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enlightenment

story 128 : season 20 : serial 6H : 4 episodes

Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Fiona Cumming
Writer: Barbara Clegg
Script Editor: Eric Saward
Designer: Colin Green

cast information

Peter Davison (The Doctor); Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka); Mark Strickson (Turlough); Valentine Dyall (Black Guardian); Cyril Luckham (White Guardian); Keith Barron (Striker); Christopher Brown (Marriner); Tony Caunter (Jackson); Clive Kneller (Collier); James McClure (First Officer); Lynda Baron (Wrack); Leee John (Mansell);

crew information

Val McCrimmon (Assistant Floor Manager); Ian Tootle (Assistant Floor Manager); Dinah Collin (Costumes); John Walker (Film Cameraman); Paul Hellings-Wheeler (Film Cameraman); Mitchell Boyd (Film Editor); Ian McKendrick (Film Editor); Malcolm Clarke (Incidental Music); Jean Steward (Make-Up); Carolyn Perry (Make-Up); Patricia O'Leary (Production Assistant); June Collins (Production Associate); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Fred Wright (Studio Lighting); Martin Ridout (Studio Sound); Peter Howell (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Mike Kelt (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 1 March 1983 at 18:55 24'12" 6.6mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 2 March 1983 at 18:45 24'23" 7.2mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 8 March 1983 at 18:55 24'38" 6.2mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 9 March 1983 at 18:45 24'34" 7.3mil 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 -- Enlightenment
Written by: Barbara Clegg
Number 085 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1984 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
24 May 1984 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 426 19537 X

plot synopsis

The TARDIS materialises on what appears to be an Edwardian clipper ship, where the crew are strangely Jolly and the officers somewhat distant. When the Doctor meets Captain Striker, he explains how they are part of a race for a glorious prize -Enlightenment. The ship is a space craft, and there are a whole fleet from different points in the Earth's history, sailing on the solar winds. One, a pirate woman called Captain Wrack, is an agent for the Black Guardian, and she is systematically destroying all of the competition. The Doctor overcomes Wrack, and is confronted by both the Black and the White Guardian, the Black Guardian offers Enlightenment to Turlough, but he refuses and throws it at him, apparently destroying him, and showing loyalty to the Doctor. As the White Guardian leaves, he reminds the Doctor that the Black Guardian will always be after him for revenge....

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