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 Doctor Who: The Ark In Space [1975]
Date(s) of Broadcast:
25 January 1975 - 15 February 1975
Number of Episodes: 4
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Production: Philip Hinchcliffe
Production Unit Manager: George Gallaccio
SCRIPT
Script: Robert Holmes
Idea: John Lucarotti [uncredited]
Story Editors: Robert Holmes
DIRECTION
Director: Rodney Bennett
PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Nigel Wright
MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson
SOUND
Studio Sound: John Lloyd
Special Sound: Dick Mills
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Sylvia James
Costumes: Barbara Kidd
VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: John Friedlander, Tony Oxley
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Roger Murray-Leach
MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Marion McDougall
Assistant Floor Manager: Russ Karel
CAST
Tom Baker [The Doctor]
Elisabeth Sladen [Sarah Jane Smith]
Gladys Spencer, Peter Tuddenham [voices]
Wendy Williams [Vira]
Kenton Moore [Noah (Lasar)]
Christopher Masters [Libri]
Richardson Morgan [Rogin]
Stuart Fell, Nick Hobbs [Wirrn operators]
John Gregg [Lycett]
Brian Jacobs [Dune - uncredited]
Stuart Fell [Wirrn grub - uncredited]
Richard Archer, Geoff Brighty, Rick Carroll, Sean Conney, Peter Duke,
Jan Goram, Brian Jacobs,
Tina Roach, Lynn Summer, Barry Summerford [bodies in palletts - uncredited]
SUMMARY
In the far future the space station The Ark
orbits the Earth with the last human survivors kept in suspended animation.The
Tardis lands and The Doctor discovers that an alien life form has
laid its eggs in the Ark and begins to infect the humans.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Borrowing from Quatermass and
a precusor to Alien [1979], a superb story that really
moves. Companion Harry Sullivan was added to handle the action if
The Doctor had been cast with an older actor. Sarah Jane gets cuter
as her hair grows out and Tom Baker begins to make the role his own.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video
TIMELINE
1975
January
25: UK - Part One television broadcast [on BBC1]
February
1: UK - Part Two television broadcast [on BBC1]
8: UK - Part Three television broadcast [on BBC1]
15: UK - Part Four television broadcast [on BBC1]
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Doctor
Who: The Television Companion pp.273-276
credits, synopsis, review [by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker] KEYWORDS
aliens, time travel
Last Updated:
21 April, 2008
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