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logopolis

story 116 : season 18 : serial 5V : 4 episodes

Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Peter Grimwade
Writer: Christopher H Bidmead
Script Editor: Christopher H Bidmead
Designer: Malcolm Thornton

cast information

Tom Baker (Doctor Who); Matthew Waterhouse (Adric); Sarah Sutton (Nyssa); Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka); Anthony Ainley (The Master); Dolore Whiteman (Aunt Vanessa); John Fraser (The Monitor); Tom Georgeson (Detective Inspector); Christopher Hurst (Security Guard);

crew information

Val McCrimmon (Assistant Floor Manager); June Hudson (Costumes); Peter Hall (Film Cameraman); Paul Humfress (Film Editor); Paddy Kingsland (Incidental Music); Dorka Nieradzik (Make-Up); Angela Smith (Production Associate); Margot Heyhoe (Production Manager); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Henry Barber (Studio Lighting); John Holmes (Studio Sound); Peter Howell (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); John Horton (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 28 February 1981 at 17:10 24'32" 7.1mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 7 March 1981 at 17:10 24'03" 7.7mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 14 March 1981 at 17:10 24'32" 5.8mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 21 March 1981 at 17:10 25'10" 6.1mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
    » Always held by the FVTL
  2. Part Two
    » Always held by the FVTL
  3. Part Three
    » Always held by the FVTL
  4. Part Four
    » Always held by the FVTL

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- Logopolis
Written by: Christopher H. Bidmead
Number 041 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1982 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 491 02857 1
21 October 1982 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 426 20149 3
19 December 1991 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20149 3

plot synopsis

In order to repair the TARDIS chameleon circuit, the Doctor goes to Logopolis, where the Logopolitans pure maths is used to create matter. Measuring a Police Box on Earth to get the dimensions exactly right, the TARDIS materialises around the Master's, which is disguised as the blue box in question. The Doctor seems to be followed by a mysterious white figure, the Watcher, and no matter how often Adric asks who he is, the Doctor never answers, although it's clear he knows. Air stewardess Tegan Jovanka's car breaks down near where the TARDIS is, and the Master murders her aunt - a crime that the Doctor is accused of committing. He escapes to Logopolis, unwittingly taking both the Master and Tegan with him. The Master starts destroying the planet, and begins to cause the universe to collapse, as the combined forces of the Logopolitans is keeping entropy at bay, so the Doctor has to use a beam projected from the Pharos Project radar dish on earth to slow the effect down. As the Doctor tries to stop the Master hijacking the equipment to hold the universe to ransom, he falls from the tower. The Watcher, a future projection of the Time Lord, merges with him, and Tegan. Nyssa and Adric watch in amazement as the Doctor regenerates....

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