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the wheel in space

story 43 : season 5 : serial SS : 6 episodes

Producer: Peter Bryant
Director: Tristan de Vere Cole
Writer: David Whitaker
Writer: Kit Pedler
Script Editor: Derrick Sherwin
Designer: Derek Dodd

cast information

Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who); Frazer Hines (Jamie MacCrimmon); Wendy Padbury (Zoe Heriot); Anne Ridler (Dr. Gemma Corwyn); Freddie Foote (Servo Robot); Eric Flynn (Leo Ryan); Clare Jenkins (Tanya Lernov); Michael Turner (Jarvis Bennett); Donald Sumpter (Enrico Casali); Kenneth Watson (Bill Duggan); Michael Goldie (Elton Laleham); Derrick Gilbert (Armand Vallance); Kevork Malikyan (Kemel Rudkin); Peter Laird (Chang); James Mellor (Sean Flannigan); Jerry Holmes (Cyberman); Gordon Stothard (Cyberman); Peter Hawkins (Voice); Roy Skelton (Voice);

crew information

Marcia Wheeler (Assistant Floor Manager); Martin Baugh (Costumes); Jimmy Court (Film Cameraman); Ron Fry (Film Editor); Brian Hodgson (Incidental Music); BBC Radiophonic Workshop (Incidental Music); Sylvia James (Make-Up); Ian Strachan (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Mike Jefferies (Studio Lighting); John Holmes (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Bill King (Visual Effects); Trading Post (Visual Effects); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode 1 27 April 1968 at 17:25 23'47" 7.2mil does not exist
2 Episode 2 4 May 1968 at 17:25 22'50" 6.9mil does not exist
3 Episode 3 11 May 1968 at 17:25 24'25" 7.5mil 16mm telerecording
4 Episode 4 18 May 1968 at 17:25 24'14" 8.6mil does not exist
5 Episode 5 25 May 1968 at 17:15 21'55" 6.8mil does not exist
6 Episode 6 1 June 1968 at 18:00 23'10" 6.5mil 35mm telerecording
  1. Episode 1
    » Clip exists on The War Games Episode 10
  2. Episode 2
  3. Episode 3
    » Returned by a private collector in May 1984
  4. Episode 4
    » Clip returned from ABC censors in Australia c.1996
  5. Episode 5
  6. Episode 6
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- The Wheel in Space
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 130 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1988 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Ian Burgess
ISBN: 0 491 03356 7
18 August 1988 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Ian Burgess
ISBN: 0 426 20321 6

plot synopsis

The TARDIS materialises on an abandoned rocket, where the Doctor is attacked and knocked out by a Servo Robot. On arriving at a giant space station, where the Doctor receives medical treatment and recovers, both he and Jamie are alarmed by the rumours that metal rodents are on board. They soon find out they're Cybermats, and that the Cybermen are planning to use the station as part of an invasion attempt on the Earth. The Doctor defeats them and as he and Jamie leave, they find they have a stowaway in the form of Zoe Heriot.

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