|
 Doctor Who: The Wheel in
Space [1968]
Date(s)
of Broadcast: 27 April 1968 - 1 June 1968
Number of Episodes: 6
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Peter Bryant
SCRIPT
Script: David
Whitaker
Story: Kit Pedlar
Story Editor: Derrick Sherwin
DIRECTION
Director: Tristran de Vere Cole
PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Michael Jefferies
Film Camera: Jimmy Court
EDITING AND POST
PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Ron Fry
MUSIC
Theme Music: Ron Grainer, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Theme Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Brian Hodgson, The BBC Radiophonic
Workshop
SOUND
Studio Sound: John Holmes
Special Sound: Brian Hodgson
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Make Up: Sylvia James
Costumes: Martin Baugh
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Derek Dodd
MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Ian Strachan
Assistant Floor Manager: Marcia Wheeler
CAST
Episode 1
Patrick Troughton [The Doctor]
Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon]
Deborah Watling [Victoria Waterfield]
Wendy Padbury [Zoe Heriot]
Freddie Foote [servo robot]
Eric Flynn [Leo Ryan]
Anne Riddler [Dr Gemma Corwyn]
Clare Jenkins [Tanya Lernov]
Michael Turner [Jarvis Bennett]
Donald Sumpter [Enrico Casali]
Episode 2
Patrick Troughton [The Doctor]
Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon]
Wendy Padbury [Zoe Heriot]
Eric Flynn [Leo Ryan]
Anne Riddler [Dr Gemma Corwyn]
Clare Jenkins [Tanya Lernov]
Michael Turner [Jarvis Bennett]
Donald Sumpter [Enrico Casali]
Kenneth Watson [Bill Duggan]
Michael Goldie [Elton Laleham]
Derrick Gilbert [Armand Vallance]
Kervork Malikyan [Kemel Rudkin]
Peter Laird [Chang]
James Mellor
[Sean Flannigan]
Jerry Holmes [Cyberman]
Episode 3
Patrick Troughton [The Doctor]
Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon]
Wendy Padbury [Zoe Heriot]
Eric Flynn [Leo Ryan]
Anne Riddler [Dr Gemma Corwyn]
Clare Jenkins [Tanya Lernov]
Michael Turner [Jarvis Bennett]
Donald Sumpter [Enrico Casali]
Kenneth Watson [Bill Duggan]
Michael Goldie [Elton Laleham]
Derrick Gilbert [Armand Vallance]
Kervork Malikyan [Kemel Rudkin]
Peter Laird [Chang]
James Mellor
[Sean Flannigan]
Jerry Holmes, Gordon Stothard [Cybermen]
Peter Hawkins, Roy Skelton [Cybermen voices]
Episode 4
Patrick Troughton [The Doctor]
Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon]
Wendy Padbury [Zoe Heriot]
Eric Flynn [Leo Ryan]
Anne Riddler [Dr Gemma Corwyn]
Clare Jenkins [Tanya Lernov]
Michael Turner [Jarvis Bennett]
Donald Sumpter [Enrico Casali]
Kenneth Watson [Bill Duggan]
Michael Goldie [Elton Laleham]
Derrick Gilbert [Armand Vallance]
Peter Laird [Chang]
James Mellor
[Sean Flannigan]
Jerry Holmes, Gordon Stothard [Cybermen]
Peter Hawkins, Roy Skelton [Cybermen voices]
Episode 5
Patrick Troughton [The Doctor]
Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon]
Wendy Padbury [Zoe Heriot]
Eric Flynn [Leo Ryan]
Anne Riddler [Dr Gemma Corwyn]
Clare Jenkins [Tanya Lernov]
Michael Turner [Jarvis Bennett]
Donald Sumpter [Enrico Casali]
Michael Goldie [Elton Laleham]
Derrick Gilbert [Armand Vallance]
James Mellor
[Sean Flannigan]
Jerry Holmes, Gordon Stothard [Cybermen]
Peter Hawkins, Roy Skelton [Cybermen voices]
Episode 6
Patrick Troughton [The Doctor]
Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon]
Wendy Padbury [Zoe Heriot]
Eric Flynn [Leo Ryan]
Clare Jenkins [Tanya Lernov]
Michael Turner [Jarvis Bennett]
Donald Sumpter [Enrico Casali]
Derrick Gilbert [Armand Vallance]
James Mellor
[Sean Flannigan]
Jerry Holmes, Gordon Stothard [Cybermen]
Peter Hawkins, Roy Skelton [Cybermen voices]
UNCREDITED
PERFORMERS
Chris Jeffries [double For The Doctor]
Dorothy Ford [Gemma Corwyn's corpse]
Yinka Adbeyi, Harry Fielder, Ken Gibson, Tony Harwood,
Chris Konyils, Angela March, Gordon Pitt, Kenn Senton,
Dorothy Su, John Taylor [extras]
SUMMARY
The TARDIS materialises
on board the spaceship Silver Carrier. After being
attacked by a servo robot, Jamie contacts a nearby space
station, The Wheel and he and The Doctor are rescued. But
the Cybermen are lurking nearby, dispatching Cybermats
into The Wheel which they hope to seize and use as a
beacon for their invasion fleet heading towards the
Earth.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
TIMELINE
1968
March
18: UK - studio filming at Ealing, London, UK
19: UK - studio filming at Ealing, London, UK
20: UK - studio filming at Ealing, London, UK
21: UK - studio filming at Ealing, London, UK
22: UK - studio filming at Ealing, London, UK
April
5: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK
12: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove TC3, London,
UK
19: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove TC1, London,
UK
26: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove TC3, London,
UK
27: UK - Episode 1 television broadcast [on BBC1]
May
3: UK - studio recording at Riverside Studio 1,
Hammersmith, London, UK
4: UK - Episode 2 television broadcast [on BBC1]
10: UK - studio recording at Riverside Studio 1,
Hammersmith, London, UK
11: UK - Episode 3 television broadcast [on BBC1]
18: UK - Episode 4 television broadcast [on BBC1]
25: UK - Episode 5 television broadcast [on BBC1]
June
1: UK - Episode 6 television broadcast [on BBC1]
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
The
Space Wheel - working title
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Doctor Who: The Handbook: The
Second Doctor pp.136-143
credits, synopsis, review [by David J. Howe, Mark
Stammers, Stephen James Walker]
Doctor Who: The Television
Companion pp.146-150
credits, synopsis, review [by David J. Howe and Stephen
James Walker] KEYWORDS
aliens; time travel; cybermen; space
stations; cyborgs; spaceships; space travel
Last Updated:
21 April, 2008
|
