Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment [1975]

Date(s) of Broadcast: 22 February 1975 - 1 March 1975
Number of Episodes: 2
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Production: Philip Hinchcliffe
Production Unit Manager: George Gallaccio

SCRIPT
Script: Bob Baker, Dave Martin
Story Editors: Robert Holmes

DIRECTION
Director: Rodney Bennett

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson

SOUND
Special Sound: Dick Mills

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Syvia 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

STUNTS
Fight Arranger: Terry Walsh

CAST
Tom Baker [The Doctor]
Elisabeth Sladen [Sarah Jane Smith]
Kevin Lindsay [Field Major Styre]
Glyn Jones [Krans]
Peter Walshe [Erak]
Donald Douglas [Vural]
Peter Rutherford [Roth]
Terry Walsh [Zake]
Kevin Lindsay [Marshal]
Brian Ellis [prisoner]
Terry Walsh [double for the Doctor and Harry]
Stuart Fell [double for Styre]

A group of human colonist astronauts have crashlanded on a deserted Earth in the future. They are being taken and been subjected to awful medical experiments.The Doctor discovers they are being conducted by a Sontaran commander who is a precursor to an invasion of Earth.

A quck filler of a story done to save money for the season hence the lack of sets and props. Still not bad though but none too memorable.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1975
February
22: UK - Part One television broadcast [on BBC1]

March
1: UK - Part Two television broadcast [on BBC1]

The Destructors

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.276-278
credits, synopsis, review [by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker]

KEYWORDS

aliens, time travel

Last Updated: 21 April, 2008