Doctor Who: The Moonbase (1967)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 11 February 1967 - 4 March 1967
Number of Episodes: 4
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Innes Lloyd

SCRIPT
Script: Kit Pedlar, Gerry Davis (uncredited)
Story Editor: Gerry Davis

DIRECTION
Director: Morris Barry

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Dave Sydenham
Film Camera: Peter Hamilton

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Ted Walter

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire

SOUND
Studio Sound: Gordon Mackie
Special Sound: Brian Hodgson

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Gillian James, Jeanne Richmond
Costumes: Sandra Reid, Mary Woods

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Colin Shaw

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Desmond McCarthy
Assistant Floor Manager: Lovett Bickford

CAST
Episode 1
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Patrick Burr (Jack Hobson)
Andre Maranne (Roger Benoit)
Michael Wolf (Nils)
John Rolfe (Sam Becket)
Alan Rowe (voice from Space Control)
Mark Heath (Ralph)
Alan Rowe (Dr Evans)
Barry Ashton, Derek Calder, Arnold Chazen, Victor Pemberton, Edward Phillips, Ron Pinnell, Robin Scott, Alan Wells (scientists)
John Wills, Sonnie Willis (Cybermen)

Episode 2
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Patrick Burr (Jack Hobson)
Andre Maranne (Roger Benoit)
Michael Wolf (Nils)
John Rolfe (Sam Becket)
Alan Rowe (voice from Space Control)
Barry Ashton, Derek Calder, Arnold Chazen, Edward Phillips, Ron Pinnell, Robin Scott, Alan Wells (scientists)
Denis McCarthy (voice of Controller Rinberg)
Peter Greene (Cyberman)

Episode 3
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Patrick Burr (Jack Hobson)
Andre Maranne (Roger Benoit)
Michael Wolf (Nils)
John Rolfe (Sam Becket)
Alan Rowe (voice from Space Control)
Barry Ashton, Derek Calder, Arnold Chazen, Mark Heath, Edward Phillips, Ron Pinnell, Robin Scott, Alan Wells (scientists)
Alan Rowe (Dr Evans)
John Wills, Sonnie Willis, Peter Greene, Keith Goodman, Reg Whitehead (Cybermen)
Peter Hawkins (Cybemen voices)

Episode 4
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Patrick Burr (Jack Hobson)
Andre Maranne (Roger Benoit)
Michael Wolf (Nils)
John Rolfe (Sam Becket)
Alan Rowe (Dr Evans)
Robin Scott, Alan Wells (scientists)
John Wills, Sonnie Willis, Peter Greene, Keith Goodman, Reg Whitehead (Cybermen)
Peter Hawkins (Cybemen voices)

UNCREDITED PERFORMERS
Leon Maybank (Ted / No 12)
Ronald Lee, Barry Noble (Cybermen)
Mike Britain, Declan Cuffe, Paul Harrington, John Levene, Bernard Reid, Terry Wallis (extras)

PLOT SUMMARY

A weather control station on the moon in 2070 AD is in the grip of a deadly plague spread by Cybermen who are planning to invade. Thanks to Polly's quick thinking, the crew of the TARDIS manage to repel the first wave of Cybermen, but a second wave has appeared on the surface of the moon and is closing in on the moonbase...

UK
Television Distributor: BBC

1967
January
17: UK - studio filming takes place at Ealing Stage 3
18: UK - studio filming takes place at Ealing Stage 3
19: UK - studio filming takes place at Ealing Stage 3
20: UK - studio filming takes place at Ealing Stage 3

February
4: UK - studio recording takes place at Riverside Studio 1, Hammersmith, London
11: UK - Episode 1 television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording takes place at Riverside Studio 1, Hammersmith, London
18: UK - Episode 1 television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording takes place at Riverside Studio 1, Hammersmith, London
25: UK - Episode 1 television broadcast (on BBC1); UK - studio recording takes place at Lime Grove Studio D, London

March
4: UK - Episode 1 television broadcast (on BBC1)

Return of the Cybermen - working title

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Second Doctor pp.60-68
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker)

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.116-119
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

KEYWORDS

aliens, anti-gravity, cybermen, cyborgs, the moon, plagues, time travel, weather control

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009