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terminus

story 127 : season 20 : serial 6G : 4 episodes

Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Mary Ridge
Writer: Steve Gallagher
Script Editor: Eric Saward
Designer: Dick Coles

cast information

Peter Davison (The Doctor); Sarah Sutton (Nyssa); Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka); Mark Strickson (Turlough); Valentine Dyall (The Black Guardian); Liza Goddard (Kari); Dominic Guard (Olvir); Rachel Weaver (Inga); Martin Potter (Eirak); Andrew Burt (Valgard); Tim Munro (Sigurd); Peter Benson (Bor); Martin Muncaster (Tannoy Voice); RJ Bell (The Garm);

crew information

Polly Davidson (Assistant Floor Manager); Adrian Heywood (Assistant Floor Manager); Dee Robson (Costumes); John Waller (Fight Arranger); Remi Adefarasin (Film Cameraman); Frances Parker (Film Editor); Roger Limb (Incidental Music); Joan Stribling (Make-Up); Rena Butterwick (Production Assistant); June Collins (Production Associate); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Sam Barclay (Studio Lighting); Scott Talbott (Studio Sound); Peter Howell (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Peter Pegrum (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 15 February 1983 at 18:55 24'58" 6.8mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 16 February 1983 at 18:45 24'40" 7.5mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 22 February 1983 at 18:55 24'39" 6.5mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 23 February 1983 at 18:45 24'49" 7.4mil 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 -- Terminus
Written by: John Lydecker
Number 079 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1983 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Photo
ISBN: 0 491 03131 9
15 September 1983 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Photo
ISBN: 0 426 19385 7

plot synopsis

Still under the influence of the Black Guardian, Turlough follows his instructions on sabotaging the TARDIS, which causes the ship to start to break up and lock onto the side of another vessel. Nyssa becomes lost on the other craft, and the Doctor and his remaining companions start to search for her on board. When the Doctor finds her, they become the captives of two space pirates, who have been abandoned on the ship by their crew, and realise that they're on a Lazar transporter, taking humans who have been contaminated with a virus to die on the colony of Terminus. Nyssa catches the disease, while the Doctor finds out that Terminus was responsible for the 'Big Bang' that started life in the universe, when a radioactive load was detonated. A second imminent detonation could reverse the effect and end everything. When he manages to avert this and get the TARDIS back, Nyssa opts to stay and try and help the other Lazars, now that she is cured. .

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