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the five doctors

story 130 : season 20 : serial 6K : 1 episodes

Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Peter Moffatt
Writer: Terrance Dicks
Script Editor: Eric Saward
Designer: Malcolm Thornton

cast information

Peter Davison (The Doctor); Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka); Mark Strickson (Turlough); Jon Pertwee (The Doctor); Patrick Troughton (The Doctor); Richard Hurndall (The Doctor); Tom Baker (The Doctor); William Hartnell (The Doctor); Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith); Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart); Carole Ann Ford (Susan Foreman); Anthony Ainley (The Master); Lalla Ward (Romana); Philip Latham (Lord President Borusa); Dinah Sheridan (Chancellor Flavia); Paul Jerricho (The Castellan); Frazer Hines (Jamie); Wendy Padbury (Zoe); Caroline John (Liz Shaw); Richard Franklin (Captain Yates); John Leeson (Voice of K9); Richard Mathews (Rassilon); David Banks (Cyber Leader); Mark Hardy (Cyber Lieutenant); David Savile (Crichton); Roy Skelton (Dalek Voice); John Scott Martin (Dalek Operator); Stuart Blake (Commander); Stephen Meredith (Technician); Ray Float (Sergeant); John Tallents (Guard); William Kenton (Cyber Scout); Keith Hodiak (Raston Robot);

crew information

Pauline Seager (Assistant Floor Manager); Colin Lavers (Costumes); John Baker (Film Cameraman); M A C Adams (Film Editor); Peter Howell (Incidental Music); Jill Hagger (Make-Up); Jean Davis (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); John Brace (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 The Five Doctors 25 November 1983 at 19:20 90'23" 7.7mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. The Five Doctors
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    » A 71-edit exists also

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- The Five Doctors
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 081 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1983 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 491 03052 5
24 November 1983 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 426 19510 8
0 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 19510 8

plot synopsis

The fifth Doctor begins to suffer from side-effects as somebody starts to take his past incarnations and companions out of time, and heads for Gallifrey. In the Death Zone, the remains of a game the Time Lords played in the Dark Times, pitting alien races against each other in mortal combat, the second Doctor, accompanied by the Brigadier, and the third Doctor, with Sarah Jane Smith, make their separate ways to the Tomb of Rassilon, encountering a Yeti and a troop of Cybermen along the way. The first Doctor, reunited with Susan, after battling a Dalek, finds his way to the TARDIS, where he joins with Tegan to head to the tomb as well, while Turlough and Susan look after the TARDIS. The fifth Doctor comes across the Master, sent into the Death Zone by the Inner Council of Time Lords to help the Doctor, with the incentive being a new cycle of regenerations if he succeeds. After an attack by the Cybermen, where the Doctor uses his transmat device to return to the capitol, the Master joins up with them and heads for the Dark Tower as well. Eventually, with the Cybermen destroyed and the Master held captive, the combined efforts of Doctors one, two, three and five (the fourth Doctor is trapped in time) defeats the true villain, President Borusa, and everyone departs for their rightful places in time.

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