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the visitation

story 120 : season 19 : serial 5X : 4 episodes

Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Peter Moffatt
Writer: Eric Saward
Script Editor: Antony Root
Designer: Ken Starkey

cast information

Peter Davison (The Doctor); Matthew Waterhouse (Adric); Sarah Sutton (Nyssa); Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka); Michael Robbins (Richard Mace); John Savident (The Squire); Peter van Dissel (Android); Anthony Calf (Charles); John Baker (Ralph); Valerie Fyfer (Elizabeth); Richard Hampton (Villager); James Charlton (Miller); Michael Melia (Terileptil); Neil West (Poacher); Eric Dodson (Headman);

crew information

Alison Symington (Assistant Floor Manager); Odile Dicks-Mireaux (Costumes); Peter Chapman (Film Cameraman); Ken Bilton (Film Editor); Paddy Kingsland (Incidental Music); Carolyn Perry (Make-Up); Julia Randall (Production Assistant); Angela Smith (Production Associate); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Henry Barber (Studio Lighting); Alan Machin (Studio Sound); Peter Howell (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Peter Wragg (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 15 February 1982 at 18:55 24'11" 9.1mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 16 February 1982 at 19:05 24'26" 9.3mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 22 February 1982 at 18:55 24'24" 9.9mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 23 February 1982 at 19:05 23'32" 10.1mil 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 and the Visitation
Written by: Eric Saward
Number 069 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1982 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Photo
19 August 1982 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Photo
ISBN: 0 426 20135 3
20 February 1992 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20135 3

plot synopsis

In the 17th century, the TARDIS lands In a woodland, where they meet out-of-work actor and highwayman. Richard Mace, who explains that England is in the grip of a plague. A party of three Terileptil convicts, on the run from the tinclavic mines of the planet Raaga, have crashed nearby, and they are using the peasants to help prepare an escape attempt from the Earth. The Doctor traces them to Pudding Lane in London, where a confrontation leads to the creatures' demise, and the start of a certain fire that would be remembered throughout English history.

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