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 Doctor Who: The Mutants
(1972)
Date(s) of Broadcast:
8 April 1972 - 13 May 1972
Number of Episodes: 6
Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Barry Letts
SCRIPT
Script: Bob Baker, Dave Martin
Story Editor: Terrance Dicks
DIRECTION
Director: Christopher Barry
PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Frank Cresswell
Film Camera: Fred Hamilton
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Dave King
MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranged By: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Tristram Cary
SOUND
Studio Sound: Tony Millier
Special Sounds: Dick Mills
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Joan Barrett
Costumes: James Acheson
VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: John Horton
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Jeremy Bear
MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Fiona Cumming, Chris D'Oyly-John
Assistant Floor Manager: Sue Hedden
STUNTS
Fight Arranger: Terry Walsh
CAST
Jon Pertwee (The Doctor)
Katy Manning (Jo Grant)
Paul Whitsun-Jones (Marshal)
Garrick Hagon (Ky)
Rick James (Cotton)
Christopher Coll (Stubbs)
James Mellor
(Varan)
Jonathan Sherwood (Varan's son)
Geoffrey Palmer (Administrator)
George Pravda (Jaeger)
John Hollis (Sondergaard)
Sidney Johnson (old man)
Roy Pearce, Damon Saunders (Solos guards)
David Arlen (guard warrior)
John Scott Martin (Mutt)
Peter Howell (investigator)
David J Graham (old man - uncredited)
Ian Elliott (guard warrior - uncredited)
Gary Dean, Barry Hooper, Keith Urry, Mick Urry (Earth Control guards
- uncredited)
Ken Nazarin, Evan Ross (advisors - uncredited)
Laurie Goode, Bill Gosling, Nick Thompson Hill, Mike Mungarvan, Rick
Newby, Eddie Sommer, Mike Torres (Mutts - uncredited)
Keith Ashley, Ali Baba, Dave Carter, Ronald Gough, Atley Harvey, Dennis
Plenty, Ron Tingley, Terry Walsh, David Waterman (Skybase guards -
uncredited)
Reg Cranfield, Brychan Powell, Vic Taylor, Peter Whitaker (Solonians
- uncredited)
Damon Sanders, Martin Taylor (guard leaders - uncredited)
Derek Chafer, Alex Hood, Steven Ismay, Terry Sartain, Terry Walsh
(warriors - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
The Time Lords send the Doctor to deliver a
message to a base above Solos, a planet seeking independence from
Earth. One of Earth's ambassador's is killed and the Doctor
is drawn in to a battle for the leadership of Solos.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Forgettable story. Forgettable villains. Forgettable
episodes. Nothing good, nothing too bad. Could have suited any Doctor
but still would have been forgettable. Stands up better now than some
of the more memorable stories from this season. Just, well…
forgettable.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video
TIMELINE
1972
April
8: UK - Episode One television broadcast (on BBC1)
15: UK - Episode Two television broadcast (on BBC1)
22: UK - Episode Three television broadcast (on BBC1)
29: UK - Episode Four television broadcast (on BBC1)
May
6: UK - Episode Five television broadcast (on BBC1)
13: UK - Episode Six television broadcast (on BBC1)
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Doctor
Who: The Television Companion pp.182-185
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits KEYWORDS
aliens
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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