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 Doctor Who: Four To Doomsday (1982)
Date(s) of Broadcast:
18 January 1982 - 26 January 1982
Number of Episodes: 4
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: John Nathan-Turner
SCRIPT
Script: Terence Dudley
Story Editor: Antony Root
DIRECTION
Director: John Black
PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Don Babbage
MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Peter Howell
Incidental Music: Roger Limb
SOUNDS
Studio Sound: Alan Machin
Special Sounds: Dick Mills
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Dorka Nieradzik
Costumes: Colin Lavers
VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Mickey Edwards
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Tony Burrough
MISCELLANEOUS
Production Associate: Angela Smith
Production Assistant: Jean Davis
Assistant Floor Manager: Val McCrimmon
Choreographer: Sue Lefton
STUNTS
Fight Arrangere: B.H. Barry
CAST
Peter Davison (The Doctor)
Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka)
Sarah Sutton (Nyssa)
Matthew Waterhouse (Adric)
Stratford Johns (Monarch)
Paul Shelley (Persuasion)
Annie Lambert (Enlightenment)
Philip Locke (Bigon)
Burt Kwouk (Lin Futu)
Illarrio Bisi Pedro (Kurkutiji)
Nadia Hammam (Princess Villagra)
Steve Durante, Simon Ramirez, Victor Reynolds, Peter Whitaker (Greek
philosophers and swordsmen - uncredited)
Eiji Kusuhara (Chinese surgeon - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
The TARDIS lands on a massive space ship populated
by human androids ruled over by frog like aliens. The rulers are mining
earth to obtain material needed to travel back in time to prove who
created the universe.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Turgid space opera too simplistic in basis and
too convoluted in plot to appeal after Castrovalva
(1982). The first fifth Doctor story to be filmed.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video
TIMELINE
1982
January
18: UK - Part One television broadcast (on BBC1)
19: UK - Part Two television broadcast (on BBC1)
25: UK - Part Three television broadcast (on BBC1)
26: UK - Part Four television broadcast (on BBC1)
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Doctor
Who: The Television Companion pp.408-410
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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