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the two doctors

story 141 : season 22 : serial 6W : 3 episodes

Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Peter Moffatt
Writer: Robert Holmes
Script Editor: Eric Saward
Designer: Tony Burrough

cast information

Colin Baker (The Doctor); Nicola Bryant (Peri Brown); Patrick Troughton (The Doctor); Frazer Hines (Jamie); Jacqueline Pearce (Chessene); John Stratton (Shockeye); Laurence Payne (Dastari); Aimee Delamain (Do¦a Arana); James Saxon (Oscar); Carmen Gomez (Anita); Tim Raynham (Varl); Nicholas Fawcett (Technician); Clinton Greyn (Stike);

crew information

Ilsa Rowe (Assistant Floor Manager); Jan Wright (Costumes); John Walker (Film Cameraman); Mike Rowbotham (Film Editor); Peter Howell (Incidental Music); Catherine Davies (Make-Up); Patricia O'Leary (Production Assistant); Sue Anstruther (Production Associate); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Don Babbage (Studio Lighting); Keith Bowden (Studio Sound); Peter Howell (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Steven Drewett (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 16 February 1985 at 17:20 44'22" 6.6mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 23 February 1985 at 17:20 44'49" 6.0mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 2 March 1985 at 17:20 44'45" 6.9mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also
    » Also held in 25 minute format by Ents
  2. Part Two
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » Also held in 25 minute format by Ents
  3. Part Three
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » Also held in 25 minute format by Ents

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- The Two Doctors
Written by: Robert Holmes
Number 100 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 03500 4
5 December 1985 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 426 20201 5

plot synopsis

The Time Lords are concerned about time experiments being carried out on the space station J7, by Professors Kartz and Reimer, and send the second Doctor, travelling with Jamie, to try and stop them. The head of the station, Dastari, has been augmenting the primitive Androgum slave, Chessene, with added intelligence, and she, in turn, has betrayed the station to the Sontarans, who invade and take the Doctor captive. The sixth Doctor arrives, and finds Jamie stranded there, having reverted to almost primitive instincts to survive. With Peri and his former companion, he traces Chessene and Dastari to Seville in Spain, where the Sontarans Stike and Van are waiting for an operation to be carried out on the second Doctor, which will trace a vital chromosome that will enable them to use the Kartz/Reimer time machine, but he is augmented into an Androgum, and leaves on a good hunt with Shockeye, another one of the race from the space station. Both Doctors have to join forces to stop Chessene's schemes, as the Sontarans are betrayed and killed by her as well....

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