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the keys of marinus

story 5 : season 1 : serial E : 6 episodes

Producer: Verity Lambert
Director: John Gorrie
Writer: Terry Nation
Script Editor: David Whitaker
Designer: Raymond Cusick

cast information

William Hartnell (Dr. Who); William Russell (Ian Chesterton); Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright); Carole Ann Ford (Susan); George Colouris (Arbitan); Martin Cort (Voord / Warrior / Ice Soldier / Aydan); Peter Stenson (Voord / Second Judge); Gordon Wales (Voord); Robin Phillips (Altos); Katharine Schofield (Sabetha); Heron Carvic (Voice of Morpho); Edmund Warwick (Darrius); Francis de Wolff (Vasor); Michael Allaby (Ice Soldier / Larn); Alan James (Ice Soldier / First Judge / Guard); Anthony Verner (Ice Soldier); Henley Thomas (Tarron); Raf de la Torre (Senior Judge); Fiona Walker (Kala); Donald Pickering (Eyesen); Stephen Dartnell (Yartek); Dougie Dean (Eprin);

crew information

Timothy Combe (Assistant Floor Manager); Mervyn Pinfield (Associate Producer); Daphne Dare (Costumes); Norman Kay (Incidental Music); Jill Summers (Make-Up); David Conroy (Production Assistant); Penny Joy (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Peter Murray (Studio Lighting); Jack Brummitt (Studio Sound); Tony Milton (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 The Sea of Death 11 April 1964 at 17:30 23'20" 9.9mil 16mm telerecording
2 The Velvet Web 18 April 1964 at 17:30 25'37" 9.4mil 16mm telerecording
3 The Screaming Jungle 25 April 1964 at 17:30 23'45" 9.9mil 16mm telerecording
4 The Snows of Terror 2 May 1964 at 17:30 24'54" 10.4mil 16mm telerecording
5 Sentence of Death 9 May 1964 at 17:15 25'03" 7.9mil 16mm telerecording
6 The Keys of Marinus 16 May 1964 at 17:15 25'11" 6.9mil 16mm telerecording
  1. The Sea of Death
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
    » Arabic print also held
  2. The Velvet Web
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  3. The Screaming Jungle
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  4. The Snows of Terror
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  5. Sentence of Death
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  6. The Keys of Marinus
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus
Written by: Philip Hinchcliffe
Number 038 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1980 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: David McAllister
ISBN: 0 491 02921 7
21 August 1980 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: David McAllister
ISBN: 0 426 20125 6

plot synopsis

The TARDIS lands on one of the islands on Marinus, which is surrounded by an acidic sea. Arbitan, a monk-like figure who is the Keeper of the Conscience of Marinus, captures the TARDIS. The travellers split up to try and find the four keys that can energise the machine, which have been spread across the planet at different points, and have to return before the commando-like Voords take over the machine

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