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story 58 : season 8 : serial HHH : 6 episodes

Producer: Barry Letts
Director: Michael Briant
Writer: Malcolm Hulke
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks
Designer: Tim Gleeson

cast information

Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who); Katy Manning (Jo Grant); Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart); Roger Delgado (The Master); Nicholas Pennell (Winton); Bernard Kay (Caldwell); Morris Perry (Dent); Tony Caunter (Morgan); John Ringham (Ashe); Helen Worth (Mary Ashe); David Webb (Leeson); Sheila Grant (Jane Leeson); Roy Skelton (Norton); John Line (Martin); Mitzi Webster (Mrs. Martin); Pat Gorman1 (Primitive & Voice); John Scott Martin (Robot); John Herrington (Holden); Stanley McGeagh (Allen); Pat Gorman (Long); John Tordoff (Alec Leeson); Norman Atkyns (Guardian); Roy Heymann (Alien Priest); Peter Forbes-Robertson (Time Lord); John Baker (Time Lord); Graham Leaman (Time Lord); Pat Gorman (Colonist);

crew information

Graeme Harper (Assistant Floor Manager); Michael Burdle (Costumes); Peter Hall (Film Cameraman); William Symon (Film Editor); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Jan Harrison (Make-Up); Nicholas John (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Ralph Walton (Studio Lighting); David Hughes (Studio Sound); Tony Millier (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Bernard Wilkie (Visual Effects); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode One 10 April 1971 at 18:10 24'19" 7.6mil NTSC 2 inch colour videotape
PAL conversion
16mm b/w telerecording
2 Episode Two 17 April 1971 at 18:10 22'43" 8.5mil NTSC 2 inch colour videotape
PAL conversion
16mm b/w telerecording
3 Episode Three 24 April 1971 at 18:10 23'47" 9.5mil NTSC 2 inch colour videotape
PAL conversion
16mm b/w telerecording
4 Episode Four 1 May 1971 at 18:10 24'20" 8.1mil NTSC 2 inch colour videotape
PAL conversion
16mm b/w telerecording
5 Episode Five 8 May 1971 at 18:10 25'22" 8.8mil NTSC 2 inch colour videotape
PAL conversion
16mm b/w telerecording
6 Episode Six 15 May 1971 at 18:10 25'41" 8.7mil NTSC 2 inch colour videotape
PAL conversion
16mm b/w telerecording
  1. Episode One
    » Recovered from Canada c.1985
    » Conversion from NTSC 2 inch broadcast tapes
    » Film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  2. Episode Two
    » Recovered from Canada c.1985
    » Conversion from NTSC 2 inch broadcast tapes
    » Film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  3. Episode Three
    » Recovered from Canada c.1985
    » Conversion from NTSC 2 inch broadcast tapes
    » Film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  4. Episode Four
    » Recovered from Canada c.1985
    » Conversion from NTSC 2 inch broadcast tapes
    » Film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  5. Episode Five
    » Recovered from Canada c.1985
    » Conversion from NTSC 2 inch broadcast tapes
    » Film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  6. Episode Six
    » Recovered from Canada c.1985
    » Conversion from NTSC 2 inch broadcast tapes
    » Film print recovered from Ents c.1978

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon
Written by: Malcolm Hulke
Number 023 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1974 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
1974 Published by Unieboek B.V. Bussum, The Netherlands in paperback
Translated into Dutch by Wim Hohage
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 9 026 98107 4
April 1974 Published by Universal-Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 10372 6
1975 Published by Remzi Kitabevi, Turkey in paperback
Translated into Turkish by Reha Pinar
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
1979 Published by Pinnacle Books, USA in paperback
With cover artwork by: David Mann
0 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Jeff Cummins
ISBN: 0 426 10372 6
15 July 1980 Published by Hayakawa Bunko Publishing, Japan in paperback
Translated into Japanese by Yukio Sekiguchi
With cover artwork by: Michiaki Sato
1982 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Jeff Cummins
ISBN: 0 491 02707 9
1983 Published by Editorial Presença, Portugal in paperback
Translated into Portugese by Eduardo Nogueira & Conceição Jardim
With cover artwork by: Shanti

plot synopsis

The Doomsday Weapon is one of the most powerful in existence, and the Master has discovered where it is. The Time Lords dispatch the Doctor, with Jo Grant, to the world of Exarius, where they find the earth colonists being killed off by giant lizards, or so they think. The Interplanetary Mining Corporation want to get rid of the settlers and exploit the minerals of the planet. They use a mining robot to commit the murders, using vast reptilian claws, to try and scare them away. The war between the factions has to be settled and an Earth adjudicator arrives - The Master in disguise. The Doctor has to stop him reaching the weapon at all costs

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