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planet of fire

story 135 : season 21 : serial 6Q : 4 episodes

Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Fiona Cumming
Writer: Peter Grimwade
Script Editor: Eric Saward
Designer: Malcolm Thornton

cast information

Peter Davison (The Doctor); Mark Strickson (Turlough); Nicola Bryant (Peri Brown); Anthony Ainley (The Master); Dallas Adams (Professor Howard Foster); Gerald Flood (Voice of Kamelion); Peter Wyngarde (Timanov); Barbara Shelley (Sorasta); Edward Highmore (Malkon); James Bate (Amyand); Jonathan Caplan (Roskal); Michael Bangerter (Curt); Simon Sutton (Lookout); Max Arthur (Zuko); John Alkin (Lomand);

crew information

Robert Evans (Assistant Floor Manager); John Peacock (Costumes); John Walker (Film Cameraman); Alastair Mitchell (Film Editor); Peter Howell (Incidental Music); Elizabeth Rowell (Make-Up); Claire Hughes Smith (Production Assistant); June Collins (Production Associate); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); John Summers (Studio Lighting); Scott Talbott (Studio Sound); Peter Howell (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Chris Lawson (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 23 February 1984 at 18:40 24'26" 7.4mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 24 February 1984 at 18:40 24'20" 6.1mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 1 March 1984 at 18:40 23'57" 7.4mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 2 March 1984 at 18:40 24'44" 7.0mil PAL 1 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 -- Planet of Fire
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 093 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1985 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 491 03323 0
14 February 1985 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 426 19940 5

plot synopsis

On Lanzarote, Turlough meets Peri Brown, a botany student from America, who is taken to Sam as the Master regains control of Kamelion. On that planet, Turlough meets his brother, and realises that in amongst the primitive society are clues that could reveal his roots to him, as his true background has eluded him so far. The Master has been shrunken to only a few inches in height, and plans to use the numismaton gases of the planet to regain his size, and increase his power. The Doctor realises that it will be impossible to defeat him if he gains such energy. In defeating the Master, Kamelion is destroyed, and the Doctor has to bid farewell to Turlough, who decides to stay with his people. Peri leaves with the Doctor, as a new companion on board the TARDIS....

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