of Fear
William Hartnell [The Doctor]
Carole Ann Ford [Susan Foreman]
William Russell [Ian Chesterton]
Jacqueline Hill [Barbara Wright]
Peter Walker [small boy (Jean-Pierre)]
Laidlaw Dalling [Rovray]
Neville Smith [D'Argenson]
Robert Hunter [sergeant]
Ken Lawrence [lieutenant]
James Hall [soldier]
Howard Charlton [Judge]
EPISODE 2.
Guests of Madame Guillotine
William Hartnell [The Doctor]
Carole Ann Ford [Susan Foreman]
William Russell [Ian Chesterton]
Jacqueline Hill [Barbara Wright]
Peter Walker [small boy (Jean-Pierre)]
Jack Cunningham [jailer]
Jeffrey Wickham [Webster]
Dallas Cavell [road works overseer]
Denis Cleary [peasant]
James Cairncross [Citizen Lemaitre]
EPISODE 3. A
Change of Identity
William Hartnell [The Doctor]
Carole Ann Ford [Susan Foreman]
William Russell [Ian Chesterton]
Jacqueline Hill [Barbara Wright]
Jack Cunningham [jailer]
James Cairncross [Citizen Lemaitre]
Roy Herrick [Jean]
Donald Morley [Jules Renan]
John Barrard [shopkeeper]
Caroline Hunt [Danielle Renan]
Edward Brayshaw [Leon Colbert]
EPISODE 4. The
Tyrant of France
William Hartnell [The Doctor]
Carole Ann Ford [Susan Foreman]
William Russell [Ian Chesterton]
Jacqueline Hill [Barbara Wright]
Jack Cunningham [jailer]
James Cairncross [Citizen Lemaitre]
Roy Herrick [Jean]
Donald Morley [Jules Renan]
John Barrard [shopkeeper]
Caroline Hunt [Danielle Renan]
Edward Brayshaw [Leon Colbert]
Keith Anderson [Maximillian Robespierre]
Ronald Pickup [physician]
EPISODE 5. A
Bargain of Necessity
William Hartnell [The Doctor]
Carole Ann Ford [Susan Foreman]
William Russell [Ian Chesterton]
Jacqueline Hill [Barbara Wright]
Jack Cunningham [jailer]
James Cairncross [Citizen Lemaitre]
Donald Morley [Jules Renan]
Edward Brayshaw [Leon Colbert]
Keith Anderson [Maximillian Robespierre]
Terry Bale [soldier]
EPISODE 6.
Prisoners of Conciergerie
William Hartnell [The Doctor]
Carole Ann Ford [Susan Foreman]
William Russell [Ian Chesterton]
Jacqueline Hill [Barbara Wright]
Jack Cunningham [jailer]
James Cairncross [Citizen Lemaitre]
Donald Morley [Jules Renan]
Keith Anderson [Maximillian Robespierre]
John Law [Paul Barrass]
Tony Wall [Napoleon Bonaparte]
Patrick Marley [soldier]
UNCREDITED
Brian Proudfoot [double for The Doctor]
David Anderson, Tony Bates, Bob Berry, Don Cavendish, Joseph Cohen,
Sid Deller, Adrian Drotsky, Rex Dyer, Nigel James, Tony Lambden, Maurice
Leon, Jay McGrath, Bill Nicholas, Len Russell, John Sackville-West,
Maurice Selwyn, Donald Simons, Gerry Wain [soldiers]
Helene Curtis, Eleanor Dalling, Jill Howard, Ralph Katterns, Jack Le
White, Brian Proudfoot [citizens]
David Banville [peasant]
Eleanor Dalling, Leila Forde [knitting ladies]
Roy Curtis, Al Raymond, Terry Wallace [extras]
EPISODES
1. A Land Of Fear [8
August 1964]
2. Guests Of Madame Guillotine [15 August 1964]
3. A Change Of Identity [22 August 1964]
4. The Tyrant Of France [29 August 1964]
5. A Bargain Of Necessity [5 September 1964]
6. Prisoners Of Conciergerie [12 September 1964]
SUMMARY
The TARDIS arrives in
1794, not far from Paris. The aftermath of the French
Revolution has led to a regime of fear od violence. The
Doctor and his companions become involved with a group
who are smuggling prisoners out of the country to safety
and an English undercover officer, James Stirling. The
Doctor has a couple of run-ins with Robespierre while Ian
and Barbara meet Napoleon Bonaparte.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video
TIMELINE
1964
June
15: UK - location filming for A Change of Identity [on
BBC1]
16: UK - studio filming at Ealing Studios
17: UK - studio filming at Ealing Studios
18: UK - studio filming at Ealing Studios
July
7: UK - studio filming at BBC Television Centre Studio
TC4
10: UK - studio filming at BBC Television Lime Grove
Studio G
14: UK - studio filming at BBC Television Centre Studio
TC4
17: UK - studio filming at BBC Television Lime Grove
Studio G
24: UK - studio filming at BBC Television Lime Grove
Studio G
31: UK - studio filming at BBC Television Lime Grove
Studio G
August
8: UK - A Land of Fear television broadcast [on BBC1]
15: UK - Guests of Madame Guillotine television broadcast
[on BBC1]
22: UK - A Change of Identity television broadcast [on
BBC1]
29: UK - The Tyrant of France television broadcast [on
BBC1]
September
5: UK - A Bargain of Necessity television broadcast [on
BBC1]
12: UK - Prisoners of Conciergerie television broadcast
[on BBC1]
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
The
French Revolution
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Doctor Who: The Discontinuity
Guide pp.25-27
credits, review
Doctor Who Monthly no.115
pp.36, 39
review
Doctor Who Monthly no.119
p.6
note
Doctor Who Monthly Autumn Special 1987
p.40
note
BOOKS
Doctor Who - The Television
Companion pp.30-33
credits, synopsis, review [by David J. Howe and Stephen
James Walker]
The Encyclopedia of TV Science
Fiction p.108
credits
Doctor Who The Handbook: The First
Doctor pp.77-79
synopsis, review KEYWORDS
aliens, french revolution, time travel
Last Updated:
21 April, 2008
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