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underworld

story 96 : season 15 : serial 4Y : 4 episodes

Producer: Graham Williams
Director: Norman Stewart
Writer: Bob Baker
Writer: Dave Martin
Script Editor: Robert Holmes
Designer: Dick Coles

cast information

Tom Baker (Doctor Who); Louise Jameson (Leela); John Leeson (voice of K-9); James Maxwell (Jackson); Alan Lake (Herrick); Jonathan Newth (Orfe); Imogen Bickford-Smith (Tala); James Marcus (Rask); Godfrey James (Tarn); Jimmy Gardner (Idmon); Norman Tipton (Idas); Jay Neill (Guard Klimt); Frank Jarvis (Ankh); Richard Shaw (Lakh); Stacey Tendeter (Naia); Christine Pollon (Voice of the Oracle);

crew information

Gary Downie (Assistant Floor Manager); Rupert Jarvis (Costumes); Richard Trevor (Film Editor); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Cecile Hay-Arthur (Make-Up); Mike Cager (Production Assistant); John Nathan-Turner (Production Unit Manager); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Mike Jefferies (Studio Lighting); Richard Chubb (Studio Sound); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Richard Conway (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 7 January 1978 at 18:25 22'36" 8.9mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 14 January 1978 at 18:25 21'27" 9.1mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 21 January 1978 at 18:25 22'21" 8.9mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 28 January 1978 at 18:25 22'53" 11.7mil 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 Underworld
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 067 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1980 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Bill Donohoe
24 January 1980 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Bill Donohoe
ISBN: 0 426 20068 3

plot synopsis

The race banks of the Minyans went missing centuries ago on a ship called the P7E, and the TARDIS materialises on another Minyan ship carrying out an epic search for it. The P7E is at the heart of a planet, which has formed around it and the descendants of the original crew are now either its slaves or cybernetic seers, working to the orders of the Oracle, the ship's computer which is now worshipped and runs their lives. The Doctor helps the Minyans in the fight to retrieve the race banks from the computer's control room.

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