Doctor Who: The Dominators (1968)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 10 August 1968 - 7 September 1968
Number of Episodes: 5
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Peter Bryant

SCRIPT
Script: Norman Ashby (real names: Mervyn Haisman, Henry Lincoln)
Script Editor: Derrick Sherwin

DIRECTION
Director: Morris Barry

PHOTOGRAPHY
Film Cameraman: Peter Hamilton
Studio Lighting: Sam Neeter

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Chris Hayden

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranged By: Delia Derbyshire

SOUND
Studio Sound: Richard Chubb
Special Sounds: Brian Hodgson

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Sylvia James
Costumes: Martin Baugh

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Ron Oates

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Barry Newbery

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: John Bruce
Assistant Floor Manager: Barbara Stuart

CAST
Episode 1
Patrick Troughton (Dr Who)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Wendy Padbury (Zoe Herriet)
Ronald Allen (Navigator Rago)
Kenneth Ives (Probationer Toba)
Arthur Cox (Cully)
Philip Voss (Wahen)
Malcolm Terris (Etnin)
Nicolette Pendrell (Tolata)
Felicity Gibson (Kando)
Giles Block (Teel)
Johnson Bayly (Educator Balan)
Sheila Grant (Quark voices)

Episode 2
Patrick Troughton (Dr Who)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Wendy Padbury (Zoe Herriet)
Ronald Allen (Navigator Rago)
Kenneth Ives (Probationer Toba)
Arthur Cox (Cully)
Felicity Gibson (Kando)
Giles Block (Teel)
Johnson Bayly (Educator Balan)
Sheila Grant (Quark voices)
Walter Fitzgerald (Director Senex)
John Cross, Ronald Mansell (council members)
Alan Gerrard (Bovem)

Episode 3
Patrick Troughton (Dr Who)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Wendy Padbury (Zoe Herriet)
Ronald Allen (Navigator Rago)
Kenneth Ives (Probationer Toba)
Arthur Cox (Cully)
Felicity Gibson (Kando)
Giles Block (Teel)
Johnson Bayly (Educator Balan)
Sheila Grant (Quark voices)
Walter Fitzgerald (Director Senex)
John Cross, Ronald Mansell (council members)
Alan Gerrard (Bovem)
Brian Cant (Chairman Tensa)

Episode 4
Patrick Troughton (Dr Who)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Wendy Padbury (Zoe Herriet)
Ronald Allen (Navigator Rago)
Kenneth Ives (Probationer Toba)
Arthur Cox (Cully)
Felicity Gibson (Kando)
Giles Block (Teel)
Johnson Bayly (Educator Balan)
Sheila Grant (Quark voices)
Walter Fitzgerald (Director Senex)
John Cross, Ronald Mansell (council members)
Alan Gerrard (Bovem)
Brian Cant (Chairman Tensa)

Episode 5
Patrick Troughton (Dr Who)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Wendy Padbury (Zoe Herriet)
Ronald Allen (Navigator Rago)
Kenneth Ives (Probationer Toba)
Arthur Cox (Cully)
Felicity Gibson (Kando)
Giles Block (Teel)
John Hicks, Gary Smith, Freddie Wilson (Quarks)
Sheila Grant (Quark voices)

UNCREDITED PERFORMERS
Aubrey Danvers Walker, Malcolm Watson (council members)
Chris Jeffries (double For The Doctor)
Jean Callaghan, Eve Martin, Valerie Stanton, Valerie Wood (statues)
Blair Stewart, John Tucker, Colin West (extras)

PLOT SUMMARY

The planet Dulkis is under threat from the alien Dominators and their Quark robots. They plan to turn Dulkis into a radioactive mass to provide the fuel they need to power their space fleet. With the pacifist Dulcians refusing to fight back, it's up to the TARDIS crew and the rebellious son of the Dulcian leader to ward off the invaders.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1968
April
25: UK - location filming takes place
26: UK - model filming at the Puppet Theatre, London, UK
28: UK - location filming takes place
29: UK - location filming takes place
30: UK - studio filming at Ealing Stage 2, London, UK

May
1: UK - studio filming at Ealing Stage 2, London, UK
2: UK - location filming takes place
3: UK - location filming takes place
17: UK - studio recording at BBC Television Centre TC4, London, UK
24: UK - studio recording at BBC Television Centre TC4, London, UK
31: UK - studio recording at BBC Television Centre TC3, London, UK

June
7: UK - studio recording at BBC Television Centre TC3, London, UK
14: UK - studio recording at BBC Television Centre TC3, London, UK

August
7: UK - Episode 1 television broadcast (on BBC1)
17: UK - Episode 2 television broadcast (on BBC1)
24: UK - Episode 3 television broadcast (on BBC1)
31: UK - Episode 4 television broadcast (on BBC1)

September
7: UK - Episode 5 television broadcast (on BBC1)

The Beautiful People - working title

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Second Doctor pp.143-149
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker)

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.152-155
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

aliens; time travel; spaceships

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009