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 Doctor Who: The Rescue
(1965)
Date(s)
of Broadcast: 2 January 1965 - 9 January 1965)
Number of Episodes: 2
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: David
Whitaker
Story Editor: Dennis Spooner
DIRECTION
Director: Christopher Barry
PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Howard King
Film Camera: Dick Bush
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Jim Latham
MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Tristram Cary (actually stock From The Mutants)
SOUND
Studio Sound: Richard Chubb
Special Sound: Brian Hodgson
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Make Up: Sonia Markham
Costumes: Daphne Dare
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Raymond P. Cusick
MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: David Maloney
Assistant Floor Manager: Valerie Wilkins
CAST
EPISODE 1: The Powerful Enemy
William Hartnell (Dr Who)
William Russell (Ian Chesterton)
Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright)
Maureen O'Brien (Vicki)
Ray Barrett (Bennett)
Tom Sheridan (space captain)
Sydney Wilson (real name: Ray Barrett) (Koquillion)
EPISODE 2:
Desperate Measures
William Hartnell (Dr Who)
William Russell (Ian Chesterton)
Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright)
Maureen O'Brien (Vicki)
Ray Barrett (Bennett / Koquillion)
Tom Sheridan (space captain)
UNCREDITED PERFORMERS
John Stuart, Colin Hughes (Dido natives)
EPISODES
1. The Powerful Enemy (2
January 1965)
2. Desperate Measures (9 January 1965)
PLOT SUMMARY
On the planet Dido in
the late 25th Century, the remaining TARDIS crew find a
crashed Earth spaceship and help the two survivors, the
paralysed captain and a young girl named Vicki, who are
being menaced by an alien creature called Koquillion. But
is Koquillion really all that it appears to be?
CAPSULE REVIEW
After the high drama of The Dalek Invasion of
Earth, The
Rescue is a fairly inconsequential and
lightweight vehicle to introduce the TARDIS' new
crewmember. There's nothing particularly wrong with The
Rescue (it's well acted and as well made as any
other story of the period) but it's hardly the most
memorable of the good Doctor's adventures.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video
TIMELINE
1964
November
16: UK - model sequences filming takes place at Ealing
Studios
17: UK - model sequences filming takes place at Ealing
Studios
December
4: UK - studio recording at Riverside Studio 1,
Hammersmith, London
11: UK - studio recording at Riverside Studio 1,
Hammersmith, London
1965
January
2: UK - The Powerful Enemy television broadcast (on BBC1)
9: UK - Desperate Measures television broadcast (on BBC1)
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Doctor
Who And Tanni - working title
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Doctor Who Programme Guide
pp.31
credits, synopsis (by Jean-Marc Lofficier)
Doctor Who The Discontinuity Guide
pp.30-31
credits, trivia, review (by Paul Cornell, Martin Day and
Keith Topping)
Doctor Who: The Handbook: The
First Doctor pp.85-87
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe, Mark
Stammers, Stephen James Walker)
Doctor Who: The Television
Companion pp.41-43
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen
James Walker)
Pocket Essentials: Doctor Who p.16
credits, review (by Mark Campbell)
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits KEYWORDS
aliens, monsters, time travel
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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