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the invisible enemy

story 93 : season 15 : serial 4T : 4 episodes

Producer: Graham Williams
Director: Derrick Goodwin
Writer: Bob Baker
Writer: Dave Martin
Script Editor: Robert Holmes
Designer: Barry Newbery

cast information

Tom Baker (Doctor Who); Louise Jameson (Leela); John Leeson (voice of K-9); Frederick Jaeger (Professor Marius); Michael Sheard (Lowe); Brian Grellis (Safran); Edmund Pegge (Meeker); Jay Neill (Silvey); Anthony Rowlands (Crewman); John Leeson (Nucleus Voice); Roy Herrick (Parsons); Elizabeth Norman (Marius' Nurse); Nell Curran (Reception Nurse); Jim McManus (Opthalmologist); Roderick Smith (Cruikshank); Kenneth Waller (Hedges); Pat Gorman (A Medic); John Scott-Martin (Nucleus);

crew information

Tony Garrick (Assistant Floor Manager); Christabel Albery (Assistant Floor Manager); Raymond Hughes (Costumes); Nick Allder (Film Cameraman); Glenn Hyde (Film Editor); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Maureen Winslade (Make-Up); Norman Stewart (Production Assistant); John Nathan-Turner (Production Unit Manager); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Brian Clemett (Studio Lighting); Michael McCarthy (Studio Sound); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Tony Harding (Visual Effects); Ian Scoones (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 1 October 1977 at 18:15 23'09" 8.6mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 8 October 1977 at 18:05 25'13" 7.3mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 15 October 1977 at 18:10 23'28" 7.5mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 22 October 1977 at 18:10 21'22" 8.3mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
    » Always held by the FVTL
  2. Part Two
    » Always held by the FVTL
  3. Part Three
    » Always held by the FVTL
  4. Part Four
    » Always held by the FVTL

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Invisible Enemy
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 036 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1979 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Roy Knipe
29 March 1979 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Roy Knipe
ISBN: 0 426 20054 3

plot synopsis

An intelligent space virus infects the crew of a space station and then attacks the Doctor, implanting itself in his brain. With the help of Professor Marius, the Doctor and Leela are cloned, miniaturised and injected into the Doctor's blood stream to try and find the creature in his brain. The Nucleus escapes and starts to multiply its swarm so it can take over the medical centre, and then the universe now that it has a physical form. After destroying the creature, the Doctor is asked to look after Marinus' robot dog, K9, so the TARDIS leaves with a new passenger. ...

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