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frontier in space

story 67 : season 10 : serial QQQ : 6 episodes

Producer: Barry Letts
Director: Paul Bernard
Writer: Malcolm Hulke
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks
Designer: Cynthia Kjluco

cast information

Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who); Katy Manning (Jo Grant); Roger Delgado (The Master); Vera Fusek (President of Earth); Michael Hawkins (General Williams); Peter Birrel (Draconian Prince); Ray Lonnen (Gardiner); Barry Ashton (Kemp); John Rees (Hardy); James Culliford (Stewart); Louis Mahoney (Newscaster); Roy Pattison (Draconian Space Pilot); Karol Hagar (Secretary); Harold Goldblatt (Professor Dale); Madhav Sharma (Patel); Dennis Bowen (Prison Governor); Richard Shaw (Cross); Luan Peters (Sheila); Caroline Hunt (Technician); Lawrence Harrington (Lunar Guard); Bill Wilde (Draconian Captain); John Woodnutt (Draconian Emperor); Ian Frost (Draconian Messenger); Clifford Elkin (Earth Cruiser Captain); Stephen Thorne (First Ogron); Michael Kilgarriff (Second Ogron); Rick Lester (Third Ogron); Ramsay Williams (Congressman Brook); Bill Mitchell (Newscaster); Stanley Price (Pilot of Space Ship); John Scott Martin (Dalek); Cy Town (Dalek); Murphy Grumbar (Dalek); Michael Wisher (Dalek Voice);

crew information

John Bradburn (Assistant Floor Manager); Barbara Kidd (Costumes); John Tiley (Film Cameraman); John Bush (Film Editor); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Sandra Shepherd (Make-Up); Nicholas John (Production Assistant); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Ralph Walton (Studio Lighting); Brian Hiles (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Bernard Wilkie (Visual Effects); Rhys Jones (Visual Effects); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode One 24 February 1973 at 17:50 23'37" 9.1mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Episode Two 3 March 1973 at 17:50 24'10" 7.8mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Episode Three 10 March 1973 at 17:50 24'00" 7.5mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Episode Four 17 March 1973 at 17:50 23'35" 7.1mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
5 Episode Five 24 March 1973 at 17:50 23'57" 7.7mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
6 Episode Six 31 March 1973 at 17:50 24'44" 8.9mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Episode One
    » Recovered from ABC, Australia c.1985
  2. Episode Two
    » Recovered from ABC, Australia c.1985
  3. Episode Three
    » Recovered from ABC, Australia c.1985
  4. Episode Four
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » Redundant copy recovered from ABC, Australia c.1985
  5. Episode Five
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » Redundant copy recovered from ABC, Australia c.1985
    » A 71-edit exists also (released on video)
  6. Episode Six
    » Recovered from ABC, Australia c.1985 inch

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Space War
Written by: Malcolm Hulke
Number 057 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1976 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 85523 077 0
23 September 1976 Published by Wyndham Publications, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11033 1
18 January 1979 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11033 1

plot synopsis

To avoid a crash, the TARDIS materialises on a craft that is attacked by Ogrons, though a strange sound makes the crew see them as being reptilian Draconians, a race whose relationship with the Earth is worsening. With the TARDIS stolen by the Ogrons, the Doctor and Jo are taken to Earth, where their story falls on disbelieving ears. The Doctor is taken to a prison colony, while the Master rescues Jo, and then goes on to free the Doctor. He is working for a 'Third Party', with his task being to start a war between the humans and Draconians, but the Doctor manages to arbitrate and, with representatives of both sides, he heads to the Ogron's planet, where the Master reveals the 'Third Party' are the Daleks

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