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Who: The Awakening (1984)
Date(s) of Broadcast: 19 January 1984
- 20 January 1984
Number of Episodes: 2
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: John
Nathan-Turner
SCRIPT
Script: Eric Pringle
Story Editor: Eric
Saward
DIRECTION
Director: Michael Owen Morris
PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Peter Catlett
Film Cameraman: Paul Wheeler
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: M.A.C. Adams
MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Peter Howell
Incidental Music: Peter Howell
SOUNDS
Studio Sound: Martin Ridout
Special Sounds: Dick Mills
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Ann Ailes
Costumes: Jackie Southern
VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Tony Harding
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Barry Newbery
MISCELLANEOUS
Production Associate: June Collins
Production Assistant: Rosemary Parsons
Assistant Floor Manager: Marcus D.F. White
CAST
Peter Davison
(The Doctor)
Janet Fielding (Tegan)
Mark Strickson (Turlough)
Polly James (Jane Hampden)
Dennis Lill (Sir George Hutchinson)
Glyn Houston (Colonel Ben Wolsey)
Jack Galloway (Sgt Joseph Willow)
Keith Jayne (Will Chandler)
Christopher Saul (trooper)
Frederick Hall (Andrew Verney)
David Cole, Brian Coshall, Robert Craze, Peter Dukes, Scott Free, Harold
Gasnier, John Kearns, Rod Keyes, Jimmy Mac, Roy MacDonald, Ron Martin,
Sean McCabe, David Medina, Bob Tarff, Nigel Tisdall, Christopher Wenner,
Gordon Williams (walk-ons - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
A recreation of a Civil War battle in contemporary England turns into
a real fight due to an alien war machine which plans to energise itself
using the psychic energy of the participants. The TARDIS arrives, encountering
Tegan's grandfather and a local dignitary in the thrall of the machine.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Short is sweet. Plenty packed in and though redolent of, and inferior
to, The Daemons (1971) and The Visitation
(1982), it still is very entertaining.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video
TIMELINE
1984
January
19: UK - Part One television broadcast (on BBC1)
20: UK - Part Two television broadcast (on BBC1)
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Poltergeist
Wargame
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.448-450
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
aliens, time travel
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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