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mawdryn undead

story 126 : season 20 : serial 6F : 4 episodes

Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Peter Moffatt
Writer: Peter Grimwade
Script Editor: Eric Saward
Designer: Stephen Scott

cast information

Peter Davison (The Doctor); Sarah Sutton (Nyssa); Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka); Mark Strickson (Turlough); Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart); Valentine Dyall (The Black Guardian); Angus MacKay (Headmaster); David Collings (Mawdryn); Stephen Garlick (Ibbotson); Roger Hammond (Doctor Runciman); Sheila Gill (Matron); Peter Walmsley (1st Mutant); Brian Darnley (2nd Mutant);

crew information

Ian Tootle (Assistant Floor Manager); Amy Roberts (Costumes); Richard Croft (Costumes); Godfrey Johnson (Film Cameraman); Chris Woolley (Film Editor); Paddy Kingsland (Incidental Music); Sheelagh Wells (Make-Up); Carolyn Perry (Make-Up); Valerie Letley (Production Assistant); June Collins (Production Associate); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Don Babbage (Studio Lighting); Martin Ridout (Studio Sound); Peter Howell (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Stuart Brisdon (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 1 February 1983 at 18:50 24'03" 6.5mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 2 February 1983 at 18:45 24'33" 7.5mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 8 February 1983 at 18:50 24'32" 7.4mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 9 February 1983 at 18:45 24'33" 7.7mil 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 -- Mawdryn Undead
Written by: Peter Grimwade
Number 082 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1984 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Photo
ISBN: 0 491 03091 6
12 January 1984 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Photo
ISBN: 0 426 19393 8
March 1992 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 19393 8

plot synopsis

Turlough, who appears to be nothing more than a schoolboy, is actually an alien stranded on Earth, whom the Black Guardian starts to manipulate in a plan to get revenge against the Doctor. Arriving at the school, the Doctor meets the Brigadier, who is now a maths teacher there. He's investigating a transmat beacon, which a mysterious, seemingly abandoned spaceship comes into focus with once every seven years. Separated in time, Tegan and Nyssa find an occupant in the capsule in 1977, and mistake him for the Doctor, thinking that he's been badly injured, and they seek help from the Brigadier of that period. The creature is actually Mawdryn, part of a race banished by the Time Lords on the spaceship, for their meddling with time experiments. The Doctor has to help the creatures find a way to die, and keep the two Brigadiers apart, because if they met, the resulting collision of Time Energy could be deadly. As everything is resolved, Turlough accepts the Doctor's offer to join the TARDIS crew...

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