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time and the rani

story 148 : season 24 : serial 7D : 4 episodes

Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Andrew Morgan
Writer: Pip Baker
Writer: Jane Baker
Script Editor: Andrew Cartmel
Designer: Geoff Powell

cast information

Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor); Bonnie Langford (Melanie Bush); Kate O'Mara (The Rani); Mark Greenstreet (Ikona); Wanda Ventham (Faroon); Donald Pickering (Beyus); Karen Clegg (Sarn); Richard Gauntlett (Urak); John Segal (Lanisha); Peter Tuddenham (Special Voice); Jacki Webb (Special Voice);

crew information

Joanna Newbery (Assistant Floor Manager); Christopher Sandeman (Assistant Floor Manager); Ken Trew (Costumes); Keff McCulloch (Incidental Music); Lesley Rawstorne (Make-Up); Alastair Mitchell (OB Cameraman); John Hawes (OB Cameraman); Joy Sinclair (Production Assistant); Anne Faggetter (Production Associate); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Henry Barber (Studio Lighting); Brian Clark (Studio Sound); Keff McCulloch (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Colin Mapson (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 7 September 1987 at 19:35 24'44" 5.1mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 14 September 1987 at 19:35 24'36" 4.2mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 21 September 1987 at 19:35 24'23" 4.3mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 28 September 1987 at 19:35 24'38" 4.9mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also
  2. Part Two
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also
  3. Part Three
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also
  4. Part Four
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- Time and the Rani
Written by: Pip & Jane Baker
Number 128 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1988 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Photo
ISBN: 0 491 03186 6
5 May 1988 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Photo
ISBN: 0 426 20232 5
17 October 1991 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20232 5

plot synopsis

A power beam draws the TARDIS towards Lakertya, where it lands heavily and induces regeneration for the Doctor, who is taken captive by the Rani and her lead Tetrap, Urak, as they enter the craft. The Doctor is taken to the Rani's base, while Mel befriends Ikona, a Lakertyan, in the waste-land surrounding the TARDIS landing site. The Rani has assembled many of the great thinkers from history, with her plan being to drain their minds and form one vast brain. This will be turned into a giant Time Manipulator when the missiles positioned on her base strike an asteroid of strange matter in the planet's orbit. The bewildered Doctor, who is fooled for a time into believing that the Rani is Mel, has to try and defeat her and come to terms with the shock of his regeneration. ...

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