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)

PLOT SUMMARY

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: 1 January, 2009