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story 75 : season 12 : serial 4A : 4 episodes

Producer: Barry Letts
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Terrance Dicks
Script Editor: Robert Holmes
Designer: Ian Rawnsley

cast information

Tom Baker (Doctor Who); Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith); Ian Marter (Harry Sullivan); Patricia Maynard (Miss Winters); Michael Kilgarriff (Robot); Edward Burnham (Professor Kettlewell); Alec Linstead (Jellicoe); Timothy Craven (Short);

crew information

David Tilley (Assistant Floor Manager); James Acheson (Costumes); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Judy Clay (Make-Up); Peter Grimwade (Production Assistant); George Gallacio (Production Unit Manager); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Nigel Wright (Studio Lighting); John Holmes (Studio Sound); Trevor Webster (Studio Sound); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Clifford Culley (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 28 December 1974 at 17:35 24'11" 10.8mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 4 January 1975 at 17:30 25'00" 10.7mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 11 January 1975 at 17:30 24'29" 10.1mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 18 January 1975 at 17:30 24'29" 9.0mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  2. Part Two
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  3. Part Three
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  4. Part Four
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Giant Robot
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 028 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1975 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Peter Brookes
13 March 1975 Published by Universal-Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Peter Brookes
ISBN: 0 426 11279 2
1978 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Jeff Cummins
ISBN: 0 426 11279 2
1979 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
ISBN: 0 491 02497 5
1979 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
ISBN: 0 491 02497 5
1986 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Jeff Cummins
ISBN: 0 491 03663 9
21 May 1992 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20371 2

plot synopsis

Some powerful creature is stealing all the components to build a disintegrator gun, and the newly regenerated Doctor deduces that it must be something big. The K Robot Sarah is investigating fits the bill. The Robot is being used by a group of elitist scientists who want to a new ruling order of only the highest intelligences. When the robot's creator, Professor Kettlewell, is killed, it goes on the rampage. The Doctor has to take on the vast creature, when the Brigadier unwittingly causes it to grow to gigantic proportions

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