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 Doctor Who: Underworld (1978)
Date(s) of Broadcast:
7 January 1978 - 28 January 1978
Number of Episodes: 4
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Production: Graham Williams
Production Unit Manager: John Nathan-Turner
SCRIPT
Script: Bob Baker, Dave Martin
Story Editor: Anthony Read
DIRECTION
Director: Norman Stewart
PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Mike Jefferies
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Richard Trevor
MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson
SOUND
Studio Sound: Richard Chubb
Special Sound: Dick Mills
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Cecile Hay-Arthur
Costumes: Rupert Jarvis
VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Richard Conway
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Dick Coles
MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Mike Cager
Assistant Floor Manager: Gary Downie
CAST
Tom Baker (The Doctor)
Louise Jameson (Leela)
John Leeson (voice Of K-9)
James Maxwell (Jackson)
Imogen Bickford-Smith (Tala)
Jonathon Newth (Orfe)
Alan Lake (Herrick)
Jimmy Gardner (Idmon)
Norman Tipton (Idas)
Godfrey James (Tarn)
James Marcus (Rask)
Jay Neill (Guard Klimt)
Frank Jarvis (Ankh)
Richard Shaw (Lakh)
Christine Pollon (voice of the Oracle)
Stacey Tendeter (Naia)
PLOT SUMMARY
The TARDIS lands on a space craft on a mission
to locate the race banks of its people. Crashing into a newly formed
planet The Doctor and the space craft's crew journeys deep underground
to find what they are looking for.
CAPSULE REVIEW
The Greek myths updated but sadly poorly executed.
New script editor Anthony Read, formerly of such mainstream action
series as the popular The Troubleshooters (1965 -
1972) perhaps didn't get the unique quality of the programme. Worse,
the look of the show was for the first time in a long time drab and
poorly realised. The model work is quite impressive though.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video
TIMELINE
1978
January
7: UK - Part One television broadcast (on BBC1)
14: UK - Part Two television broadcast (on BBC1)
21: UK - Part Three television broadcast (on BBC1)
28: UK - Part Four television broadcast (on BBC1)
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Doctor
Who: The Television Companion pp.335-338
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker) KEYWORDS
aliens, time travel
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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