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planet of evil

story 81 : season 13 : serial 4H : 4 episodes

Producer: Philip Hinchcliffe
Director: David Maloney
Writer: Louis Marks
Script Editor: Robert Holmes
Designer: Roger Murray-Leach

cast information

Tom Baker (Doctor Who); Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith); Frederick Jaeger (Sorenson); Ewen Solon (Vishinsky); Prentis Hancock (Salamar); Graham Weston (De Haan); Louis Mahoney (Ponti); Michael Wisher (Morelli); Terence Brook (Braun); Tony McEwan (Baldwin); Haydn Wood (O'Hara); Melvyn Bedford (Reig);

crew information

Karilyn Collier (Assistant Floor Manager); Andrew Rose (Costumes); Stan Speel (Film Cameraman); Kenneth McMillan (Film Cameraman); M A C Adams (Film Editor); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Jenny Shircore (Make-Up); Malachy Shaw Jones (Production Assistant); Janet Radenkovic (Production Unit Manager); Peter Howell (Special Sounds); Brian Clemett (Studio Lighting); Tony Millier (Studio Sound); Brendan Shaw (Studio Sound); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Dave Havard (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 27 September 1975 at 17:45 24'02" 10.4mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 4 October 1975 at 17:45 22'30" 9.9mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 11 October 1975 at 18:05 23'50" 9.1mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 18 October 1975 at 17:45 23'43" 10.1mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  2. Part Two
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  3. Part Three
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  4. Part Four
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 047 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1977 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Mike Little
18 August 1977 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Mike Little
ISBN: 0 426 11682 8
1982 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 426 11682 8

plot synopsis

The Doctor answers a distress call from the edge of the universe, and the TARDIS lands on Zeta Minor, where a scientific expedition has been picked off one by one by an alien force. When a rescue ship arrives from Morestra, the Doctor and Sarah are immediately accused of being guilty of the murders. When the ship tries to take-off, it's dragged back to the planet's surface, because the only survivor of the expedition, Professor Sorenson, has taken samples of anti-matter - the planet acts as a gateway between worlds of anti-matter and matter - and a powerful creature from the other universe wants them back. The Doctor has to persuade the Morestrans to hand back the anti-matter, and overcome Sorenson, now mutating through exposure to anti-matter

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